Chris VERENE
Born in 1969 in Galesburg, Illinois
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Birmingham Museum of Art
Cheekwood Museum, Nashville
Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta
The American Photography Institute, New York University Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
The Margulies Collection, Miami
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Wadsworth Museum, Hartford, CT
The George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY
AWARDS
2002
Pollock Krasner Award –full support. Verene is the first artist to receive this Grant for photography art.
1996
American Photography Institute, New York University
1996
The Atlanta Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta
SOLO SHOWS
2019
“Chris Verene: Home Movies”, The College of Staten Island Art Gallery, The City University of New York
“Chris Verene: Screening of Home Movies and Town hall Meeting”, The Midtown Theater, Atlanta, GA
2017
“Chirs Verene”, The Civic Art Center, Galesburg
2016
“Picturing Family”, Green Gallery of Yale University
2015 “The Show Me State”, Auxiliary Projects in Greenpont, Brooklyn, NY
“The Cousin Candi Series”, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, New York “Chris Verene: Home Movies”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
2014
“Home Movies”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2012
“Town Hall Meeting”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Galesburg Family”, Galleri Image, Denmark
“Galesburg Family”, The Figge Musseum, Iowa
“Galesburg: Prairie Jews” The Jewish Community Center, Manhattan “Chris Verene – Family”, Berlin
“Chris Verene – Family”, The Company, Los Angeles
“The Self-Esteem Salon” The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2011
“Family”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife “Family” Art Basel Miami
“Chris Verene – Family,” The Figge Museum, Davenport, Iowa
“Chris Verene,” Sioux City Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri “Prairie Jews,” (TBA) The Ninety-Second Street Institution, New York “Family,” Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas
“Family,” San Francisco, TBA
“Family,” Quality Pictures, Portland
“Family,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta “Family,” Gescheidle, Chicago
“Family,” -Cancelled- Deitch Projects, New York
2009
“Family,” DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles “Self-Esteem Salon,” Martos Gallery, New York
2008
“Self-Esteem,” Gescheidle, Chicago “Family,” ADA Gallery, Virginia
2007
“Galesburg, Yes,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta “Self-Esteem,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta "Galesburg," Gescheidle, Chicago
“Self-Esteem,” Quality Pictures, Portland, Oregon “Galesburg,” ADA Gallery, Richmond
2006
"Galesburg," Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
“Prairie Jews,” from the “Jewish Identity Project” The Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
GROUP SHOWS
2019
“Encounter”, Mom’s Gallery, NY
“Ways of Seening: Fashion”, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham “Modern Families”, ArtsWestchester Gallery, NY
“Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall”, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
“Inexterior”, Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España
“HOT DOG”, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“The Self-Esteem Salon”, 601 Artspace, New York
2017
“Picturing Family”, Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven
2016
“Photographic Support”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
2014
“HomeLand (In)Security: Vanishing Dreams”, Dorsky Gallery, New York “Look At Me”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
“Unbelievable Things”, Light Art & Design, Chapell Hill
2013
“Everyday American”, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York Group Show, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
2012
“Only You Only Me” Musee d’Art Contemporain, Belgium
2011
“The Second Seating for the Last Supper”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife “EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870,” The Walker Art Center
2010
“EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870,” The Tate Modern, London
“EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“The Art Of Caring,” Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
“The Art Of Caring,” The Art Museum of South Texas
“The Art Of Caring,” New Orleans Museum of Art
2008
“Human Resources,” The Company, Los Angeles “Love, Love, Love,” Martos Gallery, New York
2007
“June Bride” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York “Gallery Artists,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York “Year 07,” Marcia Wood Gallery, London
2006
“The Seventh Side of the Die” Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
“The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography” The Contemporary JewishMuseum, San Francisco
“The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography” The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
“Shoot The Family” The Cranbrook Art Museum, Knoxville Museum of Art, Western Gallery of Western Washington University, traveling 2006-2009
2005
“The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography” The Jewish Museum, New York
“CRACKER” NurtureArt, & Naked Duck Gallery, New York
PERFORMANCES
2009
“The Self-Esteem Salon,” SoHo, New York
2005
“The Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage Series,” The Armory Art Show VIP Group, The Old Chelsea YMCA- with Frisbee Curatorial Group
2001
“The Self Esteem Salon” Christie’s Auction House
"Chris Verene and Vereni The Great presented by David Armstrong" The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, RI
"Vereni The Great” Thread Waxing Space, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon: The Whitney Museum of Art – A Corollary to Camera Club”, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York
“Vereni The Great” Pink Pony, New York
“Vereni, ¡Escapista!” Times Square, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon” Gramercy International Art Fair, New York
2000
“Fight Evil With Evil” with Delia R. Gonzalez and Gavin R. Russom, The Turkey’s Nest, Brooklyn, New York
“Home Shopping One with Gentle Heights” performance at The Fifth International Gallery, New York (for Christian Holstad)
1999
“Bach on a Hook and M.I.M.E.” performance at Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY
1998
“Self-Esteem Salon” Vaknin Schwartz & Boho Luxe, Atlanta
MUSIC
2019
“Strangers”, Music Video for City and Colour, Illinois 2010 “Greatest Hits,” Snowboots, New York
2008
“De donde eres,” Cordero, Bloodshot Records
2006
“En este momento,” Cordero, Bloodshot Records
2004
“Cordero” National Tour, CD and National Television appearances, CNN, MTV Espanol, LATV.
Performances at Radio City Music Hall, and many US Theaters
2003
Tour with Los Lobos, Tour with Indigo Girls
2001
"Cordero" Drummer and manager. Reviews summer 2001: The New York Times,
The Village Voice, TimeOut NY (featured music act), FOX5 TV "Good Day New York"
2000
“Bach On A Stick” Bach On A Hook Chris Verene Co-producer, drums, Vocals, Styling Pearineel Records Featured in the Whitney Biennial 2000 audio tour
1998
“Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall” The Rock*A*Teens Cover Photograph Merge Records
1997
“Cry” The Rock*A*Teens CD artwork, drums, (member and performer 1995- 1998) Daemon Records
1996
“The Rock*A*Teens,” CD artwork, drums Daemon Records
1996 “Shaming Of The Sun,” Indigo Girls Guest drummer Sony Records
1992
“But Me, I Fell Down” D.Q.E. (founding member with Grace Braun), drums, vocals, manager, promoter. Cargo Records/Feel Good All Over Records/ Hoppilty Hoi Records
1984-1994
D.Q.E. “Pictures of Cliffs” music cassette “Ride This Ride” music cassette “N is for Knowledge” music cassette “Rehabilly” music cassette “Masturbation Made A Mess Out Of Me” 7 inch vinyl record