Matthew Lloyd (Born 1988, England UK)
Contact: matthewjohnlloyd@hotmail.com
Substack: @matthewjlloyd
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Academic Experience:
Lecturer of Art Theory, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, 2019-2025.
Guest lecturer Fontys Academy of the Arts,, Performing Public Space, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2021-2026.
Lecturer of Online Short Course, University of Arts London, (UAL), London, 2025-2026.

Professional Experience:
Invited Art advisor for V2_Lab for Unstable Media, Realities in Transition, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024.
Invited Art advisor for Future.Repair.Machine, European Events/Conferences, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2023, Graz, Austria, 2024.

Selected Lecturers:
When the real is too real to be realised: Adorno, the traumatic voice and when truth can only exist through fiction. 2019.
Jacques Rancière’s Dissensus: the apolitical image in our post-truth era. 2019-2020.
Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your…the object, acousmatic and ethical voice. 2022.
"I prefer not to” Bartleby's institutional critique and the spectacle of (anti)labour. 2022.
Augmented Futures: swallowing the screen and our posthuman drive. 2023.
Artist Manifesto (The Language of Protest): the polemic power of words and post-civil discourse. 2023-2024.
The self destructive artist as subject: analysing the films of Banshees of Inisherin, Tár, and The Menu, 2024.
The Controversy of Public Art: antagonisms, social values, and the catastrophes within the public sphere. 2025-2026.
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Education:
M.F.A Fine Art and New Artistic Strategies in the Public Space, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 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.
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:
CINEMA, Trafik Projects, Brühl-Vochem, Germany 2024.
Kunstfest Weimar, Germany 2018.
Bauhaus Essentials 8, Marke.6 Gallery, Weimar, Germnay, 2017.
Desintegriert Euch!, Gorki Theatre 3rd Herbstsalon, 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, Weimar, Germany, 2017. 

Published Writings:
The Occuiped Seats, The Double Negative Magazine & ArtReview, 2023.

Seminars/Conferences:
'All that left me cold, or nearly': Decoding Colding in Beckett, Samuel Beckett Society, Online Seminar, London, UK, 2025.
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Catalogue:
Sculptorvox Magazine Vol 3: A God Complex, England, UK, 2019.