Chris Ritson

Honolulu Hawaii b.1985 USA

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014 Over The Rainbow - B4BEL4B Gallery, Oakland CA

2011 In the Kingdom of Charisma - Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011 Lotus Eater, ArtPadSF - Collectors Lounge , San Francisco, CA

2010 D∃C∀D∃NT - Basement Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009 Tomorrow is Eager / the Anomalies of Phenomena - Co. Grasp, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITION

2018 Dutch Design Week - BIOART laboratories, Netherlands

2017 Honolulu Biennial, Honolulu Hawaii

2016 Pop Apocalyptic. Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens Greece

2015 Chrysalis Lens - Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts, Marymount California University, CA

2015 Contact 2015- Honolulu Museum of Art School, Honolulu, HI

2015 Crystal Beings - University City Science Center’s Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia

2014 Contact - Honolulu Museum of Art School, Honolulu, HI

2014 5 Year Anniversary Group Show - Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco CA

2013 Artists of Hawaii 2013 - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

2012 NOT APPLICABLE - The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles CA

2012 Codame Art + Tech Festival, San Francisco, CA

2012 Welcome to New York! - Art in General, NY, NY

2012 Keeping it Small - Gowanus Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Summer in the City - Branch Gallery, Oakland, CA

2011 The Disposable Film Festival - Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA

2010 UTS: Sidney International Animation Festival - University of Technology, Australia

2010 Urban Nomad: Video Art Exhibition - Taipei Contemporary Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Digital Broadway - Broadway Cinema and Media Centre, Nottingham, UK

2010 OneDotZero - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy NY

2010 So Simple Presents: Video Art Show - Downtown Independent, LA

2010 WINDOUUS - EverGold Gallery - San Francisco, CA 2010 Play For Keeps - Tribute Gallery, Portland, OR

2009 Craftwork - Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea

2009 The Bedroom Suite - Razor wire, Oakland CA

2009 Adventures in Motion. BFI Southbank, London UK

2009 The New Young Turks - Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

2009 Big Bad Wolf - Rene Francisco Studio Havana, Cuba

2009 I Love To Turn You On - Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 Can You Tell Me How to Get... -Go For a Loop Gallery. San Francisco, CA

2008 Architects of the Unknown - 646 Kearny. San Francisco, CA 2007 Flash Lighting - Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

RESIDENCIES

2011 Artist in Residence (video) -10weeks, Headlands Center For the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2011 Artist in Residence (installation/video) -6weeks, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco CA

RECOGNITION

2012 VSCO artist Initiative Grant

13 Violette Wong Hu Award - Honolulu HI

2013 Sharon & Thurston Twigg-Smith Purchase for the Collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art

EDUCATION

2009 BFA (New Genres) - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

enrolled: 2005/6 University of Hawaii, Oahu (biotechnology)

enrolled: 2004/5 Reed College, Oregon (philosophy)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VSCO

Beautiful/Decay

VICE

Forward Journal

PSFK

Honolulu Museum of Art CODAME

Digital America Honolulu Biennial

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