MCK is a writer, performer, cartoonist and artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. They have an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where they taught comics and digital writing. Their work has been published in Tin House, the New Yorker Online, & The Iowa Review, among others. Matthew can be found here & followed @canttakemeanywhere on instagram.
Interview
Contact
Mattckramer@gmail.com
401.575.6437
Shows
2023 This Dance is Available for Touring (Collaberation with Alex Davis)
2020 Summer Sunday’s with the Davis Sister Boston center for the arts.
2019 THE COME DOWN: Portraits & Sobering Truths Bushwick NY
2019 Incident Report FIELD REPORT 10: CPR // 348 Warren St., Hudson, NY //
2018 Trade gallery Pop-up Providence RI
2018 Granoff Center for the Arts
2018 BAI Show
2017 Text vs Image Bushwick
2015 Boston Harbor Arts Port Call
2014 I-195 Providence Arch opening
2013 Poughkeepsie Gallery, Main Street
2013 Night Light
Conference Papers & Selected Readings & Tableing
2023 Le Consulat Poetry Performance
2022 Performance @ Big Milk Expo
2022 Thyra Heder - Guest Lecture, Tufts University
2021 Elizabeth Duffy - Guest Lecture, RWU
2020 Rick moody - Comics class guest lecture
2019 Eleni Sikelianos - Hybrid Works -Guest Lecture
2019 Performance at Sweet Briar College
2019 Comics Arts Brooklyn
2019 TCAF
2019 RISD Unbound
2018 The Mastheads Writers’ Reading Series
2018 Brown University Anthology - Performance of Comix
2016 Brown University Anthology reading selected Comic Poems
Honors, Awards & Grants, & Artist Residencies
2023/2022 Trelex Poetry Residency
2022 Campidarte Residency Sardinia
2022 Monson Center for the Arts
2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Grant
2020 Semifinalist for Fine Arts Work Center
2019 RISCA’s Fellowship in Fiction
2019 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2019 Assets for Artists, a project of MASS MoCCA
2018 Awarded Yaddo Art Residency
2018 Honourable Mention for Lysdexia at the Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition
2018 Awarded CATWALK Art Residency
2018 Awarded The Mastheads Writers’ Residency
2018 Finalist for our Iowa Review Award in Fiction
2017 Brown International Travel Grant
2017 Brown Arts Initiative Grant
2016 Beth Lisa Feldman Prize in Children’s Literature
2014 Providence-195 Commission Grant
2011 Providence Mayoral Fellow
Publications of Art & Writing
2024 Shenandoah Literary Review : Beach Soliloquy
2023 Forthcoming Chapbook with Bottlecap Press
2023 Electric Literature, Comic: How to Befriend House Plants
2022 Emergency INDEX Vol. 10
2021 ACTION, SPECTACLE. Helios short story
2021 Nowness Videos with Josh Sondock
2020 The Iowa Review, Eight Comic Poems, & Cover.
2020 Emergency INDEX Vol. 9
2020 Gossamer Volume Five: Flower
2019 The New Yorker Daily Shout
2019 The New Yorker Online, Illustration
2019 Electric Literature, Comic
2019 GQ India Illustration
2019 Zeit Wissen Magazine Illustration
2019 Moon Boots Mag
2019 Tin House: The Final Issue. Yoga Soliloquy
2018 Young Ignorantes Volume 3
2018 Comic for Martha’s Vineyard Times
2018 Gasher Mag June Featured Artist
2018 Sobremesazine Issue No. 4
2018 The Berkshire Eagle
2018 It’s Nice That: Bio and Interview
2018 Poety Turkey Club
2017 Heavy Feather Review
2017 Gram Mag
2017 Arts and Leisure Martha’s Vineyard
2017 Illustrations for Martha’s Vineyard Times
2016 Cover of The College Hill Independent
2016 Chonique Vol. I issue 2
2016 Book Cover for Farrar Straus and Giroux
2015 New Folklore Anthology Vol. II Parents