CHRIS SOLLARS

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Artist Chris Sollars subverts public space through absurd performance interventions. Since 1996, he has worked in the street to have immediate interaction with a public audience and to collect society’s detritus, trash, and artifacts for sculptures.  The results are documented using photography, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed-media installations. Sollars is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Awards include 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2013 San Francisco Arts Commission: Individual Artist Commission Grant, 2012 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant, 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency, & 2015 Recology Artist in Residence. Sollars in 2008 completed C RED BLUE J which screened at SFMOMA on Election Day and was included in CREATIVE TIME’s Democracy in America show at the NY Park Armory. Recent Exhibitions include Hoof & Foot at the Manetti Shrem Museum, DAAAM thru Dec 16 at Chico State University; White on Red at 1275 Minnesota St. 2017; and Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid Sep 28, 2017–Jan 28, 2018. Sollars' work is sorted chronologically starting in 1996. Sollars started 667Shotwell in 2001 and his studio is at 1240 Minnesota St.
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