Whitney Biennial 2022: 
Quiet as It’s Kept

Floor 5

Born 1973 in Chicago, IL
Lives in New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA

Matt Connors makes paintings from the position of an observer. He improvises from a range of sources—drawing on design, art history, and architecture—that he says are “troubling [his] eye.” While painting is sometimes considered a reflection of identity, Connors imagines the act of painting as a proposal for how identity comes to be. He has spoken of his paintings being queer in that “they’re a becoming or an unfolding—often even a failing—rather than an endpoint.”