Recent Press
[Supermajor] is a wonderful piece that, so to speak, heralds the end of the postmodern age because of course, one of the central challenges is leaving the oil where it is. Leave it in the ground, leave it in the ground.
-Andreas Beitin, Director Art Museum Wolfsburg
Petro-Melancholy
The Oil Age in the Mirror of Art
Directed by Mathias Frick
A Documentary Film featuring my work Supermajor , 52 min, 2022
2022 Soudant, Shasti “Matt Kenyon and Jason J Ferguson.” Sculpture Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022,
2022 Robin, Miller, “Matt Kenyon Shares Societal Commentary through Intrigue in Baton Rouge Gallery Show, 'Cloudburst'.” The Advocate, Print. Aug 11, 2022
2022 Santos, Vicky, UB multimedia artist exhibits in Louisiana, Buffalo, UB NOW. October 14, 2022
2022 Small, Zachary. “How Artists Are Memorializing Victims of Mass Shootings, Again and Again and Again and Again.” Artnet News, 3 June 2022,
Matt Kenyon sharing the Notepad project with Al Gore at climate hope breakfast.
2022 Santos, Vicky, Elected officials receive anti-gun letters on ‘Alternative Rule’ paper UB NOW. July 5, 2022
2022 Episode 6. Panel Discussion from Buffalo Arts Studio Making Space: Creative Strategies for Promoting Ecological and Economic Justice in Urban Planning, was held on October 28 at BAS and featured four distinct voices from our community, bringing together artist Matt Kenyon, architectural designer Justina Dziama, scholars Dr. Henry Louis Taylor Jr., and activist Dennise Barr.
2022 Hausler, Jackie, UB professor presents social impact art through TED platform, UB NOW. Oct 22, 2020
2021 TOKEN GESTURE Tina Rivers Ryan on NFTs, Artforum print MAY 2021.
“Tellingly, most of the conversations happening around NFTs ignore even the artists from just the past decade who have examined the blockchain as a technological, economic, social, and aesthetic system, including Matt Kenyon, Simon Denny, and Aria Dean.”
2019 Schuessler, Jennifer, “Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism”, New York Times, November 22 2019. Print
2018 “Giant Pool of Money,” TV segment for NHK World, Japan, October 8, 2018.NHK is Japan’s national public broadcasting organization.
2018 Plastini, Johnny, “Covert Ops: Matthew Kenyon and the SWAMP Notepads,” interview for Art in Print, Volume 8, Number 3, September-October 2018. Print.
2018 Debatty, Régine, “When Is Fake ‘Even Better Than the Real Thing’?,” review of Science Gallery FAKE exhibition, We Make Money Not Art, May 21, 2018.
2018 Cianciotta, Aurelio, “Disobedient Electronics,” Neural, January 3, 2018. Review of publication project including SWAMP, curated by Garnet Hertz.
2017 Turner, Anderson, “Art Review: Current Events Reflected in Works at Emily Davis Gallery,” Akron Beacon Journal, October 5, 2017.
2017 Smith, Greg, “Disobedient Electronics: Protest – The Revolution Will Run on a Microcontroller,” Creative Applications Network, July 13, 2017.
2016 Eng, Karen, “Gallery: Art that makes you look at everything differently,” profile of SWAMP, Ideas.Ted.Com, October 27, 2016.
2016 Swanstrom, Lisa, “Intersectional Ecologies: Matt Kenyon’s ‘Useful Fictions’”interview in Electronic Book Review, April 3, 2016.
2016 “Bad Language,” Asymptote, April 2016.
Kenyon was a keynote speaker at The Prindle Institute’s Value and Virtual Spaces Ethics Symposium, held at DePauw University. Also featured, Anita Sarkeesian feminist media critic and founder of Feminist Frequency. Solon Barocas who is exploring issues of fairness in machine learning.
2016 “A Giant Pool of Money w/ Matt Kenyon.” RT America , 4 Feb. 2016.
2016 Bhatia, Pooja, “Artist’s Secret Memorial Is One of the Most Clever, Selfless Acts You’ll Ever See,” OZY Media, Jan 2016.
2016 Fure, Adam, “Meat Helmet,” Log 36, Anyone Corporation, 2016.
2015 The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Experimental Eating (London: Black Dog Publishing), 2015.
2015 Debatty, Régine, “Oil Company Nationalizes Work Critical of the Oil Industry,” We Make Money Not Art, September 20, 2015.
2015 CH Editors, “Matt Kenyon: The Artist Using Technology to Comment on Corporate America,” Cool Hunting, July 29, 2015.
2015 Rowan, David, “How One Artist Smuggled Iraqi War Victim Names into Congress,” Wired UK, May 30, 2015.
2015 Eng, Frances, “7 Up-and-Coming Artists You Need to Know,” Medium, April 7,
2015 Martinson, Jodie, “TED Conference 2015 Highlights,” CBC News, March 23,2015.
2015 Lederman, Marsha, “Cynicism Takes a Break at TED, Thanks to Three Artists,” The Globe and Mail, Vancouver, CA, March 20, 2015.
2015 Lee, Jeff, “Young Achievers Present Provocative Ideas at TED Conference Opening Lectures,” Vancouver Sun, March 18, 2015.
2015 Quito, Anne, “An Artist Is Using the Humble Yellow Legal Pad As a Secret Weapon of Protest,” Quartz, March 18, 2015.
2015 Rosenbaum, Steven, “TED–Day 1, Vancouver: Do We Trust Our Government?” Huffington Post, March 17, 2015.
2015 Lashinsky, Adam, “An Artist’s Unflattering Corporate Portrait,” interview in Fortune Magazine, March 12, 2015.
2015 Peveto, Kyle, “This Baton Rouge-Born Artist Specializes in Art You Might Not Find Hanging on a Wall…” The Baton Rouge Advocate, February 22, 2015.
2015 Kim, Leejin and Kyungjin Yoo, eds., New Media Art 2015 (South Korea: CICA Press), 2015.
2014 Debatty, Régine, “Strange Weather: Into the Clouds,” We Make Money Not Art, August 5, 2014.
2014 Ahlstrom, Dick, “A Taste of the Clouds as Strange Weather Hits Science Gallery,” The Irish Times, July 17, 2014.
2014 Green, Roger, review of “Detroit – (in)Habitation,” Sculpture Magazine, Volume 33: Number 6. July/August 2014.
2013 “WATCH: Oil flows wrong way in brain-twisting illusion,” The Independent, January 08, 2013