Matias Faldbakken has exhibited in major institutions and galleries in Europe and the United States.
Select solo exhibitions include Beaten Ink, Upset Brick, Downcast Charcoal, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2021–22); Matias Faldbakken, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2019); _Matias Faldbakken — Effects of Good Governm_ent in the Pit, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2017–18); Thingumbob Screens Overlaps, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich (2016); Overlap, Galerie Neu, Berlin (2015); Sacks & Trunks, Simon Lee Gallery, London (2013); Intervention #21, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2012).
Select group exhibitions include My Cartography. The Erling Kagge Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid (2020); All In One, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich (2020); Kanal Brut, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2018–19); WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Black Feast, Simon Lee Gallery, New York (2017); The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2016); Poor Art — Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2015-16); The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2014); Sea Salt and Cross Passes, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2013).
Faldbakken also continues to write and is an accomplished author; his 2019 novel Vi er fem was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2020.
