Chris Jordan
Biography
Solo Exhibits
2008 San Antonio Public Library and Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX (August - Sept.)
2008 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (March 11 - June 1)
2008 Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (Feb. 28 - April 6)
2008 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, (Feb. 6 - Mar. 2)
2007 Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2007 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2007 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2006 Lannan Foundation Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Museo Circulo de Bellas Artes, Photo Espana Festival, Madrid, Spain
2005 Foto&Photo Festival, Cesano Maderno, Italy
2005 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
2005 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA
2003 Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibits
2008 Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK, "3-logy Triennial 2008: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things" (August 22 - Jan. 6)
2008 Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, "Mass Consumption" (June 13 - Aug. 10)
2008 CURRENTLY SHOWING: Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, NY, "Feeling the Heat: Art, Science and Climate Change" (May 20 – October 24)
2008 Mountainfilm, Telluride, CO, (May 23-26)
2008 Field Museum, Chicago, "Melting Ice/A Hot Topic," curator Randy Rosenberg (April - July)
2008 Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH “WASTE: Artists Speak Out on our Disposable Culture” (Mar. 7 - Apr. 26)
2008 Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD "Digital Sequences" (Jan. 11 - Feb. 29)
2007 BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Melting Ice/A Hot Topic," curator Randy Rosenberg (Sept. - Dec.);
2008 Ministry of Culture, Monaco, "Melting Ice/A Hot Topic," curator Randy Rosenberg (February - March)
2007/2008 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA "Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty" (Nov. 8 - Feb. 2)
2007 Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT "Nature Remains: The Artist as Environmentalist" (Sep. 14 - Nov. 17)
2007 Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway. "Envisioning Change," curator Randy Rosenberg (June - August)
2007 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, “Weather Report”, curator Lucy Lippard, (Sept. - Dec.)
2007 North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Big Picture," curator Linda Dougherty (March - Sept.)
2007 Natural World Museum, San Francisco, "Environmental Renaissance," curator Randy Rosenberg (April - June)
2007 Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusets, "Altered States, Views of Transition in Recent Photography," curator Alicia Cornwell
2007 Texas State University Art Gallery, "Loyal Opposition" curated by Mary Mikel Stump (February - March)
2007 TED Conference, Monterey, CA
2007 Bates College Museum of Art, "Green Horizons" (June - December)
2006 International Photomedia Biennial, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO (Fellowship Award recipient)
2006 Wesleyan University, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Connecticut, curated by Nina Felshin (Oct. - Dec.)
2006 Lawrimore Project, Seattle
2006 Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle
2006 Houston Center for Photography, "Trace, Visions of Katrina"
2006 New Orleans Museum of Art
2006 Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2006 "Art Not Oil", London, traveling exhibition
2006 Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, Houston TX, "Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth" (Best of Show award)
2005 College of Santa Fe Art Gallery, Santa Fe MN, curated by Joslin Van Arsdale
2005 4th Annual Recycled Art Show, Seattle WA
2005 Urban Jungle Environmental Expo, U.N. International Environment Day, San Francisco CA
2004 Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art
2004 Agora Gallery SoHo/Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, juried by Susan Cross, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2004 International Fine Art Photography Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins CO
2004 Photo Espana Descubrimientos 04, Madrid, Spain
2004 Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles CA
2000 "Intimate Landscapes," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
1999 Photographic Image Gallery, Portland OR
1999 Earth Day, Eastshore Gallery, Bellevue WA
1999 The Third Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle WA
1998 The Second Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle WA
1997 The First Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle WA
1997 “Visions of Grace” juried by Jock Sturges, Seattle WA
1996 Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
1996 “The Search for Transcendence” juried by Joyce Tenneson, Seattle WA
1995 “Worth A Thousand Words” juried by Duane Michals, Seattle WA
Awards and Grants
2007 Green Leaf Award, Natural World Museum and United Nations Environment Programme; awarded at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway.
2006 Lannan Foundation Grant to support production of In Katrina's Wake, Portraits of Loss From An Unnatural Disaster
2006 Fellowship Award recipient, Society For Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO; juried by Lesley A. Martin (Aperture Books)
2006 Best of Show award, "Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth," Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston
2005 Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2004 First Place Winner, Gary Horowitz Award, 2004 Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art
2004 Photo Espana Descubrimientos 04, Honorable Mention runner up to festival prize, Madrid, Spain
2004 Finalist, Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Center for Documentary Studies, juried by Maria Morris Hambourg
Books
IN KATRINA'S WAKE, Portraits of Loss from An Unnatural Disaster (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)
Chris Jordan, Intolerable Beauty catalog (self-published, February 2005)