Channing Hansen

Born: 1972 in Los Angeles, USA

Lives and works: Los Angeles, USA

Education

2008 Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, USA

1997 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2019 Pattern Recognition, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong

2018 Morphogenesis, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2017 Fluid Dynamics, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, USA Channing Hansen, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Self Portraits, CRG Gallery, New York, USA

2016 K2, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, USA

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2019-2020 Thread, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, USA

2019 It’s All Black and White, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, California, USA

2018 Alan Shields Project, Van Doren Waxter, New York, USA Textile Abstraction, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Columbia (exh. cat.) Black & White & In Between: Contemporary art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California, USA.

2017 Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, USA Brass Tacks, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Intertwined, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA 99 Cents or Less, Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, USA

2016

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20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA TWO X TWO, Dallas, USA Intertwined, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA

2015 The Slow Burn, Ditch Projects, Springfield, USA When the Sun Hits, The Pit, Los Angeles, USA Warp and Weft, Chain Stitch and Pearl: Textiles in the Ahmanson Collection, Fieldsted & Company, Los Angeles, USA

2014 Made in LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA The Word Today, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany

2013 Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA An Annotated Exhibition, Hilary Crisp Gallery, London, UK

2012 Organic/Synthetic, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, USA

2011-2012 Womb-Womb Room, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2002 Interstices, Solway Jones, Los Angeles, USA

Performances (Selected)

2016 Artists on Artists: Channing Hansen on Barbara Kasten, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (performance)

2000 Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, Performance with Beck Hansen, Yoko Ono Piano Drop, Schloss Moyland Museum, Joseph Beuys Institute, Bedburg-Hau, Germany Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, USA

1999 Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, LaForet, Tokyo, Japan Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

1998 Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance, Yoko Ono Piano Drop, Track 16, Santa Monica, USA Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance, Thread Waxing Space, New York City, USA

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Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen’s Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Plug, In, Winnipeg, Canada

1996 Hansen on Happenings, performance, Kölnisches Stadt Museum, Cologne, Germany

1991 Untitled Happening, The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles, USA Untitled Happening, Café Troy, Los Angeles, USA

Selected Publications

2018 Swinkels, Dorothé. “Handbreien met een algoritme,” Textiel Plus, August (print) Campbell, Andy. “Andy Campbell on Channing Hansen,” Artforum, February (print)

2017 Smith, Roberta. “Art and Museums in NYC This Week,” New York Times, 23 February (print and web) Gopnik, Blake. “Could Channing Hansen’s Knits Bring Painting Back From the Dead?” Artnet News, 16 February (web)

2015 Lester, Paul. “Q&A with Los Angeles Artist Channing Hansen,” The Agency Daily, 6 March (web) O’Brien, Melinda. “The Talent,” Southbay Magazine, February–March (print)

2014 Bloomingdale, Natalie. “Art and Power,” Angelino Magazine, December (print) Chang, Richard. “’Made in L.A.’ focuses on emerging artists from City of Angels,” Orange County Register, 20 June (web) Frank, Priscilla. “’Made in L.A. 2014’: To Walk Amongst Giants Or To Jam Out Alone?” Huffington Post, 21 June (web) Knight, Christopher. “‘Made in L.A.’ biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent,” Los Angeles Times. 19 June (print and web) Plagens, Peter. “Exhibit a Creation of Show, Not Tell,” The Wall Street Journal, 19 August (print and web) Wu, Su. “Art Matters: A Biennial in, and About, Los Angeles,” New York Times, 13 June (print and web, image) Zimskind, Lyle. “Channing Hansen’s Quantum Paintings are Really Knit,” Los Angeles Magazine, 17 July (web)

2012 Baxter, Jared. “Night Terrors,” Artslant, 17 January (web) Butler, Connie. “This is Art—These People are Artists: Pacific Standard Time, Conceptual Art, and Other Momentous Events from a Local Point of View,” Art Journal, Spring (print)

Public Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles

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The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

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