CHRIS JOHANSON
Born 1968 in San Jose, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2023 |
Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA |
2022 | Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA With Johanna Jackson, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, USA |
2021 | Unknow Know With What Is, And, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC, USA Subject Matter, Unblivion, Peace Train Of Thought, How I Figured Out How To Have A Show In 2021, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
2019 | Paintings, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2018 | Ruminations Meditations and The Homeostasis, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA Particulate Paper Poems, Gallery Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium |
2017 | Chris Johanson, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium Infused Paper, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark The Middle Riddle. Chris Johanson and Joanna Jackson, Journal Gallery Brooklyn, USA Possibilities, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA Worms, Birds, People and Air: The Art of Oh No and Dissociative Thinking, Soccer Club Club at Drag City, Chicago, USA |
2016 | Imperfect Reality with Figures and Challenging Abstraction, The Conversation, Berlin, Germany |
2015 | Chris Johanson and Joanna Jackson, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA |
Equations, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA | |
2014 | Continuity Escapes Me (My Selfishness in Los Angeles), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
SELF(ISH) EXPRESSION(ISM), Portland Museum of Modern Art, Portland, USA | |
Chris Johanson, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium | |
2013 | Considering, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
Within The River Of Time Is My Mind, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA | |
2012 | Windows, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA |
2011 | Alright Alright, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden |
Art Parcours, Art Basel 42, Basel, Switzerland | |
This, This, This, That, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA | |
2010 | 1991-2010 – I Was There, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Not a waste of…, Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria | |
Backwards Towards Forwards, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA | |
The sound of energy in space, the space of energy in life, Schunck, Heerlen, The Netherlands | |
2009 | Chris Johanson – Jean Dubuffet, Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium |
Continuality, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, USA | |
2008 | Totalities, Deitch Projects, New York, USA (catalogue) |
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Conclusions on Boundaries (collaboration with Johanna Jackson), Art of this Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
2007 | Art Unlimited, Art Basel 38 (with The Modern Institute, Galerie Georg Kargl and Galleri Nicolai Wallner), Basel, Switzerland |
Chris Johanson, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria | |
APEX: Chris Johanson, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA | |
Peaceable Kingdom (collaboration with Johanna Jackson), Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy (catalogue) | |
Paradise Library (collaboration with Johanna Jackson), Le Meridien Hotel, San Francisco, USA | |
2006 | I Can Feel It (Co-Exist In Modern Death): Alright Yeah!, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
Contemporary Landscapes, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
I Am in this Weird Area Now, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
2005 | SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL, Baronian Francey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
2004 | SOLO SHOW, SOLO SOUL, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
Problem Does Not Compute, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK | |
Chris Johanson, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France | |
2003 | The More You Think About It, The More You Think About It and Keep Thinking About It More, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
This Is Where You Are, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA | |
2002 | Now Is Now, Deitch Projects, New York, USA (catalogue) |
Many Ways, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA | |
2001 | Relationistism About Brownness, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA | |
Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
Chris Johanson, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada | |
2000 | The Ourselves Festival, Alleged Fine Arts, New York, USA |
Le Nuage Brun (The Brown Cloud), Purple Institute/Alleged, Paris, France | |
1998 | All On Different Trips, Four Walls, San Francisco, USA |
SWP, Alleged Fine Arts, New York, USA | |
1997 | Everylandia, Scene/Escena, San Francisco, USA |
1995 | The Universe, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
Sorry, Figure 5, San Francisco, USA | |
1994 | Fantasy Island (Life Span), Kiki, San Francisco, USA |
1990 | Pictures and Words, Emmanuel Radnitzky Found Objects, San Francisco, USA |
Group exhibitions (selected)
2023 |
“Piano Sale Going On Somewhere,” Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA |
2022 | MIMA Museum Reload, Mima, Brussels, Belgium The Shop Show, Baronian, Brussels, Belgium |
2021 | Bitter Cherry, Bleeding Heart, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, USA For The Birds, Harper’s East Hampton, NY, USA Nature Morte, The Hole, NY, USA People Get Ready: Figuration In Contemporary Art, Augen Gallery, Portland, USA Lost Weekend, Yvon Lambert & Galerie Allen, Paris, France Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2020 | Perpetual Dawn, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark A Perfect Day, Tekenshow, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
2019 | Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Paper Views, The Hole, New York City, USA In The Hot Seat, KMAC Museum, Louiseville, USA Small Worlds – Group Exhibition of Miniature Works, Augen Gallery, Portland, USA |
2018 | Now & Then: Beautiful Losers, Alleged Gallery & the 90s Lower East Side (curated by Aaron Rose), The Hole, New York, USA Reduction, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria Six Degrees of Seperation: Prints from KU and Beyond, The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA Digging for Diamonds in the Disco, Club Rhubarb, New York, USA |
2017 | We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA ILLEGAL, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA ART OBJECTS FOR WILD BEASTS, Association Shop + Gallery, Portland, USA Epochal Aeration: Or, The Slow Hand, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, USA The Human Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA La mere la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA New Modernism, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA Converge 45, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA 10th Anniversary, Gallery Target, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | Architecture of Life, Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkley, USA |
Future Developments, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
2015 | AMETRIA, Deste & Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece |
Words, Words, Words, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA | |
Magic Mountain, MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA | |
A blur, a beautiful blurry blur, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany | |
As Is Is, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Slam Section, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden | |
Drawings from the Ringier Collection Chapter I, Villa Flora Winterthur – Sammlung Hahnloser,Winterthur, Switzerland | |
Watercolour, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada | |
2014 | Energy That Is All Around: Mission School, 1990/Now Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA |
I was a double, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA | |
Chris Johanson | Johanna Jackson, South Willard, Los Angeles, USA | |
Fertile Ground, Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, USA | |
Texte In der Kunst, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, Austria | |
Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Brooklyn, New York City, USA | |
Positivilly Marvillainous, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, USA | |
Score, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, USA | |
Particular Pictures, The Suzanne Geiss Compagny, New York, USA | |
The Brask Collection, Munkeruphus, Dronningmolle, Denmark | |
Running, Changing, Ending, 20@20, Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation, Geyserville, USA | |
2013 | AftermodernisM: Works on Paper, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA |
My Crippled Friend, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, USA | |
Project Los Alamos SFMOMA in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA | |
(Almost) Free Formed: Celebrating Old Days and Hoping for New Times at CCSF: Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, and Laurie Reid, City College Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Additive Abstraktion / curated by_vienna 2013: Why Painting Now?, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, Austria | |
Play Time, ARQUA – Museo Nacional de Arqueologia Subacuatica, Cartagena, Spain | |
The System of Objects, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece | |
Xstraction, The Hole NYC, New York City, USA | |
Outsiderism, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA | |
For My Eyes Only, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia | |
Project Los Altos SFMOMA in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA | |
More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s, Auckland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, USA | |
More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s, Cheekwood Art & Gardens, Nashville, USA | |
Acharya Vyakul, Chris Johanson and Chris Corales, Adams and Ollmand, Portland, USA | |
Mission School: Energy That is All Around, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA | |
Artifacts of a Life Lived By the Living, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA | |
Uneasy space: Interactions with Twelve Artists, SITE, Santa Fe, USA | |
2012 | PINK CAVIAR, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark |
Dialogue of Hands, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK | |
Creature from the Blue Lagoon, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, USA | |
Yeah We Friends and Shit, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA | |
Streetopia, Glasgow International Arts Festival, Glasgow, Scotland | |
Arte Portugal 10: California Dreaming, curated by Fred Hofmann and Paul Young, Lisbon, Portugal | |
Two Person Exhibition With Kristin Baker, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, USA | |
Portrait of a Generation, Hole Gallery, New York, USA | |
Illegitimate Business, Will Brown Gallery, San Francicso, USA | |
A Perfect Day – Tekenshow, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
2011 | Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
Le Printemps de Septembre: Another World, curated by Anne Pontégnie, Toulouse, France, Mitchell, Innes and Nash, New York, USA | |
Chris Johanson, Charley Harper & Matt Keegan, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA | |
In The Gardens, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia | |
Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo, Judith Scott, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA | |
Let’s Go Bombing Tonight, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
Here/Now, Elisabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA | |
American Gothic: Regionalist Portraiture from the Collection, Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, California, USA | |
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
Twin Infinities, Nomad Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia | |
The Mercury Seven and the New Nine, Artery, Portland, USA | |
2010 | 75 Years of Looking Forward, 75th Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
Aktualitat eines Mediums – Nader Ahriman bis Chen Zhen,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria | |
Final San Francisco Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Disorder Disorder, Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia | |
The Drawing Room, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
DRAW, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico | |
California Dreaming, Portugal Arte, Lisbon, Portugal | |
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
Festival of Endless Gratitude, Box Cutter Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
Postermat, The Hole, New York, USA | |
Wang Du, image gratuite, Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium | |
The color of Black and White, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
Transfer/Sao Paulo, Brazilian Cultural Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park, Saõ Paulo, Brazil | |
2009 | A Mind Meld Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
LEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter (1976-2009),” P.S.1 MoMA, Queens, USA | |
Kunstfehler – Fehlerkunst,” Halle 14 Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany | |
A New York Minute,” DepartFoundation, Rome, Italy | |
Nothing is permanent,” de Elektriciteitscentrale, Brussels, Belgium | |
Failed Art / The Art of Failure,” ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany | |
15 Years of New Image Art, New Image Art, Los Angeles, USA | |
Impossible Instruments/Future Flags, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon, USA | |
Songs from the Treetops, PDX Contemporary, Portland, Oregon, USA (curated by Harrell Fletcher) | |
The North County Invitational, Cals Pharmacy, Portland, Oregon, USA | |
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA | |
1999-10 Year Anniversary Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA | |
2008 | Lots of Things Like That, apexart, New York, USA (catalogue) |
Whatevers whatever, The Hydra School Project, Hydra, Greece | |
Dark Milk, MILK CONTEMPORARY, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
Impossible Instruments Future Flags, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon, USA | |
Poster Renaissance 2, New Image Art, West Hollywood, California, USA | |
Menagerie: Animals and Nature, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA | |
Dropped Frames, Elk Gallery, New York, USA | |
Second Nature, Coordinated by Galerie Nosbaum and Reding, Parc Heintz, Dexia Banque Internationale a Luxembourg, Luxembourg,Centre dArt Contemporain, Domaine departemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France | |
READER, Galerie Today at Artis Den Bosch, Brussels, Belgium | |
Ultramoderne, Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France | |
Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
Beautiful Losers: Arte actual y cultura urbana, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain | |
2007 | Pierogi Flatfilling – An Interactive Curatorial Project, ArtNews Projects, Berlin, Germany |
Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) | |
Sound Zero – Kunst und Musik vom Pop bis zur Street Art, Kunstforum Halle, Vienna, Austria | |
Euphorion – Art from San Francisco, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany | |
The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA | |
Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA | |
A Collaboration, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Kinky Sex (Makes The World Go Round), Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA | |
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (catalogue) | |
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, USA | |
Five Humans Share Thoughts, People Respond, ANTISOCIAL, Vancouver, Canada | |
Talk to the Nature, Gallerie Today, Brussels, Belgium | |
2006 | Untitled (for H.C. Westermann), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
Fundstuke und Transit, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany, Johnen and Schottle, Cologne, Germany | |
This talk we have, this talk we have had, this talk we have/have had, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
New Works, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA | |
Since 2000 – Printmaking Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | |
Panic Room – Works for the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece (curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Kathy Grayson) | |
Happiness/Berline Biennale, 4th Berlin Biennial, Gagosian Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany (curated by Martin Germann) | |
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco White Columns, New York, USA | |
DO NOT STACK, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA | |
State Of The Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, USA | |
Golden State, Paulson Press, Berkeley California, USA | |
2005 | Nach Rokytnik, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna, Austria |
The Early Show, White Columns, New York, USA | |
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey | |
Waters and Watercolours, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
Good Timing, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA | |
Seventh Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA | |
Seventh Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University Los Angeles, USA | |
Seventh Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA | |
Stoners vs. Drunks, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA | |
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Casual-Imagastic, Jo Jackson & Chris Johanson, Reading Frenzy, Portland, USA | |
Curb Appeal, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada | |
Different Wave Lengths, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, USA | |
SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL 2, Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium | |
SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL 2, Frac Haute-Normandy, Normandy, France | |
With Us Against Reality, Or Against Us, Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, Norway (catalogue) | |
With Us Against Reality, Or Against Us, Galleri S. E., Bergen, Norway (catalogue) | |
2004 | Between Art and Life; The Contemporary Art and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA |
Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France | |
Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France | |
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA (catalogue) | |
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA | |
Lo-Gressive Living, The Approach, London, UK | |
Majority Whip, White Box, New York, USA | |
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA (catalogue) | |
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA (catalogue) | |
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (catalogue) | |
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA (catalogue) | |
Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (catalogue) | |
Freedom Frenzy, Reading Frenzy, Portland, USA | |
The Optimistic Mood, Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK | |
I Love Music, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California, USA | |
Initial Encounters, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York, USA | |
SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
Dog Show Curated By Angelique Groh, North Spring Street Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
2003 | 17 Reasons, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
Comic Release, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA (catalogue) | |
Comic Release, The Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (catalogue) | |
Comic Release, The University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, Texas, USA (catalogue) | |
Comic Release, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA (catalogue) | |
Taqueria Cancun, Alston Skirt Gallery, Boston, USA | |
Flipping the Bird, Box Populi, Philadelphia, USA | |
Dirt Wizards, Brooklyn Fire Proof Inc., New York, USA | |
Strange Glue, Ratio 3, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA | |
Beam Me Up, New Image Arts, West Hollywood, California, USA | |
Group show, Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France | |
Forward / 4words, Rovigo Cen Ser., Rovigo, Italy (curated by Guido Bartorelli & Alfredo Siglo) | |
American Art Today: Faces & Figures, The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, USA (curated by Roni Feinstein & Dhalia Morgan) | |
Pretty Gritty, The Institute of Unpopular Culture, Film Arts Foundation and Luggage Store Present at Rayko Photo, San Francisco, USA | |
Flipping The Bird, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA | |
2002 | Worm Hole 2, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue) |
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (catalogue) | |
2001 | Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
Summertime Reunion, Cat Haus, San Francisco, USA | |
Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, USA | |
Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada | |
East Meets West, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA | |
Hammond Museum, North Salem, USA | |
The Sensational Line, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, USA | |
Untitled 2001, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan | |
Jess Hillard: An Undying Fascination for all Animals, Especially the Cut Ones, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
The Portrait Show, New Image Arts, West Hollywood, California, USA | |
Paperview, Galerie Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain | |
Western, Studio Z, San Francisco, USA | |
The Red Man Show, Adobe Books, San Francisco, USA | |
Synesthesia, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA | |
TEXT / TYPE, Martin Sprouse’s flat, San Francisco, USA (curated by Cynthia Connelly) | |
2000 | Pot O’ Gold, Patrizia Outore Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, USA | |
Utopia, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Liste 2000, Basel, Switzerland | |
Deterritorialization of Process, Artist Space, San Francisco, USA | |
Extra (Super) Meta, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, USA | |
Welcome to Our Community Everyone Here Loves God, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, California, USA | |
Move Five Text, New Image Arts (at Bergamot Station), Santa Monica, USA | |
Blurring the Line, RARE, New York, USA | |
New Langton Arts’ 16th Annual Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA | |
1999 | Scopic, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA |
Coup d’Etat, Alleged Fine Arts, New York, USA | |
Survivalists, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA | |
The Levels, La Pandaderia, Mexico City, Mexico | |
Museum Pieces, De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA | |
On Paper, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
Liste 99, Basel, Switzerland | |
Paper, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA | |
Off The Hook, Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA | |
Rick Farr, Rich Jacobs,Chris Johanson, Alicia McCarthy, New Image Arts, Los Angeles, USA | |
1998 | Alter-Nativity, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA |
Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, USA | |
Move 2, New Image Arts, Los Angeles, USA | |
He Swam Down, Away, Audiello Fine Arts, New York, USA | |
The Mind Harvest Series, La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico | |
Selections Summer ’98, The Drawing Center, New York, USA | |
Stuck, ESP, San Francisco, USA | |
Adobe Books, San Francisco, USA | |
SAP, Lanai Motel, San Francisco, USA | |
Whipper Snapper Nerd Silent Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA | |
He swam down, away, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York, USA | |
1997 | Me, Myself and I, Timothy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
The Independents, Alleged Fine Arts, New York, USA | |
Oddity, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Mission Community Art Show, Starcleaners, San Francisco, USA | |
Switch Stance, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA | |
Waverforms, Skate(board)ing in the Urban Forest, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, USA | |
Tobin Yelland and Chris Johanson, Cafe Nidal, San Francisco, USA | |
Book Shop, Scene/Escena, San Francisco, USA | |
1996 | Guy, Four Walls, San Francisco, USA |
Necessary Evil Kneivel, Alleged Fine Arts, New York, USA | |
Shred Sled Symposium, The Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA | |
Tropical Sunrise, Poker Face, Portland, USA | |
Erin Courtney and Chris Johanson, Carmichael Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
Chris Johanson, Mary Nicholson, Tobin Yelland, Alleged Productions, New York, USA | |
1995 | The Finale, Figure 5, San Francisco, USA |
The New Millenium Degenerate Art Show, The Lab, San Francisco, USA | |
Wild Side, L.A.C.E., San Francisco, USA | |
Dysfunctional, an exhibition of Skateboard Art and Design, Blue Note Gallery, London, UK | |
Special Friends, Adobe Book Shop, San Francisco, USA | |
Big ‘N’ Easy, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA | |
Blue Note Gallery, London, UK | |
1994 | Combine Effort, Figure 5, San Francisco, USA |
The Shooting Gallery, Club 1015, San Francisco, USA | |
The Works T-Shirt Auction, Works, San Jose, California, USA | |
1992 | Curated By Rob Trains, Cafe Picarro, San Francisco, USA |
1991 | Chain Reaction, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
Curated by Rob Trains, All You Knead Cafe, San Francisco, USA | |
The Flower Show, Emmanuel Radnitzky Found Objects, San Francisco, USA | |
1990 | The Flower Show, Emmanuel Radnitzky Found Objects, San Francisco, USA |
Books and catalogues
2013 | Chris Johanson, Edited by Bob Nickas, Corrina Peipon & Julie Dreamer, Phaidon Press, London, UK |
2012 | Chris Johanson: Windows, Chris Johanson, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA |
2011 | “Chris Johanson” in Vitamin P2, Colin Perry (ed.), Phaidon, London, UK, pp. 154-155 |
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
2010 | Chris Johanson: Totalities, Arty Nelson, Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
2009 | Hammer Projects 1999-2009, Hammer Museum, USA |
Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon Press, London, UK, 2006 | |
2008 | Second Nature (catalogue for the exhibition Second Nature), Galerie Nosbaum and Reding, Luxemborg, p. 94-99 |
Peaceable Kingdom, Chris and Johanna Johanson, Nieves, Zurich, 2008 | |
2007 | Chris Johanson: Please Listen I Have Something To Tell You About What Is, Chris Johanson by Aaron Rose, Damiani Editor, Los Angeles, USA |
Revisionaries: A Decade of Art in Tokion, Ken Miller, Abrams Image, New York, USA, p. 76-77 | |
Good Times: Bad Trip, Cliff Hemgst and Scott Hewicker, San Francisco, USA | |
2006 | A limited edition book by Chris Johanson, Chris Johanson, Alleged Press and Damiani Editore, Bologna |
Big Kids, Little Kids (catalogue for the exhibition Exton Dreaming of a Speech Without Words the Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman), John Freeborn, Nested Group, The Contemorary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, USA, p. 76-77 | |
Panic Room: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Works on Paper (catalogue for the exhibition), Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece | |
I Am Glad For You That You Exist, Chris Johanson, Neives, Zurich, Switzerland | |
2005 | EVN Sammlung 95-05, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany |
9th International Istanbul Biennial, Edited by Deniz Ünsal, Foundation for Culture and Arts Istanbul, Turkey | |
Live Through This: New York In The Year 2005, Edited by Jeffrey Deitch and Kathy Grayson, Deitch Projects, New York, USA | |
Curated by Chris Johanson, Chris Johanson, L’IMPRIMANTE, Orleans, France | |
No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig, Distrubted Art Publishers, New York, USA, p. 189 | |
Young, Sleek and Full of Hell, Edited by Aaron Rose, Drago Arts & Communication S.R.I., Rome, Italy | |
“Chris Johanson”, Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing, Introduction by Emma Dexter, Phaidon Press, London, UK, p. 154-157 | |
2004 | Chris Johanson, Aaron Rose, Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, Edited by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike, Iconoclast Productions, New York, USA | |
Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art, Sean Cliver, Ginko Press, Corte Madera, p. 224-225. | |
Color Wheel Oblivion (catalogue for the exhibition), Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy | |
Baja to Vancouver: the West Coast and Contemporary Art (catalogue for the exhibition Baja to Vancouver: the West Coast and Contemporary Art)$, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA | |
“Who is Laughing at Me?”, Chris Johanson inFourteen Hills: the SFSU Review, Spring/ Summer, San Francisco, USA, cover image, pp. 199 | |
2003 | Sponsorship the Fine Art of Corporate Sponsorship/Corporate Sponsorship of Fine Art (exhibition catalogue for “Sponsorship” at BLK/MRKT Gallery), Ryan McGinness, Los Angeles, USA, p. 97-102 |
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation (catalogue for the exhibition), Barbara Bloemink and Vicky A. Clark, D.A.P., New York, USA, p. 170 | |
2002 | SECA Art Award: John Bankston, Andrea Higgins, Chris Johanson, Will Rogan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
Whitney Biennial 2002 (catalogue for the exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, p. 120-121 | |
Hi There, Jess Hilliard, Tender Feelings, Portland, USA | |
Plants, Animals and People Live on a Place Called Earth, that’s in a Place Called the Solar System, that’s in a Place Called the Milky Way, that’s in a Place Called the Universe, Harrell Fletcher and Chris Johanson, Creativity Explored. | |
2001 | Sun Power Is Why, Edited by Chris Johanson, Xerox book, Baronian_Francey, Bruxelles, Belgium |
Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France | |
2000 | You Are There, Chris Johanson, Alleged Press, Milan, Italy |
1997 | Bills Liquors, Chris Johanson, Self-published xerox book |
You, Chris Johanson, Self-published xerox book | |
1996 | Life is a Major Blast, Chris Johanson, Xerox book, Alleged Press, Milan, Italy |
Articles/Reviews (selection)
2017 | “Chris Johanson and the ‘selfish’ reflections”, Janne Villadsen, kunsten.nu, March 13, 2017 |
2015 | “Equations: Chris Johanson at Altman Siegel Gallery”, Leora Lutz, White hot magazine of Contemporary Art, December 2015 |
“Chris Johanson @ Altman Siegel”, Elwyn Palmerton, SquareCylinder.com, December 31, 2015 | |
“Review: Equations”, Brian Karl, ArtPractical.com, November 30, 2015 | |
“Solve for X: Chris Johanson’s Equations at Altman Siegel”, Sarah Thibault, SFAQ.us, November 16, 2015 | |
“Wild Imaginings in the Galleries”, Sura Wood, The Bay Area Reporter, November 12, 2015 | |
“Mission (School) Control”, Annie Tittiger, San Francisco Magazine, November 3, 2015 | |
“Get Some Art and Music From Chris Johanson and No Age at Coney Island”, Eric Thurm, Paper Magazine, July 14, 2015 | |
“Mission School’ Artist Chris Johanson Captures California’s Singular Ethos”, Hannah Gregory, Arsty, July 24, 2015 | |
2014 | “Prickly but Puppyish in San Francisco”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, April 24, 2014 |
“One Man’s Trash”, Carol Kino, T Magazine, April 2, 2014 | |
“Chris Johanson busts expectations at Portland Museum of Modern Art (review)”, John Motley, The Oregonian, March 17, 2014 | |
“Silicon Valley Needs More Artists ‘Falling Through the Cracks’”, Jennifer Maerz, The Bold Italic, January 28, 2014 | |
2013 | “Chris Johanson on the Apocalyptic Machines of Kal Spelletich”,Carol King, Culture, The New York Times Style Magazine, August 16, 2013 |
Review of “Acharya Vyakul, Chris Johanson, Chris Corales” at Adams and Ollman, Portland , Mack McFarland, NY Arts, September 18, 2013 | |
“Chris Johanson MOCA art show: life, death and the ‘River of Time’”, Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2013 | |
“Standing above the Cookie Crowd”, David Colman, The New York Times, June 13, 2013 | |
“Chris Johanson On His Quiet Music Festival And Upcoming MOCA Show”, Priscilla Frank, The Huffington Post, May 31, 2913 | |
“How to Become an Art Collector; A GQ Primer”, GQ, October 2013 | |
2012 | “Golden State”, Jon Raymond, Art Forum, October Issue, New York, USA |
“Chris Johanson: ‘Windows’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York – review”, Brienne Walsh, Art in America online, December 26 | |
“Invaluable Objects”, Christina Catherine Martinez, ArtSlant San Francisco, February 28 | |
“Chris Johanson”, Natasha Boas, Believer | |
2011 | “Chris Johanson, American Dream, Ici et Maintenant”, Anais Lepage, Roven no.5/ Printemps-été, Paris, France, pp.116-121 |
“Chris Johanson: Alright Alright, this is tomorrow, November 17, 2011 | |
“Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Andrew Masullo and Judith Scott”, Roberta Smith, New York Times, July 15, 2011 | |
“Review of Chris Johanson: ‘This, This, This, That’, Altman Siegel Gallery”, Glen Helfand, Artforum, July 2011 | |
2010 | “Man bliver uddannet som kunstner bare ved at eksistere”, Trine Ross, Politiken: I Byen, April 1, Denmark, p. 16-17 |
“Backwards Towards the Future”, Joel Kuennen, ArtSlant Chicago, September 13, 2010 | |
2009 | “Chris Johanson”, Joey Garfield, Juxtapoz, June issue, San Francisco, USA |
“Review: Chris Johanson at Van Every Smith Galleries”, Diana McClintock, Sculpture Magazine Volume 28, No.10, 12/2009 | |
2008 | “Chris Johanson”, Lauren O’Neil-Butler, Art Forum, December issue, New York, USA |
“Chris Johanson: Totalities”, James Westscott, Art Review Online, September 30, 2008 | |
“Chris Johanson at Deitch Projects”, Paddy Johnson, The L Magazine, September 17, 2008 | |
2007 | “Creativity Now 2007”, Tokion ,January, New York, USA |
“Get Lost”, New Museum, New York, USA | |
“Paradise Library”, Johanna Jackson and Chris Johanson, Art On Paper, Vol. 11, No. 6, New York, USA | |
Article by Kathy Grayson, The Journal, no. 20, New York, USA | |
2006 | Article by Brendan Fowler, Artforum, March Issue, New York, USA |
“He Walks the Line”, Arty Nelson, LA Times, June 9-15, Los Angeles, USA | |
Article by Michele Robecchi, Contemporary, no. 83, London, UK | |
2005 | “Interview”, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, ANP Quarterly, Issue 3, Costa Mesa, California, USA |
Slap, Issue 154, May, San Francisco, USA | |
2004 | Relax, Issue 87, Tokyo, Japan |
Arkitip, Issue 22, Los Angeles, USA | |
Filter, Fall issue, Los Angeles, USA | |
Bail, Issue 3, Chicago, USA | |
Article by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, San Francisco, USA | |
Transworld Skateboarding, September Issue, Oceanside, California, USA | |
Article by Julie Deamer, a-n Magazine, June, Newcastle, UK | |
2003 | Collaborative article, Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson, Richardson, Issue A3, New York, pp. 32-39 |
Interview in Pencil Fight, Issue 1, Portland, pp. 38-44 | |
Article by Jamie Berger, San Francisco Chronicle, April 10th, San Francisco, USA | |
“Chris Johanson”, Michael Wilson, Frieze, Issue 79, London, UK | |
“The Dude Is New Age and He’s Proud of It”, Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, April 20, New York, USA | |
Article with Jo Jackson, Loyal, No. 7, Stockholm, Sweden | |
2002 | Cover image, Pierogi Press, No. 9, New York, USA |
“The Mission School”, Glen Helfand, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 10-16, San Francisco, USA | |
Article by Kim Levin, The Village Voice, December 11-17, New York, USA | |
“Visionphile”, Alleged Press, Los Angeles, USA | |
Relax, Issue 67, Tokyo, Japan | |
Article by Megan Sutherland, Paper, November, New York, USA | |
Interview in Tokion, Issue 29, New York, USA | |
“Whitney Biennial”, Holland Cotter, New York Times, March 8, New York, USA | |
“The Armory Show, Grown up and in Love with Color”, Roberta Smith, NewYork Times, February 22, New York, USA | |
Article by Ken Johnson, New York Times, November 22nd, New York, USA | |
Worm Hole, Issue 2, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
2001 | Berin Golonu, Art Papers, May/June, Atlanta, USA |
“Visiophile”, Alleged Press, Los Angeles, USA | |
Article by Gioni Massimiliano, Flash Art, No. 216, Milan, Italy | |
Review by Bill Powers, Black Book, Summer Issue, Los Angeles, USA | |
“Life in the Big City”, Christopher Knight, LA Times, June 15, Los Angeles, USA | |
Cover image, Bridge, Spring/Summer, Chicago, USA | |
Relax, Issue 52, Tokyo, Japan | |
Free and Easy, Vol. 4, No. 35, Tokyo, Japan | |
Strength, April Issue, Cincinnati, USA | |
Article by Cindy Loehr, New Art Examiner, May-June Issue, Chicago, USA | |
Article by James Yood, Tema Celeste, March-April Issue, Milan, Italy | |
“I Like to See It: The 2001 Untitled Event”, Mark Whitely, Slap Magazine, September Issue, San Francisco, USA | |
2000 | “Deterritorialization of Process”, Robert Mahoney, Time Out New York, March 9-16, New York, USA |
Article by Roberta Smith, The New York Times, April 7, New York, USA | |
“Musicians at Play”, Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, January Issue, Chicago, USA | |
Vice, Volume 7, No. 3, New York, USA | |
Tokion, Issue 17, Tokyo, Japan | |
Brutus, 11/15, Tokyo, Japan | |
“Scopic: Magnify the Times’ at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art”, Berin Golonu, Artweek, February, USA | |
“S.F. Drawing Show, The Happiness Show”, Peter Frank, L.A. Times, June 9-15, Los Angeles, USA | |
Paper, December Issue, New York, USA | |
Mall Punk, Issue 1, San Francisco, USA | |
1999 | “Stop for a Minute”, Sasha Hirschfeld,Dazed and Confused, Issue 59, London, UK |
ZYZZYVA, Fall issue, San Francisco, USA | |
BARK, Issue 6, San Francisco, USA | |
Cover image,The Organizers of This Publication Take No Responsibility for the Contents herein, San Francisco, USA | |
1998 | “Jarring Street Scenes In Johanson’s ‘Trips'”, Kenneth Baker, Date Book, San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, San Francisco, USA |
Article by Marcy Freedman, SF Weekly, September 28, San Francisco, USA | |
Article by Victoria Pedersen, Street Life, August, New York, USA | |
“Critic’s Choice: Art”, Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 11th, San Francisco, USA | |
Turd Filled Donut, Issue 4, San Francisco, USA | |
“Crowd Control”, Amy Stafford, Surface Magazine, San Francisco, USA | |
Article in The New Yorker, August 17, New York, USA | |
“Selections Summer ’98” Schwendener, Martha, Time Out New York, July 23-30, New York, USA | |
Great God Pan, No. 11, Hermosa Beach, USA | |
Skateboarder, Summer Issue, San Juan Capistrano, USA | |
1997 | “Quick-Draw Artists and Tender Hearts”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, San Francisco, USA |
Article by Jori Finkel, East Bay Express, December 12, Berkeley, USA | |
“Guest Room with a View”, Paper Magazine, October, New York, USA | |
1996 | Aint Nothin Like Fuckin Moonshine, Issue 11, San Francisco, USA |
“Skateboard Art”, Steven Brower and John Gall, Print, November-December, Rockville, Maryland, USA | |
“Skateboard Graphics, Not Ready For Prime Time”, Jennifer Kabat, Aiga, vol. 14, no. 2, New York, USA | |
1995 | Aint Nothin Like Fuckin Moonshine, Issue 10, San Francisco, USA |
Article by David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, July 14, San Francisco, USA | |
Article by Maria Porges, Art Issues, September-October, Los Angeles, USA |
Curated exhibitions
2011 | Introspective/Retrospective; Chris Corales/Joe Turner/Christine Shields, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA |
2009 | Vaguely Paperly, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
2008 | Every Picture Tells a Story… Or Is at Least a Picture, Small A Project (curated with Johanna Jackson), Portland, USA |
2007 | Music and Rhythm, Jack Hanley Gallery Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, USA |
2006 | SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL 3, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2005 | SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL 2, Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Frac Haute-Normandy, Normandy, France |
2004 | SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
Film festivals
2003 | Cut and Paste Skateboarding Art and Film Festival, Iowa City, USA |
2001 | Hi Mom Film Festival, Chapel Hill, North Conneticut, USA |
2000 | New York Underground Film Festival, New York, USA |
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, San Fancisco, USA |
Murals
2009 | North East Sumner Albina Street Mura (collaboration with Johanna Jackson), Portland, USA |
2002 | Bishop Building Mural, Palo Alto California, USA |
2000 | Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, USA |
Public collections
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA | |
Evn Sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria | |
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington, Seattle, WA | |
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark | |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL | |
Nelson Gallery at University of California, Davis, CA | |
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY | |
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA | |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
Schunck Collection, Heerlen, the Netherlands | |
The Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, NC | |
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |