Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA, Magna cum laude, Distinction in the Major (Painting), 1997 Chautauqua Institution School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, 1996 Massachusetts College of Art Summer Art Program, Boston, MA, 1991 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, 2005 Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2005 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant, 2004 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2004 Juror's Prize, New Art 2004, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA, 2004 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant, 2004 George Sugarman Foundation Grant, 2003 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant, 2001 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant, 2001 Ethel Childe Walker Prize: Departmental Faculty Prize for Outstanding Artistic Distinction, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1997 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006 Tufts Second Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, 2005 (jurors: Amy Ingrid Schlegl and Pascal Spengemann) New American Painting #56, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, (curator: Nicholas Baume, ICA Boston) 2005 "A Place Apart," two-person show, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2005 "Painting Now: Selections from the 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant Awards," ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA, 2005 "New Talent," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004 "New Art 2004," (juror: Susan Stoops, Curator, Worcester Museum of Art), MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA, 2004 "New England/New Talent," (juror: Anja Chavez, Associate Curator, Wellesley College), Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2002 "Northeast Artists," invitational show, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA, 2002 "Somerville Arts Council Grant Winners," The Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, 2001 Acacia Gallery, solo show, Gloucester, MA, 2001 "The Salon Show," Acacia Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2000 "Build," The Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, 2000 "The Drawing Show," (juror: Ellen Gallagher), Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 2000 Vernon Street Open Studios, Somerville, MA, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Central Street Open Studios, Somerville, MA, 1998 The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1997 Chautauqua Institution Gallery, Chautauqua, NY, 1996 "Matt Brackett: New Paintings," Art New England, June/July, 2006 Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 2006 "Matt Brackett," American Art Collector, February 2006 Keith L. Martin, "Family Displays Their House Painting: Mother, Son Reflect on Loss of Family Home in New Exhibit," Duxbury Clipper, Feb. 23, 2005 Bob Jackman, "Complex Conversations: Museum Juxtaposes Work of Mother and Son,' The Patriot Ledger, Feb. 19 - 20, 2005 Mary Jo Palumbo, "Painters Selling Family Home Brush Aside Their Sadness," Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 2005 Auditi Guha, "Artists Accept City Grants Pulling Them into Community Service," Sommerville Journal, May 13, 2004 Nancy Sheehan, "New Horizons," The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, April 2002 Craig S. Sermon, "New Talent on View at Fitchburg Art Museum," The Montechuett Telegram and Gazette, April 2002 Beth Surdut, "Gloucester's Acacia Gallery Branches Out," Arts Media, June 2001 Randi Hopkins, "Connections: Building Art in Somerville and South End," The Boston Phoenix, Dec. 2000 Ken Capobianco, "Exploring the Build World,' Cambridge Chronicle, Nov. 1, 2000 Shawn Hill, regional review, Art New England, Aug. - Sept. 2000 Paul Parcellin, local review, Retro-Rocket.com, June 2000 Aviya Kushner, local review, Arts Media, June - July 2000 Mary Sherman, "Drawing the Line," Boston Herald, May 7, 2000 Wambui Wanunyu, "Art, art Everywhere for Brackett," Somerville Journal, Nov. 4, 1999