Chris Bell
Education
MFA, Stanford University, 2007
Post-baccalaureate with Honours, Sculpture. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1996
BFA, Sydney College of the Arts, Sculpture Major, 1992
Coursework, Sydney College of the Arts, Industrial Design, 1986 – 1988
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Light Geometries: New Works. 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009
Mass Inertia, Babel, Trondheim, Norway
2008
Slow Pan Interior, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, USA
2005
Movement Studies, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Sufi Disco, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Small Leap With Gravity, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001
Bastards of Industry, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1999
Threescore and Two, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Closed Shop, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia. Sunspotting, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Queensland, Australia Dirt T.V, Museum of Dirt, Melbourne, Australia
1997
The Warm War, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996
Tabulae Solis, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995
Sun and Heir, Selenium, Sydney, Australia. As member of LUX collective.
1993
Sowersong, Pendulum Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1992
Biasphere, First Draft (West) Inc., Sydney, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
More Than 700 years, San Francisco Art Institute faculty exhibition
2012
Art Nomads, LKV Collective, , Trondheim, Norway. The Future Imagined, Performance Art Institute, , San Francisco, CA
2011
What’s Yours is Mine, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2010
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in Stephanie Syjuco’s Shadowshop. San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Chain Reaction 11, San Francisco, CA
2008
MFA Selections, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2007
In Advance, T.W. Stanford Art Gallery, MFA graduate thesis exhibition, Stanford, CA
2006
Immediate Future, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Murphy and Cadogan Fellows, San Francisco, CA
2006
Unbecoming, T.W. Stanford Art Gallery, MFA candidate exhibition, Stanford, CA
2003
Fundêre Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, finalists exhibition, Melbourne, Australia. Groupshow, Red Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002
Bootylicious, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia. Strange Weather, Mass Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001
4, Eckersleys Open Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Artflogg, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia
1997
Christ I’m Pissed Off, Stop 22, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
1996
& MORE, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue). Sculpture Survey 2, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (catalogue). Experimental Media Arts Festival, Lonsdale St Power Station, Melbourne, Australia
Grants and Awards
2014
Artist Residency, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund. Westfalia, Germany.
2013
Site-specific commission, Sun Swarm, Exploratorium, Pier 15, San Francisco, CA
2012
Site-specific commission, Sovereign Powers, LKV Collective, Trondheim, Norway Artist Residency, I-Park Artist Retreat, East Haddam, CT
2011
Artist Residency, Outdoor Exhibitions Team, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2010
Equipment grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2009
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Artist Residency, LKV, Trondheim, Norway
2008
Artist Residency, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2007
Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2006
Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2003
Fundêre Sculpture Prize, Contemporary Sculptors Association, Melbourne, Australia
2001
Commission for public sculpture at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia Artist Residency, Flax Arts Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1999
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1998
Artist Residency, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Queensland, Australia
1997
National Gallery Trustees Award, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Selected Reviews and Essays
2008
“Chris Bell, Slow Pan Interior” catalogue essay, by Emily Sevier, Soex http://soex.org/Exhibit/59.html
2005
“Haiku Review” by Micheal Graeve, Haiku, Issue 6, online www.haikureview.net/node/61
2004
“Christopher Bell” by Ruth Learner, Un. Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2 http://www.unmagazine.org/un/un2.pdf
1999
Teaching Assistant for Gail Wight, Paul De Marinis, Kevin Bean, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History
1997
“The Warm War” by Tara Forest, Globe e-journal of contemporary art, Issue 6 http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/globe/issue6/cbtxt.html “The Warm War” by Robert Nelson, The Age, May 1997, Melbourne, Australia
Teaching
2008-15
Lecturer, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History; Advanced Undergraduate Seminar
2012-20
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, teaching: Processes of Replication; Kinetics and Light; 3D Strategies-Beginning Sculpture; Kinetic Sculpture.
2010
Lecturer, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain; Electronics and Art
2008
Instructor, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; Sculpting Without Clay
2007
Graduate Instructor, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History; Sculpture for Non-majors
2005-2007
Graduate Instructor, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History; Sculpture for Non-majors