CHRIS SOLLARS
667 Shotwell St., San Francisco, CA 94110
415-706-8260 chris@667shotwell.com
www.667shotwell.com
www.theshirtthatgetsaround.com

Born 1976 Indianapolis, IN. Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

EDUCATION:

1998 BFA Sculpture: Rhode Island School of Design
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2006 MFA Sculpture: Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2006 Accumulative Dissipation, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2004 Come Walk With Me, Suite 106, New York, New York
Bjorn Again, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2003 Bjorn Again, Suite 106, NADA Fair, Miami, FL
2002 Urban Evidence: SF.LA.CA, Sesnon Art Gallery University of CA, Santa Cruz, CA
We’re Waiting w/ Mads Lynnerup. Suite 106, New York, New York
2001 We’re Waiting w/ Mads Lynnerup, New Langton Arts, SF, CA
2000 Recent Video, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn,NY
1999 Landscapes, Art Node, Aurlander International Airport, Stockholm, Sweden

GROUP EXHIBTIONS:

2006 Detourned Menu, curator Briana Toth, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Haunted, curator Pat Rock, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, The Lab, San Francisco
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan
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 60, 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, San Francisco,CA
Old Habits Die Hard (w/ Instant Coffee) Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, AUS 112 Mercer, Suite 106, New York, New York

2004 Multiplex, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Your Heart Is No Match For My Love, curator Rob Blackson, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Piñata Party, w/ Sean Garrison, It Can Change at GBE at Passersby, NY, NY
Plugged in Fest, 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
Subtle Sight, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

2002 Fast Foward II, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, 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

2001 Anxiety Disorder, curator: Irena Popiashvilli, Voges & Deisen Gallery, Frankfurt, GER
Screen, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Please Disturb Me, curator: Simon Tegala, Great Eastern Hotel, London, UK
No Where Here, curator: James Bewley, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA

2000 Fuzzy Logic, juror: Tom Finkelpearl, Southern Exposure, SF, CA
Dialogue: Encounter, curator: Dean Daderko, PR:00; San Juan, Puerto Rico
Placecards, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Closed Circuit, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999 The Choice – Nari Ward Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY

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, curator: Rob Blackson, Providence Arcade, Providence, RI

PERFORMANCES:

2006 Detourned Menu, curator Briana Toth, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Follow the Leader w/ Alison Pebworth, Mark Shunney, & Jerome Waag, Instant Coffee’s Bass Bench, Yerba Buena Museum, San Francisco, CA

2003 SF LA, The Big Oaks, Los Angeles, CA

2002 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:

2005 Busy Signals: Telephonic Art in Motion, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
PLatz, , Berlin, Germany

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,

CURATORIAL:

2001- 2006
Director and Curator of 667Shotwell
667Shotwell is a non-commercial, experimental space for artists in the home of artist Chris Sollars. Projects range from installations to performances that are documented and posted on the web: http://www.667shotwell.com/Projects.html

2003 Connections, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Fogg Art Museum Print Collection, Cambridge, MA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Andrea Rosen, New York, NY
Janine Antoni, New York, NY
Jack Hanley, Berkeley, CA
Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Beverly & Howard Robinson, Houston, TX

CATALOGUES:

2006 Le Duc, Aimee; “Chris Sollars Accumulative Dissipation”; Southern Exposure; Vol. 1, No. 6; 2006

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2006 Ysohinori, Niwa; “Chris Sollars Interview”; Tokyo-San Francisco Art Times, Vol. 1, No. 4; 2006

Moore, Kurt; “Malleable on Display at OSUM”; The Marion Star; Feb 4 2006

Miller, James; “Art and Opera on Campus”; The Marion Star; Feb 3 2006

Lebuhn, Henrik; “Follow the Leader”; Links Log; Feburary 3 2006

Lebuhn, Henrik; “Trashbags irritating San Francisco”; Links Log; Feburary 3 2006

Trippe, John; “Accumulative Dissipation”; Fecal Face; January 13 2006;

Kroth, Maya; “Talkin Trash”; SF Weekly; January 11-17 2006; `Vol. 24, No.50, Page 21

2005 Orden, Abraham; “Aperto San Francisco”; Flash Art; July September 2005; Vol XXXVIII No.243; Pages 69-70

Buckner, Clark; Critic’s Choice: “Cross Cuts” Southern Exposure; Bay Area Gaurdian; June 1 - 7 2005 `Vol. 39, No.35 Page

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

Tang, Jo-ey; "Art Project: The Shirt That Gets Around"; BlackBook Magazine; Summer 2004; Issue No. 33; Page 62

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; "Cultural Affairs Chief Defends City’s Support of Pornography Exhibition"; New York Sun; Tuesday March 9, 2004

Gershman, Jacob; "City is Funding Porn Display in DUMBO Show – Generous Support For Soft-Core Exhibit"; New York Sun; Monday March 8, 2004, Front Page; Page 1

Terros, Louis; "Letter to the Editor – Bjorn Again"; New York Sun; April 1, 2004,

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; Magazine Reviews; 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

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 à 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, Pg 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 “We’re Waiting” New Langton Arts; SF Weekly; September 19- 25 2001; `Vol. 20, No.35

2000 Westbrook, Lindsey; Over There: visual arts “Closed Circuit” New Langton Arts; East Bay Express; March 3, 2000 Vol. 22, No.21

Helfand, Glen; Critic’s Choice: art “Closed Circuit” New Langton Arts; Bay Area Gaurdian; Febuary 23 - 29 2000 `Vol. 34, No.21

RADIO:
Arts in Review w/ Lee Montgomery; KALX Radio, Feb 16, 2006

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

TALKS & LECTURES:

2006 Detourned Menu, curator Briana Toth, Nato Thompson, Associate Curator at Mass MoCA, & 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 Department of Art, 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

1999 Department of Art, University of CA at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (Talk)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2006 FALL
Instructor - 2 Sections Graduate Editing Concepts (Film and Editing History with Basic to Advanced Final Cut Pro Instruction), MPT Department, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Instructor - 2 Sections undergraduate Editing Concepts (Film and Editing History with Final Cut Pro Instruction), MPT Department, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

2006 SPRING
Instructor – 2 Sections Graduate Editing Concepts, MPT Dept, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Accumulative Rubbings, On-site Education Program, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2005 FALL
Instructor Graduate Editing Concepts, MPT Dept, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

GRANTS & AWARDS:

2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation
2002 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum Purchase Award
1998 Skowhegan Fellowship awarded by the Skowhegan School and the RI School of Design