Selected Exhibitions
2023 Movable Magnets, Towle Hill Studios, Corinth, VT. (Solo Exhibition)
2023 Misfits II, Pulp, Holyoke, MA
2023 Stick People, Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, MA
2023 Whir, Clank, Beep, SPA Gallery, Barre, VT
2023 Artful Shanties, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT (One of two artists selected to receive a special stipend for the creation of work)
2022 Fool’s Paradise: Eden in the Age of Chaos – A Tragedy. Reflections on the End of Time: AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH. (Solo Exhibition)
2021 Ascension, Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University. (Solo Exhibition)
2021 Bubblegum Pop, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT.
2021 Misfits, Pulp Holyoke, Holyoke, MA
2021 Familiar Robots and Their Animal Kindred, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. (Solo Exhibition)
2020 Vermont Utopias: Imagining the Future, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2020 NBOS Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2019 Somewhere in the Sequence, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2019 Beyond Borders: Mexico City, Vermont: Más Allá de las Fronteras. Collaboration with Marilyn Montufar, Primal Studios, Anatayatzin Ortiz, students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and students from Green Mountain Tech. in Vermont. Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019 ReVision, Kent Museum, Calais, Vermont
2019 Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
2017-2019 Mobile Museum, Vermont International Museum of Contemporary Art + Design, Eden, VT (Traveling Solo Exhibition): Exhibitions included Burlington City Arts, the Museum of Everyday Life, the Fairbanks Museum, the Fleming Museum, the Kent Museum, the Montgomery Center for the Arts, the Fleming Museum, VAG Asbestos Mine, Montpelier City Hall (hosted by the Vermont Arts Council), Belvedere Pond, River Arts, the South End Art Hop, and the Helen Day Art Center.
2015 Play, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (Curator)
2015 Rocket Installation, Belvidere Pond, VT (Solo Exhibition)
2014 Inaugural Art Exhibition, Stowe Airport, Stowe, VT
2013 Interstellar Traveler, Stop Motion Animation
2012 Time Machines: Robots, Rockets, and Steampunk, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
2011 Exposed Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (Juried)
2010 Matt Neckers: Recent Images and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT (Solo Exhibition)
2000 Group Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
1997-1999 Several Group Shows, Exclusive Gallery Representation, Zidmar Enterprises (Owner of 40 commercial galleries), Grand Rapids, MI
Fellowships/Awards/Recognition
2022-2023 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant Recipient. Funded by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
2018 Vermont Artists’ Week. Top jury score of all artists who applied for Vermont Artists’ Week. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2016-2017 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant Recipient. Funded by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
2016 Lead PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator (This national honor is given by PBS to one educator from each state)
2012 Juried Teaching Artist. The Vermont Arts Council
2011 Merit Award. Helen Day Art Center, Exposed Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
2009-2010 Learning Arts and Culture Fellowship. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. This year-long fellowship was funded by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Also selected as one of 25 fellows to be profiled for the 25th anniversary of the Vermont Studio Center (“25 at 25”)
2007 Distinguished Arts Education Leader Award. The Vermont Alliance for Arts Education (Affiliated with the Kennedy Center Alliance for Art Education)
Selected Bibliography
Arvanitis, John, "Artists to Watch 2017" Take Magazine, Northampton, MA (February 26, 2017)
Close, Cynthia "Small Worlds, Miniatures in Contemporary Art" Art New England, Boston, MA (May/June), 2019)
Close, Cynthia "Studio Visit: Matt Neckers" Art New England, Boston, MA (May/June), 2021)
Edited, Matt Neckers: “Rocket” Whitefish Review, Whitefish, MT (2013)
Hyde, Marlon "Brattleboro Museum Celebrates 'Artful Ice Shanties' as Winters Warm " Vermont Public Radio Interview, Colchester, VT (March 9, 2012)
Kadour, Ric Kasini, "A Mobile Museum Brings Art to Vermont" Hyperallergic (September 2017)
Lindholm, Jane and Smith, Matthew "Surprising Art: Overlooked, Unknown and Unusual Vermont Works " Vermont Public Radio Interview, Colchester, VT (September 11, 2018)
McCormack, Lisa, "The Art of Play" The Stowe Reporter, Stowe, VT (January 15, 2015)
Polston, Pamela, "The 2021 Art Shows We Liked Best, and Why” Seven Days, Burlington, VT (December 29, 2021)
Polston, Pamela, "Windows on the World | Matt Neckers' Cataclysmic View at Vermont Studio Center"
Ravin, Kristen, "Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do" (#1) Seven Days, Burlington, VT (February 4, 2021)
Thurston, Jack, "Stolen Rocket Ship Baffles Vermont Town" Broadcast on NECN (New England Cable News), Print and online version of story picked up on AP Newswire and printed in numerous papers around the U.S. (June, 22 2011)
Vermont Arts Council Annual Report, Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, VT - Full page images of Mobile Museum on front and back cover of publication (February 2018)
Zapp, Molly and Montgomery, Tim "Vermont International Museum of Contemporary Art + Design" Article and also highlighted on "From the Publisher" Art New England, Boston, MA (July/August), 2018)
Zapp, Molly "An Unusual Museum in Eden Invites the Artist as Prankster" Seven Days, Burlington, VT (September 9, 2015)
Education
2009 M.Ed. Arts in Education St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, GPA: 4.0
1993 B.A. The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA - Concentration Visual Arts.
1991 GLCA New York Arts Program
Selected Teaching Experience
2013-Present Creative Media Art & Design Instructor, Green Mountain Tech., Hyde Park, VT
2009-2014 Adjunct Instructor, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT
2023 Movable Magnets, Towle Hill Studios, Corinth, VT. (Solo Exhibition)
2023 Misfits II, Pulp, Holyoke, MA
2023 Stick People, Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, MA
2023 Whir, Clank, Beep, SPA Gallery, Barre, VT
2023 Artful Shanties, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT (One of two artists selected to receive a special stipend for the creation of work)
2022 Fool’s Paradise: Eden in the Age of Chaos – A Tragedy. Reflections on the End of Time: AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH. (Solo Exhibition)
2021 Ascension, Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University. (Solo Exhibition)
2021 Bubblegum Pop, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT.
2021 Misfits, Pulp Holyoke, Holyoke, MA
2021 Familiar Robots and Their Animal Kindred, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. (Solo Exhibition)
2020 Vermont Utopias: Imagining the Future, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2020 NBOS Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2019 Somewhere in the Sequence, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2019 Beyond Borders: Mexico City, Vermont: Más Allá de las Fronteras. Collaboration with Marilyn Montufar, Primal Studios, Anatayatzin Ortiz, students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and students from Green Mountain Tech. in Vermont. Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019 ReVision, Kent Museum, Calais, Vermont
2019 Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
2017-2019 Mobile Museum, Vermont International Museum of Contemporary Art + Design, Eden, VT (Traveling Solo Exhibition): Exhibitions included Burlington City Arts, the Museum of Everyday Life, the Fairbanks Museum, the Fleming Museum, the Kent Museum, the Montgomery Center for the Arts, the Fleming Museum, VAG Asbestos Mine, Montpelier City Hall (hosted by the Vermont Arts Council), Belvedere Pond, River Arts, the South End Art Hop, and the Helen Day Art Center.
2015 Play, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (Curator)
2015 Rocket Installation, Belvidere Pond, VT (Solo Exhibition)
2014 Inaugural Art Exhibition, Stowe Airport, Stowe, VT
2013 Interstellar Traveler, Stop Motion Animation
2012 Time Machines: Robots, Rockets, and Steampunk, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
2011 Exposed Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (Juried)
2010 Matt Neckers: Recent Images and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT (Solo Exhibition)
2000 Group Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
1997-1999 Several Group Shows, Exclusive Gallery Representation, Zidmar Enterprises (Owner of 40 commercial galleries), Grand Rapids, MI
Fellowships/Awards/Recognition
2022-2023 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant Recipient. Funded by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
2018 Vermont Artists’ Week. Top jury score of all artists who applied for Vermont Artists’ Week. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2016-2017 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant Recipient. Funded by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
2016 Lead PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator (This national honor is given by PBS to one educator from each state)
2012 Juried Teaching Artist. The Vermont Arts Council
2011 Merit Award. Helen Day Art Center, Exposed Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
2009-2010 Learning Arts and Culture Fellowship. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. This year-long fellowship was funded by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Also selected as one of 25 fellows to be profiled for the 25th anniversary of the Vermont Studio Center (“25 at 25”)
2007 Distinguished Arts Education Leader Award. The Vermont Alliance for Arts Education (Affiliated with the Kennedy Center Alliance for Art Education)
Selected Bibliography
Arvanitis, John, "Artists to Watch 2017" Take Magazine, Northampton, MA (February 26, 2017)
Close, Cynthia "Small Worlds, Miniatures in Contemporary Art" Art New England, Boston, MA (May/June), 2019)
Close, Cynthia "Studio Visit: Matt Neckers" Art New England, Boston, MA (May/June), 2021)
Edited, Matt Neckers: “Rocket” Whitefish Review, Whitefish, MT (2013)
Hyde, Marlon "Brattleboro Museum Celebrates 'Artful Ice Shanties' as Winters Warm " Vermont Public Radio Interview, Colchester, VT (March 9, 2012)
Kadour, Ric Kasini, "A Mobile Museum Brings Art to Vermont" Hyperallergic (September 2017)
Lindholm, Jane and Smith, Matthew "Surprising Art: Overlooked, Unknown and Unusual Vermont Works " Vermont Public Radio Interview, Colchester, VT (September 11, 2018)
McCormack, Lisa, "The Art of Play" The Stowe Reporter, Stowe, VT (January 15, 2015)
Polston, Pamela, "The 2021 Art Shows We Liked Best, and Why” Seven Days, Burlington, VT (December 29, 2021)
Polston, Pamela, "Windows on the World | Matt Neckers' Cataclysmic View at Vermont Studio Center"
Ravin, Kristen, "Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do" (#1) Seven Days, Burlington, VT (February 4, 2021)
Thurston, Jack, "Stolen Rocket Ship Baffles Vermont Town" Broadcast on NECN (New England Cable News), Print and online version of story picked up on AP Newswire and printed in numerous papers around the U.S. (June, 22 2011)
Vermont Arts Council Annual Report, Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, VT - Full page images of Mobile Museum on front and back cover of publication (February 2018)
Zapp, Molly and Montgomery, Tim "Vermont International Museum of Contemporary Art + Design" Article and also highlighted on "From the Publisher" Art New England, Boston, MA (July/August), 2018)
Zapp, Molly "An Unusual Museum in Eden Invites the Artist as Prankster" Seven Days, Burlington, VT (September 9, 2015)
Education
2009 M.Ed. Arts in Education St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, GPA: 4.0
1993 B.A. The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA - Concentration Visual Arts.
1991 GLCA New York Arts Program
Selected Teaching Experience
2013-Present Creative Media Art & Design Instructor, Green Mountain Tech., Hyde Park, VT
2009-2014 Adjunct Instructor, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT