CHRIS LARSON
1966 geboren in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
lebt und arbeitet in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
AUSBILDUNG
1992 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, Masters of Fine Arts
1990 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, Bachelor of Fine Arts
AUSZEICHNUNGEN UND PREISE
2006 Bush Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation, St. Paul, MN
2004 Jerome Media Fellowship St. Paul, MN
2004 Artist Assistant Fellowship Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
2002 McKnight Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
2002 Jerome Media Fellowship St. Paul, MN
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
1999 Forcast Public Arts Commission, St. Paul, MN
1998 Bush Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation, St. Paul, MN
1997 Artist Assistant Fellowship Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
1995 Jerome Installation Arts Commission, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1994 Artist Assistant Fellowship Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
1993 Jerome Foundation Fellowship Grant, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
1992 Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN
2010 Double Distruction w/ Christoph Draeger magnus müller, Berlin, Deutschland
2009 Sculptures/Drawings, Volta5, Basel, Schweiz
Sculpture/Video, Burnet Art Gallery at Chambers, The Luxury Art Hotel, Minneapolis,MN,USA
2008 Deep North, magnus müller, Berlin
Deep North, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Screen Spirit_Continued #9, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Deutschland (mit “Crush Collilsion”)
2006 Crush Collision (mit Harald Hermann), magnus müller, Berlin, Deutschland
Crush Collision, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Shotgun Shack, Creative Electric Studios, Live Performance und Installation, Minneapolis, MN
2004 Pause, Rare Art Gallery, New York, NY
Film. Sculpture. Drawings, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN
2002 Bogus Brook Township, Rare Art Gallery, New York, NY
2001 The Gastral Colony, Rare Art Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Art in General, New York, NY
Chris Larson, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD
1997 Sculpture and Prints, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Spotlight Gallery, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1996 Chris Larson. Sculpture, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
Recent Work. Chris Larson, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN
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, Kanada
2009 Cargo Visio, Munich, Opera Festival, München, Deutschland
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
Art Basel, Art Film, mit “Crush Collision”, Basel, Schweiz
2007 Screening Title, Insertions, kuratiert von Angela Dufresne, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, Filmvorführung am 15. November 2007
BÄNG!, Forum für Junge Kunst, Ideal Forum, Berlin, Deutschland
Not your Parents’ MTV, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
SAD, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Space Control, kuratiert von ASSAB ONE, Mailand, Italien
Enchanted. Revealing the Fantastic and Metaphysical, kuratiert von Andrea Stanislav, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
9. Februar 2007, kuratiert von Sönke Magnus Müller, Künstler der Galerie magnus müller, Berlin, Deutschland
New Orleans Revisited, mit “Crush Collision”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Idiotjoy Showland: An Evening of Film and Video by Artists, kuratiert von Claudia Altman Siegel & John Pilson, gezeigt im IFC, New York, NY; Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX und The Center for Contemporary in Tell Aviv, Israel
2006 Contemporary II, kuratiert von Rosa-Maria Sossai, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rom, Italien
Scarecrow, kuratiert von David Hunt, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Jerome: Hill and Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2004 The Ludovico Treatment, kuratiert von David Hunt, MüllerDechiara, Berlin, Deutschland
4 x 4, Plug-In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Kanada
Jerome Hill Centennial: A Filmmaker and His Legacy, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, MN
Slice and Dice, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Druid: Wood As A Superconductor, Space 101, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Crash, Pause, Rewind, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Plaza, New York, NY
City Mouse. Country Mouse, kuratiert von David Hunt, Space 101, Brooklyn, New York, NY
MINETS À POLIS, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
McKnight Fellows, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2001 Film and Sculpture, MAEP, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
A Celebration of Minnesota Artists: 90th Anniversary Collection, The Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Recent Work, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN
2000 Fast, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
1999 Cause and Effect, Forcast Public Artworks, St. Paul, MN
1998 Sculpture on Site, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Material Matters, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, St. Paul, MN
Faculty Exhibition, Winona State University, Winona, MN
1997 Gateway Sculpture, Garden of Sculpture, St. Paul, MN
State Arts Board Exhibition, State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
1996 -1997 Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN
1995 Faculty on Paper, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Art in Space, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1993 The Jerome Five, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
BÜHNENBILD
Set Design und Produktion von “Making of Ameriicans”, eine neue Oper von Jay Scheib und Anthony Gatto, basierend auf der Novelle von Getrude Stein, Weltpremiere im Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
STÄNDIGE SAMMLUNGEN
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,
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
AUSGEWÄHLTE LITERATUR
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)