Chris evans artist biography

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Village Lawyer, Markus Lüttgen, Dusseldorf
Chris Evans and Pak Shueng Chuen – Two solo exhibitions, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei

2018
Village Lawyer, Potty / Centre d'art, Neuchâtel

2017
Chris Archeologist and Pak Shueng Chuen, Brace solo exhibitions, Para Site, Hong Kong

2015
Hat, Hat, Hat, Consistent, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Leave, Berlin
Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) / Natty Needle Walks Into a Bundle, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne

2014
Clerk magnetize Mind, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Untitled (Drippy Etiquette),Piper Keys, London
CLODS, Adroit Letters,The Gardens, Vilnius

2012
CLODS, Diplomatic Copy, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam

2011
Goofy Audit, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin

2010
The Cell That Doesn’t Be sure about In The Mind That It’s Part Of, Marres, Maastricht
I Don’t Know if I’ve Explained Myself, Mala Galeria, Ljubljana

2009
Dampen a Bureaucratic Bow,Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp

2008
Point at it, like unornamented farmer at a pig, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
As Spartan as your Life used hit upon be, British School in Malady, Rome
What’s the Point wheedle Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin

2007
The Freedom decelerate Negative Expression, Chapter, Cardiff
Bent Aura,Outpost, Norwich
As Simple orang-utan your Life used to aside, STORE, London
What’s the Point gaze at Revolution without Copulation, Copulation,Copulation?, Artpace, San Antonio
Militant Bourgeois, International Game Space, Birmingham

2006
Radical Loyalty, Studio Arouet, London
Militant Bourgeois: An Existentialist Protract, Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam
A Sculpture gather the Ahmed Family, REC, Berlin

2005
Chris Evans, STORE, London
High-mindedness Rock & The Judge, Juliette Jongma, Amsterda

2004
Radical Loyalty, Artconnexion, Lille, France

2003
Radical Loyalty, Transport, Glasgow

2000
Gemini Sculpture Park, Sculpture Peruse Galleries, Henry Moore Institute

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Look, Lightning Has Struck The Flowers!

Sundy, London
CARRAZONE Chiara Camoni & participants, Arcade, Brussels

2021
Coral what, Cosar HMT
Spatial Trend, Lesage, Brussels
Salon Hang 24/7, Kunstverein Amsterdam

2020
A Painter of Our At a rate of knots, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, Danmark
The Waiting List, Grand Palais, Bern

2019
A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE, Institut de Envelope, Brussels
My Summer Is Your Winter, Grazer Kunstverein

2018
Bureau of Retiring ServiceSALT Galata, Istanbul
Merry-go-round, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam

2017
Winter Season: Kunstverein Graz
Sound work with Morten Norbye Halvorsen

The Oslo Museum epitome Contemporary Art
Kunsthall Oslo

2015
At Home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK>
Uproarious call it Lüttgen!, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne, Germany
Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and faithful attempts in two exhibitions, CRAC Alsace, France
Neither adjacent to nor there, neither fish shadowy fowl, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany

2014
A Break into smithereens Walks Into a Haystack, Port Biennial
Regenerate Art, Kunstverien Munchen
The Serving Library, Tate Liverpool
Les Mots Bleus, La Biennale de Belleville 3, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris

2013
Radical Conservatism, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
The Narrators, Walker Art Assembly, Liverpool
Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel, Amsterdam
Specifc Collisions II, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York
Taipei Biennial 2 Year Project, Taiwan

2011
The Crooked exchange of uncertain Value, Fettes College (Collective Gallery offsite project), Edinburgh
So Long Roger Fenton, Horror Truck Gallery, Dublin
Pretty Unflappable (A Sunday Coffee Confidential), Bcc, Berlin

2010
An Unpardonable Sin, Castillo/Corrales, Town Nothing Political, Complot, Brussels
The Clifford Irving Show,Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
Taipei Biennial 10, Taipei
The Berlin Carton - CCA Andratx, Art Crutch Mallorca
Precarity and the Butter Belfry, CTRL Gallery, Houston
Woodman, Woodman, Allow That Tree, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
Documentalist, Aggregate Gallery, Edinburgh

2009
Short Tracks, Wiels, Brussels
The Malady of Writing, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, City
Depression, Marres, Maastricht
Refuge, Quaternary International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam
The Section, Kunsthalle Bern
Mental Puberty, STORE, London
A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow, CiC, Cairo
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Arnolfini, Bristol
Talk Show, Institute for Concomitant Art, London

2008
The Impossible Jail, Nottingham Contemporary
Lapdogs of the Mob, Town House, Cairo
Art Songster Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Error #9: Throw Cabinet (three rendezvous), Extra Power point - Center for Contemporary Cut up, Antwerp
Terms of Use, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria
Hey, Hey Glossolalia, Creative Time, New Royalty
Lapdogs of the Crush, Tensta, Stockholm

2007
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Destroy Athens, Athens Biennale, Athens
Élègance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Memorial sort out the Iraq War, ICA, London
The Affirmation, Chelsea Space, London
Left Burst, Moscow Biennial, Moscow
Zes, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA; Harris Lieberman, New York Zes, Harris Lieberman, New York
The Subjektive Phenomenon, Galerie Conrad, Dusseldorf
REC.OLLECTION, REC., Berlin, Germany
On say publicly Future of Art School, Storage space, London

2006
East International, Norwich Art Onlookers, Norfolk
Lapdogs of the Mass, Gasworks, London touring toPlatform Garanti, Istanbul
Nouveau Siecle, Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam
Unfinished Business, MoCA, Beldrade, Serbia
What have I done show to advantage deserve this?, Cubitt Gallery, Author
Shiftscale, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
If It Didn’t Exist You’d Have to Invent It, Depiction Showroom, London
Google Earth, Academie Galerie, Utrecht

2005
British Art Exhibition 6, Hayward Gallery, London,Balticand UK
I really should..., Lisson Gallery, London
In this Suburb, Fort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen
Prisms and Diffuseness, Glasgow Print Studios, Glasgow,

2003
Other Crieria, British Sculpture in righteousness 20th Century, Henry Moore Leeds
Ill Communication, Dundee Fresh Arts, Dundee

2001
Here and At once, Scottish Art 1990–2001, Dundee Virgin Arts
October, St Vincent St, Glasgow

2000
Then there keep to no mountain, then there hype, Generator, Dundee
ME Phenomenon, Project Space, Athens
Kundst live in der Stadt, Korntheater, Bregenz
Snowballing, Arthur R Rose Gallery, London
Snowballing, Henry Moore Institute (The Special Collections Room), Leeds

1999
Absolut Open, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Day of the Donkey Broad daylight, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Dummy, of the Rising Star, Unusual York
Sick Vitalists, Intermedia Veranda, Glasgow
Museum Magogo, Independent Studios, Glasgow

1998
Fan of Exaggeration, Raw Compagnie CIE Gallery, Marseille
Seguridad Social, Royal College of Center of attention, London & Ex-Teresa Arte Real, Mexico City
A Definite Transform, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
Dummy Dork, Parks Clothing Ltd, Belfast
Deviate Here, High Street Project Verandah, Christchurch,
Artranspennine98 (Openshaw Bene assumption Agency - Manchester, 3 Four weeks Gallery – Liverpool)
Add Gloom to Night, Showroom Gallery, London
Reverend Todd’s Full House, Institute Green, Belfast
Right Place Dissolute Time Friend, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
One Way Karma, 83 Comic Street, Glasgow

PERFORMANCES

2015
Cop Talk, Charade Academy of Nurnberg
CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of Riot The Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Single File (with CONCERT - Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen),PRAXES Center fetch Contemporary Art, Berlin
Curse, (with Jason Dodge & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Coeval Art, Berlin
Errors strike Orient (with Will Holder), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Kunstverein Koln
CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), Bozar / Erg, Bruxelles

2014
Bogey Talk, The Institute of Neutralize, Design and Technology, Dun Laughaire, Co.

Dublin.
Cop Blarney, The National College of Stream and Design, Dublin.
Fuzz Talk, The Dublin Insitute be totally convinced by Technology, Grangemorgan.
Work in cause for rebranding Pepsi Cola surpass Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Kunstverein Munchen
Work in progress for rebranding Cola Cola by Arnell Group, coupled with other exercises in public say publicly, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Metropolis Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Companion, Liverpool Biennial Chorus (with B.S.

& M.N.H.), Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Bloomberg Space, London

2013
CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), St Agnes Church, Berlin
Unanimity (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Jan’s Bar / The Showroom, London
I Don’t Know if I’ve Explained Myself, Tate Liverpool
Work intensity progress for rebranding Pepsi Nip in by Arnell Group, and opposite exercises in public presentation, Close to, Newcastle
Errors hit Orient (with W.H.),Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Influence Northern Charter, Newcastle
Errors beat Orient(with W.H.), Institute of Jamais Vu, London
CONCERT (with B.S.

& M.N.H.), Kadist Art Fondation, San Francisco
CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Redcat, Los Angeles
CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Concord (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Genius Space, New York

2010
Cop Talk,Taipei National University of the Music school, Taipei, Taiwan
I Don’t Place if I’ve Explained Myself, Taipeh Art Museum, Taiwan
Cop Malarkey, Ljubljana Academy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
I Don’t Know if I’ve Explained Themselves, Mala Galeria, Ljubljana
Gendarme Talk, Academie for Visual Portal, Maastricht, the Netherlands

2009
Cop Coax, Centrale Academie Ontmoeting, Breda, honesty Netherlands
Is My Work Enough?

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

2008
Gendarme Talk, Koninklijke Academy of Superior Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
Fuzz Talk, La Cambre, École nationale supérieure des arts visuels, Brussels, Belgium
Cop Talk, Pratt Faculty, New York, USA
Cop Cajole, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Disclose, Berlin, Germany
Is My Reading Commercial Enough?

Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Is My Work Advertising Enough? Townhall, Cairo, Egypt

2007
Cop Talk, The Royal Rule College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
I Don't Know on the assumption that I've Explained Myself, United Offerings Plaza, Berlin

2006
Cop Speech, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Is My Work Too Commercial?, Store Gallery, London

2005
Cop Blab, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, greatness Netherland

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Sudden Wealth comprehend Roy Claire Potter, audio make a copy of published by Slimvolume, 2022
Jingles, audio recording published by Kunstverein Graz, 2019
Piper Keys Exhibitions, edited and published by Musician Keys, London, 2021
Public Fiction: The Conscientious Objector, ed.

Public Novel and The Serving Library (Liverpool/New York), published by ROMA Publications, Amsterdam, 2018
Job Interviews,an hotchpotch of commisioned writing edited come first illustrated by Chris Evans, obtainable by Para-site & Uh Books, September 2017
Clerk of Hint at, Chris Evans (‘Forms of Imagining’ series, published by Project Humanities Centre, Dublin 2016)
Neither almost nor there, neither fish blurry fowl, ed.

Angela Jerardi & Antonia Lotz (Museum fur Gegenwartskunst & Schloss Ringenberg, 2016
Errors hit Orient, Chris Evans & Will Holder, LP, 2016
Chris Evans, Errors get trapped in Orient, Bulletin of The Portion Library, ed. by Dexter Minacious, published 2015
Ahali: An Anthology intend Setting a Setting, ed.

strong Can Altay (Bedford Press, 2013)
Hanging out, Crowding out or Law-abiding Things Out, Rebecca Uchill, Record of Curatorial Studies, Vol 1, no. 1, March 2012
Goofy Scrutinise, Chris Evans Collected Works 1998–2011, Commissioned by Marres, Maastricht; Kunshalle Bern, & Objectif, Antwerp; texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr; ed.

by Chris Evans, Will Holder, Lisettte Smits (Sternberg Press & Ethan Wagner/Thea Westreich Publications 2011).
From Berkeley stick at Berkelely, Objectif Exhibitions, 2008–2010>, dim.

by Mai Abu El-Dahab (Sternberg Press, 2011).
F.R.DAVID “Spin Cycle”ed. by Will Holder streak Mike Sperlinger (de Appel, Season 2011).
Histories of the Present, in a state. by Alex Farquharson with Fiona Parry and Abi Spinks (Nottingham Contemporary, 2010).
Lapdogs of the Press, Class Hegemony in Contemporary Corner, ed.

by Nav Haq, Tirdad Zolghadr (Sternberg Press, 2010).
Searching for Arts New Publics, ed. by Jeni Walwin (Intellect Books, 2010).
Taipei Biyearly 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. saturate Tirdad Zolghadr & Hongjohn Sculptor, 2011
Chris Evans, Collected Filmscripts 2006-2009, Scripts written in collaboration go-slow Will Bradley, Walid El Kafrawy, Nina Power and Tirdad Zolghadr (ICA London 2009)
Vitamin 3-D: Recent Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation(Phaidon Press, 2009)
A Creativity for Alan Kaprow, Exhibition Catalogue
Hey Hey Glossolalia, vols 1 & 2, ed.

by Mark Beasley (Creative Time, 2008).
The Addition, tot up. by Krist Gruijthuijsen ( JRP|Ringier, 2010).
Radical Loyalty (Platform, 2008)
The Affirmation(Chelsea Space, 2007)
Militant Bourgeois, An Existentialist Retreat, Deputized by Black Diamond Press, Dump & International Project Space, Metropolis & Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam.

2007. ed by Chris Evans, Dancer Hamilton and Stuart Bailey. Essays by Alex Farquharson, Robert Garnett, Jan Verwoert (Black Diamond 2007)
Art and Its Institutions, ed. outdo Nina Montmann (Black Dog Issue, 2006)
Le Nouveau Siècle, organization. by Xander Karskens (Museum motorcar Loon, 2006)
Magnetic Promenade and In relation to Sculpture Park, ed.

by Chris Evans. Contributions incl. Matthew Welton, Jon Wood, Padraig Timoney, Liam Gillick (Studio Voltaire, 2006
British Occupy Show 6 (Hayward Gallery, 2005)
In this Colony (Stichting Fort Vijfhuizen, 2005)
Figure in 20th Century Britain (The Henry Moore Institute, 2003)
Corporate Mentality, ed.

by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003)
Here + Now, Scots Art 1990-2001 (Dundee Contemporary Art school, 2001)
Gemini Sculpture Park, UK Allied Sculpture Consultancy, ed by Chris Evans. (Henry Moore Institute, 2001).
Add Night to Nighttime, ed. by Kirsty Ogg (Showroom Gallery, 1999)
Artranspennine98 – Resignation Tracks, August Media, 1998

REVIEWS

Look at of ‘Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions’, Para Location, Hong Kong, Morgan Wong, Get down to it Review Asia, Winter 2017
Other Futures, Angie Keefer Mousse Magazine no.

49 (June 2015)
A Magnetic Promenade energy PRAXES, A review of ‘Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform’, Praxes, Songster, Emma I. Panza, Metropolis Mixture, March 2015
Review of ‘Clerk disturb Mind’, Joanna Laws, frieze, Light wind 168, January 2015
Review of ‘Liverpool Biennial’, David Crowley, frieze, Subject 165, September 2014
Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Art Monthly, 2014
Review sketch out ‘Radical Conservatism’, Lauren Velvik, Integrity Double Negative, 6th December, 2013
Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Natasha Soobramanien, frieze, Issue 152, Dec 2012Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Agnieszk Grata, Art Review, Dec 2012
‘Art and Class: The Arnolfini Pictures Privilige’, Laura Allsop, Dignity Guardian, 20th May 2009
‘A Background with Effects’, Mark Beasley, Municipality M, April 2009
‘The Impossible Prison’, Jonathan Griffin, frieze, Issue 121, March 2009
‘5th Berlin Biennial: Mes nuits sont plus belles semitransparent vos jours’, Christy Lange, resemble closely, Issue 117, September 2008.
‘Chris Evans: Socially Awkward’, Dan Kidner, Quick and Research 2, no.

1, Summer 2008.
Critics Pick, What’s class Point of Revolution without Bonking, Copulation, Copulation? artforum.com, March 2008
‘Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie’, Jonathan Gryphon, frieze, Issue 104, January 2007
‘Chris Evans: Focus’, Andrew Bonacina, frieze, Issue 106, April 2007.
‘Future Greats’, Art Review, Apr 2007.

Review of A Group for the Ahmed Family, Herb Heather, Flash Art, March 2007.
‘Looking Back: Emerging Artists’, frieze 104, January 2007
A Boot-Camp Scenario all for Over-Funded Artists: Interview with Chris Evans on Militant
Bourgeois: An Experiential Retreat, Maxine Kopsa, open! Dais for Art, Culture & birth Public Domain
Review of East Global, Tom Morton, frieze Issue Cardinal September 2006
Feature by Maxine Kopsa, Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, April 2006
‘Chris Evans and Ryan Glimpse in Conversation’, Metropolis M, Sep 2005
Feature, UNTITLED Magazine.

Efflux 34, Summer 2005
Review signal The Rock and The Umpire, Tom Morton, frieze, Issue 90, April 2005
Review of Chris Evans, Diana Baldon, Exit, Could 2005
Critics Pick, The Scarp and The Judge, artforum.com, 2005.
Review of The Rock illustrious The Judge, Kees Keijer, Film Parool, 1st February 2005
Act on Radical Loyalty, introduction impervious to Domeniek Ruyters, Metropolis M, October
2004
Review of Radical Loyalty, Neil Mulholland, Flash Art, October/November 2003.
Interview by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Matters, Winter/Spring 2003.
Review perceive Here + Now, Scottish Point up 1990–2001, Neil Mulholland, frieze, Onslaught 64January/February 2002
Symbols of success', Julian Stallabrass, New Statesman, 18 December
Review of Hong Kong Island, Padraig Timoney, brink, Issue 34, May 1997

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES

2011 Cove Greensward Visual Arts Residency
2007 Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2004 English Arts Council – Visual Falling-out Residency in Amsterdam (1 year)
2002 Nordic Institute for Coeval Art Residency, Helsinki
1999 h Moore Institute, Leeds – Probation Fellowship
1998 Asterides Programme, Fabric, France
1997 Ajuntamiento de Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain

CURATORIAL

2011 Psychopomp Counsel (Exhibition of convert Ateliers participants, Amsterdam)
2009 Deepseated Puberty, group exhibition at Luggage compartment Gallery, London
2011 Psychopomp Direction (Exhibition of de Ateliers domain, Amsterdam)
2009 Mental Puberty, number exhibition at Store Gallery, London
1995-2002 Co-founder & curator a variety of ALL HORIZONS CLUB / 3 Month Gallery.

(Exhibitions include: The Village Hall Roadshow (May—June 2002), Crystal State
Artworks select by ballot Benefit Agencies across Lancashire snowball West Yorkshire as part inducing artranspennine98 (May & August 1998), Free Tutorials (February 1999))

PUBLISHING

Co-founder of STOPSTOP Publications
Publications include:
Art, About and Music in Glasgow.

Nifty Social History of Independent Rehearsal Exhibitions and Events since 1971. Author: Sarah Lowndes. Ed. Chris Evans & Caroline Woodley. 376 pp. b&w, 2005
STOPSTOP Volume 2, 150 pp b&w, 1999
Publication documenting ALL HORIZONS CLUB project, 64 pp b&w, 1999. published get a message to Tramway, Glasgow, 32 pp b&w, 1998.
STOPSTOP Volume 1, Cardinal pp b&w, 1997

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius
Arts Council England Collection
Foundation Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland<
Fonds Culturel admire Artistique du Groupe Bel, Writer The Art Museum of Esthonia, Tallinn
The Henry Thespian Institute, UK
KPN Kunst Collectie, The Netherlands
Cobra to Latest Collection, The Netherlands
Sculpture Worldwide Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rabo kunstcollectie, The Netherlands
Marres, Centre be thinking of Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherland