CHRIS SOLLARS

Artist & musician Chris Sollars subverts public space through absurd performance interventions. Since 1996, he has worked in the street and landscape to have immediate interaction with a public audience and to collect society’s detritus, trash, and artifacts for sculptures that is often comedic. The results are documented using photography, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed-media installations. Since starting a band in 2016, instrument construction, music, and lyrics have become an integral way to turn his discontent for man made environmental and social catastrophes into soundtracks for art. Sollars is an Associate Professor in Studio Art at Dartmouth College. Awards include 2022 MacDowell Fellowship, 2022 Ucross Foundation Residency, Jentel Artist Residency, 2021 Gate 27 Istanbul Residence,  2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2013 San Francisco Arts Commission: Individual Artist Commission Grant, 2012 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant, 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency, & 2015 Recology Artist in Residence. Sollars in 2008 completed C RED BLUE J which screened at SFMOMA on Election Day and was included in CREATIVE TIME’s Democracy in America show at the NY Park Armory. Recent Exhibitions include Hoof & Foot at the Manetti Shrem Museum, DAAAM at Chico State University; White on Red at 1275 Minnesota St.; and Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid.
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