Chris Sollars is a San Francisco based artist born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He holds an MFA in sculpture from Bard College, 2006 and a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, 1998. He was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1998. Sollars was recently awarded the prestigious 2007 Bay Area Eureka Fellowship Grant. His work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum Print Collection, and Miami Art Museum. He is the director and curator of 667Shotwell, a non-commercial space in his home for artists to do experimental work, started in 2001 during the wake of disappearing art-spaces. Currently he is in post-production of "C RED BLUE J" a documentary-based art video that uses his family -- his sister who works for the Bush Administration, his Christian father and lesbian mother -- to illustrate the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential election.