CHRIS SOLLARS CV
Chris Sollars is a San Francisco based artist and director of 667 Shotwell. Recent Awards include 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, and 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency. DOWNLOAD a pdf CV& Bio
| BIO | PRESS | CV | |
| Education: | |
2006 |
MFA Sculpture: Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School |
| 1998 | BFA Sculpture: Rhode Island School of Design BFA |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
|
| Grants & Awards: | |
| 2007 | Eureka Fellowship Award |
| Artadia San Francisco Bay Area Award | |
| Alternative Exposure Grant for 667Shotwell, SOEX Granting Award | |
| 2002 | Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Museum Purchase Award, Berkeley Art Museum |
| 1998 | Skowhegan Fellowship awarded by the Skowhegan School and the RI School of Design |
| Nari Ward's choice for the Exit Art - The first Choice show | |
| Solo Exhibitions: | |
2010 |
2929: A Double Take, A New Museum, 2929 24th St., SF, CA |
2009 |
Arthur Allan, with Brion Nudah Rosch, 667Shotwell & Hallway Projects, SF,CA |
2007 |
|
2006 |
Accumulative Dissipation,Southern Exposure Gallery, SF,CA |
2004 |
Come Walk With Me, Suite 106, New York, NY |
Bjorn Again, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME |
|
2003 |
Bjorn Again, Suite 106, NADA Fair, Miami, FL |
2002 |
We're Waiting w/ Mads Lynnerup, Suite 106, New York, NY |
2002 |
Urban Evidence:SF.LA.CA, Sesnon Art Gallery University of CA, Santa Cruz, CA |
2001 |
We're Waiting, Chris Sollars & Mads Lynnerup, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2000 |
Recent Video, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY |
1999 |
Landscapes, Art Node, Aurlander International Airport, Stockholm Sweden |
| Group Exhibitions: | |
2009 |
Cartographic Imagination; Fine Arts Gallery, SF State University; San Francisco, CA |
"And for all this, Nature is Never Spent," Pelham Art Center; Pelham, NY |
|
Bing Bang Boom, curator: Shawn Hall, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
|
2008 |
E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), Exit Art, New York, NY |
| Eureka!, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA | |
| Edit: The Uncertain States of America, curator Petra Bibeau, Maniac Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), MoMA, New York, NY | |
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
|
Panopti(con), curator Martin Durazo, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
|
2007 |
|
Grown-ups of the Corn, Kottie P’s, San Francisco, CA |
|
Collective Foundation: Collecitve ICA, Yerba Buena Museum, San Francisco, CA |
|
Kottie’s 2nd Annual, Kottie P’s, San Francisco, CA |
|
2006 |
Listening: Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
Detourned Menu, curator Briana Toth, The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
|
Haunted, curator Pat Rock, Disjecta, Portland, OR |
|
Instant Coffee’s Bass Bench, Yerba Buena Museum, San Francisco, CA |
|
Malleable, curator: Sanford Biggers, Ohio State University, OH |
|
Not For Sale, curator Nancy Meyer, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
|
Old Habits Die Hard, Trafo, House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary |
|
Skowhegan at 50, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME |
|
Recent Acquisitions, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
|
2005 |
We Are All Together: Media(ted) Performance, curator Marisa Olson, Artist Space, NY, NY |
A Single Channel Video Show, Glendale College, Glendale, CA |
|
Cross Cuts - Telling: Recent Video Art from San Francisco, Southern Exposure, SF, CA |
|
Old Habits Die Hard (w/ Instant Coffee) Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, AUS |
|
112 Mercer, Suite 106, New York, NY |
|
Monster Drawing Rally 5, Southern Exposure, SF, CA |
|
2004 |
Multiplex, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY |
Performance Night, Works San Jose, San Jose, CA |
|
Your Heart Is No Match For My Love. Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN |
|
Piñata Party, w/Sean Garrison, It Can Change at GBE at Passersby, NY, NY |
|
Plugged in Fest II, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME |
|
|
|
2003 |
Free Spirits Artist Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL |
Recent Videos, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
|
CONNECTIONS, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
|
SF LA, The Big Oaks, Los Angeles, CA |
|
Subtle Sight, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
|
|
|
2002 |
Fast Foward II, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
Pile of Trash, L7 Project, San Francisco, CA |
|
Clothing Project: ShadowCabinets, It Can Change @ Kunsthall Friedericianum, Kassel, GER |
|
Eye Candy, Ron Judish Gallery, Denver, CO |
|
Video Sho, E g o P a r k, Oakland, CA |
|
You have five minutes to get out, Pat Rock & Jackie Sumell @ Ballazo Gallery, SF,CA |
|
|
|
2001 |
Anxiety Disorder, Irena Popiashvili & Voges & Deisen Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany |
Screen, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY |
|
Please Disturb Me, Simon Tegala & Great Eastern Hotel, London, England |
|
Monster Drawing Show, Southern Exposure, SF, CA |
|
Bing Bang Boom, Shawn Hall & Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, LA |
|
No Where Here, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA |
|
|
|
2000 |
Fuzzy Logic, Tom Finkelpearl & Southern Exposure, SF, CA |
Dialogue: Encounter, Dean Daderko with PR:00; San Juan, Puerto Rico |
|
Placecards, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
|
15 minutes, The Lab, San Francisco,CA |
|
Unwashed Unwed-Alternative Routes, College of Fine Arts, UV of AZ, Tucson, AZ |
|
Closed Circuit, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA |
|
|
|
1999 |
The Choice, Exit Art, 548 Broadway New York, NY |
March 1, 21st Amendment, San Francisco, CA |
|
1998 |
Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS at Kenny Schacter's Gallery, NY, NY |
Bank Holiday, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
|
Experiments in Content, RISD Museum, Providence, RI |
|
1997 |
Love Show, curated by Rob Blackson, Providence Arcade, Providence, RI |
| Performances: | |
2009 |
Open Futures:Spinning Marinetti’s Wheels; in collaboration with OPEN Restaurant; VIDEO Chris Sollars Sound Matt Volla; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA CA |
2007 |
Tiger Wack, Playing with Tigers - Kottie Paloma, New High Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2006 |
Flavour of Democracy: Detourned Menu, curator Briana Toth, The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan |
|
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco, CA |
|
Follow the Leader w/ Alison Pebworth, Mark Shunney, & Jerome Waag, Instant Coffee’s Bass Bench, Yerba Buena Museum, San Francisco, CA |
|
2005 |
Pile of Trash, San Francisco, CA |
2003 |
SF LA, The Big Oaks, Los Angeles, CA |
2002 |
Come Walk With Me Tour, San Francisco, CA |
Pile of Trash, L7 Project, San Francisco, CA |
|
You have 3 minutes to get out, curators: Pat Rock & Jackie Sumel, Balazo Gallery SF, CA |
|
2001 |
We’re Waiting w/ Mads Lynnerup, New Langton Arts, SF, CA |
Bing Bang Boom, curator: Shawn Hall, Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, LA |
|
2000 |
15 minutes, curators by Brian Storts & Kathryn Williamson, The Lab, San Francisco,CA |
1999 |
March 1, 21st Amendment, San Francisco, CA |
| Screenings | |
2009 |
SUPERCASUALFRAGILISTIC; Videos from SF; BONGOUT GALLERY, Berlin, Germany |
| Non-Narrative: Video Art from the US; ATOPIA; curated by Madeline Djerejian, Oslo, Norway | |
2008 |
C RED BLUE J, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
| C RED BLUE J, MonkeyTown w/ HARKNESS AUDIOVISUAL, Brooklyn, NY | |
| C RED BLUE J, The 30th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival | |
| C RED BLUE J, DC Indpendent Film Festival | |
C RED BLUE J, Vidéothèque, 30th CINEMA DU REEL Film Festival |
|
2007 |
Traveling Theater Oshima, Oshima Japan |
2006 |
Pile of Trash, Platz, Berlin, Germany |
2005 |
Busy Signals: Telephonic Art in Motion, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA |
2004 |
Perform, Works San Jose, San Jose, CA |
Plugged in Fest, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME |
|
2000 |
Unwashed Unwed-Alternative Routes, curator: Tom Holmes, College of Fine Arts, UV of AZ |
| Collections: | |
Berkeley Art Museum, University of CA Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
|
Fogg Art Museum Print Collection Cambridge, MA |
|
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
|
| Catalogues: | |
| 2008 | Thompson, Nato; “A Guide to Democracy in America”; Creative Time Books; 2008 |
| San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; “Eureka: 2005-2007 Fellowship Awards”; Fleishhacker Foundation; 2008 | |
| Soort Bij Soort; ART I; Praktijkboek THV; ThiemeMeulenhoff; Utrecht; 2008 | |
| Bibeau, Petra; “Edit: The Uncertain States of America”; Maniac Gallery; 2008 | |
| 2007 | Pugh, Dina; “The Innocent Gaze”; Jack Hanley Gallery; 2007 |
| We Are All Together: Media(ted) Performance; Marisa Olson; PERFORMA: New Visual Art Performanace; Roselee Goldberg; Collective Foundation; D.A.P.; 2007; Pg 182 | |
| Shotgun-Review; “100 Shotgun Reviews Publication”; Collective Foundation; March 1, 2007 | |
| 2006 | Le Duc, Aimee; "Chris Sollars Accumulative Dissipation;" Southern Exposure; Vol1, No. 6; 2006; VIEW PDF |
| Bibliography: | |
| 2009 | 2009 Warner, Emily; “Making Space”; NYFA Current the Magazine for Artists; July 29, 2009 |
| 2008 | Cotter, Holland; “With Politics in the Air, a Freedom Free-for-All Comes to Town”; New York Times; Fine Arts & Leisure, Art in Review, September 23 2008, Vol. CLVIII no.54442, Pages B1 & B6 |
| Harmanci, Reyhan; “Home is Where the Art Is: Underground art galleries serve a special niche”; SF Chronicle; Sept 4, 2008; Pg E1 & E6 | |
| Martini, Tiffany; “High Five: Chris Sollars”; SF Examiner, Vol. CXLIII No 66; Aug 27, 2008; Pg 14 | |
| Le Duc, Aimee; “The Liminal Art Space”; There is always a machine between us; Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts; Vol. 35, No. 1; Spring/Summer 2008 Pgs 38-41 | |
| 2007 | Pugh, Dina; “The Innocent Gaze”; Jack Hanley Gallery; 2007 |
| 2006 | Ysohinori, Niwa; “Chris Sollars Interview”; Tokyo-San Francisco Art Times, Vol. 1, No. 4; 2006 |
| “Kimono News”; Cinra Magazine, Vol. 11; Oct 20, 2006 | |
| Lebuhn, Henrik; “Follow the Leader”; Links Log; Feburary 3 2006; VIEW PDF | |
| Moore, Kurt; “Malleable on Display at OSUM”; The Marion Star; Feb 4 2006 VIEW PDF | |
| Miller, James; “Art and Opera on Campus”; The Marion Star; Feb 3 2006 VIEW PDF | |
| Kroth, Maya; Talkin Trash”; SF Weekly; January 11-17 2006; `Vol. 24, No.50, Page 21 VIEW PDF | |
| Trippe, John; “Accumulative Dissipation”; Fecal Face; January 13 2006; VIEW PDF | |
| Bamberger, Alan; “Accumulative Dissipation”; Art business; January 13 2006; VIEW PDF | |
| Lebuhn, Henrik; “Trashbags irritating San Francisco”; Links Log; Feburary 3 2006; VIEW PDF | |
| 2005 | Buckner, Clark; Critic’s Choice: “Cross Cuts” Southern Exposure; Bay Area Gaurdian; June 1 - 7 2005 `Vol. 39, No.35 Page |
| Orden, Abraham; “Aperto San Francisco”; Flash Art; July September 2005; Vol XXXVIII No.243; Pages 69-70 | |
| Olson, Marisa "Video Personalities"; SOMA Magazine; February, 2005; Vol. 19 Issue 1; Page 86 | |
| 2004 | DeVaney, Scott "Globetrotting T-shirts"; The Wave Magazine; June 30 – July 13, 2004; Vol. 4 Issue 14; Page 8 |
| Marr, Madeline; “Putting it Together: with Cheryl Hartup, Associate Curator, Miami Art Museum”; Miami Herald; Style Section; Wednesday June 23, 2004 | |
| Buesing, Nicole and Klaas, Heiko; "Before opening sells off... A gallery round course in New York - more police instead of art demanded"; Die Welt; Culture; Art Market; March 27, 2004 | |
| Robinson, Walter; "Weekend Update"; Art Net; Magazine Reviews; March 17, 2004 | |
| Andresen, Kristen ; "Medium Rare Rockport festival highlights Maine's emerging digital, Web and art scene "; Bangor Daily News; Arts & Leisure; Friday March 12, 2004 | |
| Gershman, Jacob; "City is Funding Porn Display in DUMBO Show Ð Generous Support For Soft-Core Exhibit"; New York Sun ; Monday March 8, 2004, Front Page; Page 1 | |
| Cotter, Holland; "Multiplex"; New York Times; Fine Arts & Leisure, Art in Review; February 20, 2004, Vol. CLIII no.52765, Page B32 | |
| Maine, Stephen; "Dateline Brooklyn"; Art Net; February 2004 | |
| Westerbeke, Julia; "First Exit to Brooklyn"; Time Out New York; February 26 -March 4, 2004; Issue No. 439; Page 67 | |
| 2003 | Morse, Eric; "Mobile Phone"; Trampoline Magazine, Volume 1/Number 1; August 2003 |
| Rufus, Anneli; "City Focus San Francisco"; Art News Magazine; Volume 102/Number 6; June 2003, Page 66 | |
| Beeler, Monique; "California Impressions: Early artists explore people, places close to home"; Oakland Tribune; Arts & Leisure; Tuesday February 18, 2003 | |
| 2002 | Porter, William; "Endless Summer Love, Flower Power Tours Revisit Haight-Ashbury"; Denver Post; Travel; Sunday September 29, 2002, Page 1T, 4T, & 5T |
| Cotter, Holland; "Cinema ˆ la Warhol, With Cowboys, Stillness and Glamour"; New York Times ; Fine Arts & Leisure; Friday April 5, 2002, Vol. CL1 no.52079, Page B29 | |
| Woods, Micheal; "News: New York"; Contemporary Magazine; June- Aug 2002, Page 47-48 | |
| Storts, Brian; "Words from 7 artists in San Francisco"; NY Arts Magazine; Vol.7 No.6 June 2002, Page 40-46 | |
| Lewczuk, Margrit; "Naked @ 667Shotwell"; NY Arts Magazine; Vol.7 No.5 May 2002, Page 95 | |
| Chen, Vivian; "Urban Evidence"; City on a Hill Press; UC Santa Cruz; Vol 36 Issue 23;April 18, 2002; Page 25 | |
| 2001 | Cook, David; Art Picks "WeÕre Waiting" New Langton Arts; SF Weekly; September 19- 25 2001; `Vol. 20, No.35 |
| 2000 | Helfand, Glen; Critic's Choice: art "Closed Circuit" New Langton Arts; Bay Area Gaurdian; Feb. 23-29 Vol. 34, No.21 |
| Westbrook, Lindsey; Over There: visual arts "Closed Circuit" New Langton Arts; East Bay Express; March 3, 2000 Vol. 22, No.21 | |
| Radio: | |
| Home Galleries; San Francisco Ed. #3 w/ Tania Ketenjian; WPS1 Radio, Jan 10-17 2005 | |
| 667Shotwell; Definitely Not the Opera; CBC Radio, Jan 8 2005 | |
| Holder Overnight: Montreal CJAD 800 AM w/ Peter Anthony Holder; June 11, 2004 | |
| Magic 98.1 Atlanta: Afternoon Show w/ Benji June 9, 2004. | |
| Curatorial: | |
| 2001-2009 | 667Shotwell Projects,San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 | CONNECTIONS, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Talks & Lectures: | |
| 2008 | The Summer 2008 MFA Visiting Artists Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA |
| Eureka Effect, San Jose ICA, San Jose, CA (Talk) | |
| Interdisciplinary Studio: Graduate Class, Ted Purves, CCA, San Francisco, CA (Talk) | |
| Sculpture Class, Department of Art, University of CA at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (Talk) | |
| 2006 | Introduction to Urban Studies, Henrik Lebuhn San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Talk) |
| Detourned Menu, curator Briana Toth, Patricia Watts, Chief Curator Sonoma County Museum The Lab, San Francisco, CA (Panel) | |
| Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, Tokyo Japan (Talk & Panel) | |
| Department of Art, University of CA at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (Talk) | |
| 2005 | Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA |
| CCA, San Francisco, CA (667Shotwell Visit) | |
| San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (667Shotwell Visit) | |
| 2003 | Santa Fe College, Santa Fe, NM |
| San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (667Shotwell Visit) | |
| 2002 | University of CA at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA |
| RISD Museum, Providence, RI | |