This website uses cookies or similar technologies, to enhance your browsing experience and get statistics datas. By continuing to use our website, you agree to our privacy policy
Chris FINLEY
Il représente des portraits d’agents immobiliers manipulés et déformés numériquement avec des logiciels d’imagerie et soigneusement peints avec de la peinture émaillée brillante. Chris Finley est un peintre majeur de cette génération qui a assimilé et absorbé les technologies et esthétiques numériques à la grande histoire de la Peinture.
Born 1971 in Carmel, CA
Lives and works in Petaluma, CA
1993 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Awards
2010
Pollock / Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
2002-04
Eureka Fellowship, University of California, Berkley, California
2003
Fleishhacker Award
1999
SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1991
Art Center 100 Scholarship, Los Angeles, California
1989
Press Democrat Service Award
1988
Marie Walsh Sharpe Grant Recipient
Public Collections
Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
California State University, Los Angeles
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, California
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Realtors, Galerie Richard, Paris
2019 The Vision Board, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Recelebration, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
SuperSet, Fused, San Francisco, California
2017 Collect, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2016 DROOL, SNATCH, CLEAN AND JERK, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2014 The Cure for the Uncanny Valley, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2009 The Teased Edge, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2008 Power Sources, Lombard-Fried, New York, NY
2006 The Friggin’ Curve, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2004 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 New Paintings, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2002 Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
2001 New Paintings, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Warp Zone: Section 2, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Warp Zone: Section 1, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Level Four, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Level Three, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998 Level Two, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1997 Level One, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1996 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Proof, ACME., Santa Monica, CA
1994 Cruise Control, ACME., Santa Monica, CA
The Popsicles Are In Bloom, Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Double Click, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Principle Secret, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Summer Painting Show, Galerie Richard, Paris
2019 The Vision Board Show, Kopeikin Gallery, Culver City, CA
Picturing Philanthropy: Selections from the SSU Art Collection, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House, Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA
2018 Recelebration, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
SuperSet, Curated by Glen Helfand and Jessica Silverman, Jessica Silverman Gallery
Fused Space, Sab Francisco, CA
2017 A Tribute to Anthony Zepeda, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Collect! Exhibition and Art Auction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Chimento Contemporary at Seattle Art Fair, CenturyLink Field Event Center, Seattle, Washington
Chimento Contemporary at Art Market San Francisco, Fort Mason Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, SFAC Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2014 Chris Finley, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, ARTFORUM, Elizabeth Mangini
2012 Finds! The unusual object, curated by Joshua Aster and Kristin Calabrese, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art, The Seca Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2011 Works of Paper, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2010 New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010, Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, CA
2009 Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Second Nature: The Valentine – Adelson Collection at the Hammer, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Curator’s Choice, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2007 Image Processor, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY
2006 Particulate Matter, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2005 Pacific Lines, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Playtime, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Eye Tattoo, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, 7 USA Venues
2003 ACME. @ Inman, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Beauty Stripped Bare: LA Black + White, curated by Joe Jarrell, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Before & After Science, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
California 10 Contemporary, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Plus One (8 Artists invited by 8 MFA Candidates), F Space, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2002 Reality Check: Painting in the Exploded Field, Selections From the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection,
Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Strolling Through An Ancient Shrine and Garden, curated by Chip Tom and ACME., ACME., Los Angeles, CA
New in Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Orange County Museum of Art Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2001 The Sensational Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Game Show, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Pulp Fictions: Contemporary Works on Paper, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Trans Poly Blue, Elliot Smith Gallery, Saint Loius, MO
Stranger Than You, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000 Under the Influence: New Art From LA, curated by Chris Acuna-Hansen, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO,
California Dreamin’, curated by Bruce Hartman, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, MO
Twisted. Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Inventional, curated by Nowell J. Karten, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Works on Paper (and some other things), ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Anebolle-Amar, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark Der Kleine Hans, Christine Konig & Franziska Lettner, Vienna, Austria
The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Art in the Age of the Consumer: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Attention SPAM, curated by Paul Zelevansky, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Art on Paper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Juvenescence, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Painting From Another Planet, curated by David Pagel, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
1997 118W/24N L.A./USA, Kunstverein W.A.S., Graz, Austria
Quartoze-20 Los Angeles Artists, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
Drawings…An Annual Bi-Coastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Chris Finley, Greg Foley, John Hansel, Laura Parnes, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection, 1975-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Useful Things, New Space, Los Angeles, CA
Defining The Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Postmarked LA, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Real Goods, Manhattan Village Shopping, Manhattan Beach, CA
1995 Contact, The 114th Annual Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
It’s My Life, I’m Going to Change the World, ACME., Santa Monica, CA
1994 Layered Look, LAX at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Toys/Art/US, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain), Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Nor Here, Neither There, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Thanks Again, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
Utter Realities, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
Out West and Back East, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Germinal Notations, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
ART LA 93, The Los Angeles Convention Center, FOOD HOUSE booth, Los Angeles, CA
Mondo Lot, Broadway Complex, Santa Monica, CA
FOOD HOUSE visits The Art Store, The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Group Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA