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Matt Swift C.V.

Awards and Grants

Solo and Group Exhibitions

OAL 2024 Fall Juried ExhibitionRoss Museum of Art 08/2024

Accessible Expressions Ohio 2024Various Locations

Mindful Cycles of HopeRaw Gallery 4/2024

Thumb Box – Raw Gallery 12/2023

Visual Art After Cuba 2019-2023CCAD 04/2023

Thumb Box – Raw Gallery 12/2022

Analogue: Exposing the Negative – 07/2022

Worthington on the Walls07/2022

83 Gallery at Brothers Drake – 12/2022

Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition – 2022

Other Voices at Pennington Custom art Services 2021

Fresh A.I.R at Riverside Hospital 2020

Exploration, Experimentation, Exploration, Explanation

  Vandrelli Room 2020

Works of Matt SwiftEngie Gallery 2019

FrondeurPennington Custom Art Services – 2019

Pathways – Fresh A.I.R. Gallery 2019

What’s Love Got To Do With It?02/2017

Rejuvination 38 Raw Gallery 4/30/2016

*Pre 2016 exhibition history available upon request

Live Painting and Audio Visual Performances

Inherent Sanctuary

Audio Video Performance at Fuse Factory Performances – 5/2024

Intrinsicity

Audio/ Video DVD Release at Raw Gallery – 12/2023

Words of Breaststrokes Columbus

Live painting Breaststrokes Columbus – 06/2020

Words of COVID

Live painting Arts and College Prep Academy – 04/2020

Words of Mental Health

Live painting Fresh A.I.R. Gallery – 06/2019

90 Minute Portrait Painting Challenge

Live painting Arts and College Prep Academy – 03/2019

Don’t Let Me be Misunderstood

Live Painting at Organ Donor Art and Health Expo – 09/21

Independents Day Film with Connections

Video Performance – Independents Day X 9/2017

Emitting Velocity –Burning Tree – 32 Views

Video Performance – Columbus Moving Image Art Review 1/2016

Emitting Velocity at Body Language

Video Performance – 2014 – March 2015

Perceptual Distortion

Video Performance – 16mm Animation, Digital Animation, Live Manipulation
Video Performance –
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) 2012
Video Performance –
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 8/2011

Certain Slant of Light…

Video Performance – 16mm Animation, Text, After Effects Animation
Video Performance –
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) 2012
Video Performance –
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 6/2011

Film and Video Works and Installations

At Water’s Edge
VCA Video Festival Spain – 2023

Those Who Spring Of Me Feature Film
ReelAbilities Columbus 2020
Columbus International F&A
Boden International Film Fest
Indie Film Fest 2021
Art and Autism Festival

Columbus In Cuba Documentary Feature
Boden International Film Fest
Montreal International
SoCal Film Fest 2021
Columbus Museum of Art
Gateway Film Center
Art and Autism Festival 2017

Pathways of Columbus
Commissioned Permanent Display Hilton in 2017

Player Piano – Installation Creation with Nikki Swift
The Vanderelli Room 02/2019
Pearl Conard Gallery 11/2018

Human Refractions Installation Creation with Nikki Swift
Vanderelli Room – ID2016

The Box or: how i learned my memories
EASE Gallery 02-04/2015

Emitting Velocity – Mohican Forest
(password- mohican)
Arts on Division 2016
Columbus Arts Festival 2016
Independents Day 2015

Continuum
IFPA in Copenhagen 7-15

Slow Ascent
Ohio State Fair 2015 – GCAC Award
SISFF 2015 Official Selection
100 Under 100 – CS Gallery

My Typewriter
Arts on Division 2016
2015 GCAC Annual Panel
Ohio State Fair 2014 – GCAC Award

From Still to Movement
Independents Day 2014

City Lights Everywhere
Independents Day 2014

City Lights – Oglebay Park
Digital Graffiti 2014
Deep Wood Gallery 02-2014

Rural Colors – Northern Ohio
EASE Gallery 06-2015
Deep Wood Gallery 02-2014 CIFVF Shorts 3/2014
2013 Agora 8 4/2013

Rural Colors- Ohio River
Autumn Invocation 2013

City Lights-Columbus
The Video Show 2014
Deep Wood Gallery 02-2014 Autumn Invocation 2013

City Lights
GCAC Award Autumn Invocation 2013 Ohio State Fair

kg’ no’atbpqsii bitiin, ( Permanent Way )
Ohio State Fair 2013
Global Gallery/Autumnal Invocation 8/2012
CBUS/Design Week Screening 9/2012
Agora 8 4/2013

Terminal Vertices of a Path
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 6/2012
Inside Out – 2011

Stepping Down – 7/22- 24/2011 – Produced by 4
(Robert Foor) for the 48 Hour Film Project

Arrow of Time  Co-Created with Nikki Swift GCAC Award
The Ohio State Fair 2012
Agora 9 – Junctionview Studios 6/12/2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011

Scenic View
Agora 8 – Junctionview Studios 6/14/2011
The Ohio State Fair – 7/27 – 8/7/2011
Project-A-Bug – Still’n Motion 6/18/2011
Project-A-Bug – Gallery Hop 6/4/2011
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011

Cycle of Overuse GCAC Award
The Ohio State Fair 2011
ADD Short Film Festival TBA
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011

Extrication of A Man
BYOB 2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011

Down the Rabbit’s Hole
Project-A-Bug 5/28/2011
Agora 5/2010

FBSP Co-Created with Nikki Swift
Agora 5/2009

24 29 54 
Agora 2008
Illusions of the Mind 2008

Professional History

Board Membership
Ohio Art League – Secretary/Marketing/Programming 2020 – Present
Leventhal Artist Residency Advisory Board 2014 – 2020

Employment
Ohio State University Film Studies– Academic Advisor 8/2009 –12/2012, Program Coordinator 12/2012- Present
The Journal of Short Film – Production Lead 8/2009 – Present
Nicolettecinemagraphics – Multimedia Specialist 5/2003 – Present
Columbus Museum of Art – Digital Projects Intern 8/2007 – 12/2007
Huntington Archive – Image Specialist Intern 6/2004 – 3/2005

Teaching
Documentary and Art Filmmaking – We Amplify Voices
10 Week Workshop Spring 2024
Film Studies 489: Film Studies Internship – Ohio State University / 2009-2020
Film Studies 2270: Introduction to Film Studies Online
Ohio State University / Summer 2014
Film Studies 270: Introduction to Film Studies – Ohio State University / Spring 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

Scholarship and Publishing

Teaching Media – Online Teaching in Film and Media Studies/ Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 3(1) 2015

Using Short Films and Regular Viewing Habits as a Catalyst for Online Pedagogy

GFC Film Reviews 2015

 A Provocative History – The Black Panthers: …

Good Kill – “It’s Not PlayStation…We Are Killing People!”

Animals, For Love Or Addiction!

The Perfect Mix Of Love And Ninjas – The Last: Naruto The Movie

MPCA/MACA Annual Conference 2012

Redefining Orphan Films: An Epidemic of Cinematic Orphans in the 21st Century

Education –
Ohio State University – Bachelor of Arts – Double Major/ History of Art and Film and Media Studies 2005
Kent State University – Master’s of Library and Information Science 2007

Juror
Columbus International Film + Video Festival – Div.Chair 2011-2016
Reelabilities Film Festival Columbus Juror 2013-2016
Wizard World Comic Con Film Festival – 
Juror / 2013
Ohio Governor’s Choice Award – Juror 2011Campus Movie Fest – OSU – Juror 11/2010

Presentations
Better Video and Photo/ Tips and Tricks –
GCAC OppArt Presentations 2013 ,OSU Staff Presentations 2012
Redefining the Orphan Film: An Epidemic of Cinematic Orphans in the 21st Century – Midwest Pop Culture Association Conference 2012
Video from Analog to Digital – OhioDig 2007

Video Work
Art
The Making of Paul Hamilton’s Blue Beautiful Skies
Inspired: Works Capturing the Magic of Flying Horse Farms
Brunch & Conversation: Aminah Robinson with Nannette Maciejunes – July 19, 2014
Brunch & Conversation: Paul Hamilton August 16, 2014
Brunch & Conversation: Marcia Smilack – June 21, 2014
Events
New Albany Arts Council – Little Mermaid Jr. 2013
Arangetrum – Nitika Gaiha 9/2012
RMT @ Concert on the Green – Worthington, Ohio 7/17/2011
2011 Race for the Cure Community Film 5/2011
Events 
New Albany Arts Council – Pinocchio Jr. 2014
New Albany Arts Council – Little Mermaid Jr. 2013
Arangetrum – Nitika Gaiha 9/2012
RMT @ Concert on the Green – Worthington, Ohio 7/17/2011
2011 Race for the Cure Community Film 5/2011
Weddings & Religious Ceremonies
2010 John & Sherihan: Clips VideoZaffa Dance | Beth & Sam
2009 Dunn Ceremony | Ben & Alison | Dani’s Bat Mitzvah
2008 Marie & Jeff | Lora & Jerry | Mitchell’s Bar Mitzvah
2007 Jeremy’s Bar Mitzvah
2006 Christina & Ed | Jesse & Rebecca
Educational
Film Studies 2270 Lecture Videos- Viewable on request
Guiding K-3 Writers to Independence: The New Essentials:
1. 
Oral Language as a Foundation for Writing
2. 
Writing About Reading
3. 
Engaging Children in a Writing Process through Community Writing
4. 
Story Structure as a Support to Meaning Making
Ethnographic
Crockpot studies – Design Central 2008
Editing Work
Batman Watching Over Gotham | Batman Watching Over Gotham (Re-edit) New Realm Acupuncture Promo
ReelAbiltites Film Festival Promo | RMT Songs of America Promo