CHRIS FITZPATRICK
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b. 1978, New York; lives in San Francisco
Currently based in San Francisco, independent curator Chris Fitzpatrick has organized exhibitions and events internationally for venues including the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy, the Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada and the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, US. His writing and interviews have been taped to the feet of carrier pigeons and published in Pazmaker, Mousse Magazine, Flash Art Italia, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, The Banff Crag & Canyon, and Art in America.
EDUCATION / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2010
+ FIAC & Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France, Young Curators Invitational
+ Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, Young Curators' Residency Programme
2009
+ Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Alternative Exposure Grant
+ The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, 08 Thematic Residency: Polymath Breakthrough
+ California College of the Arts, San Francisco, MA in Curatorial Practice
2003
+ San Francisco State University, BA in Fine Arts / BA in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2010
+ Project Manager, The Marvelous Museum - Orphans, Curiosities, & Treasures: A Mark Dion Project, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (+ catalog)
+ Co-curator, Persona in Meno, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo (May-June), Guarene d'Alba, and Palazzo Ducale (September-October), Genova, Italy (+ catalog)
+ Co-curator, SC13, SC13, San Francisco Antique & Design Mall, San Francisco (+ catalog)
2009
+ Editor, The W in W. Victor Crich, The Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
+ Co-curator, Punctuation: Four Stops, Two Marks of Movement, One Gap, Some Continuations, and a Stroke or Expression of the Indefinite or Fragmentary, Right Window, San Francisco, CA (+ catalog)
+ Co-curator, Ersatz Group Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (+ catalog)
+ Co-curator, The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Queens Nails Projects, Photo Epicenter, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA (+ catalog) (co-curator)
2008
+ Curator, Futurological Retrospection - Americana: Iowa, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
+ Curator, As Above So Below, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
(+ catalog)
+ Co-curator, Base/Basin, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT
+ Moderator, Frank Chu on 12 Galaxies, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
+ Curator, Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
(+ catalog)
2007
+ Curator, Swan Songs, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
(+ catalog)
+ Co-curator, Metagymnastics: The Secret Relationship Between Plants and Humans, Per Schumann and Malte Zacharias, The Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
2006
+ Juror, SFMOMA Scavengers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2004-2006
+ Founding co-director, Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002-2003
+ Features Editor and Contributing Writer, PopMatters Magazine, Evanston, IL
SELECTED WRITING
2010
+ Project Manager and contributing writer, The Marvelous Museum - Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures: A Mark Dion Project, Chronicle Books, 2010
+ Chris Fitzpatrick, "The Use of Spiritual Gifts" in The Addition (Edited by Krist Gruijthuijsen), JRP Ringier, 2010
+ Chris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers, "Cryp•to•mu•se•ol•o•gy |Kriptō-myoōzēäləjē|" in Pazmaker N*9, Mexico City, 2010
+ Chris Fitzpatrick, “None of the Above, Deric Carner” in None of the Above, Deric Carner, Ping Pong Gallery, 2010
2009
+ Chris Fitzpatrick, texts on Walter de Maria, Donald Judd, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Ryman in Irwin & Hooper: The Frances and John Bowes Collection, Vol. II, CCA, 2009
+ Chris Fitzpatrick, “Reference Material: Mario García Torres in Conversation,” in Art in America Magazine Online, 2009
+ Chris Fitzpatrick. “Post Pastoral: Science Fictive Photography,” in Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer 2009, Vol. 36, No. 1
2008
+ Chris Fitzpatrick and Matthew Post. "Could be asked, might choose to answer: 20 questions for Raimundas Malasauskas," in Mousse Magazine, Issue #16 December 2008 / January 2009, & Curating Now 8, March 2009
2002
+ Chris Fitzpatrick, “Messing With the Culture Industry Armada: An Interview with Nato Thompson,” in PopMatters Magazine, 2002
SELECTED ENGAGEMENTS
2010
+ A Map Bigger Than Its Territory, Gallery Rotor I, Gothenburg, Sweden (co-curated by Finn Chung, Lina Kruopyte, Xavier Villafranca)
+ To Be Continued (at the Point of Abandon), the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (B.H.Q.F.U.), New York (moderated by Sally O'hara Szwed)
+ 01-11-10, Ludlow38, New York (co-ordinated by Jeanne Dreskin & Snowden Snowden)
2009
+ Charles Olson's The Fiery Hunt, Moby Dick Small Talks, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (helmed by Kevin Killian)
+ A series of first impressions..., PS1, New York (networked by Carson Salter)
2008
+ Release of Dot Dot Dot #16 and F.R. David #3, Castillo/Corrales - Section 7 Books, Paris (hosted by Raimundas Malašauskas & Will Holder)