Chris Coy
Chris Coy
- 1980
- Born in Provo, UT
- Lives and works in Las Vegas, NV
Education
- 2012
- MFA, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007
- BA Graphic Design, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Solo Exhibitions
- 2019
- Jurassic, AE2, Los Angeles, CA
- 2018
- Reverse Lorax, COUNTY, Palm Beach, FL
- 2016
- A Little Death, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2015
- Real Sex, CUAC Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
- 2012
- We Eat w/ Our Eyes (Thesis Exhibition), USC MFA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007
- THEEND/THEBEGINNING, ignivomous.org (curated by LoVid)
Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- Density Betrays Us, The Hole NYC, NY
- 2020
- Thin As Thorns, In These Thoughts
- 2019
- The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
- DEVIATION, Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada
- PDA Lovers, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
- Deep Inside, 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU
- 2014
- The Museum of Love and Devotion, organized by Jason Metcalf, Fairview Museum of History and Art, Fairview, UT
- Under-Parallel-Alter-Multi-Outer-Inner-Other-WORLDS, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA
- Liquid Crystal Palace: Recent Works with Jeremy Blake, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
- 2013
- Driving Fast Nowhere, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
- Print Show, Central Utah Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
- Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Carroll Fletcher, London, UK
- TIN — Transitions and Trajectories 10+ Years Beyond Art School, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
- Gordian Conviviality, Import Projects, Berlin, DE
- Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
- 2012
- In Post, Stadium Gallery, New York, NY
- Big Reality, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY
- RE:CUT, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- New Work I.R.L. (in this room), STATION Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2011
- New JPEGS, Johan Berggren, Malmö, SE
- Circulate, Exchange: Nugget & Gravy, New Wight Gallery (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
- Instant LA Summer (Heavy Happy), Carmichael Gallery, Culver City, CA
- Seven Minutes in Heaven, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
- An Important Project, Important Projects, Oakland, CA
- 2010
- Doomslangers, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
- Speed Show: Traces, Bucharest, Romania, RU
- Go West, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
- Superman II point 0, XSPACE/XWEB, Toronto, ON
- SoundFjord Sonic Art Jukebox, Soundfjord, London, UK
- Full/Operational/Toolbox, Athens, GR
- Breakfast, hosted by ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
- Low Lives 2, El Museo del Barrio, Fusebox Festival, Galería de La Raza, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, The Temporary Space, Terminal, Obsidian Arts & Studio, 304, New York, Austin, San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Brooklyn, USA
- Hallway Projects residency with Brion Nuda Rosch, San Francisco, CA
- Avatar 4D, curated by jstchilling.org, Noma and Reference galleries, San Francisco, CA and Richmond, VA
- 2nd Annual Terminal Short Video Festival, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
- An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
- 2009
- Awesome and Painful, Free Form Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
- Once Upon a Time in the West, Pixxelpoint New Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia-Goriza, IT
- Versions, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, NL
- Contemporary Semantics Beta, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
- The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture), curated by MTAA with Ed Halter, New York, NY
- Nasty Nets presents: endless pot of gold CDR’s, Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier, Park City, UT
- 2008
- Montage: Unmonumental Online/Unmonumental: the Object in the 21st Century, curated by Lauren Cornell and Marisa Olson, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- Young Curators, New Ideas, curated by Laurel Ptak, Bond Street Gallery, New York, NY
- K.I.S.S., curated by Constant Dullaart, Club Internet, clubinternet.org
- Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless where you are in the world?, Pierro Gallery, NJ, http://www.nastynets.com
- The Great Internet Sleepover, Eyebeam, New York, NY
Selected Press
- 2019
- Larry Armstrong-Kizzee, "Chris Coy | Jurassic" Flaunt Magazine, July 2019 (Link)
- "Jurassic in Los Angeles" Autre Magazine, July 2019 (Link)
- 2017
- Tessa Nicholson, “Opulent Gargoyles,” Solar Magazine, Spring 2017, p. 280.
- 2016
- “Chris Coy ‘A Little Death’ at Anat Egbi, Mousse Magazine, October 6, 2016. (Link)
- “Chris Coy at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles,” Blouin Artinfo, September 22, 2016.
- Amy Slocum, “Chris Coy”, Flaunt Magazine, September 2016.
- 2015
- Stephen Anderson, “Justin Berry and Chris Coy at CUAC,” Temporary Art Review, March 3, 2015. (Link)
- Brian Staker, “Chris Coy Looks Beyond Repression to Find Real Sex,” Salt Lake City Weekly, February 2015. (Link)
- Domenico Quaranta, “Link Editions releases After Brad Troemel, by Chris Coy,” Rhizome.org, May 2015. (Link)
- 2013
- Robert Grunenberg, “Gordian Conviviality at Import Projects Berlin,” REVIEWER Magazine, April 2013.
- Angela Connor, “Import Projects: Gordian Conviviality” Berlin Art Link, April 23, 2013. (Link)
- “Best of Utah 2013 – provoshows.com,” Salt Lake City Weekly, March 27, 2013. (Link)
- 2012
- Gavin Sheehan, “Provoshows.com,” Salt Lake City Weekly, September 2, 2012. (Link)
- William Morris, “Chris Coy on provoshows.com”, A Motley Vision, June 1, 2012. (Link)
- Ceci Moss, “Big Reality: PICKS,” Artforum, March 2012. (Link)
- 2011
- Kyle Chayka, “Five L.A. Internet Artists You Need to Know”, LA Weekly, December 8, 2011. (Link)
- “Rhizome Commissions 2011,” Rhizome, July 6, 2011. (Link)
- 2010
- Gene McHugh, “Contemporary Semantics Beta,” Post Internet, June 2010.
- John Lopez, “A Creative Retreat in the Digital Age,” Los Angeles Times, October 17, 2010. (Link)
- Brion Nuda Rosch, “Sequential Image Viewing Device,” Open Space (SFMOMA Blog), August 6, 2010. (Link)
- 2009
- Brian Droitcour, “On Sale!”, Rhizome, April 9, 2009.
- 2008
- “Photo Collection by Chris Coy,” Faund #2. November 2008.
- Ceci Moss, “THEEND/THEBEGINNING by Chris Coy,” Rhizome, March 2008.
Curatorial Projects
- 2010
- BYOB LA, Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery at USC, Los Angeles, CA
- Stephen Groo Symposium, Sego Arts, City Library, Provo, UT
- 2009
- Forms of Melancholy, Sego Art Center, Provo, UT
Online Publications
- 2010
- Gene McHugh, “The BAMF! Studies,” Post Internet, July 2010.
- 2008
- “Best Before – A Dsico Fanzine,” UPITUP RECORDS, November 2008.
- “Montage: Unmonumental Online,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2008.