EDUCATION
2021 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2020 TED Fellowship
2019 Guggenheim Fellowship – John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
2018 Loeb Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
2009 Master of Science in Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning
2009 The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture – Fellowship Award
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Merit Scholarship
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture, US Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2024 UNIDEE, Ways of Becoming: 25 years with UNIDEE, Biella, Italy
2020 Local Ecologies – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA
2018 By the People: Designing a Better America – Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA
SELECT AWARDS
2024 International Sculpture Center Innovator Award, Honorable Mention
2024 GOOD Design Award, 3 projects awarded HOME, GENTLE BREEZE, and WRAPPED IN SUNBEAMS
2023 CodaWORX Award, People’s Choice Award and Transportation Category Award for HOME
2023 53rd Annual Wichita Arts Council, Chris Cherches Award for artwork in the Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park
2022 Fulbright Specialist Award, Fulbright Finland Foundation
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship: Craft/Sculpture
2019 Global Architecture & Design Awards – “Pop-Ups and Temporary Structure (Built),” for project HARM TO TABLE
2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Award - Sculpture/Installation/New Genres 2018
2018 Dezeen Awards - “Architecture Project of the Year” and “Rebirth Project of the Year “
2018 Architizer A+ Award in the category of "Architecture + Community"
2018 World Architecture News (WAN) Awards: Adaptive Reuse – Winner; Small Spaces: Permanent – Shortlist
2018 Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists
2017 Americans for the Arts: Public Art Network Year in Review Award for Public Art & Placemaking (two projects awarded)
2017 The Chicago Athenaeum – American Architecture Award
2017 The Congress for the New Urbanism – Charter Award
2017 World Architecture Community – 20+10+X Award
2016 Americans for the Arts: Public Art Network Year in Review Award for Public Art & Placemaking
2014 Chamberlain Award – Headlands Center for the Arts
2014 Great Places Award: Place Design – Environmental Design Research Association
2013 The Santo Foundation: Individual Artist Award
2011 Americans for the Arts: Year in Review Public Art Award for community engagement and social activism
2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Award for Sculpture/Installation
2008 10th Annual Media Spectacle Honorable Mention/Best Documentary, MIT Comparative Media Studies
2007 Americans for the Arts: Year in Review Public Art Award Jurors: Miwon Kwon and Larry Kirkland
SELECT PRESS
2024 Interior Design Magazine, print
2024 Canvas Magazine, print
2024 The Economic Power Of Public Art, CODAworx, Print
2024 The Architect's Newspaper, “Wrapped in Sunbeams by Matthew Mazzotta is the artist’s “quietest work” to date,” online
2023 September 2023 CODA Magazine, front cover
2023 Colossal, “Monumental Pink Flamingo Wades Through Myriad Meanings of Home,” online
2021 NPR Ted Radio Hour, “The Public Commons,” online audio
2020 “The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia),” Edited By: Ute Meta Bauer, 192–197, World Scientific Publishing
2018 “Place.Labour.Capital.” Edited by Ute Meta Bauer., NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Publishing
2018 Public Art Review. “CLOUD HOUSE by Matthew Mazzotta.” Vol. 20, Issue 57.
2017 Public Space? Lost & Found. Edited by Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui, and Lucas Freeman.
2017 Dezeen. “Matthew Mazzotta's Cloud House receives a rain shower when occupied.”
2016 Huffington Post, October 12, 2016. “9 Design Projects Tackling America’s Poverty Crisis, One Community At A Time.”
2016 Azure Magazine. “Silver lining: Matthew Mazzotta’s interactive sculpture puts perspective on a rainy day.”
2016 Sculpture Magazine, May 2016. “Living in Public: Conversation with Matthew Mazzotta.”
2016 NPR KCUR, February 16, 2016. “In Lyons, Nebraska, A Big Art Project Revives A Small-Town Tradition.”
2014 Public Art Review Magazine, issue 49. “Open House.”
2014 Architizer, November 24, 2014. “Artist Matthew Mazzotta on Reinventing Public Spaces Through Art & Architecture.
2013 CNN International, August 16, 2013. “The house with a secret transformation.” 8/15/13
2013 Dezeen Magazine, August 20, 2013. “Open House by Matthew Mazzotta.”
2012 Huffington Post, July 5, 2012. “Dog Poo Power Goes Global.”
2012 NHK (Tokyo, Japan). 'Shaneru’ (TV documentary).
2011 The Colbert Report 8/18/11
2010 BBC Radio News Hour, September 13, 2010. “The Park Spark project.”
2010 Living on Earth, NPR, September 24, 2010. “The Scoop on A Unique Dog Waste Digester.”
2010 CNN Headline News, September 23, 2010. “Dog droppings light the way in park.”
2010 Science Magazine, October 1, 2010. “Poop Powered.”
2010 Wired Magazine, September 15, 2010. “Dog Poop Powers Park Lights.”
2010 Discovery Channel, September 16, 2010. “Dog Park Light Lit by Dog Poo.”
2010 USA Today, September 14, 2010. “Big wag: Dog waste is lighting the way.”
2006 The Chicagoist. “Dazed and Confused.” June 8, 2006.
2006 TimeOut Chicago. “Get on the Busycle.” June 8, 2006.
2005 The Boston Globe. “On a Bicycle Built, and Run, By Many.” September 26, 2005.
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2025 RISE, San Diego International Airport, USA
2025 LOCAL HABITAT, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2024 UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE. City of Sacramento, USA
2024 VOTE!. Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Facility, USA
2024 OPEN PLAINS, City of Fort Worth, USA
2024 RISING TOGETHER, Denver Arts and Venues, USA
2023 WHERES THE PARTY, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, USA
2023 Chester I. Lewis Reflection Park, City of Wichita, Kansas, USA
2023 DROP IN, City of Ankeny, Iowa, USA
2022 HOME, Tampa International Airport, USA
2022 BIRD SEED, Green Bay Botanical Garden, Wisconsin, USA
2022 WRAPPED IN SUNBEAMS, Rancho Los Amigos Care Facility, Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture, USA
2022 GENTLE BREEZE, Boise City Council, USA
2016 CLOUD HOUSE, Farmers Park / Artists For All, Springfield, Missouri, USA.
2016 STOREFRONT THEATER, Center For Rural Affairs, Lyons, Nebraska, USA.
2016 HARM TO TABLE, City of Boulder Office of Arts + Culture, USA
2016 RURAL LEGENDS, Town of Decatur, Nebraska, USA.
2013 OPEN HOUSE, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, Alabama, USA.
2012 PIER SHEAR / STRIZENJE LUKOBRANA, Musagetes, Rijeka, Croatia
2011 NON DISTURBARE / DO NOT DISTURB, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2010 STEEPED IN EXPLORATION, PEER Group - P.A.I.R. Project, Drachten, Netherlands.
2010 PARK SPARK, City of Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
2009 LOOKING FOR A LANDSCAPE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Council Grant Cambridge, MA USA
2008 INSERTION MODULE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Council Grant Cambridge, MA USA
2008 TUESDAY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stata Center, Cambridge, MA
2006 BUSYCLE (with co-artist Heather Clark) Berwick Research Institute, Traveling Project - Nationally in the USA.
2006 THE BUOY PROJECT, City of Hyannis, MA USA
2005 IN HEAVEN – Boston Art Windows, Street Seen, Boston, MA
2004 WANDERING HOME Town of Richmond, VT
2004 WATER TOWER Town of Richmond, VT
2004 ON N ON – The Orange Show, Houston, TX
2004 HOMELESS IN A GHOST TOWN – University of Vermont, Burlington VT
2004 DA TIRST – 14th annual South End Burlington Art Hop, Burlington, VT
2003 WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU LEMONS – 13th Annual South End Burlington Art Hop, Burlington, VT
2001 THE VILLAGE – Courtyard of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL