Christian Holstad

Born
Anaheim, CA 1972
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education
1994 - BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MO

Contacts:

New York: Andrew Kreps Gallery

Italy: Massimo DeCarlo

London: Victoria Miro

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Solo Exhibitions

• 2011

  • You Will Find Me if You Want Me in the Garden unless It’s Pouring Down With Rain, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

• 2010

  • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Schmidt & Handrup, Köln

• 2009

  • The World’s Gone Beautiful, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • I Confess (catalog), curated by Milovan Farronato, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
  • American Standard, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

• 2008

  • I Know Why the Birdcage Sings, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York

• 2007

  • Christian Holstad, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

• 2006

  • Containers on the Beach, Art Basel Miami Beach: Art Positions, Miami
  • The Terms of Endearment (catalog), curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
  • Leather Beach, Prince Deli (Daniel Reich Gallery), New York

• 2005

  • Beautiful Lies You Could Live In, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
  • The Area Known As The Grassy Knoll, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

• 2004

  • Gaeity; Discovering the Lost Art (in Absentia), curated by Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
  • A Dark Room in Which to Stagger Sorrow, Whitney Biennial, New York
  • Innocent Killers, Project Room, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens
  • Moving Towards the Light, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • American Express, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo

• 2003

  • Sonnenaufgang (sunrise), Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Köln
  • Sonnenaufgang (sunset), Daniel Schmidt Gallery, Köln
  • The Birth of Princess Middlefinger, Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
  • The Housekeepers, Daniel Reich Gallery, The Scope Art NY‘03, Dylan Hotel, New York
  • Grooming Parks in Absentia, Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Köln

• 2002

  • Life is a Gift, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • The Self Esteem Salon: The Baptism Series, (with Chris Verene), Deitch Projects, New York and Faye Gold Gallery, Atlanta
  • Gentle Heights presents Christian Holstad’s Sand Day (in Absentia): A Show of Artifacts, Absentia Art Gallery, Brooklyn

• 1997

  • How Art Thou, Chorus Gallery, Minneapolis
  • Home Shopping Channel, for Chivas Clem’s Fifth International, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2013

  • The Power of Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London

• 2012

  • Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

• 2011

  • The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Coming After, The Power Plant, Toronto
  • The Listening Party, for Volcano Extravaganza, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Italy
  • Aftermath, Taka Ishii, Kyoto
  • Bernhard Willhelm Men's 2011 Collection, Paris
  • Kompass Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

• 2010

  • Head Shop, Exile Gallery, Berlin
  • Christmas In July, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
  • Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York
  • Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris
  • Chicken Shit Bingo, MiArt, Milan

• 2009

  • The Power of Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • Zur Sache (opening exhibition), Schmidt & Handrup, Köln
  • Light Chamber (Part 2), X-Initiative Foundation, New York
  • Second Hand, curated by Jasper Sharp, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
  • Compass in Hand, Selections from the Judith Rothchild Collection, MoMA, New York

• 2008

  • READER, Galerie Today at ARTIS Den Bosch, s'-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
  • Unmonumental (Inaugural Exhibition), New Museum, New York
  • (i-mûrj·d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
  • Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale 3, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken
  • Inaugural exhibition, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery (second space), Tokyo
  • Art & Entrepeneurship, Credit Suisse, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
  • The Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York
  • The Otherside, curated by Billy Miller, The 58 Gallery, New Jersey
  • Yours, Mine and Ours, University Gallery, Gallery of Essex, Colchester

• 2007

  • BloodBath & Beyond (with Ryan Schaefer and Claude Wampler), Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
  • The Male Gaze, powerHouse Arena, New York
  • Biennale de Lyon (France)
  • Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
  • Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue, New York

• 2006

  • Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • Thank You for the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers Lee, London
  • Uncertain States of America, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykyavík, Iceland; Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark: CCA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Le Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Hungary; Songzhuan Art Center, Beijing, China
  • Panic Room – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Cathy Grayson, Deste Foundation, Athens
  • Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York
  • Making The Band, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Which Reality, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Looking At Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

• 2005

  • Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
  • Performa 05, Performa, New York
  • Thank You for the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers Lee, Münich
  • Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

• 2004

  • Incantations, Metro Pictures, New York
  • The New Gothic: Art for the Tortured Soul (with Olaf Breuning, Steven Klein, Pierre Molinier, Ewoud Van Rijn, Markus Selg, and Floria Sigismondi), Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Sweden
  • Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunstverein, Hamburg
  • Happy Days are Here Again, curated by Andre Schlechtriem, David Zwirner, New York
  • Domestic Porn, Foksal Foundation Gallery, Warsaw
  • Le Cabinet des Collages, D’Amelio Terras, New York
  • California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • Socle du Monde, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
  • Anima/Botanica, Branch New York, New York
  • 04. Preview Collection, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo

• 2003

  • Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York
  • Regarding Amy, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  • Now Playing, D’amelio Terras, New York
  • The Birdman Returns, curated by Daniel Reich, D'Amelio Terras, New York
  • Group Show, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
  • My People Were Fair…, curated by Bob Nickas, Team Gallery, New York
  • Surreal Estate, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  • Group Show, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
  • Brewster 2003, Brewster, New York
  • Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • Branch New York: First Biennial Group Show - Anima/Botanica, Branch Gallery, New York
  • Costume and Set collaboration with Claude Wampler: Stable (Stupidity Project Part 10), January 16-19, P.S. 122, New York
  • Really, curated by Barbara Hunt, Artist’s Space, New York
  • Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

• 2002

  • Bathroom Group Show, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • Two For the Road, with Delia R. Gonzalez + Gavin R. Russom, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  • It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time, Paul Morris Gallery, New York

• 2001

  • Coat Check (with Claude Wampler), Contact Studios, Brooklyn
  • Zeek Sheck Collaboration, Knitting Factory, New York

• 2000

  • Gentle Heights, Manhattan Public Access Television, New York
  • The Self Esteem Salon, for Cherie Nevers, Whitney Biennial, New York
  • M.I.M.E.: History Part One, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  • Slide Show, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

• 1999

  • The Car Show, Reported Injuries Art Space, Brooklyn

• 1998

  • Fleshy Juggler Collaboration with Scoli Acosta and Hall of Fame, Brownies, New York
  • Rejoice, Collaboration with Scoli Acosta, Rubulad - The Strip Show, Brooklyn
  • ¡Gringo!, La Panderia, Mexico City

• 1997

  • Beck and Al Hansen Benefit, Thread Waxing Space, New York
  • New York Society of Fondness and Appreciation, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
  • Fancy Pantz School of Dance, Collaboration with Alex Bag & Tom Borgese, Gramercy Art Fair, New York
  • The Lucky Breeders Barbershop Quartet, The Cooler, New York
  • Current – A Human Buffet (collaboration with Scoli Acosta), Here Arts Gallery, New York
  • Cult of Claude, Here Arts Gallery, New York

• 1996

  • Sauna Hut Available, Chorus Gallery, Minneapolis

• 1995

  • Midwest Bound, Chorus Gallery, Minneapolis

Bibliography

• 2010

  • Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Realism and Simulation

• 2009

  • “Christian Holstad: I Confess”, Domus, December
  • Casadio, Mariuccia, “Chemistry”, Vogue, December
  • Tagliafierro, Marco, “Christian Holstad”, artforum.com, September
  • “X Initiative,” Elle Japan, June
  • Smith, Roberta, “MOMA Pushes the Envelope in Works on Paper”, The New York Times, April 24
  • De Koff, Derek, “The Roof is On Fire,” Out.com, April
  • Castets, Simon, “Christian Holstad” V Magazine online, March
  • Phybus, Michael, “Christian Holstad,” Plastique Magazine
  • Vloet, Corine, Mr. Motely, March
  • Kinsey, Cadence, “Christian Holstad,” Dazed and Confused, February
  • Art Odyssey, Kevin McGarry, T Magazine, August 3
  • Bombelli, Ilaria, “Primaries Underwear: Christian Holstad,” Mousse #16

• 2008

  • Weist, Nick, “All that Glitters,” Tokion, Vol. 2 No. 5
  • “Sloppy Craft: How Practice Makes Perfect,” Crafts, March/April
  • Dupois, Isabelle, “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture,” Flash Art, March/April
  • Smith, Roberta, “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture,” The New York Times: Art in Review, February 1

• 2007

  • Turner, Elisa, “Why Don’t You Come and Install It,” Art News, October
  • Derieux, Florence, “9th Lion Biennial,” Flash Art, November-December
  • Goldberg, Rosalee, “Performa: New Visual Art Performance”
  • “La Chaos de la Vie…,” Numero, April
  • Beatrice, Luca, “Neogotico,” Arte, April 2007
  • “The Best/Danse,” Playback, October

• 2006

  • Cattelan, Maurizio, “Christian Holstad,” Flash Art, November
  • “Art Exhibits Tap into the Punk-Rock Aesthtic,” The Miami Herald, 17 September
  • “MOCA annex opens ‘Terms of Endearment,” Coral Gables Gazette, 13 September
  • Turner, Elisa, “A Walk on the Wild Side,” The Miami Herald, 17 September
  • Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik, “Don Miss This,” Miami New Times, 13 September
  • Fels, Sophie, “Christian Holstad, ‘Love Means Never Having to Say You’re
  • Sorry’,” Time Out New York, April 13-19
  • Cotter, Holland, “Christian Holstad,” The New York Times
  • Bollen, Christopher, “Christian Holstad,” Artforum
  • Velasco, David,”Christian Holstad,” artforum.com

• 2005

  • “Under $10,000,” ARTnews, November
  • “An Interview with Christian Holstad,” BT, vol 57
  • Singer, Debra, “Post Biennial Post-Script,” Parkett, #75

• 2004

  • Miles, Christopher, “Christian Holstad,” Frieze, September
  • Johnson, Ken, “Incantations,” The New York Times: Art in Review, July 16
  • “Christian Holstad: Moving Toward the Light,” The Village Voice: Voice Choices, April 7-13
  • “Christian Holstad: Moving Toward the Light,” Time Out New York, March 18-25
  • “2004 Biennial Preview: Christian Holstad,” Time Out New York, March 4-11
  • “Biennial Favorites: Christian Holstad,” New York Magazine, March
  • Saltz, Jerry, “Termite Theory,” The Village Voice, June 23-29
  • Bankowsky, Jack, “ This is Today,” Artforum, May
  • Tranberg, Dan, “Christian Holstad: Moving Toward the Light at Daniel Reich Gallery,” Art on Paper, May/June
  • “Museums Collect Spring ’04: Christian Holstad,” Museums New York, Spring
  • Plagens, Peter, “Art’s ‘Star Search,’” Newsweek, March 22
  • Griffin, Tim, “Out of the Past,” Artforum, January
  • Westerbeke, Julia, “A room with a view,” Time Out New York, January 22-29

• 2003

  • Cohen, Michael, “The New Gothic: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps,” Flash Art, July/September
  • Cotter, Holland, “By and About Men, and They’re Running With It,” The New York Times, August 8
  • Dzuverovic-Russell, Lina, “New York: Daniel Reich Gallery, Karaoke Death Machine,” Contemporary Magazine, July
  • Yablonsky, Linda. “Rock’n’roll Hall of Fame,” ArtReview, June
  • Fujimori, Manami, “Very New York,” BT Magazine, Japan, January
  • Kerr, Merrily, “Satellite Spin-off: Standouts from the Alternative Art Fair Scene,” Flash Art, October
  • Krebber, Michael, “Der Sonnengruss,” Texte zur Kunst, December
  • Lafreniere, Steve, “Steve Lafreniere on Christian Holstad,” Artforum, January
  • Lafreniere, Steve, “Unplugged,” Work: Art in Progress, October – December
  • Levin, Kim, “Magnetic Living,” The Village Voice: Show World, December 10-16
  • Maida, Joseph, “Forward and Back,” The New York Times Magazine, October 5
  • Rimanelli, David, “Karaoke Death Machine at Daniel Reich,” Artforum, Summer
  • Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update,” artnet.com
  • Saltz, Jerry, “Rays of Light,” The Village Voice, January 22-28
  • Smith, Roberta, “A Bread-Crumb Trail to Spirit of the Times,” The New York Times, January 17
  • Smith, Roberta, “A Grand Finale of Group Show Fireworks,” The New York Times, July
  • Tischer, Benjamin, “Infect Others: Christian Holstad fights virtual reality with a human touch” Gay City News, February 7-13
  • Tischer, Benjamin, “Dreams, Children & Self-Esteem: Three Emerging New York Artists,” Fine, Summer/Fall
  • Velez, Pedro, “Art Fair Future: The Stray Show,” artnet.com, December
  • Zapperi, Giovanna, “Sex & Space,” Flash Art (Italy), October/November
  • “Christian Holstad: Fear Gives Courage Wings,” Time Out New York, November 27-December 4
  • “Christian Holstad/Nick Mauss and Shelby Hughes,” New York Magazine, December 8
  • “Pick: Nick Mauss & Shelby Hughes + Christian Holstad,” The Village Voice, December 3-9

• 2002

  • Sheets, Hilarie M., “Strange Comforts”, ARTnews, September
  • Homes, A.M. “You’re in Trouble if You’re Eating Your Own Seed Corn,” Parkett 64

• 2001

  • Bollen, Christopher, “How to Deal at Home,” V Magazine, September/October
  • Hensel, Laurie, “Freedom Fighters,” Bust Magazine
  • Holstad, Christian and Chris Verene, “‘Welcome to a Course of Human Events…’ Self-Esteem Salon Baptism Series” (brochure), Deitch Projects
  • Mir, Aleksandra, “Happy Birthday,” (newspaper edition), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York and Greengrassi, London
  • Sheets, Hilarie M., “Strange Comfort,” Artnews, September

• 1999

  • “M.I.M.E.,” Open City, # 9, Fall

Publications

• Compilation IV exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 2009, text by Jari Ortwig I Confess exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica di Modena Palazzo Santa Margherita, Mousse Publishing, 2009, texts by Cecilia Aslemani, Patricia Catto, Milovan Farronato, David Tibet, Angela Vettese
• Male – The Collection of Vince Aletti, 2008, text by Collier Schorr Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008
• Collage, The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, 2007, text by Massimiliano Gioni 2nd Moskow Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2006
• The Terms of Endearment, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 2006
• “Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
• After 9.11, Sprout, Japan 2005
• Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute (essay by Matthias Muhling), Kunstverein, Hamburg, Hatje Cantz 2005
• Greater New York exhibition catalogue, PS. 1 2005
• Whitney Biennal exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art 2004
• Dignity (Pressed Flowers), Galerie Aurel Scheibler / Snoeck, 2004
• Collection Diary: Bob Nickas, JRP/Ringier 2004
• Vitamin D, New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon

Public Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
• The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles