Education
2020-Ongoing (expected finish December 2025)
-Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
PhD in artistic practice in visual, applied and spatial arts
2018–2020
- Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, U.S.
MA, Critical Craft Theory.
2012–2014
- Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, U.S.
MFA Metalsmithing, electives in Fiber and Sculpture.
2008–2012
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, U.S.
-Bachelor of Fine Art, summa cum laude in metals, ceramics & printmaking, co-major in university honors,
minor in art history.
- Bachelor of Art in psychology, cum laude with departmental honors, co-major in university honors with a minor in American studies.
2005–2008
- Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI, U.S.
-Associates degree in Liberal Arts, Cum Laude, Phi Theta Kappa with honors.
Additional Education
- Apprenticeship in leather working
- Apprenticeship in antique & semi-antique rug restoration
Residencies & Fellowships
2023
- Residency, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S
2020
- Konstverket Production Residency for SPIT in collaboration with Carl Olof Berg, Stockholm, Sweden 2019-2020
- Curatorial Fellow, Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina, US
- Visiting Researcher, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
- Visiting artist and graduate mentor, Columbus College of Art, Columbus, OH
2019
- Residency with Carl Olof Berg, Konstnarsnamnden International Dance Programme, Stockholm Sweden
2018
-Adornment and Gender resident, Praksis & Norwegian Craft, Oslo Norway
2017
- Re-invite IASPIS invited international Resident, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s programme for visual artists and
designers. Stockholm, Sweden
2016–2017
- IASPIS invited international Resident, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s programme for visual artists and designers. Stockholm, Sweden
Select Grants, Awards, and Honors
2024
- Beata Brummer Foundation and the Ulla Fröberg Cramér Foundation scholarship
- Erasmus+ Faculty Exchange, Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Erasmus, European Union
2023
- Selected for Schmuck, Munich, Germany
2020
-Konstnärsnämnd (Swedish Art’s Committee) Project Grant for SPIT invited by Carl Olof Berg
2019
-Support for collaboration with Maret Anne Sara from Sami daiddariid ja girjecalliid buhtdadusfoanda
2018
-Winner of the JAC (Global Fashion Jewelry and Accessories Council) award 2017 "Top 100 Designers"
2017
- Next Generation Award, Surface Design Association
2014
- Merit Scholarship Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013
- Merit Scholarship Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2012
- Heart and Soul Award, Michigan Campus Compact, Presented in Lansing, MI
- James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History Travel Funding to SNAG in Phoenix, AZ, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Office of Undergraduate Research Travel Funding to SNAG in Phoenix, AZ, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Harriet Kanter Award for Student Development, Wayne State University, Detroit
Solo Exhibitions
2024
- (upcoming) Jumping into the Bushes, Portable Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2022
- SPIT, in collaborative project with Carl Olof Berg, with Jennifer Drotz Ruhn (images) Bernt Karsten Sannerud (sound), Phia
Hokkanen (garments), Livrustkammaren (Swedish Royal Armoury Museum), Stockholm, Sweden
- Lay Down. Your Weapons: Possible Living Rooms One Fathom Long, a not so solo show,
-Detroit Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden
-Groenbechs Gaard, Bornholm, Denmark
2019
- CAKE, collaboration with Edward Cabral, as part of GIBCA Extended, Gallery Four, Gothenburg Sweden
2018
- Featured artist during Athens Jewelry Week, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
- Fun&Games The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
-Collecting limbs from yesterdays car crash, Flophouse, Detroit, MI
2017
-A(r)mor, ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2016
- pickaxe, Platina Gallery Stockholm Sweden
2015
- chimera, Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Group Exhibitions
2025
(upcoming) Homografiska Museet, Dals Långed, Sweden
2024
(upcoming) Mouth to Hand, with Lauren Kalman, Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
(upcoming) All Sorts, Gertie Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
(upcoming) Homografiska, Vänersborg's Konsthall, Vänersborg, Sweden
- OUT of the Jewelry Box, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, NY. U.S.
- Madrugada, Palacio Da Calheta, Lisbon, Portugal
- No Place Like Home, Metal Meusem, Memphis, TN, U.S.
- I'll Just Leave This Here Until Tomorrow, with Mafune Gonjo, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden
2023
-Blüten Pracht, Flowers in the Crafts and Applied Arts, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
-Extended Limb, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, U.S.
-SELF, Erika Diamond & matt lambert, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S
-SCHMUCK,
-Handwerk & Design, Munich Germany
-Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporanèa, Valencia, Spain
-Restrung: Contemporary Beadsmiths, Parachute Gallery, Tampa, Florida, U.S.
2022
-The Hands That Unravel The Sweater, Norske Kunsthåndverkeres Temautstilling, Svolvær, Norway
-Periferi PINK, Kunst I Havgapet, Sleneset, Norway
- Faces/Gesichter, Galerie Handwork, Munich, Germany
-Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,
-Gallerie Noel, Montreal, Canada
-Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
-Queerphoria, NYC Jewelry Week, online
-Tag You’re It!, The Jewelry Library in partner with Gallery Loupe, New York, NY, U.S.
2021
-KORU7, South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta Finland
-The Body Layer, Craft ACT Craft & Design Centre, Canberra, Australia
-Masculinity, Bread & Circus Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Unraveled, Restructured, Revealed, where contemporary art and diverse perspectives intersect. Curator: Tyanna Bui,
Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
-Behind the corner opens the jojk of the wind, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm Sweden
2020
-Kiff Slemmons/ Tag, You’re It!, Ephinay Center For the Arts, Chicago, IL, U.S.
-10th Anniversary Exhibition, ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
-One World, Gallery Loupe, Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ
2019
- HOUSE OF NORWAY, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
- Double Sided Sticky Tape, A Queer Expression, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
- Pattern Play, New York Jewelry Week, E.R. Butler and Co. New York, NY
- Purpose/Process/Paper, The Paper Studio of Kiff Slemmons, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, US
- Sami, Her Majesty Queen Sonjas Royal Stable Gallery, Oslo, Norway
- Screening of Skirtpower, Athens Jewlery Week, Athens, Greece
- Norwegian Presence, collaboration with Maret Anne Sara, Salon del Mobile, Milan Italy
- Pried, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
-Everyone Says Hello, featured collaboration with Maret Anne Sara, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2018
-Triple Parade Jewelery Biannual, representing North America, HOW Museum, Shanghai China
- Gender Norms. Kent State University Downtown Gallery, Kent, Ohio
- LGBTQ+ Juried Exhibition, Akron Soul-Train, Hive Gallery, Akron, Ohio
- Echo, with Suzanne Beautyman, Nanna Grønborg, Mette Saabye and Josefine Rønsholt Smith, Munich Germany
-ABC , Museo de la Ciudad, Valencia Spain
2017
- Head Gear, Kate Clements, Arielle DePinto, and Matt Lambert, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas.
-Standard Form, ArkDes national center for architecture and design, Stockholm Sweden
- S.M.A.K, with Sofia Bjorkman, Sofia Björkman, Agnieszka Knap, Carlos Silva and Karin Roy Andersson, InGallery, Barcelona, Spain
- Omformulerte Forekomster, Curated by Kjersti Solbakken, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
-EDIT, with Sofia Björkman, Adam Grinovich & Annika Pettersson collaboration with Pär Ålander, Thomas Mann gallery, New Orleans LA
- Industry Made, Society for North American Goldsmiths Conference, New Orleans, LA
-"Laurels" Collect New York, Presented by Gallery Loupe, New York, NY
-The Body Ecstatic, Steven Gordon Holman, Matt Lambert & Zachary Lechtenberg, Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ
- Masked, curated by Lauren Kalman, Holding House, Detroit, MI
2016
- Skin: The Human Fabric, Detroit Museum of Healing, Detroit, MI
- Leder, Galerie Handwork, Munich Germany
- Featured artists at “Unexpected,” Craft Council of British Columbia Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Forget Them, Brooklyn Metal Works, New York, NY
2015
- Edition 15, Simone De Soussa Gallery, Detroit MI
- The Closer, with Josephine Ronsholt Smith, Ninna York and Therese Morch-Jorgensen, York + Smith, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Matters of Material, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
- EDIT@editbar with Sofia Björkman, Adam Grinovich & Annika Pettersson, Editbar, Boston, MA
- Embellish, Metalwerx, Waltham, MA
- Collective Design Fair, Gallery Loupe, New York, NY
- Baggage, Tea and Coffee, (Part II) Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- The Grass is Always Greener, Overseas, Platforma & Platina Gallery
Neue Messe, Munich, Germany
Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
- Bijoux 2015!, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
2014
- Marzee Graduate Show, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Paddle 8 Auction LGBT to support Fire Island Residency,
- Resolutely Ambiguous (Juried Exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Baggage, Tea and Coffee, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2013
- Juried Exhibition, Hangzhou University, China
- Zeitgeist, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
- Above The Bar, Start Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Materials Hard & Soft (catalogue), Greater Denton Arts Center, Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX
2012
- Society for North American Goldsmiths Exhibition in Motion: Pomp and Swagger, Phoenix, AZ
- Clay at Wayne State (A Multi-Generational View), Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit MI
Public Collections
- Homografiska Museet, Dals Långed, Sweden
- Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, New York, US
- The Havgapet Collection, Sleneset, Norway
Permanent installations
2010
- It Takes a Village, Children’s Hospital of Detroit, Detroit, MI
2006
- Character Café Mural (collaboration), Starbucks Coffee, Dearborn, MI
Curated & Juried Exhibitions
2023
- Invited Guest Curator, Exploratory Touch, Trevor Novak, C MAG, Canada
-Juror, We Are Here, Metal Museum, Memphis TN
-Juror with curator Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Urban Glass, New York City, NY
2021
-Desire Paths, co-curated with Lauren Kalman, Center for Craft Asheville
2019
- Co-Chair with Louise Perrone & Celina Zisman, AURUM, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference,
Chicago, Il
2018
- Co-Chair with Louise Perrone, Objects of Protection, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference,
Portland, OR
2017
- Co-Chair with Louise Perrone, Unmasked, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference,
New Orleans, LA
2016
- Co-chair with Louise Perrone, Intersection, Exhibition in Motion, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference, Asheville, NC
2013
- Co-curator with Amy Wong, Psychic Gold; Body + Object, Body = Object, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Select Public Lectures, Conversations and Podcasts
2024
- Constellations and Possible Cartographies,
- Haxthäuser Hof Jewellery Symposium, Haxthäuser Hof Ingelheim, Germany
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
2023
-Part of The Pile: Wearing to Build Solidarity: a collaboration between Máret Ánne Sara & lambert, Dress & Body Association Conference, Climate Change: Implications for Dress and the Body, Indiana, U.S. presented online
- Dear bell hooks: Signed Wirth Love, Parse Conference, Powers of Love: Enchantment to Disaffection, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Embodied Discussion, Panel moderator, Rebekah Frank & Funny Livdotter, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden
- Complex Beings, Witness, Recognize, Fall Apart, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden
-Sounds From the Studio Episode 10, Contemporary Craft
-Crafts Research – Now and in the Future , Panel Discussion, Refractions: Konstfack Research Week, Stockholm Sweden
2022
- Golden Spikes Won’t Pin Down Dragons Revisited
-Virginia Commonwealth University
-Massachusetts College of Art
-SUNY New Paltz State University of New York
-The Theory of Jewelry, Why do we love to wear it, and what does it mean? Jewelry Journey Podcast Part 1 & 2
-- "Jewelry: A Beautiful Problem": matt lambert discusses with Kelly Arnaoutaki for Athens Jewelry Week
2021
- Craft Carries Bodies: Potential and Possible Histories, Konstfack Research Week, Stockholm Sweden
-Golden Spikes Won’t Pin Down Dragons Revisted,
-Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), Oslo, Norway
-KOURU7, Lappeenranta Finland
- Seattle Metals Guild conference
-matt lambert in conversation with Jorge Manilla, N.3 Brazil Jewelry Week, online
2019
-Golden Spikes Won’t Pin Down Dragons
-Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
-Object Space, Auckland, New Zealand
-Columbus College of Art Graduate Studies, Columbus, Ohio
2018
- Complex Beings: Witness, Recognize, Fall Apart, KHIO, Oslo, Norway
- CAKE, collaborative lecture with Edward Cabral, Society for North American Goldsmiths conference, Portland, OR
-Contributor, Saying NO NO to Kantian Autonomy and Getting Jiggy with New Materialism , Norwegian Craft in
collaboration with Current Obsession, Lovelace Hotel, Munich Jewelry Week, 2018
-Possible Fringe: The Decorative and the Vulnerable (navigating masculinity through a queer personal narrative and the archive)
-Epic Failure, Material Topics Symposium, East Carolina University, NC, US
- Queering Space, Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia, U.S.
2017
- Possible Fringe: The Decorative and the Vulnerable (navigating masculinity through a queer personal narrative and the archive)
Gothenburg Academy of Design HDK, Gothenburg, Sweden
- In conversation with Catrin Lundqvist, IASPIS, Stockholm Sweden
2015
- “Ritual and the Impotent Adonis, An exploration of fetish, ritual and the presentation and preciousness of masculinity,” Estonian
Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
- Artist talk, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012
- “Revisiting the Village,” Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Hosted by Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- “It Takes A Village,” National Conference for Art in Healthcare, Hosted by Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI
2011
- “Crafting Identity,” Undergraduate Research Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
