DJ Hyde Matheny
LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING, #546
1600 Genessee, Kansas City, MO 64102
www.djmatheny.com
@djmatheny
facebook.com/djmatheny
PROFESSIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
– LIFETIME ARTIST, working professionally as a graphic designer for 25+ years,
– 5+ years as a Licensed Master Social Worker, specializing in Hospice Care
EDUCATION
2022 Artist INC., Mid-America Arts Alliance’s program for professional development of artists
2003-15 Participating artist in Philomene Bennett Studio, Kansas City, MO
2013 MSW Social Work, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1983 BFA Graphics/Packaging, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1975-77 BS/BA, Art Ed/Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
EXHIBITIONS
Mar - April 2026 Juried Exhibit, “Reframing Beauty in the Darkness,” The Gallery at HJs Community Center, KC, MO
Mar - July 2026 Juried Exhibit, “Two Artists: Paul McMillian and DJ Matheny,” R.G. Endres Gallery,
Prairie Village Arts Council, PV, KS
December 2025 “On-line International Fall 2025,” National Association of Oil and Acrylic Painters
December 2024 “On-line International Fall 2024,” National Association of Oil and Acrylic Painters
Jan - Feb 2025 “SMALL WORKS National Juried Show,” at The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KS
Jan - Mar 7 “Two Artists, ” R.G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village Arts Council, PV, KS
December 2024 “ On-line International Fall 2024”, National Association of Oil and Acrylic Painters
August 2024 MISSOURI FEATURED ARTIST of the Month, Missouri Arts Council, State of the Arts
June - Aug 2024 ONE WOMAN SHOW, “Luminosity”, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kansas City, MO
April - June, 2024 “Symphony in the Flint Hills Exhibit and Online Auction,” Cottonwood Falls, KS
Jan - April 2024 “50th Annual Membership Exhibition,” 3rd Place Painting Category,
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Oct - Dec 2023 “Visions of the Flint Hills,” Buttonwood Art Space, KCMO
Sept - Nov 2023 “Sate of the Arts 2023,” Prairie Village Arts Council, PV, KS
April - May 2023 ONE WOMAN SHOW, Art Gallery at Bishop Spencer Place, Kansas City, MO
February 2023 “Sweetheart Auction,” Kansas City Artists Coalition, KCMO
July - August 2022 ONE WOMAN SHOW AND COLLABORATION with Poet t.l. sanders: “Beauty in the Darkness,”
The Gallery at HJs Community Center, KCMO
Dec 2021 “12 Artists: Small Works Show,” The Gallery at HJs Community Center, KCMO
Sept 2021 “State of the Arts 2021,” E. G. Enders Gallery, Prairie Village, KS
Feb 2016-21 “Sweetheart Auction,” Kansas City Artists Coalition, KCMO
Dec 2018 ONE PERSON SHOW, Arts KC, exhibit at Waddell & Reed, Kansas City, MO
Jan 2015 GROUP EXHIBIT, All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, MO
June 2008 GROUP EXHIBIT, The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO
