Chris Evans
Chris Evans
Born in Eastrington, East Yorkshire, UK. 1967
Lives and works in Brussels Solo Exhibitions 2020 A Sculpture for the Minister of Culture (Graz) - public commission (forthcoming Summer 2020) 2019 Chris Evans, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei 2018 Village Lawyer, CAN / Centre d’art, Neuchâtel 2017 Chris Evans, Para Site, Hong Kong 2015 Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) / A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne 2014 Clerk of Mind, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette), Piper Keys, London CLODS, Diplomatic Letters,The Gardens, Vilnius 2012 CLODS, Diplomatic Letters, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2011 Goofy Audit, Lüttgenmeijer, 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, Ljubljana 2009 Take a Bureaucratic Bow, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp 2008 Point at it, like a farmer at a pig, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam As Simple as your Life used to be, British School in Rome, Rome What’s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, Lüttgenmeijer, 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 A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family, REC, Berlin Radical Loyalty, Studio Voltaire, London 2005 Chris Evans, STORE, London The Rock & The Judge, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2004 Radical Loyalty, Artconnexion, Lille, France 2003 Radical Loyalty, Tramway, Glasgow 2000 Gemini Sculpture Park, Leeds City Art Gallery Group Exhibitions 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2017 Spring, Grazer Kunstverein Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal I ikigai, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam Spring 2017, Kunstverein Graz, Austria 2016 I call it Lüttgen!, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne At Home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK 2015 Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, CRAC Alsace, France Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany 2014 A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial Regenerate Art, Kunstverien Munchen The Serving Library, Tate Liverpool Les Mots Bleus, La Biennale de Belleville 3 - Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris 2013 Radical Conservatism, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester The Narrators, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel, Amsterdam Specific Collisions II, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York Taipei Biennial 2 Year Project, Taiwan 2012 Go Deep or Go Home, ASC Gallery, London Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam Fact Mystic, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam We Love You, Limoncello, London 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, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin Documentalist, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh The Malady of Writing, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 2009 Short Tracks, Wiels, Brussels The Malady of Writing, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 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 Élègance, Kölnischer 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 Crieria, 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 Performances 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2019 Jingles, Chris Evans & Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Grazer Kunstverein 5/4, Chris Evans & Will Holder at Pogobar, KW Berlin & Wiels, Brussels 2018 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of solo exhibition ‘Village Lawyer’ at CAN, Neuchatel 2015 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of All The Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Single File (with CONCERT - Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Curse, (with Jason Dodge & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with Will Holder), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Kunstverein Koln CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), Bozar / Erg, Bruxelles 2014 Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Kunstverein Munchen Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Companion, Liverpool Biennial CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kunstverein, Amsterdam Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Bloomberg Space, London 2013 CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), St Agnes Church, Berlin CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Jan’s Bar / The Showroom, London Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Circa, Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Northern Charter, Newcastle Errors hit Orient(with W.H.), Institute of Jamais Vu, London CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kadist Art Fondation, San Francisco CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Redcat, Los Angeles CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Selected Biography (Publications on individual practice in bold) Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein), 12” vinyl LP, editions: 6 x 25 Errors hit Orient, Chris Evans & Will Holder, 12” vinyl LP, edition 200 Job Interviews,an anthology of commisioned writing edited and illustrated by Chris Evans Published by Para-site & Uh Books, September 2017 Clerk of Mind, Chris Evans (‘Forms of Imagining’ series, published by Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2016) Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, ed. Angela Jerardi & Antonia Lotz (Museum fur Gegenwartskunst & Schloss Ringenberg, 2016) Chris Evans, Errors hit Orient, Bulletin of The Serving Library, ed. by Dexter Sinister, published 2015 Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting, ed. by Can Altay (Bedford Press, 2013) Goofy Audit, Chris Evans Collected Works 1998–2011, Commissioned by Marres, Maastricht; Kunshalle Bern, & Objectif, Antwerp; texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr; ed. by Chris Evans, Will Holder, Lisettte Smits (Sternberg Press & Ethan Wagner/Thea Westreich Publications 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). Taipei Biennial 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. by Tirdad Zolghadr & Hongjohn Lin, 2011 Chris Evans, Collected Filmscripts 2006-2009, Scripts written in collaboration with Will Bradley, Walid El Kafrawy, Nina Power and Tirdad Zolghadr (ICA London 2009) Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation (Phaidon Press, 2009). A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow, Exhibition Catalogue 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, An Existentialist Retreat, Commissioned by Black Diamond Press, NY & International Project Space, Birmingham & Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam. 2007. ed by Chris Evans, Duncan Hamilton and Stuart Bailey. Essays by Alex Farquharson, Robert Garnett, Jan Verwoert (Black Diamond 2007) Art and Its Institutions, ed. by Nina Montmann (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). Le Nouveau Siècle, ed. by Xander Karskens (Museum van Loon, 2006). Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks, ed. by Chris Evans. Contributions incl. Matthew Welton, Jon Wood, Padraig Timoney, Liam Gillick (Studio Voltaire, 2006). British Art Show 6 (Hayward Gallery, 2005). In this Colony (Stichting Fort Vijfhuizen, 2005). Sculpture in 20th Century Britain (The Henry Moore Institute, 2003). Corporate Mentality, ed. by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003). Here + Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001 (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001). Gemini Sculpture Park, UK Corporate Sculpture Consultancy, ed by Chris Evans. (Henry Moore Institute, 2001). Add Night to Night, ed. by Kirsty Ogg (Showroom Gallery, 1999). Artranspennine98 – Leaving Tracks (August Media, 1998). Selected press Review of ‘Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions’, Para Site, Hong Kong, Morgan Wong, Art Review Asia, Winter 2017 Other Futures, Angie Keefer Mousse Magazine no49, June 2015 A Magnetic Promenade at PRAXES, A review of ‘Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform’, Praxes, Berlin, Emma I. Panza, Metropolis M, March 2015 Review of ‘Clerk of Mind’, Joanna Laws, frieze, Issue 168, January 2015 Review of ‘Liverpool Biennial’, David Crowley, frieze, Issue 165, September 2014 A Heteroclite Excursus into the Currency that Lives, Marina Vishmidt, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Annunciation, On Chris Evans’ Portrait of a Recipient as a Door Handle, Tirdad Zolghadr, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Art Monthly, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Lauren Velvik, The Double Negative, 6th December, 2013 Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Natasha Soobramanien, frieze, December 2012. Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Agnieszka Gratza, Art Review, December 2012. “Hanging out, Crowding out or Talking Things Out’, Rebecca Uchill, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Vol 1, no. 1, March 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. Public collections The Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius Arts Council England Collection Foundation Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Fonds Culturel et Artistique du Groupe Bel, France The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn The Henry Moore Institute, UK KPN Kunst Collectie, The Netherlands Cobra to Contemporary Collection, The Netherlands Sculpture International Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rabo kunstcollectie, The Netherlands Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands Chris Evans is a permanent artist-tutor and member of teh Artist Advisory Board at De Ateliers, Amsterdam and a trustee of Liverpool Biennial (2017—). In 2016 he was the recipient of a Bryan Robertson Trust Award.
Lives and works in Brussels Solo Exhibitions 2020 A Sculpture for the Minister of Culture (Graz) - public commission (forthcoming Summer 2020) 2019 Chris Evans, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei 2018 Village Lawyer, CAN / Centre d’art, Neuchâtel 2017 Chris Evans, Para Site, Hong Kong 2015 Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) / A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne 2014 Clerk of Mind, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette), Piper Keys, London CLODS, Diplomatic Letters,The Gardens, Vilnius 2012 CLODS, Diplomatic Letters, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2011 Goofy Audit, Lüttgenmeijer, 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, Ljubljana 2009 Take a Bureaucratic Bow, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp 2008 Point at it, like a farmer at a pig, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam As Simple as your Life used to be, British School in Rome, Rome What’s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, Lüttgenmeijer, 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 A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family, REC, Berlin Radical Loyalty, Studio Voltaire, London 2005 Chris Evans, STORE, London The Rock & The Judge, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2004 Radical Loyalty, Artconnexion, Lille, France 2003 Radical Loyalty, Tramway, Glasgow 2000 Gemini Sculpture Park, Leeds City Art Gallery Group Exhibitions 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2017 Spring, Grazer Kunstverein Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal I ikigai, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam Spring 2017, Kunstverein Graz, Austria 2016 I call it Lüttgen!, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne At Home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK 2015 Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, CRAC Alsace, France Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany 2014 A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial Regenerate Art, Kunstverien Munchen The Serving Library, Tate Liverpool Les Mots Bleus, La Biennale de Belleville 3 - Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris 2013 Radical Conservatism, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester The Narrators, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel, Amsterdam Specific Collisions II, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York Taipei Biennial 2 Year Project, Taiwan 2012 Go Deep or Go Home, ASC Gallery, London Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam Fact Mystic, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam We Love You, Limoncello, London 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, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin Documentalist, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh The Malady of Writing, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 2009 Short Tracks, Wiels, Brussels The Malady of Writing, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 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 Élègance, Kölnischer 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 Crieria, 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 Performances 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2019 Jingles, Chris Evans & Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Grazer Kunstverein 5/4, Chris Evans & Will Holder at Pogobar, KW Berlin & Wiels, Brussels 2018 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of solo exhibition ‘Village Lawyer’ at CAN, Neuchatel 2015 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of All The Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Single File (with CONCERT - Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Curse, (with Jason Dodge & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with Will Holder), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Kunstverein Koln CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), Bozar / Erg, Bruxelles 2014 Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Kunstverein Munchen Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Companion, Liverpool Biennial CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kunstverein, Amsterdam Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Bloomberg Space, London 2013 CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), St Agnes Church, Berlin CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Jan’s Bar / The Showroom, London Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Circa, Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Northern Charter, Newcastle Errors hit Orient(with W.H.), Institute of Jamais Vu, London CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kadist Art Fondation, San Francisco CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Redcat, Los Angeles CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Selected Biography (Publications on individual practice in bold) Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein), 12” vinyl LP, editions: 6 x 25 Errors hit Orient, Chris Evans & Will Holder, 12” vinyl LP, edition 200 Job Interviews,an anthology of commisioned writing edited and illustrated by Chris Evans Published by Para-site & Uh Books, September 2017 Clerk of Mind, Chris Evans (‘Forms of Imagining’ series, published by Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2016) Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, ed. Angela Jerardi & Antonia Lotz (Museum fur Gegenwartskunst & Schloss Ringenberg, 2016) Chris Evans, Errors hit Orient, Bulletin of The Serving Library, ed. by Dexter Sinister, published 2015 Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting, ed. by Can Altay (Bedford Press, 2013) Goofy Audit, Chris Evans Collected Works 1998–2011, Commissioned by Marres, Maastricht; Kunshalle Bern, & Objectif, Antwerp; texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr; ed. by Chris Evans, Will Holder, Lisettte Smits (Sternberg Press & Ethan Wagner/Thea Westreich Publications 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). Taipei Biennial 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. by Tirdad Zolghadr & Hongjohn Lin, 2011 Chris Evans, Collected Filmscripts 2006-2009, Scripts written in collaboration with Will Bradley, Walid El Kafrawy, Nina Power and Tirdad Zolghadr (ICA London 2009) Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation (Phaidon Press, 2009). A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow, Exhibition Catalogue 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, An Existentialist Retreat, Commissioned by Black Diamond Press, NY & International Project Space, Birmingham & Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam. 2007. ed by Chris Evans, Duncan Hamilton and Stuart Bailey. Essays by Alex Farquharson, Robert Garnett, Jan Verwoert (Black Diamond 2007) Art and Its Institutions, ed. by Nina Montmann (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). Le Nouveau Siècle, ed. by Xander Karskens (Museum van Loon, 2006). Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks, ed. by Chris Evans. Contributions incl. Matthew Welton, Jon Wood, Padraig Timoney, Liam Gillick (Studio Voltaire, 2006). British Art Show 6 (Hayward Gallery, 2005). In this Colony (Stichting Fort Vijfhuizen, 2005). Sculpture in 20th Century Britain (The Henry Moore Institute, 2003). Corporate Mentality, ed. by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003). Here + Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001 (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001). Gemini Sculpture Park, UK Corporate Sculpture Consultancy, ed by Chris Evans. (Henry Moore Institute, 2001). Add Night to Night, ed. by Kirsty Ogg (Showroom Gallery, 1999). Artranspennine98 – Leaving Tracks (August Media, 1998). Selected press Review of ‘Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions’, Para Site, Hong Kong, Morgan Wong, Art Review Asia, Winter 2017 Other Futures, Angie Keefer Mousse Magazine no49, June 2015 A Magnetic Promenade at PRAXES, A review of ‘Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform’, Praxes, Berlin, Emma I. Panza, Metropolis M, March 2015 Review of ‘Clerk of Mind’, Joanna Laws, frieze, Issue 168, January 2015 Review of ‘Liverpool Biennial’, David Crowley, frieze, Issue 165, September 2014 A Heteroclite Excursus into the Currency that Lives, Marina Vishmidt, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Annunciation, On Chris Evans’ Portrait of a Recipient as a Door Handle, Tirdad Zolghadr, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Art Monthly, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Lauren Velvik, The Double Negative, 6th December, 2013 Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Natasha Soobramanien, frieze, December 2012. Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Agnieszka Gratza, Art Review, December 2012. “Hanging out, Crowding out or Talking Things Out’, Rebecca Uchill, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Vol 1, no. 1, March 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. Public collections The Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius Arts Council England Collection Foundation Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Fonds Culturel et Artistique du Groupe Bel, France The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn The Henry Moore Institute, UK KPN Kunst Collectie, The Netherlands Cobra to Contemporary Collection, The Netherlands Sculpture International Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rabo kunstcollectie, The Netherlands Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands Chris Evans is a permanent artist-tutor and member of teh Artist Advisory Board at De Ateliers, Amsterdam and a trustee of Liverpool Biennial (2017—). In 2016 he was the recipient of a Bryan Robertson Trust Award.
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Chris Evans
Born in Eastrington, East Yorkshire, UK. 1967
Lives and works in Brussels Solo Exhibitions 2020 A Sculpture for the Minister of Culture (Graz) - public commission (forthcoming Summer 2020) 2019 Chris Evans, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei 2018 Village Lawyer, CAN / Centre d’art, Neuchâtel 2017 Chris Evans, Para Site, Hong Kong 2015 Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) / A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne 2014 Clerk of Mind, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette), Piper Keys, London CLODS, Diplomatic Letters,The Gardens, Vilnius 2012 CLODS, Diplomatic Letters, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2011 Goofy Audit, Lüttgenmeijer, 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, Ljubljana 2009 Take a Bureaucratic Bow, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp 2008 Point at it, like a farmer at a pig, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam As Simple as your Life used to be, British School in Rome, Rome What’s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, Lüttgenmeijer, 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 A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family, REC, Berlin Radical Loyalty, Studio Voltaire, London 2005 Chris Evans, STORE, London The Rock & The Judge, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2004 Radical Loyalty, Artconnexion, Lille, France 2003 Radical Loyalty, Tramway, Glasgow 2000 Gemini Sculpture Park, Leeds City Art Gallery Group Exhibitions 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2017 Spring, Grazer Kunstverein Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal I ikigai, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam Spring 2017, Kunstverein Graz, Austria 2016 I call it Lüttgen!, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne At Home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK 2015 Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, CRAC Alsace, France Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany 2014 A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial Regenerate Art, Kunstverien Munchen The Serving Library, Tate Liverpool Les Mots Bleus, La Biennale de Belleville 3 - Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris 2013 Radical Conservatism, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester The Narrators, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel, Amsterdam Specific Collisions II, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York Taipei Biennial 2 Year Project, Taiwan 2012 Go Deep or Go Home, ASC Gallery, London Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam Fact Mystic, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam We Love You, Limoncello, London 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, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin Documentalist, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh The Malady of Writing, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 2009 Short Tracks, Wiels, Brussels The Malady of Writing, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 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 Élègance, Kölnischer 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 Crieria, 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 Performances 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2019 Jingles, Chris Evans & Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Grazer Kunstverein 5/4, Chris Evans & Will Holder at Pogobar, KW Berlin & Wiels, Brussels 2018 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of solo exhibition ‘Village Lawyer’ at CAN, Neuchatel 2015 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of All The Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Single File (with CONCERT - Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Curse, (with Jason Dodge & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with Will Holder), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Kunstverein Koln CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), Bozar / Erg, Bruxelles 2014 Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Kunstverein Munchen Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Companion, Liverpool Biennial CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kunstverein, Amsterdam Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Bloomberg Space, London 2013 CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), St Agnes Church, Berlin CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Jan’s Bar / The Showroom, London Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Circa, Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Northern Charter, Newcastle Errors hit Orient(with W.H.), Institute of Jamais Vu, London CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kadist Art Fondation, San Francisco CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Redcat, Los Angeles CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Selected Biography (Publications on individual practice in bold) Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein), 12” vinyl LP, editions: 6 x 25 Errors hit Orient, Chris Evans & Will Holder, 12” vinyl LP, edition 200 Job Interviews,an anthology of commisioned writing edited and illustrated by Chris Evans Published by Para-site & Uh Books, September 2017 Clerk of Mind, Chris Evans (‘Forms of Imagining’ series, published by Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2016) Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, ed. Angela Jerardi & Antonia Lotz (Museum fur Gegenwartskunst & Schloss Ringenberg, 2016) Chris Evans, Errors hit Orient, Bulletin of The Serving Library, ed. by Dexter Sinister, published 2015 Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting, ed. by Can Altay (Bedford Press, 2013) Goofy Audit, Chris Evans Collected Works 1998–2011, Commissioned by Marres, Maastricht; Kunshalle Bern, & Objectif, Antwerp; texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr; ed. by Chris Evans, Will Holder, Lisettte Smits (Sternberg Press & Ethan Wagner/Thea Westreich Publications 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). Taipei Biennial 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. by Tirdad Zolghadr & Hongjohn Lin, 2011 Chris Evans, Collected Filmscripts 2006-2009, Scripts written in collaboration with Will Bradley, Walid El Kafrawy, Nina Power and Tirdad Zolghadr (ICA London 2009) Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation (Phaidon Press, 2009). A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow, Exhibition Catalogue 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, An Existentialist Retreat, Commissioned by Black Diamond Press, NY & International Project Space, Birmingham & Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam. 2007. ed by Chris Evans, Duncan Hamilton and Stuart Bailey. Essays by Alex Farquharson, Robert Garnett, Jan Verwoert (Black Diamond 2007) Art and Its Institutions, ed. by Nina Montmann (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). Le Nouveau Siècle, ed. by Xander Karskens (Museum van Loon, 2006). Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks, ed. by Chris Evans. Contributions incl. Matthew Welton, Jon Wood, Padraig Timoney, Liam Gillick (Studio Voltaire, 2006). British Art Show 6 (Hayward Gallery, 2005). In this Colony (Stichting Fort Vijfhuizen, 2005). Sculpture in 20th Century Britain (The Henry Moore Institute, 2003). Corporate Mentality, ed. by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003). Here + Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001 (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001). Gemini Sculpture Park, UK Corporate Sculpture Consultancy, ed by Chris Evans. (Henry Moore Institute, 2001). Add Night to Night, ed. by Kirsty Ogg (Showroom Gallery, 1999). Artranspennine98 – Leaving Tracks (August Media, 1998). Selected press Review of ‘Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions’, Para Site, Hong Kong, Morgan Wong, Art Review Asia, Winter 2017 Other Futures, Angie Keefer Mousse Magazine no49, June 2015 A Magnetic Promenade at PRAXES, A review of ‘Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform’, Praxes, Berlin, Emma I. Panza, Metropolis M, March 2015 Review of ‘Clerk of Mind’, Joanna Laws, frieze, Issue 168, January 2015 Review of ‘Liverpool Biennial’, David Crowley, frieze, Issue 165, September 2014 A Heteroclite Excursus into the Currency that Lives, Marina Vishmidt, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Annunciation, On Chris Evans’ Portrait of a Recipient as a Door Handle, Tirdad Zolghadr, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Art Monthly, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Lauren Velvik, The Double Negative, 6th December, 2013 Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Natasha Soobramanien, frieze, December 2012. Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Agnieszka Gratza, Art Review, December 2012. “Hanging out, Crowding out or Talking Things Out’, Rebecca Uchill, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Vol 1, no. 1, March 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. Public collections The Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius Arts Council England Collection Foundation Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Fonds Culturel et Artistique du Groupe Bel, France The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn The Henry Moore Institute, UK KPN Kunst Collectie, The Netherlands Cobra to Contemporary Collection, The Netherlands Sculpture International Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rabo kunstcollectie, The Netherlands Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands Chris Evans is a permanent artist-tutor and member of teh Artist Advisory Board at De Ateliers, Amsterdam and a trustee of Liverpool Biennial (2017—). In 2016 he was the recipient of a Bryan Robertson Trust Award.
Lives and works in Brussels Solo Exhibitions 2020 A Sculpture for the Minister of Culture (Graz) - public commission (forthcoming Summer 2020) 2019 Chris Evans, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei 2018 Village Lawyer, CAN / Centre d’art, Neuchâtel 2017 Chris Evans, Para Site, Hong Kong 2015 Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) / A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne 2014 Clerk of Mind, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Untitled (Drippy Etiquette), Piper Keys, London CLODS, Diplomatic Letters,The Gardens, Vilnius 2012 CLODS, Diplomatic Letters, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2011 Goofy Audit, Lüttgenmeijer, 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, Ljubljana 2009 Take a Bureaucratic Bow, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp 2008 Point at it, like a farmer at a pig, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam As Simple as your Life used to be, British School in Rome, Rome What’s the Point of Revolution without Copulation, Copulation, Copulation?, Lüttgenmeijer, 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 A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family, REC, Berlin Radical Loyalty, Studio Voltaire, London 2005 Chris Evans, STORE, London The Rock & The Judge, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2004 Radical Loyalty, Artconnexion, Lille, France 2003 Radical Loyalty, Tramway, Glasgow 2000 Gemini Sculpture Park, Leeds City Art Gallery Group Exhibitions 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2017 Spring, Grazer Kunstverein Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal I ikigai, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam Spring 2017, Kunstverein Graz, Austria 2016 I call it Lüttgen!, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne At Home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK 2015 Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, CRAC Alsace, France Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany 2014 A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial Regenerate Art, Kunstverien Munchen The Serving Library, Tate Liverpool Les Mots Bleus, La Biennale de Belleville 3 - Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris 2013 Radical Conservatism, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester The Narrators, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel, Amsterdam Specific Collisions II, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York Taipei Biennial 2 Year Project, Taiwan 2012 Go Deep or Go Home, ASC Gallery, London Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam Fact Mystic, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam We Love You, Limoncello, London 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, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin Documentalist, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh The Malady of Writing, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 2009 Short Tracks, Wiels, Brussels The Malady of Writing, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona 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 Élègance, Kölnischer 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 Crieria, 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 Performances 2018 Office of Unspecified Services, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Sohrab Mohrabi Merry-go-round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam 2019 Jingles, Chris Evans & Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Grazer Kunstverein 5/4, Chris Evans & Will Holder at Pogobar, KW Berlin & Wiels, Brussels 2018 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of solo exhibition ‘Village Lawyer’ at CAN, Neuchatel 2015 CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen) as part of All The Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Single File (with CONCERT - Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Curse, (with Jason Dodge & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with Will Holder), PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Kunstverein Koln CONCERT (with Benjamin Seror & Morten Norbye Halvorsen), Bozar / Erg, Bruxelles 2014 Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Kunstverein Munchen Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Companion, Liverpool Biennial CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kunstverein, Amsterdam Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Bloomberg Space, London 2013 CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), St Agnes Church, Berlin CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Jan’s Bar / The Showroom, London Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation, Circa, Newcastle Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Errors hit Orient (with W.H.), The Northern Charter, Newcastle Errors hit Orient(with W.H.), Institute of Jamais Vu, London CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Kadist Art Fondation, San Francisco CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Redcat, Los Angeles CONCERT (with B.S. & M.N.H.), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Selected Biography (Publications on individual practice in bold) Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein), 12” vinyl LP, editions: 6 x 25 Errors hit Orient, Chris Evans & Will Holder, 12” vinyl LP, edition 200 Job Interviews,an anthology of commisioned writing edited and illustrated by Chris Evans Published by Para-site & Uh Books, September 2017 Clerk of Mind, Chris Evans (‘Forms of Imagining’ series, published by Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2016) Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl, ed. Angela Jerardi & Antonia Lotz (Museum fur Gegenwartskunst & Schloss Ringenberg, 2016) Chris Evans, Errors hit Orient, Bulletin of The Serving Library, ed. by Dexter Sinister, published 2015 Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting, ed. by Can Altay (Bedford Press, 2013) Goofy Audit, Chris Evans Collected Works 1998–2011, Commissioned by Marres, Maastricht; Kunshalle Bern, & Objectif, Antwerp; texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr; ed. by Chris Evans, Will Holder, Lisettte Smits (Sternberg Press & Ethan Wagner/Thea Westreich Publications 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). Taipei Biennial 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. by Tirdad Zolghadr & Hongjohn Lin, 2011 Chris Evans, Collected Filmscripts 2006-2009, Scripts written in collaboration with Will Bradley, Walid El Kafrawy, Nina Power and Tirdad Zolghadr (ICA London 2009) Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation (Phaidon Press, 2009). A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow, Exhibition Catalogue 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, An Existentialist Retreat, Commissioned by Black Diamond Press, NY & International Project Space, Birmingham & Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam. 2007. ed by Chris Evans, Duncan Hamilton and Stuart Bailey. Essays by Alex Farquharson, Robert Garnett, Jan Verwoert (Black Diamond 2007) Art and Its Institutions, ed. by Nina Montmann (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). Le Nouveau Siècle, ed. by Xander Karskens (Museum van Loon, 2006). Magnetic Promenade and Other Sculpture Parks, ed. by Chris Evans. Contributions incl. Matthew Welton, Jon Wood, Padraig Timoney, Liam Gillick (Studio Voltaire, 2006). British Art Show 6 (Hayward Gallery, 2005). In this Colony (Stichting Fort Vijfhuizen, 2005). Sculpture in 20th Century Britain (The Henry Moore Institute, 2003). Corporate Mentality, ed. by John Kelsey and Aleksandra Mir (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003). Here + Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001 (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001). Gemini Sculpture Park, UK Corporate Sculpture Consultancy, ed by Chris Evans. (Henry Moore Institute, 2001). Add Night to Night, ed. by Kirsty Ogg (Showroom Gallery, 1999). Artranspennine98 – Leaving Tracks (August Media, 1998). Selected press Review of ‘Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions’, Para Site, Hong Kong, Morgan Wong, Art Review Asia, Winter 2017 Other Futures, Angie Keefer Mousse Magazine no49, June 2015 A Magnetic Promenade at PRAXES, A review of ‘Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform’, Praxes, Berlin, Emma I. Panza, Metropolis M, March 2015 Review of ‘Clerk of Mind’, Joanna Laws, frieze, Issue 168, January 2015 Review of ‘Liverpool Biennial’, David Crowley, frieze, Issue 165, September 2014 A Heteroclite Excursus into the Currency that Lives, Marina Vishmidt, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Annunciation, On Chris Evans’ Portrait of a Recipient as a Door Handle, Tirdad Zolghadr, open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, July 4, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Art Monthly, 2014 Review of ‘Radical Conservatism’, Lauren Velvik, The Double Negative, 6th December, 2013 Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Natasha Soobramanien, frieze, December 2012. Review of ‘CLODS, Diplomatic Letters’, Agnieszka Gratza, Art Review, December 2012. “Hanging out, Crowding out or Talking Things Out’, Rebecca Uchill, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Vol 1, no. 1, March 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. Public collections The Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius Arts Council England Collection Foundation Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Fonds Culturel et Artistique du Groupe Bel, France The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn The Henry Moore Institute, UK KPN Kunst Collectie, The Netherlands Cobra to Contemporary Collection, The Netherlands Sculpture International Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rabo kunstcollectie, The Netherlands Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands Chris Evans is a permanent artist-tutor and member of teh Artist Advisory Board at De Ateliers, Amsterdam and a trustee of Liverpool Biennial (2017—). In 2016 he was the recipient of a Bryan Robertson Trust Award.