Landon Metz

Reminiscent of Color Field painters like Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, Landon Metz’ paired down aesthetic points to his time growing up in Arizona. His ink-stained canvasses, often arranged around a space in a sequential installation, have a precision and lightness that reflects his airy Brooklyn studio. Metz is not trying to create singular pieces of work, but open out new ways in which one looks at and exists within a particular space.

Landon Metz (b. 1985, Arizona, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Gana Art, Seoul (2023); Sean Kelly, New York (2022); De Brock, Knokke (2022); Von Bartha, Copenhagen (2022); Waddington Custot, London (2021); Von Bartha, Basel (2021); Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2021) and Francesca Minini, Milan (2020).

Landon Metz, *Untitled*, 2019, dye on canvas, 160.9 x 128.6 cm

I don’t consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them. Especially with my latest pieces, the work may be informed by conversations surrounding the medium, but it’s not in any way fixed or limited to them.
Landon Metz

Biography

Awards

2019
Prix Jean François Prat

Residencies

2014
ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Waddington Custot, London, UK
Christie's, Custot Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023
I Cut The Hairs On My Head Yesterday But They Grew Back So I Cut Them Again Today And It Was Cooler Than It Had Been So I Wore A Jacket For The First Time In A Long Time And A Paper Cup Of Coffee Warmed My Hands And I Walked Over The Bridge And The Elevator Never Works So I Took The Stairs And I Organized The Studio Before, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland

It was unusually quiet on Lafayette Street and for a brief moment the cadence of my footsteps aligned with that of a stranger, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
2022
The sky isn’t really blue, Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark
Come Together, De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
A Different Kind of Paradise, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
2021
It snowed and a half sphere accumulated on a post outside the window, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Euphoria, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Love Songs, Waddington Custot, London, UK
2020
Clarity, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
2019
Landon Metz, De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Three Eleven, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Asymmetrical Symmetry, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
Feels So Right Now, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Landon Metz, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
2017
Fourth Wall, Von Bartha, S-chanf, Switzerland
At the bodega on the corner they have black plums 2 for $1 and cactus pears 2 for $1 and tangerines 2 for $1, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
Quintets, VI, VII, Oslo, Norway
2016
&, Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
&, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
2015
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
Landon Metz, James Fuentes, New York, NY, USA
2014
Plose, ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
Michael Jackson Penthouse, Retrospective, Hudson, NY, USA
2012
Still, TORRI, Paris, France
2011
Something To Dance To, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

Two Person Exhibitions

2016
Morris Louis / Landon Metz, with Morris Louis, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY, USA
2013
Shake Shack Guggenheim, with Ethan Cook, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
Blue., Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY, USA
Reflections: Open Ended, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
2017
Corners / In Between, Norma Mangione, Turin, Italy
Greffes, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Five years of VI, VII, Independent Regence, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Splotch, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
2015
Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA
The Essential Bruce Springsteen, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
173 E 94th St / Chausee de Waterloo 550, Paul Kasmin at Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
From Pre-History to Post-Everything, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
La Chose Encadrée, SWG3, Glasgow International Biennial, Glasgow, UK
2013
F(re)e Play, Stadium, New York, NY, USA
La Suite, TORRI, Paris, France
Organix, Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice, Italy
Space Whole Karaoke, Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Slowed & Throwed, Chinatown Arcade, New York, NY, USA
Can't Stop Rock Lobster, Shoot The Lobster, New York, NY, USA
TLK DRTY, Amstel 41, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Historia Mysteria, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Post Truth, Reference Art Gallery, Richmond, VI, USA
Saint Lawrence Ice, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada