Christian holstad biography

Lives and works in New York
Born 1972, Anaheim, California
Education: BFA 1994 Kansas City Sharp-witted Institute
Residency: John Michael Kohler Arts Program 2000

Solo Exhibitions

2020

• Consider Downcast As A Guest (Cornucopia), Artissima, Turin, Italy

2019

• Consider Yourself As Spick Guest (Cornucopia), Ca’ Foscari Introduction of Venice, Venice, Italy

2017

• New Positions, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
• C.O.P., works from the de component Cruz collection, Nova Southeastern Creation, Fort Lauderdale

2016

• red, yellow, lime, eliminate, lavender, green, scarlet, lavender, redness, green, lavender, The Magazine Session 2016, Serpentine Gallery, London (With Scoli Acosta, Burke & Pryde, Ceramica Gatti, Marc Hundley, Erin Ellen Kelly, Gabriele Levi, Comedian Maugeais, Alison O’Daniel, Tara Jane O’Neil, Micki Pellerano)
• Be Clear Take up again Your Intent, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne
• Toothpick, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2014

• Corrections, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2013

• The Book of h/Ours, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2011

• You Will Discover Me if You Want Bleed in the Garden unless It’s Pouring Down With Rain, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2010

• The Undistinguished Pacific Garbage Patch, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne

2009

• The World’s Gone Beautiful, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
• I Confess (catalog), curated by Milovan Farronato, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
• American Standard, Victoria Miro Onlookers, London

2008

• I Know Why the Birdcage Sings, Daniel Reich Gallery, Another York

2007

• Christian Holstad, Galleria Massimo Range Carlo, Milan

2006

• Containers on the Beach, Art Basel Miami Beach: Consume Positions, Miami
• The Terms of Endearment (catalog), curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
• Love Means Never Having to State You’re Sorry, Leather Beach (Formerly Prince Deli), Daniel Reich Veranda, New York

2005

• The Area Known Owing to The Grassy Knoll, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
• Beautiful Lies Sell something to someone Could Live in, Victoria Painter Gallery, London

2004

• American Express, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
• Moving Towards the Light, Prophet Reich Gallery, New York
• Gaeity; Discovering the Lost Art (in Absentia), curated by Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zurich
• A Dark Room in Which to Stagger Sorrow, Whitney Twoyear, New York
• Innocent Killers, Project Warm up, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens

2003

• Sonnenaufgang (sunset), Daniel Schmidt Gallery, Cologne
• Sonnenaufgang (sunrise), Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Cologne
• The Birth of Princess Middlefinger, Prag Biennial, Prague
• The Housekeepers, Daniel Land Gallery, The Scope Art NY‘03, Dylan Hotel, New York

2002

• Life stick to a Gift, Daniel Reich Drift, New York
• The Self Esteem Salon: The Baptism Series, (with Chris Verene), Deitch Projects, New Royalty and Faye Gold Gallery, Atlanta
• Gentle Heights presents Christian Holstad’s Smoothen Day (in Absentia): A Feint of Artifacts, Absentia Art House, Brooklyn

1997

• How Art Thou, Chorus Assemblage, Minneapolis
• Home Shopping Channel, for Chivas Clem’s Fifth International, New York

Group Exhibitions

2020

• The Pasta Workshop 2, Sausage, Italy
• Transitions and Transformations, NSU Stick down Museum, Fort Lauderdale, USA
• SI ONSITE, Swiss Institute, New York, Army (installed 2018, ongoing)

2019

• I Plan admit Stay a Believer, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
• The Food Workshop, Bologna, Italy
• Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman, Victoria Miro, Venice, Italy
• Works success Paper, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, København, Denmark
• A Cool Breeze, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
• People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA
• 30 Years wages Dutch Courage.

  A jubilee exhibition

2018

• About a Vase, Fondazione Museo Montelupo Onlus, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
• Le Mockup Été, curated by Domenico wittiness Chirico, Element, Turin, Italy
• Objects Enjoy Us, The Domestic Plane: Newfound Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
• Still Human, Rubell Kinfolk Collection Contemporary Arts Museum, City, Florida, USA

2017

• SerpentiForm, ArtScience Museum Singapore; travelling to Mori Arts Emotions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Builders of Tomorrow, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
• I Plan to Stay well-organized Believer, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Virgin York
• Si Sedes Non Is, curated by Milovan Farronato, The Stockman, Athens
• Pink Powder: Works from distinction de la Cruz collection, Morning star Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

2016

• December (playback 2), Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
• Fields of War, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, London
• Protest, Falls Miro Gallery, London
• On Empathy, smooth-running with Miciah Hussey, Bridget Donahue, New York
• Prediction, curated by Milovan Farronato, Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo
• Chromaphobia | Chromaphilia, Kansas Socket Art Institute, Kansas City
• Terra Provocata, Fondazione del Monte and Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, Italy

2015

• Soft Core, Invisible-Exports, New York
• Pontos Colaterais, Coleção de Arte Contemporânea Arquipélago, uma seleção (Colateral Points, Contemporary Boil over Collection Arquipélago, a selection), Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporêaneas, Azores
• From The Ruins…, curated fail to see Jane Ursula Harris, 601 Artspace, New York

2014

• Boundary Waters, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne
• Aquatopia, Tate St Construction, St Ives

2013

• One day the fair will come when the existing will not come, curated moisten Milovan Farronato, FUTURA, Prague, Slavic Republic
• Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum and character China National Silk Museum, City, China
• Ecce Homo, Pavel Zoubok Drift, New York
• Aquatopia, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
• Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London

2012

• Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
• Coming After, curated by Jon Davies, The Dominion Plant, Toronto
• Portraits: Cabinet de Curiosités, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva

2011

• The Listening Party, for Volcano Extravaganza, curated by Milovan Farronato, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Italy
• Charity Parcel Exhibition for East Northern Japan, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
• The Upset We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Kompass Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Flow New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
• Aftermath, curated by Simon Castets, Taka Ishii, Kyoto

2010

• Eraserhead, Fruehsorge Concurrent Drawings__, Berlin
• Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris
• SummerCamp II: Imagination Shop, curated by Billy Bandleader, Exile, Berlin
• Boy, Oh Boy!, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
• Kupferstichkabinett: Between Plainness and Action, White Cube, London
• Christmas In July, curated by Economist Castets, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Recent York
• Kunstkonsum Schwerenot, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne
• Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York
• So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Saint Roth Gallery, New York
• Chicken Spend a penny Bingo, MiArt, Milan
• Permanent Trouble - Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

2009

• Collection: MOCA’S First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• The Power of Paper, Saatchi Audience, London
• The Shape of Things pause Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Veranda, London
• Compilation IV, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
• Zur Sache (opening exhibition), Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne
• Light Chamber (Part 2), X-Initiative Foundation, New York
• Second Hand, curated by Jasper Sharp, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
• Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Establish Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, In mint condition York

2008

• READER, Galerie Today at ARTIS Den Bosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
• Collage: The Unmonumental Picture (inaugural exhibition) (catalog), curated by Richard Torrent, New Museum, New York
• (i-mûrj·d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
• Time Crevasse, Metropolis Triennale 3, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken
• Inaugural exhibition, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery (second space), Tokyo
• Art & Entrepeneurship, Credit Suisse, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
• The Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, Unique York
• The Otherside, curated by Truncheon Miller, The 58 Gallery, Modern Jersey
• Yours, Mine and Ours, Forming Gallery, Gallery of Essex, Colchester

2007

• BloodBath & Beyond (with Ryan Schaefer and Claude Wampler), Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
• The Male Gaze, The Bustler Arena, New York
• Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon (catalog), curated unused Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lyon various locations
• Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
• Fit hitch Print, Gagosian Gallery Madison Route, New York

2006

• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of Polar Carolina at Greensboro
• Thank You uncontaminated the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers Histrion, London
• Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Out of place.

  Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Barde College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Curved Gallery, London; Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykyavík, Iceland; Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark: CCA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Le Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prag, Hungary; Songzhuan Art Center, Peking, China

• Panic Room – Works breakout the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Cathy Grayson, Deste Foundation, Athens
• Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists give somebody the job of Benefit the Foundation for Of the time Arts, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New-found York
• Making The Band, Bard Academy, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
• Which Reality, Saatchi Gallery, London

2005

• Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B.

  Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Virgin Art, Oslo

• Performa 05: First Biennal of New Visual Art Work in New York City, Newfound York
• Thank You for the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers Lee, Münich
• Greater Spanking York, PS1 Contemporary Art Inside, New York
• Looking At Words, Decency Formal Use of Text resource Modern and Contemporary Works demureness Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Additional York
• Hanging By a Thread, Glory Moore Space, Miami

2004

• Incantations, Metro Flicks, New York
• The New Gothic: Porch for the Tortured Soul (with Olaf Breuning, Steven Klein, Pierre Molinier, Ewoud Van Rijn, Markus Selg, and Floria Sigismondi), Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Sweden
• Formalismus.

  Moderne Kunst, heute, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunstverein, Hamburg

• Happy Days are In the air Again, curated by Andre Schlechtriem, David Zwirner, New York
• Domestic Porn, Foksal Foundation Gallery, Warsaw
• Le Department des Collages, D’Amelio Terras, Original York
• California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich Heading, New York
• Socle du Monde, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
• Anima/Botanica, Branch Fresh York, New York
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  Preview Collection, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo

2003

• Today’s Man, Ablutions Connelly Presents, New York
• Regarding Amy, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• Now Playing, D’Amelio Terras, New York
• The Birdman Returns, curated by Prophet Reich, D’Amelio Terras, New York
• Group Show, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
• My People Were Fair forward Had Cum in their Diehard (but Now They’re Content shut Spray Stars from your Boughs), curated by Bob Nickas, Bunch Gallery, New York
• Surreal Estate, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
• Group Show, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
• Brewster 2003, Brewster, New York
• Karaoke Destruction Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, Latest York
• Branch New York: First Twoyear Group Show - Anima/Botanica, Pinion arm Gallery, New York
• Costume and over-sensitive collaboration with Claude Wampler: Organization (Stupidity Project Part 10), P.S.

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• Really, curated coarse Barbara Hunt, Artist’s Space, Fresh York
• Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

2002

• Bathroom Group Show, Daniel Reich Gathering, New York
• Two For the Road, with Delia R.

  Gonzalez + Gavin R. Russom, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

• It’s a Untamed free Party and We’re Having dexterous Great Time, Paul Morris Drift, New York

2001

• Coat Check (with Claude Wampler), Contact Studios, Brooklyn
• Zeek Sheck Collaboration, Knitting Factory, New York

2000

• Gentle Heights, Manhattan Public Access Smooth, New York
• The Self Esteem Languish, for Cherie Nevers, Whitney Biyearly, New York
• M.I.M.E.: History Part One, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
• Slide Show, John Michael Kohler Add to Center, Sheboygan, WI

1999

• The Car Show, Reported Injuries Art Space, Brooklyn

1998

• Fleshy Juggler (collaboration with Scoli Acosta and Hall of Fame), Brownies, New York
• Rejoice (collaboration with Scoli Acosta), Rubulad - The Pulsation Show, Brooklyn
• ¡Gringo!, La Panderia, Mexico City

1997

• New York Society of Concern and Appreciation, Gavin Brown’s Operation, New York
• Fancy Pantz School forged Dance, Collaboration with Alex Shoulder bag and Tom Borgese, Gramercy Pass on Fair, New York
• The Lucky Breeders Barbershop Quartet, The Cooler, Unique York
• Current – A Human Strike (collaboration with Scoli Acosta), Ambiance Arts Gallery, New York
• Cult detail Claude, Here Arts Gallery, Pristine York

1996

• Sauna Hut Available, Chorus Heading, Minneapolis

1995

• Midwest Bound, Chorus Gallery, Minneapolis