Exhibition Solo Exhibition · 2003
Aroma, Cleveland Park, Washington, DC
Solo Exhibition — Aroma, Cleveland Park, Washington, DC (March–May), 30+ works. The second of three solo shows Sesow held at Aroma, after 2001 and before 2005
Pictures · click to enlarge
Saved web pages and links
Research notes
- Matt’s drive holds a folder of 78 camera photos named “aroma 2003”; the files are dated March 20, 2003, early in the show’s run and the day after the Iraq war began. Matt was painting his war series in the same weeks.
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Aroma, Cleveland Park, Washington, DC.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2003. history.sesow.com/e/2003-aroma-cleveland-park-washington-dc.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2003
- Exhibition Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
- Exhibition Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
- Milestone Launches “31 Days in July” — annual project creating one large painting per day in response to morning news
- Press Washington City Paper on “31 Days in July” (2003)
- Press “…31 days in july…” — Get Underground feature (2003)
- Media The Larz from Mars Show — Matt Sesow, July 2003
- Exhibition “Art Against War,” Grand Atrium, Majlis Cultural Center, Mumbai, India
- Exhibition “Political Bodies,” Seattle, WA
- Exhibition Residency as visiting artist, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
- Exhibition Painted set for Hollywood play “F**king Wasps”
- Exhibition B-Side group show — Adams Morgan, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Sesow showing in Lincoln — University Place Art Gallery
- Exhibition Nisk-Art Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition Guest Artist — Kentuck Festival
- Award First Place — 2003 Adams Morgan Juried Arts Festival, Washington, DC
- Award Juror’s Choice Award — Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Press Las Vegas Mercury review compares work to George Grosz, Francis Bacon, and Edvard Munch
- Press David Brickman, “This Is Not the Academy”
- Press Interview with “The Palette”
- Press Article in “Artesian” Magazine
- Press Compass Magazine — cover and feature article; published by Leonard Cheshire, UK
- Press Coagula Magazine — Los Angeles
- Media Kudzu Wish CD cover — Reverse Hurricane, NC band
- Exhibition The Ottobar, Baltimore, MD — March, over 20 works
- Exhibition “A Really Big Show,” Results Gallery with WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “The Art of Conflict,” national juried exhibition, 57 N Fine Art, 1701 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “POV,” ARTOCONECTO national juried exhibition, 1701 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition OCCOA at CDW Gallery, 30th and M Street, Georgetown, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Kalorama Emerging Artists Fair, 1711 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “Love and Eroticism,” juried exhibition, Khoja Gallery, Arlington, VA
- Exhibition Capital Region Art Center, Albany, NY
- Exhibition Guest Artist — 10th annual Folk Fest 2003, North Atlanta Trade Center, Atlanta, GA
- Exhibition “March Madness” shown in “Art Against War: An Exhibition of Posters and Multimedia”
- Media Lecture — Calvert Elementary School assembly, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Media Lecture — Niskayuna High School assembly, Niskayuna, NY
- Exhibition Stage backdrops — “F**king Wasps,” Theatre of NOTE, Hollywood, CA
- Press The Warrior — Niskayuna High School newspaper
- Press OutsiderArt.info — online exhibition “Matt Sesow...WAR,” about two dozen anti-war paintings from December 2002
- Media Exit Clov CD cover — painting on the cover of “Starfish,” the 2003 EP by DC band Exit Clov