CHIRS LARSON
1966 Born in St. Paul, MN, USA
Lives and works in St. Paul, MN, USA
EDUCATION
1992 Masters of Fine Arts, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, USA
HONORS AND AWARDS
2006 Bush Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation, St. Paul, MN, USA
2004 Jerome Media Fellowship St. Paul, MN, USA
Artist Assistant Fellowship Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
2002 McKnight Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2002 Jerome Media Fellowship St. Paul, MN, USA
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
Forcast Public Arts Commission, St. Paul, MN, USA
1998 Bush Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation, St. Paul, MN , USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Double Distruction w/ Christoph Draeger magnus müller, Berlin, Germany
2009 Sculpture/Drawings, Volta5, Basel, Switzerland Sculpture/video, Burnet Art Gallery at Chambers, MN, USA
2008 Deep North, magnus müller, Berlin, Germany
Deep North, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, USA
Screen Spirit_Continued #9, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany
2006 Crush Collision (with Harald Hermann), magnus müller, Berlin, Germany
Crush Collision, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Shotgun Shack, Creative Electric Studios, Live Performance and Installation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2004 Pause, Rare Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Film. Sculpture. Drawings, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2002 Bogus Brook Township, Rare Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 The Gastral Colony, Rare Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Art in General, New York, NY, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 The Spectacular of Vernacular Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
2010 This Here Now Nature and Human Consciousness Flatten Art Museum
Theory of Values The Soap Factory Minneapolis MN
Crisis=Opportunity Beijing Film Academy Beijing China
Off the Wall From and Content Gallery Minneapolis, MN
Crash Pause Rewind Museum of Art Washington State University
Centre d'art le LAIT in Albi, France, "Unwetter-Inclemencia del Tiempo":
VERS10N INFRASTRUCTURES & TERRITORIES Chicago, Il.
Unbound Thoughts, James Kelly Contemporary Gallery Santa Fe NM
CUE: Artists’ Video, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 Cargo Visio, Munich, Opera Festival, Munich, Germany / Autocenter, Berlin
2nd Biennial del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina (with Thomas Demand, Michael Sailstorfer, Guido van der Werve and others)
2008 Surreale Welten, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
YoHoY, curated by José Springer, Indianilla Art Centre, Mexico Art Basel, Video Section, with “Crush Collision”, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Screening Title, Insertions, curated by Angela Dufresne, CRG Gallery, New York, screening on November 15, 2007
BÄNG!, curated by Sönke Magnus Müller, Forum für Junge Kunst, Berlin
Not your Parents’ MTV, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
SAD, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Space Control, curated by Sönke Magnus Müller, ASSAB ONE, Milan, IIaly
Enchanted. Revealing the Fantastic and Metaphysical, curated by Andrea
Stanislav, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
7. Februar 2007, group show magnus müller, Berlin, Germany
New Orleans Revisited, screening of “Crush Collision”, Walker Art Center MN
Idiotjoy Showland: An Evening of Film and Video by Artists, curated by Claudia Altman Siegel & John Pilson, screened at IFC, New York City, NY, USA; Dallas Video Festival, Dallas TX, and The Center for Contemporary in Tell Aviv, Israel
2006 Contemporary II, curated by Rosa-Maria Sossai Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Scarecrow, curated by David Hunt, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005 Jerome: Hill and Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Jerome Hill Centennial: A Filmmaker and His Legacy, Walker Art Center MN
Crash, Pause, Rewind, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA
MINETS À POLIS, Cohan and Leslie, New York City, NY, USA
2004 FromThe Ludovico Treatment, curated by David Hunt, Müllerdechiara, Berlin
Slice and Dice, Visual Arts Gallery, New York CIity, NY, USA
2003 Druid: Wood As A Superconductor, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY, USA
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Plaza, New York City, NY, USA
City Mouse. Country Mouse, curated by David Hunt, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Art New York, Kronschlaeger, Kunstraum auf Zeit, Linz, Austria
2001 Film and Sculpture, MAEP, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Recent Work, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN, USA
2000 Fast, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, USA
1998 Sculpture on Site, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
SET DESIGN
Set Design and production for the “Making of Americans”, opera by Jay Scheib and Anthony Gatto based on the novel by Getrude Stein, World premiere at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Beth Rudin de Woody, New York, NY
Bill and Ruth True, Seattle, WA
Brooke Garber Neidich, New York, NY
Sammlung Feilchenfeldt, Berlin
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Frances F. L. Beatty & Allen Adler, New York, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Ralph and Peggy Burnet, Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 “On the Rocks. Chris Larson. Deep North”, DAMN Magazine #20, Dezember 2008, S. 20-23
KUNST STÜCKE, Papierstoßgebete, Tagesspiegel, 6. Dezember 2008 (über “Deep North”)
“Die nächste Eiszeit kommt bestimmt”, Die Tagesszeitung, 3. Dezember 2008
“Wie aus einer anderen Zeit”, Die Tageszeitung, 5. November 2008
“Die Beauftragten der Eisheiligen”, Tip, November 2008
“Die Testperson verhält sich ungewöhnlich ruhig”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1. November 2008
“Chris Larson. Failure”, hg. von Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern / Rochester Art Center
Peter-Klaus Schuster, “Kunstjuwel für Berlin. Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg”, Tagesspiegel (10. Juli)
Leila Brillson et al., “Demolation Man”, Surface (Juni)
Dieter Begemann, “Wilde Maschinen, stille Landschaften”, Weser Kurier (6. Juni)
Marikke Heinz-Hoek, “Chris Larson – Crush Collision at Städtische Galerie im Buntentor”, Punkt. Kunst im Nordwesten (Sommer)
Johannes Bruggaier, “Ein Organist über dem Höllenschlund”, Kreiszeitung online (Juni)
2006 Mary Abbe, “Smash-Ups”, Minneapolis Star and Tribune (24. November)
Claudia Wheeler, “Geschmackssache / Galerienrundgang”, Kulturradio am Vormittag (26. Juli)
2005 Julia Morton, Reviews, New York Press (Januar)
2004 Kris Douglas, “Reviews Nationwide”, ArtUS 4 (Sept./Okt.)
Patricia Briggs, “Reviews. Minneapolis, Minnesota”, Art Papers (Sept./Okt.)
Chris Roberts, “State of the Arts”, MPR (20. Mai)
Ann Klefstad, “Art Review: Arms and the Boy: Chris Larson at Franklin Art Works, MN Artists (30. April)
Mary Abbe, “Free Time Full Page”, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Mai)
Rod Smith, “A-List”, City Pages (Mai)
Michael Fallon, “Reviews”, The Rake (April)
2003 Michael Wilson, “Reviews, Chris Larson. Rare, New York”, Frieze (März)
2001 Robert Curcio, “Reviews. Chris Larson. Rare”, Sculpture, Vol. 20, Nr. 8 (Oktober)
Mary Abbe, “Reviews. A Lot Going On”, Minneapolis Star Tribune (August)
Sarah Valdez, “Review of Exhibitions. Chris Larson at Rare”, Art in America (Juli)
Andrew Knighton, “Review. Rosemary Fiore. Chris Larson”, New Art Examiner (Juli-August)
Ken Johnson, “Art in Review. Chris Larson. The Gastral Colony”, The New York Times (9. März)
1998 Patricia Briggs, “Sculpture on Site”, Artforum (November)