BIOGRAPHY

Chris Coy’s work inhabits an uncanny valley of gestures created through the encoding of libidinal desire through digital interventions. Rooted in the expression of cultural and psychological repression, Coy embeds this terrain within varied multimedia installations, paintings, photographic assemblages and video works. In situating his work in the rituals of social identification, beauty, sexuality and superfluidity, Coy addresses how the visual paints a vector towards both unknowable and transcendent potentialities.

EXHIBITIONS

Jurrasic, July 20 – August 24, 2019

A Little Death, September 10 – October 22, 2016.

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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

2018

Art Toronto, with Anat Ebgi, Toronto, CA

DEVIATION, Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada

2017

Art Toronto, with Anat Ebgi, Toronto, Canada

PDA Lovers, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Untitled San Francisco, with Anat Ebgi, San Francisco, CA

2016

EXPO Chicago, with Anat Ebgi, Chicago, IL

Deep Inside, 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU

2015

NADA Miami Beach, with Anat Ebgi, Miami, FL

NADA New York, with Anat Ebgi, New York, NY

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.