Chris Hagerty - Artist Resumé

Born 1976, Portland, OR

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education:

2005

• M.F.A. - Painting, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

1999

• B.F.A. - Drawing, Pacifc Northwest College of Art. Portland, OR

Selected Exhibitions:

2012

• “Double Reverse”, TNC Gallery, New York, NY

• “Liminal Step”, Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY
• 5th Avenue Storefront Art Walk Bayridge, Brooklyn, NY
• “Mining Between”, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY

• “Fenced & Stitched”, International Studio and Curatorial Program”, Brooklyn, NY
• “Popular Language”, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
• “ nurtureART 2010 Benefit”, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY
• "Axiom Of Gesture", Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
• "Little Worlds", Basement Space at Brooklyn Charm, Brooklyn, NY
• Fifth Avenue Storefront Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY
• Open Studios, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

• “Bushwick Biennial”, nurtureART, New York, NY
• “nurtureArt 2009 Benefit”, nurtureART, New York, NY
• “Paintpresent”, Lexington Art League, Lexington. KY
• “Passing By”, Under Minerva Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (two person show)

• “nurtureART 2008 Benefit”, nurtureART, New York, NY
• “Painting”, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
• “The Future Was Then....so now what?”, Perpetual Art Machine, SCOPE New York, NY

• “Brooklyn Invitational Comic Portfolio”, Brooklyn, NY

• “Peripheral Vision”, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

• M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

• “Landscapes”, Portland State University, Portland, OR (solo)

• B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
• Emerging Artists Show, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

• Published, Heather Chin, “Fifth Avenue to become showcase for local art”, The Home Reporter, May 19, 2011
• Discussion Panelist, RPGs and Contemporary Art, Allegra LaViola Gallery, Nov 6, 2010
• Published, New American Paintings Blog, Q&A, Sept 13, 2010
• Published, ArtistADay.com, April 4, 2010
• Published, Kulturologia Arts & Culture Blog, March 7, 2010
• Lecture, Vermont Studio Center, April, 2010
• Published, New American Paintings, Issue 86 - Northeast Region, Spring 2010
• Published, James Kalm, “Bushwick Biennial: Venice It Ain’t”, The Brooklyn Rail, July. 2009
• Published, Aimee Walleston, “In Brooklyn, a Basel for Beginners”, NT Times Magazine, June 11, 2009
• Published, Jessica Wiege, “The Atmosphere of Art,” Portland State University Vanguard, January 31, 2003

• Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, April 2010
• Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, April 2010
• Morris Dorsky Painting Award, Brooklyn College, 2005
• Carey Life Drawing Award, Pacific Northwest College Of Art, 1999

• Curated, “Brooklyn Invitational Comic Portfolio”, Brooklyn, NY, 2007
• Curated, “Peripheral Vision”, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2006

Artist Statement:

I make jarring visual combinations of architecture, plants, psychedelic colors, and contemporary media images. Many of my visual references include American architecture of shared spaces and found media images of the "War On Terror". An example is the oil painting Atlantic Center Mall & Baghdad. It combines a magenta and yellow digital model of a Brooklyn shopping mall overlapping a photograph of the Iraqi capital suffering the "shock and awe" campaign of the frst night of US aerial bombing in 2003.

These paintings provide a backdrop for my meditation on the cultural connection between American foreign policy and common domestic obsessions typifed by shopping malls. In making the work, I collect visual source material and go through a process of digital and hands-on editing, reconstructing, combining, and overlapping various reference images. I think of my working process as an organization and distillation of the visual information that I am exposed to.

My use of the tools and genre of painting is merely a means to an end. I enjoy working with paint and it satisfes my need to create discrete objects that communicate beyond the total of their material parts.

www.chrishagerty.com