Artist Monograph

Gordon Matta-Clark, American

Gordon Matta-Clark is represented by 47 works in MoMA's permanent collection, classified as american, with dated works spanning 1970–1978.

American, 1943–1978

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Medium & Technique Profile

Primary media across the MoMA holdings

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Film	15	31.9%
Photography	9	19.1%
Video	8	17%
Drawing	8	17%
Other Media	3	6.4%
Sculpture	2	4.3%

Technique range

Gordon Matta-Clark’s MoMA holdings concentrate in Film, with secondary engagement in Photography, Video, Drawing, Other Media, Sculpture.

Collection Distribution: MoMA & The Met

Works held at MoMA

MoMA holds a moderate group of 47 works produced between 1970 and 1978 attributed to Gordon Matta-Clark, representing verified accession records curated by the museum’s Department of Painting and Sculpture and sister departments.

Production timeline

Dated works in these two collections span 8 years, from 1970 to 1978.

Cultural Context & Contemporaries

National context

Gordon Matta-Clark is catalogued under American nationality. See the full American artists hub.

Contemporaries among American artists

16315
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works at MoMA
3358
Louise Bourgeois
works at MoMA
2199
Ellsworth Kelly
works at MoMA
1338
Lee Friedlander
works at MoMA
932
George Maciunas
works at MoMA

Lifespan & active period

Lifespan: 1943–1978 (35 years). Artistic production is attributed within this window.

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 47 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Unknown (Eifle) Drawing Acc. 988.2005	1970	Felt-tip pen and pencil on paper	18 1/2 x 23 1/2" (47 x 59.7 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson
Automation House Video Acc. 1166.2007.1	1971	16mm film transferred to video (black and white, sound)	32 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Fire Child Video Acc. 1169.2007.1	1971	Super 8mm film transferred to video (color, silent)	9:47 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Program 3 Video Acc. 1169.2007.1-3	1971-1975	Video (black and white and color, silent and sound)	45:45 min.	Media and Performance	Purchase
Program 5 Video Acc. 1166.2007.1-3	1971-1976	Video (black and white and color, sound)	60:50 min.	Media and Performance	Purchase
Program One: Chinatown Voyeur Video Acc. 1167.2008	1971	Video (black and white, sound)	60 min.	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Program Two Video Acc. 1165.2008.1-2	1971-1972	16mm film and Super 8mm film transferred to video (black and white and color, silent)	50:32 min.	Media and Performance
Program Two: Tree Dance Video Acc. 1165.2008.1	1971	16mm film transferred to video (black and white, silent)	9:32 min.	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Bronx Floors Sculpture Acc. 370.1991	1972-73	Building fragment: wood and linoleum	42 x 43 3/8 x 11 3/8" (106.7 x 110.2 x 28.9 cm)	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Horace H. Solomon
Energy Tree Drawing Acc. 2350.2005	1972-73	Felt-tip pen, crayon, and pencil on paper	22 1/2 x 28 1/2" (57.2 x 72.4 cm)	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Food Video Acc. 1164.2008	1972	16mm film transferred to video (black and white, sound)	43 min.	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Fresh Kill Video Acc. 1169.2007.2	1972	16mm film transferred to video (color, sound)	12:56 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Hair clippings from and photographs of the performance Hair Performance Acc. 451.2024.1-5	1972	Four clippings of the artist's hair and four gelatin silver prints		Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jon Hendricks
Hair clippings from the performance Hair Ephemera Acc. 451.2024.1.a-d	1972	Four clippings of the artist's hair		Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jon Hendricks
Photograph of the performance Hair Photograph Acc. 451.2024.2	1972	Gelatin silver print	10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jon Hendricks
Photograph of the performance Hair Photograph Acc. 451.2024.3	1972	Gelatin silver print	10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jon Hendricks
Photograph of the performance Hair Photograph Acc. 451.2024.4	1972	Gelatin silver print	8 × 10" (20.3 × 25.4 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jon Hendricks
Photograph of the performance Hair Photograph Acc. 451.2024.5	1972	Gelatin silver print	10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jon Hendricks
Program Two: Open House Video Acc. 1165.2008.2	1972	Super 8 film transferred to video (color, silent)	41 min.	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Untitled (Energytree) Drawing Acc. 140.1999	1972–73	Crayon, felt-tip pen, and ballpoint pen on paper	22 1/2 x 28 1/2" (57 x 72 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist's estate
Clockshower Video Acc. 1166.2007.2	1973	16mm film transferred to video (color, silent)	13:50 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Program Four: Sauna View Video Acc. 1163.2008	1973	Video (black and white, sound)	61:30 min.	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
South American Travel Log to Ecuador, Peru, and Chile Drawing Acc. 1506.2018.a-h	c. 1973	Pencil on paper, three gelatin silver prints, and pencil, ballpoint pen and ink on printed paper	(.a): 8 1/2 × 11" (21.6 × 27.9 cm); (.b-d): 8 1/8 × 10" (20.6 × 25.4 cm); (.e-f): 22 × 28 1/4" (55.9 × 71.8 cm); (.g-h): 34 1/2 × 22 3/4" (87.6 × 57.8 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Walls paper [variant] Illustrated Book Acc. 498.2022	1973	Photolithographic prints of color silkscreened photographs on newsprint, staple bound	book, closed: 5 1/8 × 8 1/4 × 3/16" (13 × 21 × 0.4 cm) Page (approx.): 5 1/8 × 7 9/16" (13 × 19.2 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Bingo Sculpture Acc. 309.2004.a-d	1974	Building fragments: painted wood, metal, plaster, and glass, three sections	Overall 69" x 25' 7" x 10" (175.3 x 779.8 x 25.4 cm)	Painting & Sculpture	Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund, Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest Fund, and the Enid A. Haupt Fund
Bingo/Ninths Video Acc. 1167.2007.2	1974	Super 8 film transferred to standard-definition video (color, silent)	9:40 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Maquette for Splitting Drawing Acc. 1507.2018.a-j	1974	Felt-tip pen on ten sheets of folded paper	7 5/8 × 11 1/4" (19.4 × 28.6 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Program 6 Video Acc. 1167.2007.1-3	1974-1976	Video (black and white and color, sound)	50:30 min.	Media and Performance	Purchase
Program 7 Video Acc. 1165.2007.1-2	1974-2005	Video (black and white and color, silent and sound)	44 min.	Media and Performance	Purchase
Splitting Video Acc. 1167.2007.1	1974	Super 8 film transferred to video (black and white and color, silent)	10:50 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Splitting Illustrated Book Acc. 1509.2018	1974	Artist's book, offset printed	7 × 11 1/8" (17.8 × 28.3 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Splitting Photograph Acc. 326.1991	1974	Collage of gelatin silver prints	40 × 30" (101.6 × 76.2 cm)	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Walter J. Brownstone and The Family of Man Fund
Study for Splitting Drawing Acc. 1508.2018	1974	Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints on board	30 × 20" (76.2 × 50.8 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Conical Intersect Video Acc. 1165.2007.1	1975	16mm film transferred to video (color, silent)	18:40 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Day's End Video Acc. 1169.2007.3	1975	Super 8 film transferred to video (color, silent)	23:10 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Reality Properties: Fake Estates Video Acc. 1162.2008	1975	Video (black and white, sound)	7 min.	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
City Slivers Video Acc. 1166.2007.3	1976	Super 8 film transferred to video (color, silent)	15 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Substrait (Underground Dailies) Video Acc. 1167.2007.3	1976	16mm film transferred to video (black and white and color, sound)	30 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
The Wall Video Acc. 263.2008	1976-2007	Video (color, sound)	15:04 min.	Media and Performance	Acquired through the generosity of Rajeev Dehejia
Untitled (Cut Drawing) Drawing Acc. 141.1999	(1976-77)	Pencil on layers of cut paper	22 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1/2" (57 x 74 x 1.3 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Purchase through the Vincent D'Aquila and Harry Soviak Bequest Fund, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, and Purchase Fund
Sous-sols de Paris (Paris Underground) Video Acc. 1165.2007.2	1977-2005	Super 8mm film transferred to video (black and white, sound)	25:20 min.	Media and Performance	Committee on Media Funds
Circus Drawing Acc. 1510.2018.a-c	1978	Pencil, ink, staples, and correction fluid on three sheets of paper	each: 17 3/8 × 21 1/4" (44.1 × 54 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Circus-The Caribbean Orange Photograph Acc. 373.1998	1978	Silver dye bleach print	39 1/2 × 29 7/8" (100.3 × 75.9 cm)	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, with contributions from Robert Beyer, Ellen R. Herman, Scott J. Lorinsky, Steven T. Mnuchin and Muffy Perlbinder
Untitled (Proposal for a Museum of Modern Art Project) Drawing Acc. 500.1992.1-3	(1978)	Felt-tip pen and pencil with cut-and-taped printed paper on printed paper	12 x 8 1/2" (30.5 x 21.5 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gordon Matta-Clark Trust
Untitled (Proposal for a Museum of Modern Art Project) Drawing Acc. 500.1992.1	(1978)	Felt-tip pen and pencil with cut-and-taped printed paper on printed paper	12 x 8 1/2" (30.5 x 21.5 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gordon Matta-Clark Trust
Untitled (Proposal for a Museum of Modern Art Project) Drawing Acc. 500.1992.2	(1978)	Felt-tip pen and pencil with cut-and-taped printed paper on printed paper	12 x 8 1/2" (30.5 x 21.5 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gordon Matta-Clark Trust
Untitled (Proposal for a Museum of Modern Art Project) Drawing Acc. 500.1992.3	(1978)	Felt-tip pen and pencil with cut-and-taped printed paper on printed paper	12 x 8 1/2" (30.5 x 21.5 cm)	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gordon Matta-Clark Trust

Frequently Asked Questions

How many works by Gordon Matta-Clark are in MoMA?

MoMA's catalogue lists 47 works attributed to Gordon Matta-Clark.

What medium did Gordon Matta-Clark primarily work in?

Based on MoMA's holdings, Gordon Matta-Clark's most represented medium is Film.

What nationality is Gordon Matta-Clark?

Gordon Matta-Clark is catalogued as American in MoMA's Artists index.

When were Gordon Matta-Clark's works created?

Dated works in MoMA + Met for Gordon Matta-Clark span 1970 to 1978.