Awards
2019
Prix Jean François Prat
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 Sean Kelly, New York (2022); De Brock Gallery, 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.
Prix Jean François Prat
ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
The sky isn’t really blue, Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark
Come Together, De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
A Different Kind of Paradise, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
It snowed and a half sphere accumulated on a post outside the window, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Euphoria, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Love Songs, Waddington Custot, London, UK
Clarity, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
Landon Metz, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Three Eleven, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
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
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
&, Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
&, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
Landon Metz, James Fuentes, New York, NY, USA
Plose, ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
Michael Jackson Penthouse, Retrospective, Hudson, NY, USA
Still, TORRI, Paris, France
Something To Dance To, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Morris Louis / Landon Metz, with Morris Louis, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY, USA
Shake Shack Guggenheim, with Ethan Cook, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Blue., Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY, USA
Reflections: Open Ended, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
Corners / In Between, Norma Mangione, Turin, Italy
Greffes, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Five years of VI, VII, Independent Regence, Brussels, Belgium
Splotch, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA
The Essential Bruce Springsteen, Andersen's, Copenhagen, Denmark
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
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
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
Historia Mysteria, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Post Truth, Reference Art Gallery, Richmond, VI, USA
Saint Lawrence Ice, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2022, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2022, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2022, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2022, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2020, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2020, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2020, dye on canvas, 101.6 x 162.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2019, dye on canvas, 164.6 x 131.6 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2019, dye on canvas, 163.8 x 131 cm
Landon Metz, Untitled, 2019, dye on canvas, 160.9 x 128.6 cm
Landon Metz