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Born: Eastrington, UK Lives: London


Solo Exhibitions 2012 Chris Evans, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (forthcoming) 2011 Goofy Audit, L�ttgenmeijer, Berlin 2010 The Cell That Doesn�t Believe In The Mind That It�s Part Of, Marres, Maastricht I Don�t Know if I�ve Explained Myself, Mala Galeria (Moderna Galerija), Ljubljana 2009 Take a Bureaucratic Bow, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp 2008 Point at it, like a farmer at a pig, Galerie Juli�tte Jongma, Amsterdam As Simple as your Life used to be, British School in Rome What�s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, L�ttgenmeijer, Berlin 2007 The Freedom of Negative Expression, Chapter, Cardiff Bent Aura, Outpost, Norwich As Simple as your Life used to be, STORE, London What�s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, Artpace, San Antonio Militant Bourgeois, The International Arts Centre, Birmingham 2006 Radical Loyalty, Studio Voltaire, London Militant Bourgeois: An Existentialist Retreat, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Sculpture for the Ahmed Family, REC, Berlin Radical Loyalty, Studio Voltaire, London 2005 Chris Evans, STORE, London The Rock & The Judge, Galerie Juli�tte Jongma, Amsterdam 2004 Radical Loyalty, Artconnexion, Lille, France 2003 Radical Loyalty, Tramway Project Space, Glasgow 2000 Gemini Sculpture Park, Leeds City Art Gallery / The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Group Exhibitions 2012 Specific Collisions II, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York (forthcoming) Glamourie, PSL, Leeds 2011 The Indirect exchange of uncertain Value, Fettes College (Collective Gallery offsite project), Edinburgh So Long Roger Fenton, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin Pretty Fresh (A Sunday Coffee Confidential) ,Bcc, Berlin 2010 An Unpardonable Sin, Castillo/Corrales, Paris Nothing Political, Complot, Brussels The Clifford Irving Show, Objectif, Antwerp Taipei Biennial, Taipei The Berlin Box - CCA Andratx, Art Foundation Mallorca Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, L�ttgenmeijer, Berlin Documentalist, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh The Malady of Writing, Museu d�Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 2009 Short Tracks, Wiels, Brussels Depression, Marres, Maastricht Refuge, 4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam The Conspiracy, Kunsthalle Bern Mental Puberty, STORE, London A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow, CIC, Cairo Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Arnolfini, Bristol Talk Show, Institute for Contemporary Art, London 2008 The Impossible Prison, Nottingham Contemporary Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Town House, Cairo Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Error #9: Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous), Extra City - Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp Terms of Use, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria Hey, Hey Glossolalia, Creative Time, New York Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Tensta, Stockholm 2007 Rock, Paper, Scissors, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin Destroy Athens, Athens Biennale, Athens �l�gance, K�lnischer Kunstverein, Cologne Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London The Affirmation, Chelsea Space, London Left Pop, Moscow Biennial, Moscow Zes, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA; Harris Lieberman, New York Zes, Harris Lieberman, New York The Subjektive Object, Galerie Conrad, Dusseldorf REC.OLLECTION, REC., Berlin, Germany On the Future of Art School, STORE, London 2006 East International, Norwich Art Gallery, Norfolk Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Gasworks, London touring to Platform Garanti, Istanbul Nouveau Siecle, Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam Unfinished Business, MoCA, Beldrade, Serbia What did I do to deserve this?, Cubitt Gallery, London Shiftscale, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia If It Didn�t Exist You�d Have to Invent It, The Showroom, London Google Earth, Academie Galerie, Utrecht 2005 British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery, London, Baltic and touring UK I really should..., Lisson Gallery, London In this Colony, Fort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen Prisms and Shadows, Glasgow Print Studios, Glasgow, 2003 Other Criteria, British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Ill Communication, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 2001 Here and Now, Scottish Art 1990�2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts October, St Vincent St, Glasgow 2000 Then there is no mountain, then there is, Generator, Dundee ME WE, Project Space, Athens Kundst 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 Day, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Dummy, Hotel of the Rising Star, New York Sick Vitalists, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow Museum Magoo, Independent Studios, Glasgow 1998 Fan of Exaggeration, La Compagnie CIE Gallery, Marseille Seguridad Social, Royal College of Art, London & Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City A Definite Thing, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle Dummy Dummy, Parks Clothing Ltd, Belfast From Here, High Street Project Gallery, Christchurch, Artranspennine98 (Openshaw Benefits Agency - Manchester, 3 Month Gallery � Liverpool) Add Night to Night, Showroom Gallery, London Reverend Todd�s Full House, College Green, Belfast Right Place Wrong Time Friend, Catalyst Arts, Belfast One Way Karma, 83 Hill Street, Glasgow
Bibliography Selected Press �Hanging out, Crowding out or Talking Things Out�, Rebecca Uchill, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012 �Art and Class: The Arnolfini Pictures Privilige�, Laura Allsop, The Guardian, 20th May 2009. �A Performance with Effects�, Mark Beasley, Metropolis M, April 2009. �The Impossible Prison�, Jonathan Griffin, frieze 121, March 2009. �5th Berlin Biennial: Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours�, Christy Lange, frieze 177, September 2008. �Chris Evans: Socially Awkward�, Dan Kidner, Art and Research 2, no. 1, Summer 2008. Critics Pick, What�s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, artforum.com, March 2008. �Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie�, Jonathan Griffin, frieze 104, January 2007. �Chris Evans: Focus�, Andrew Bonacina, frieze 106, April 2007. �Future Greats�, Art Review, April 2007. Review of A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family, Rosemary Heather, Flash Art, March 2007. �Looking Back: Emerging Artists�, frieze 104, January 2007. Review of East International, Tom Morton, frieze 101, September 2006. Feature by Maxine Kopsa, Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, April 2006. �Chris Evans and Ryan Gander in Conversation�, Metropolis M, September 2005. Feature, UNTITLED Magazine. Issue 34, Summer 2005. Review of The Rock and The Judge, Tom Morton, frieze 90, April 2005. Review of Chris Evans, Diana Baldon, Exit, May 2005. Critics Pick, The Rock and The Judge, artforum.com, April 2005. Review of The Rock and The Judge, Kees Keijer, Het Parool, 1st February 2005. Feature on Radical Loyalty, introduction by 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 of Here + Now, Scottish Art 1990�2001, Neil Mulholland, frieze 64, January/February 2002. �The Security of Sculpture�, Julian Stallabrass, New Statesman, January 2001. Review of Hong Kong Island, Padraig Timoney, frieze 34, May 1997
Grants/Awards 2011 Cove Park, Helensburgh, Scotland 2009 Objectif Exhibitions Residency, Antwerp 2007 Artpace, San Antonio, USA 2004 S.A.C. Amsterdam Studio Residency 2002 Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art Residency, Helsinki 1999 Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship, Leeds 1998 Asterides, Marseille, France 1997 Ajuntamiento de Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain

Publications Goofy Audit, Chris Evans Collected Works 1998�2011, ed by Chris Evans, Will Holder, Lisettte Smits (Sternberg Press & Ethan Wagner/Thea Westreich Publications 2011). Taipei Biennial 2010 Index, ed. by Freya Chou, Hongjohn Lin, Tirdad Zolghadr (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2011) From Berkeley to Berkelely, Objectif Exhibitions, 2008�2010, ed. by Mai Abu El- Dahab (Sternberg Press, 2011) F.R.DAVID �Spin Cycle� ed. by Will Holder and Mike Sperlinger (de Appel, Summer 2011). Histories of the Present, ed. by Alex Farquharson with Fiona Parry and Abi Spinks (Nottingham Contemporary, 2010). Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art, ed. by Nav Haq, Tirdad Zolghadr (Sternberg Press, 2010). Searching for Arts New Publics, ed. by Jeni Walwin (Intellect Books, 2010). Hey Hey Glossolalia, vols 1 & 2, ed. by Mark Beasley (Creative Time, 2008). The Addition, ed. by Krist Gruijthuijsen ( JRP\|Ringier, 2010). Radical Loyalty (Platform, 2008). The Affirmation (Chelsea Space, 2007). Militant Bourgeois (Black Diamond, 2007). Art and Its Institutions, ed. by Nina Montmann (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). Le Nouveau Si�cle, ed. by Xander Karskens (Museum van Loon, 2006). Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks, ed. by Chris Evans (Studio Voltaire, 2006). British Art Show 6 (Hayward Gallery, 2005). In this Colony (Stichting Fort Vijfhuizen, 2005). Here + Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001 (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001). Gemini Sculpture Park (Henry Moore Institute, 2001). Add Night to Night, ed. by Kirsty Ogg (Showroom Gallery, 1999). Artranspennine98 � Leaving Tracks (August Media, 1998). Sculpture in 20th Century Britain (The Henry Moore Institute, 2003). Corporate Mentality, ed. by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003).