CHRIS SOLLARS Exhibitions & Installations

Exhibitions & Installations

Artist and director of 667Shotwell, Chris Sollars work revolves around the reclamation of private and public space through interventions. The results are documented using drawing, photographs, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed media installations.. Awards include 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, and 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency. Sollars in 2008 completed C RED BLUE J which screened at SFMOMA on Election Day and was included in CREATIVE TIME’s Democracy in America show at the NY Park Armory. Recent exhibitions include 2011 Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Trash at the new children's museum in San Diego. Sollars' work is sorted chronologically starting in 1996 as a record of his practice regardless of failures. View Press, CV, Statement, & Bio


2012
	COFFEE & DONUTS Southern Machine Exposure Project Home of Bruce Tomb & Mary Sheppard Tuesday June 19, 2012 Utilizing this former Mission Police Station as a set, Sollars will activate the former station through actions, sculpture, and taste and make the inaccessible areas of the home visible through video. Southern Machine Exposure Project is a project developed by Southern Exposure (San Francisco) and Machine Project (Los Angeles), involving 20 combinations of artists and performers from LA and SF, .

	the Missing Pig version 1. Cook Bacon, do not serve. version 2. Cook Bacon, do not serve, hide in front of live camera feed and transmit bacon image sporadically.

	Working Alternatives: Breaking Bread Franklin Street Works Tuesday June 19, 2012 “Breaking Bread” imagines the kitchen table as an alternative space, presenting contemporary participatory, culinary art projects in juxtaposition with several 1970’s food art projects. Paul Branca, Tom Marioni, Legacy Russell, Chris Sollars and Jerome Waag take on these ideas through works that incorporate food and drink with performance, sculpture, and interactive installations.

	Street Clean Temple Gallery January - Feburary, 2012 Rebuilt Street Cleaner based on original specs with video projection of Sollars first intervention Street Clean 1997.

2011
	Trash the new children's museum Oct 15, 2011 - Sept 2013 Multi-media installation using a dumpster as a play-set and landfill as backdrop, with videos of trash rain and Pile of Trash San Diego a Narrative following anthropomorphic Trash from Mirmar Landfill, through downtown San Diego to Balboa Park the former landfill.

	Bay Area Now 6 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts July 9 - Sept 25, 2011 Chris Sollars' installation Hairy, featuring video and 19th century style wigs made from his long hair and beard, for Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

	Digger Bread Bakery OPENrestaurant @ Berkeley Art Museum August 27, 2011 In the mid-60s the Diggers in San Francisco proposed a form of ‘community anarchism’ in which they offered free food, medical care, and street performance. They also baked and gave away bread, and were rumored to have introduced whole-wheat flour into US counterculture. Artist Chris Sollars , Steve Sullivan from Acme Bakery and James Whitehead from Fist of Flour bake Digger bread in cans while David Simpson and Jane Lapiner recount stories from their experience as Diggers.

	Project Space: Chris Sollars ...might be good issue #174 (fluent collab) Sept 16, 2011 For …might be good, Sollars presents a series of works from 1980-2040 juxtaposing time, physical and social space..

	Lost in Space Steven Wolf Fine Arts March 12 - April 2, 2011 San Francisco group exhibition showing documentation of the past 2 years of making sculptures in my neighborhood.

	ARTHUR ALLAN : CITY HALL Isn't It Obvious? SF Arts Commission Gallery Jan 21 - April 2, 2011 Arthur Allan through a series of actions will investigate the unoccupied open space of San Francisco civic buildings.

	Crossing the Rubicon JAS Gallery April 28 - June 11, 2011 Drawing of the Bohemian Grove conservative U.S. Presidents and friends pounding beers naked like frat boys around the Grove's totem Owl Rock under the northern California Redwoods.

	The End of Failure Louis VESP April 29 - May 13, 2011 Sollars investigates Failure through a multi-media installation of Mis-haps, consisting of a fleece security blanket to wear while they watch a compilation of short video mistakes.

	Summer of Video Art Kroswork July 1 - Aug 27, 2011 déjeuner sur la barbe (to lunch on the beard ) 2011 a new video by Chris Sollars & Jerome Waag

	Open Source: Instructions Towards a New Economy Invisible Venue August 2011 Instructions Towards a New Economy: Resistance 2011 (sent as text), Global Partners 2011 (posted on Facebook) & Jobs Jesus Jobs - Interchange 2011 (posted as Tweet).

	Procedural MacArthur B Arthur May 6 - May 29, 2011 Sollars creates A Great and Mighty Walk along MLK WAY in 3 Parts Instructions for connecting MacArthur B Arthur to their neighborhood block.

2010
	2929 A Double Take A New Museum Jan 1-10 2010 2929 is an exhibition using A NEW MUSEUM's address as a double take. Using his series of Public Sculptures made with ready-made-trash and debris on streets and sidewalks around San Francisco Mission, Sollars will be installing some of these recent creations in the Museum over the course of the two weeks.

	Chris Sollars Glitter Box August 7 - Sept 7 2010 A solo exhibition of sculptures, photographs, and videos installed in and around Ian Colon's apartment gallery Glitterbox in Oakland, CA. At Glitterbox, Sollars has mined Ian’s collection of works, objects, and archive into an exhibition that creates portrait of the artist, the owner and his space.

	Chris Sollars - Museum Residency SFMOMA OPEN SPACE BLOG August 20, 2010 This summer I invited Sollars to use SFMOMA as a site for art-making. As a parameter the artist used only materials on hand in the museum itself, from paper products, posters, debris left behind, to the shirt off his back. At no point was his project made official to the staff of the museum, similar to working in his neighborhood, Sollars came and went and made pieces while integrating himself as an everyday museum guest.

	ri-FLEKT WEartspace Oct 3 - Nov 20 2010 At WE, Sollars will create a series of works based on the interior and exterior of WE. Inside, Sollars will use images and objects from around the WE space as inspiration and outside he will utilize the Bus stop and neighborhood for a series of interventions, sculptures and videos. Watch the PROMO

	Trouble Everyday Booklyn Exhibitions Sept 11 - Oct 9 2010 Taking inspiration from Frank Zappa’s 1966 song Trouble Everyday Chris Sollars throws caution to the wind with facing current state of affairs. Through drawings, photographs, sculptures, and videos of critical humor, Sollars blurs the past with the present in his investigation with the troubles we find ourselves with 9 years later on September 11, 2010.

	Other Possibilitiess: Alison Pebworth Michael Rosenthal Gallery April 10 - May 8, 2010 Video in conjunction with Alison Pebworth's solo exhibition Other Possibilities of drawings.

	Decalogue: Films You Can Count on Two Hands organized by Eve Sussman Winkleman Gallery March 27 - May 1, 2010 Opening: Saturday, March 27, 6-8 PM Line Up includes: Johan Grimonprez, Leslie Thornton, Julian Rosefeldt, Simon Lee + Algis Antanas Kizys, Christine Rebet, Erin Cosgrove, Jim Finn, Matt Stokes, Marcus Coates, & Chris Sollars.

	GLOBAL/NATIONAL - The Order of Chaos Exit Art March 13 - May 1, 2010 Opening March 13, 7-10 PM An exhibition that “addresses the anxieties of economics, environmental tragedies, and societies of control that define the chaos of globalization. It explores these social issues in an aesthetic way to demystify the notion of art only as an ornamental production.

	PAPER! AWESOME! Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions Feb 20 - March 27 2010 PAPER!AWESOME!, a group exhibition of new works on paper by over 100 artists. Curated by gallery artist Brion Nuda Rosch, this exhibition contains over 300 8.5 x 11 inch brand new works on paper by an incredibly varied group of artists.


2009
	ARTHUR ALLAN HALLWAY PROJECTS & 667SHOTWELL NOV/DEC 2009 Together Hallway Projects (Arthur) and 667 Shotwell (Allan) investigate the domestic nature of each venue through new works within each other's space and in the neighborhood between each residence to create a series of collaborative works in varying media. Art Practical Review by Zachary Scholz

	Brautigan Headlands Center for the Arts, CA Sculpture & Video Installation Featuring 7 sculptures for 7 books by SF Bay Area art organizer and writer Richard Brautigan. Videos based on each book interrupt the live video feed in the space.

	Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art Exhibition: September 19 - October 15, 2009 SF STATE University Gallery

	OPENfuture: Spinning Marinetti's WheelsChris Sollars Jerome Waag Matt Volla Event: October 17, 2009 SFMOMA Sanfrancisco, CA video projections


2008
	C RED BLUE J in Creative Time's Democracy in America: The National Campaign Opening: September 21 - 27, 2008 Opening Reception: Sept 21, 2 TO 10 PM Park Avenue Armory; New York, NY

	(EDIT) THE UNCERTAIN STATES OF AMERICA June 20 - July 20 @ Maniac Gallery, Oakland, CA


2007
	The Innocent Gaze @ Jack Hanley Gallery August 3 - August 26

	Locked Bike: A Still Life in Motion Keys that Fit: Oakland, CA April 6- May 25

2006
	Accumulative Dissipation at SOEX SF, CA January 16, 2006 - February 6, 2006

	Accumulative Rubbings at SOEX On-Site Education Program (OSEP) January 16, 2006 - February 6, 2006

	Malleable Marion Ohio February 1 - 24 2006 Curated by Sanford Biggers at Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery The Ohio State University at Marion

	Bard College Install June 2006

	Jar / Drain Bard MFA Show July 8,2006 - July 20, 2006 A flood with a bread dough levee is reconstructed in my bathtub, and is displayed on a TV monitor on top of its packaging box at waist high. A video projection of a jar of dirty water is shaken vigorously and appears sporadically.

	Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival'06 Tokyo Japan July 29th to August 5th 2006

	Haunted curated by Pat Rock at Disjecta Portland, OR September 5 - October 4 2006

	Flavour of Democracy in collaboration with Jerome Waag October 20, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Detourned Menu curated by Brianna Toth Installation at The Lab

	Kimono News Install December 2006 Listening: Living Art from Japan and San Francisco The Lab - San Francisco, CA

2005
	SUV RUB & Double Tether Bard College

	The Shirt That Gets Around December 2005 Artist Space New York, NY

2004
	Bjorn Again January 24 - March 7, 2004 Multiplex curated by Eve Sussman Smackmellon Brooklyn, NY

	Come Walk With Me March 12 - April 10, 2004 Suite 106 Gallery, New York, NY

	Soap Boxes Bard College

2003
	Bjorn Again December 2003 NADA ART FAIR, Miami, FL

	Paper Ball Mill College Museum Install


2002
	Urban Evidence APRIL 2 - MAY 4, 2002 Sesnon Gallery UCSantaCruz Santa Cruz, CA

2001
	We're Waiting with Mads Lynnerup September 20, 2001 New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA

1998
	MY BANK August 1998 Bank Show Skowhegan, ME

	Donation Boxes January 1998 RISD MUSEUM Providence, RI

	Finding Providence June 1998 Providence, RI

	World Cup Bar Install August 1998 Skowhegan, ME

1997
	Making Bread Freshly baked homemade Whole-Wheat bread is served to viewers. A video shows me touching myself bare handed and making bread with gloves on.

1996
	Bridge November - December 1996 Providence, RI