Christian holstad biography

Lives and works in New York
Born 1972, Anaheim, California
Education: BFA 1994 Kansas City Go your separate ways Institute
Residency: John Michael Kohler Arts Program 2000

Solo Exhibitions

2020

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

2019

  • Consider Yourself As Trim Guest (Cornucopia), Ca’ Foscari Forming of Venice, Venice, Italy

2017

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

2016

  • red, yellow, lime, good for your health, lavender, green, scarlet, lavender, cerise, green, lavender, The Magazine Conference 2016, Serpentine Gallery, London (With Scoli Acosta, Burke & Pryde, Ceramica Gatti, Marc Hundley, Erin Ellen Kelly, Gabriele Levi, Comic Maugeais, Alison O’Daniel, Tara Jane O’Neil, Micki Pellerano)
  • Be Clear Unwavering 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 Draw attention to Me if You Want Without charge in the Garden unless It’s Pouring Down With Rain, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2010

  • The Fabulous 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 Audience, London

2008

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

2007

  • Christian Holstad, Galleria Massimo Base Carlo, Milan

2006

  • Containers on the Beach, Art Basel Miami Beach: Disclose 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 Listeners, New York

2005

  • The Area Known Whilst The Grassy Knoll, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
  • Beautiful Lies Cheer up Could Live in, Victoria Painter Gallery, London

2004

  • American Express, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
  • Moving Towards the Light, Justice 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 Biyearly, New York
  • Innocent Killers, Project Prime, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens

2003

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

2002

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

1997

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

Group Exhibitions

2020

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

2019

  • I Plan package 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 outlook Paper, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, København, Denmark
  • A Cool Breeze, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  • People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA
  • 30 Years make merry Dutch Courage.

    A jubilee exhibition

2018

  • About a Vase, Fondazione Museo Montelupo Onlus, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
  • Le Indicator Été, curated by Domenico skid Chirico, Element, Turin, Italy
  • Objects Need Us, The Domestic Plane: Recent Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
  • Still Human, Rubell Next of kin Collection Contemporary Arts Museum, City, Florida, USA

2017

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

2016

  • December (playback 2), Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
  • Fields of War, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, London
  • Protest, Waterfall Miro Gallery, London
  • On Empathy, formed with Miciah Hussey, Bridget Donahue, New York
  • Prediction, curated by Milovan Farronato, Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo
  • Chromaphobia | Chromaphilia, Kansas Throw away 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 Pass on Collection Arquipélago, a selection), Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporêaneas, Azores
  • From The Ruins…, curated past as a consequence o Jane Ursula Harris, 601 Artspace, New York

2014

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

2013

  • One day the weekend away will come when the interval will not come, curated be oblivious to Milovan Farronato, FUTURA, Prague, European Republic
  • Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum and glory China National Silk Museum, Hangchow, China
  • Ecce Homo, Pavel Zoubok Assembly, New York
  • Aquatopia, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
  • Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London

2012

  • Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
  • Coming After, curated by Jon Davies, The Sovereign state 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 Set Exhibition for East Northern Japan, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
  • The Aura We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Kompass Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Expense New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
  • Aftermath, curated by Simon Castets, Taka Ishii, Kyoto

2010

  • Eraserhead, Fruehsorge Latest Drawings__, Berlin
  • Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris
  • SummerCamp II: Purpose Shop, curated by Billy Moth, Exile, Berlin
  • Boy, Oh Boy!, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
  • Kupferstichkabinett: Between Nurture and Action, White Cube, London
  • Christmas In July, curated by Singer Castets, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Spanking York
  • Kunstkonsum Schwerenot, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne
  • Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York
  • So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Apostle Roth Gallery, New York
  • Chicken Ladies\' room 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 Gathering, London
  • The Shape of Things take a trip Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Assemblage, 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 Brace Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, Creative York

2008

  • READER, Galerie Today at ARTIS Den Bosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
  • Collage: The Unmonumental Picture (inaugural exhibition) (catalog), curated by Richard Downpour, New Museum, New York
  • (i-mûrj·d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
  • Time Crevasse, Port 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, Spanking York
  • The Otherside, curated by Blackjack Miller, The 58 Gallery, Fresh Jersey
  • Yours, Mine and Ours, Further education college Gallery, Gallery of Essex, Colchester

2007

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

2006

  • Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of Northward Carolina at Greensboro
  • Thank You need the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers Satisfaction, London
  • Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Perilous.

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

  • Panic Room – Works shun the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Cathy Grayson, Deste Foundation, Athens
  • Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists trigger Benefit the Foundation for New Arts, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, Original York
  • Making The Band, Bard Faculty, 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 Contemporary Art, Oslo

  • Performa 05: First Biennal of New Visual Art Execution in New York City, Contemporary York
  • Thank You for the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers Lee, Münich
  • Greater In mint condition York, PS1 Contemporary Art Spirit, New York
  • Looking At Words, Position Formal Use of Text train in Modern and Contemporary Works achieve Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Newborn York
  • Hanging By a Thread, Probity Moore Space, Miami

2004

  • Incantations, Metro Flicks, New York
  • The New Gothic: Assumption 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 Give Again, curated by Andre Schlechtriem, David Zwirner, New York
  • Domestic Porn, Foksal Foundation Gallery, Warsaw
  • Le Chest of drawers des Collages, D’Amelio Terras, Different York
  • California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich Onlookers, New York
  • Socle du Monde, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
  • Anima/Botanica, Branch In mint condition York, New York
  • 04.

    Preview Collection, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo

2003

  • Today’s Man, Crapper Connelly Presents, New York
  • Regarding Amy, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  • Now Playing, D’Amelio Terras, New York
  • The Birdman Returns, curated by Judge Reich, D’Amelio Terras, New York
  • Group Show, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
  • My People Were Fair point of view Had Cum in their Tresses (but Now They’re Content toady to Spray Stars from your Boughs), curated by Bob Nickas, Order Gallery, New York
  • Surreal Estate, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  • Group Show, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
  • Brewster 2003, Brewster, New York
  • Karaoke Grip Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, In mint condition York
  • Branch New York: First Biyearly Group Show - Anima/Botanica, Faction Gallery, New York
  • Costume and reflexive collaboration with Claude Wampler: Steady (Stupidity Project Part 10), P.S.

    122, New York

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

2002

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

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

  • It’s a Uninhabited Party and We’re Having far-out Great Time, Paul Morris Room, New York

2001

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

2000

  • Gentle Heights, Manhattan Public Access Gentlemen of the press, New York
  • The Self Esteem Store, for Cherie Nevers, Whitney Twoyear, New York
  • M.I.M.E.: History Part One, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  • Slide Show, John Michael Kohler Set out 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 Swath Show, Brooklyn
  • ¡Gringo!, La Panderia, Mexico City

1997

  • New York Society of Partiality and Appreciation, Gavin Brown’s Project, New York
  • Fancy Pantz School penalty Dance, Collaboration with Alex Shopping bag and Tom Borgese, Gramercy Sum Fair, New York
  • The Lucky Breeders Barbershop Quartet, The Cooler, Latest York
  • Current – A Human Sideboard (collaboration with Scoli Acosta), Feel Arts Gallery, New York
  • Cult stop Claude, Here Arts Gallery, Novel York

1996

  • Sauna Hut Available, Chorus Onlookers, Minneapolis

1995

  • Midwest Bound, Chorus Gallery, Minneapolis