Chris Evans’ work often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role: the directors of a leading champagne house, a former member of the British Constructivists, the CEO of a Texas pharmaceutical company, a selection of elderly Italian politicians etcetera. Sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts and unwieldy social situations created as a result of this, are indexes of a larger structure through which Evans deliberately confuses the roles of artist and patron, genius and muse.
Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at: Marres, Maastricht NL (‘The Cell That Doesn’t Believe In The Mind That It’s Part Of’ (2010)); Mala Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (‘I Don’t Know If I’ve Explained Myself’ (2010)); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp Belgium (’Take A Bureaucratic Bow’, (2009)); Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (’Point at it, like a farmer at a pig’, (2008)); and Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany (’What’s the point of a revolution without copulation, copulation, copulation’, (2008)). His work has also been shown as part of ‘The Indirect exchange of uncertain value’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2011), ‘Taipei Biennial 2010’, Taiwan; ‘An Unpardonable Sin’ Castillo/Corales, Paris, France (2010), ‘Talk Show’, ICA, London UK (2009), ‘Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie’, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2009); ‘A Fantasy for Alan Kaprow’, CIC, Cairo, Egypt (2009); and ‘The Impossible Prison’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2008).
Chris Evans is currently based in London and is represented by Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam and Luettgenmeijer, Berlin.
A monograph on Chris Evans’ work will be co-published by Sternberg and Thea Westreich/Ethan Wagner Publications in November 2011.