2004

A curious emptiness permeates the work of Chris Ballantyne. Banal features of suburban and industrial zones are sources for paintings that highlight the quirky and absurd. Graphically rendered buildings, pools, parking lots, and fences take on new meanings and amplified significance, isolated on flat fields of color. Chris Ballantyne received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and resides in Brooklyn, New York. He was included in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art; and “Bay Area Now” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in 2005. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He is represented by George Adams, New York.

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Born 1972 in Mobile, Alabama.
Lives and works in

EDUCATION
BA, Painting, University of South Florida, 1997
MFA, Painting and Drawing, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Temporal: Recent Paintings and Watercolors, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2016
Transcendental Divide/Transitory Space, Zevitas Marcos, Los Angeles, California

2012
Private Frontiers, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011
Just in Case, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA

2010
Some Songs from the Shore, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009
Chris Ballantyne: Trespass, Steven Zevitas OSP, Boston, MA

2008
Everything Means Something And Nothing Is What It Seems To Be, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
When the World Was Flat, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Carnegie Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2007
All You Need is a Clear View of the Southern Sky, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
Existing Outside of Another, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Drift, California State University Chico, CA

2005
The Curious Lights, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Bloom Projects: Out of Place, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Tournesol Award: Chris Ballantyne, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Body of Water, Cheeckwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN

2003
Dream of New Jersey, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
Sunny Expectancy, Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2002
What is Between Us, Peres-Projects, San Francisco, CA

2001
In Plein Air, Art Hut, San Francisco, CA

1999
Multi, Silver Meteor Gallery, Tampa, FL

1998
Formal Division, Szilage Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, FL

1996
Token, Center Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA,

2018
30 Years: Frumkin/Adams – George Adams Gallery, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2016
Transcendental Divide/Transitory Space, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA

2014
Space//Squared, White Walls, San Francisco, CA

2012
Space//Form, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, OR
10 Revolutions Around the Sun, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2011
Deconstructing Nature, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ
Habitat, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO

2010
Connectivity Lost, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Faraway Nearby – Addressing Suburbia, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

2009
The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was A Summer In San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The American Scene, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
10 Year Anniversary Show, Mixed Greens, New York, NY

2008
Tournesol Award Group Show, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Passageworks, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (traveled to Carnegie Museum,Pittsburgh, PA; Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT)
Katrin Hoffert, Hans Vandekerckhove and Chris Ballantyne, Galerie Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Global Suburbia, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Forces of Nature, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007
First Anniversary Group Show, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
Glass Love, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
This is my Country, Inaugural Group Show, Seminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
I Love the ‘Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, NY
Wallworks, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2005
Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
New Prints, International Print Center, New York, NY
Welcome to the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
Scene – Un – Seen: Chris Ballantyne and Salomon Huerta, Paulson Bott Press, Berkeley, CA

2004
Art Basel, Miami Beach, Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Liste (Basel, Switzerland), Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Young Americans, Galerie Hof & Huyser, Amsterdam
Mental Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
Close Calls, The Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Fresh Paint, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The Rules Everyone Will Follow From This Day Forth, Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Artissima, Turin, Italy, with Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Telling Stories, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
International Invitational, Art Chicago, Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Art Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA,

2002
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Graduation Exhibit, Ft. Mason Center, San Francisco, CA

2001
Annual Juried Show, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Continuing MFA Exhibit, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

2000
Szilage Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, FL

1999
The Book as Object, Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat Springs, CO

1998
Gallery on Florida, Tampa, FL
Flout, Szilage Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, FL

1997
Opening Show, Wallflower Gallery, Miami, FL
Sculpture, Center Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

1996
Annual Hortt Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Awards
2005
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

2004
Tournesol Award and Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2002
Honorable Mention, MFA Graduation Exhibition

1997
Work Grant, University of South Florida

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