Chris Evans
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CHRIS EVANS
(Eastrington, United Kingdom, 1967)
Lives and works in Berlin and London
EDUCATION
1992- 1993 Masters in Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, ES
1982-1989 BA (First class honors) Graphic Design, Leicester, UK
RESIDENCIES
2007 Art Pace Residency, San Antonio, USA
2005 Grizedale Arts Residency, UK
2004-2005 Scottish Visual Arts Residency, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art Residency, Helsinki, FI
1998 Asterides Residency Programme, Marseille, FR
1997 Ajuntamiento de Vitoria Gasteiz, ES
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘The Fashion Party is Over!!!! Part II: Chris Evans: Take a Bureaucratic Bow’, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, BE
‘The Impossible Prison’, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2008 ‘Point at it, like a farmer at a pig’, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
‘What’s the point of revolution without copulation, copulation, copulation’, Lüttgenmeijer gallery, Berlin, DU
‘Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours’, Berlin Biennial, DU
ERROR #9 : ‘Shadow Cabinet’(three rendezvous), Extra City, Antwerp, BE
‘As simple as your life used to be’, The British School, Rome, IT
2007 ‘Cop Talk’, event at The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE ‘What’s the point of revolution without copulation, copulation, copulation’ Artpace Residency Exhibition, San Antonio, USA
‘As simple as your life used to be’, Store gallery, London, UK
The Freedom of Negative Expression, anonymous submission to an exhibition called: ‘Tutor with an Idea’, Bent Aura, Outpost, Norwich
‘The Freedom of Negative Expression’, Chapter, Cardiff, UK
‘Militant Bourgeois: An Existentialist Retreat', International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
2006 ‘A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family’, REC, Berlin, DU
‘Chris Evans’, Studio Voltaire, London (touring UK) & booklaunch of Magnetic Promenade
‘Militant Bourgeois: an Existentialist Retreat’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL
‘Is my work too commercial’, Store gallery, London, UK
‘Cop Talk’, event at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2005 ‘The Rock & Judge’, Store Gallery, London, UK
‘The Rock & the Judge’, Juliètte Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Cop talk’, event at Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL (with Casco,Utrecht)
2004 ‘Radical Loyalty’, Artconnexion, Lille, FR
2003 ‘Radical Loyalty’,Tramway Project Space, Glasgow, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘The avantgarde: Depression’, Marres, Maastricht, NL
‘The Conspiracy’, Kunsthalle Bern, Switserland
'Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie', Group exhibition
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
‘A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow’, CIC Cairo, Egypt
‘Talkshow’, ICA, London, UK
‘The little shop in Hoxton’, Limoncello, London, UK
2008 ‘Terms of Use’, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, ES
‘Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie’
, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, SW
‘Oracle of the Constitution’, Screening programme curated by Nav Haq for Bidoun Cinema at Art Dubai
2007 ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, DU
‘Elegance’, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DU
‘Destroy Athens’, Athens Biennale, Athens, GR
‘The Affirmation’, Chelsea Space, Londen, UK
‘Memorial to the Iraq War’, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK
‘Zes’, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
‘Zes’, Harris liebermann, New York, USA
‘Rec. Collection’, REC, Berlin, DU
‘Left Pop’ Moscow Biennale, Moscow, RU
‘On the Future of Art School’, Store gallery, Lodon, UK
‘The Subjektive Object’, gallery Conrad, Dusseldorf, DE
2006 ‘Le Nouveau Siecle’, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, NL
‘Lapdogs of the Bourgouisie’, Gasworks, Lodon, UK
‘East International’, Norwich Art Gallery, Norfolk
‘What have I done deserve this’, Cubitt gallery, London, UK
‘Unfinished Business’, MoCa, Belgrado, Serbia
‘Shiftscale’, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
‘If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it’, The Showroom Gallery, Lodon, UK
2005 ‘I really should... ‘, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
‘The British Artshow 6’, curated by The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
‘Prisms and Shadows, Glasgow Print Studios, UK
‘In this colony’, Fort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, NL
2003 ‘Other criteria: Sculpture in the 20th century Britain’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds,
‘Ill communication’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
2002 ‘Big time bar’, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
2001 ‘Here Now: Scottish art’, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland
‘October’, Group public art project, St Vincent St, Glasgow, UK
2000 ‘Then there is no Mountain, then there is’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee,
‘Me We’, Project Space, Athens, GR
‘Kunst in der stadt’, Korntheater, Bregenz, Austria
‘Snowballing’, Arthur R Rose Gallery, London & Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
1999 ‘Absolut open’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
‘Day of the donkey day’, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
‘Dummy’, Hotel of the Rising Star, New York, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Laura Allsop, ‘Art and Class: The Arnolfini pictures privilege’, The Guardian Wednesday 20 May 2009
Jonathan Griffin, ‘The Impossible Prison’, Frieze Issue 121 March, p. 161
2008 Christy Lange, ‘5th Biennial: Mes nuits son plus belles que vos jours’, Frieze issue 17 Sept. p. 51
Review on solo exhibition at Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Artforum 4-11-2008
2007 Review on ‘Militant Bourgeois’, MAP, vol.10 (2007), p. 16
Review on ‘Militant Bourgeois’, Art Review, vol. 10 (2007), p. 146
Review of 'Live at Annandale Hotel' by Life Without Buildings, Frieze, May 2007 Focus section, 'Chris Evans', text by Andrew Bonacina, Frieze, April 2007
J.J. Charlesworth, ‘Chris Evans’, Art Review, vol. 9 (2007), p. 100
2006 Tom Morton, review on ‘East International’, Frieze, Sept 2006
Maxine Kopsa, feature Chris Evans, Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, April 2006
2005 ‘The Invisible Collection’, review on Chris Evans, Untitled Magazine, vol.34
Review on ‘The Rock & The Judge’ at Juliètte Jongma gallery, Amsterdam
Frieze Magazine, vol.90 (2005), pp. 114-115
Metropolis M, feature on ‘Radical Loyalty’, October
2004 ‘Radical Loyalty’, review on the project, Metropollis M, vol.5, pp. 50-53
2003 ‘Chris Evans at Tramway’, Flash Art, nov/dec 2003, p. 47
Review on ‘The Rock & The Judge’, Juliette Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam, Het Parool, 1 february
Review on ‘Ill Communication’, Art Monthly, March 2003
Interview Chris Evans, Matters, Winter-Spring 2003
2002 Neil Mulholland, review on ‘Here Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001’, Frieze Magazine
2001 Julian Stallabrass, ‘The Security of Sculpture’, feature on ‘Gemini Sculpture Park’
New Statesman, jan 2001
2000 Interview from Gemini Sculpture Park project, Sculpture Matters, dec 2000
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Francesco Manacorda, ‘Chris Evans’, P. 114-115, in Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon 2009
2007 Militant Bourgeois, Chris Evans, Black Diamond Publishing, New York 2007
2006 Magnetic Promenade and other Sculpture Parks, Chris Evans, published by Studio Voltaire, 2006
Art and its institutions, current conflicts, critique, Includes chapter on Chris Evans’ artworks 1998–2005, Black Dog Publishing, 2006
And collaborations, Möntmann, published by Black Dog, London, UK
2005 The British Art Show 6, published by Hayward Gallery, London
In this colony, group exhibition catalogue published by Stichting Fortvijfhuizen, NL
2004 Sculpture in the 20th century, Britain, group exhibition book published by the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2003 Corporate Mentality, publication edited by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir. Published by Lukas & Sternberg, New York
2002 Sculpture in 20th-century Britain, publication for solo project at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2001 October, catalogue for group public art project, Ed. Karla Black
Here Now, catalogue for group exhibition pub. by Dundee Contemporary Arts
1999 Add night to night, catalogue for group exhibition at Showroom Gallery, London
Leaving tracks, catalogue for group exhibition Artranspennine98 organized by Tate Liverpool & Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
AWARDS
2005 Visual Arts Award, Arts Council of England
2003 Visual Artist Award, Scottish Arts Council
2001 Visual Artists Award, Scottish Arts Council
1999 Margaret Weatherfield Visual Arts Travel Award
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