Matthew Lloyd (Born 1988, England UK)
Contact: matthewjohnlloyd@hotmail.com
Substack: @matthewjlloyd
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Professional Experience:
Lecturer of Art Theory and Theoretical Writing Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, 2019-2024.
Guest lecturer Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Performing Public Space, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2021 -2025.
Guest lecturer The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, 2022.
Guest lecturer Public Space Academy, Bologna, Italy, 2025.
Lecturer of Online Short Course, University of Arts London, (UAL), London, 2025.

Advisor:
Invited Art advisor for V2_Lab for Unstable Media, Realities in Transition: Department of Interface Dimensions, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024
Invited Art advisor for Future.Repair.Machine, European Events and Conferences, Tilburg, Netherlands 2023, Graz, Austria, 2024.

Lecturers:
When the real is too real to be realised: Adorno, the traumatic voice and when truth can only exist through fiction. 2019.
Art and Politics: Jacques Rancière’s Dissensus in an age of the (a)political images. 2019-20.
Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your…The object, acousmatic and ethical voice in public realms. 2022.
“I prefer not to” Bartleby's institutional critique and the spectacle of performing (anti)labour. 2022.
Augmented Futures: swallowing the screen with our posthuman drive. 2023.
Artist Manifesto {The Language of Protest}: the polemic power of words and post-civil discourse. 2023-24.
An artist's value and (self)destruction: analysing the films of Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Tár (2022), Menu (2022), 2024.
The Controversy of Public Art: antagonisms, social values, and the catastrophes within the public sphere. 2025.

Education:
M.F.A Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Master of Fine Arts, Weimar, Germany, 2016 - 2018.
BA (Hons) Graphic Arts: Illustration/Graphic Design, Liverpool John Moores Art and Design Academy, UK, 2008 - 2010. 

Solo Exhibitions:
Words Fail Me, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany, 2019.
( ) Voi(ce)d, Reizueberflutung Gallery, Weimar, Germany, 2018.
No Longer Can Anything Exist In Isolation, Kunstfest, Weimar, Germany, 2018.
{I}, Glogauer Str Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2014.
Something Nothing Nothing Something / A Manifesto I, Liverpool Biennial, England, 2012.
Think Outside The Box, Arena Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, England, 2012.
I Don’t Believe In, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, England, 2010. 

Group Exhibitions:
TRAFIK projects - CINEMA, Brühl-Vochem, Germany 2024.
Kunstfest Weimar, Germany 2018.
Bauhaus Essentials 8, Marke.6 Gallery, Weimar, Germnay, 2017.
Desintegriert Euch!, Gorki - 3rd Herbstsalon, Berlin, Germany, 2017.
(Un) Sounds of Buchenwald, Momentum Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2017.
HOT-ONE-HUNDRED, Schwartz Gallery, London, England, 2013.

Awards and Fellowships:
Stiftung Kunstfond Artist Grant Award, Germany, 2022.
Nietzsche-Fellowship, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany, 2022.
Bauhaus University Weimar, Bauhaus Essentials 8 Artist Award, 2017.
GlogauAIR, Art Residency, Berlin, Germany, 2013 - 2014. 

Permanent Collections:
You Cannot Hear I?, Buchenwald Memorial Former Concentration Camp, Permanent Collection, Weimar, Germany, 2017. 

Published Writings:
The Double Negative Magazine & ArtReview ‘The Occupied Seats of Ukraine’, 2023.
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Catalogue:
Sculptorvox Magazine Vol 3: A God Complex, England, UK, 2019.