Awards & Accomplishments
2002 City of Tucson Back To Basics Award
2001 Arizona Arts Award
2001 Best Local Artist/Visual for Tucson Weekly’s Best of Tucson
2000 Best Local Venue Staff Pick for Tucson Weekly’s Best of Tucson
1998 Best Local Artist/Performing for Tucson Weekly’s Best of Tucson
1997 Best Local Artist/Performing Runner Up for Tucson Weekly’s Best of Tucson
1989 Named as one of “Six To Watch” in the 90s on local and/or national art scene
1989 Panelist for “Kinetic Light Sculpture” for Artists Talk On Art Series at the Soho Gallery in NYC.
1989 First Artist-In-Residence for the Tucson Arts District
1989-91 Artist-In-Residence for the Arizona Commission of the Arts
Shows & Exhibitions
2014 “Welcome To Beveldom: Mat Bevel’s Museum of Kinetic Art” Solo Exhibit, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2004 “The Metamorphosis Show” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2003 “Love Lab” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2002 “Horsey in the Round” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2002 “Math and Myth” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2002 “Retrospective” Yuma Fine Arts Center, Yuma, AZ
2001 “Work and War” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2001 “Welcome to Beveldom #2” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2001 “Fauna” Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2001 “Revision II: Art from Recycled Material” Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
2001 “Bringing in the Breath” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2000 “Welcome to Beveldom” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
2000 “Atomic Honey” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1999 “Hostage and the Host” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1998 “Club Kinetic” the exotic vaudevillian disco circus, Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1998 “D-Day Revival Show” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1998 “The Sweat Like Hell Rebellion…Now I’m Cryin’ Revival Show” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1998 “All American Revival Show” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1997 “Image War” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1997 “Crash Caravan” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1997 “Artificial Heart” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1996 “Shadow of the Cross” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1996 “Jet Set Jettison” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1996 “The Home for Lonely Men” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1995 “No Cares for Millionaires” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1995 “Kinetic Yankee” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1995 “Host of the Cosmic Toast” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1995 “Let’s Change the Subject” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1995 “The Shadow of the Cross” Joseph Gross Gallery, U of A, Tucson, AZ
1995 “Very Special Arts Arizona” Challenger Elementary School, Nogales, AZ
1995 “Step Into the Arts Day” Young Audiences, Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, AZ
1994 “No Thanks for Think Tanks” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1994 “Forces of Ritual” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1994 “Justify Your Manifesto” Mat Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ
1993 Triptich” Film, Tucson, AZ
1993 “Molly Blum” T.C.C.C., Tucson, AZ
1992 “Tucson Folk Festival” Presidio Park, Tucson, AZ
1992 “Loco Vida” Screening Room, Tucson, AZ
1992 “Cart Glamo” T.A.C. Warehouse, Tucson, AZ
1992 “Day of the Dead” Mat Bevel Orchestra, Center for the Performing Arts, Tucson, AZ
1992 “El Tour de Tucson” Tucson Community Center, Tucson, AZ
1992 “New Year’s Eve Bevelry” Mat Bevel Orchestra, Café Quebec, Tucson, AZ
1992 “Earth Day” Parade, Tucson Community Center, Tucson, AZ
1992 “How I Got Over” Tucson Arts District, Tucson, AZ
1992 “Impressions and Expression” Hyatt Regency Hotel, Phoenix, Z
1992 “Machine Shop the Motion Picture” Tucson, AZ
1992 “Imagination Celebration” Workshops, Tucson Community Center, Tucson, AZ
1992 “Goddesses of Dynamite” Café Magritte, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Americana Duck” U of A Student Union Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Day of the Dead” Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Pedestrian Carnival” Tucson Arts District, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Bevel Café” Downtown Performance Center, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Tropical Space Oasis” U of A Festival of the Sun, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Brother of the Thoroughfare” Opening of the Ronstadt Transit Center, Tucson, AZ
1991 “Imagination Celebration” Tucson Community Center, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Bevel Café” Cabaret Theater, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Expo Kid’s Parade” Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, AZ
1990 “ Experimental Music Festival” Mat Bevel Company, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Deception and Revelation” International Gallery, San Diego, CA
1990 “Noman” Arts District, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Smoke Screen” Café Magritte, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Nein Benden” Studio Y, Tucson, AZ
1990 “Toxic Shock” U of A, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Kinetic Light Art” Panel Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “First Orts on the Moon” Valley of the Moon, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Pity Party of Progress” Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Talking Gourds” Poetry Festival, Telluride, CO
1989 “Sunset Vignettes” Arizona Inn, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Assemblage and Painting” U of A, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Earthoglyphics” Nugget Theater, Telluride, CO
1989 “Instruments of Nature” Phantom Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Artifactural Genius” Dodajk Studio, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Butterflys and Flybys” Café Magritte, Tucson, AZ
1989 “Art Detour ‘89″ Mars Artspace, Phoenix, AZ
1989 “Instrument of Nature” Tucson Museum of Art
1988 “Masks and Costumes” Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson, AZ
1988 “Maintenance Revitalization” Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
1988 “Performance Art Roundup” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1988 “Maxillary Palp” New Speak Forum, Tucson, AZ
1988 “Prints Et Cetera” New Speak Forum, Tucson, AZ
1987 “Childs, NedNed, Imo, Fichtinger” U of A Union Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1986 “Spare Parts” Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ
1986 “Godface” Todd Capp Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “Product Sacrifice Show” Red Spot Theater, New York, NY
1986 “Godface” NedNed Studio, Jersey City, NJ
1986 “Best of the East Village” Avenue B Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “The Definitive Assemblage Show” Avenue B Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll” Todd Capp Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Forshpeiz” Avenue B Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Small Works Show” Now Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Trash Sculpture Theater” Avenue B Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Found Objects Fair” P.S. 61, New York, NY
1985 “The Yes Basket” No Se No, New York, NY
1985 “Vibration Show” Red Spot Theater, New York, NY
1985 “Art is Not a Commodity” Garden of Eden, New York, NY
1984 “The Casual and the Not So Casual” NedNed Studio, Jersey City, NJ
1983 “Modern Men, Modern Times” After Six Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1983 “I Like to Live in America” Herbert Theater, Tucson, AZ
1983 “A Flamingo in Texas” Park Theater, Tucson, AZ
1983 “A Self Portrait Show” 830 Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1983 “Pigs on Acid” Pork Roll Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1983 “Group Show” 830 Gallery, Tucson, AZ