Chris Vasell

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1974
Lives: and works in Chicago, IL

Education
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL M.F.A.
University of Michigan, Michigan, Ohio, B.A.



Solo Exhibitions
2010
Team Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Don�t go outside they�re waiting for you, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Chris Vasell, boom, Oak Park, IL

Group Exhibitions
2009
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Opportunities, Bravin Lee programs, New York, NY
Something Wicked this Way Comes, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Cave Painting: Installment #1, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY (curated by Bob Nickas)

2008
Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Post Rose: Artists in and Out of the Hazard Park Complex, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany curated by Sterling Ruby
Where Was I? All About the Edges, Bag of Pockets, the Art of Semi-Autonomy, Pauline, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Medium, Gustavia, French West Indies

2005
Trials and Terrors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Fast Forward, House of Campari, Venice, CA (in affiliation with MoCA, curated by Scenic)
The General's Jamboree - Second Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2004
On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Stalemate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (curated by Dominic Molon)
Summer Drawings and Some Are Note, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Jesse Chapman, Noah Rorem, Chris Vasell, Shane Campbell, Oak Park, IL

2003
Inaugural Group Show, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
I See a Darkness, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Paintingshow, The Austrian Art Studio, Chicago, IL (curated by Esther Stocker)
Some Things We Like�, aspreyjaques, London, UK

2002
Here and Now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (curated by James Rondeau,
Gregory Knight, Lanny Silverman, and Marianne Richter)
Painting, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI (curated by Shane Campbell)
A4 vs. Letter: A show of drawings, Apt 1R, Chicago, IL
Sculpture In Chicago Now Part II, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2001
The Stray Show, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
The Stray Show, boom, Chicago, IL

1999
Chicago Drawing Show, Forcefield Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
Nippon Steel Exhibition, Nippon Steel, Chicago, IL

1997
Whitecaps, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI


Bibliography
2003

Grabner, Michelle. �The Suburban, The Early Years 1999-2003,� 2003, p. 84


Grants/Awards
1999
Nippon Steel Scholarship

1998
Leon Guggenheim Scholarship, SAIC (two year)




Projects
Performances

2002
Electronic Sound and Film/Video Art Series, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL