Hanson / Sonnenberg
- Chris Hanson b.1964, Montreal, Canada, lives and works in New York
- Hendrika Sonnenberg b.1963, Toronto, Canada, lives and works in New York
- Education
- 1993
- MFA (Sonnenberg): The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 1987
- BFA (Sonnenberg): Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
- 1995
- MFA (Hanson): The University of Illinois at Chicago
- 1987
- BFA (Hanson): Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2010
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada
- 2008
- Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
- 2007
- The Suburban, Chicago, Illinois
- 2005
- Store, London, England
- Cohan and Leslie, New York
- 2004
- Cohan and Leslie, New York
- 2001
- Cohan and Leslie, New York
- 2000
- White Columns, New York
- 1999
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (catalogue)
- 1998
- Windows (Jean Bernier & Tanit), Brussels
- 1996
- Thomas Blackman Exhibition Space, Chicago
- 1989
- Vinyl Installation, Gallerie SKOL, Montreal Canada
- Group Exhibitions
- 2012
- Columbus College of Art and Design, "Simulacrum", curated by Michael Goodson, Columbus, USA
- Nuit Blanche, curated by Christina Ritchie, Toronto, Canada
- 2011
- McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
- 2010
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- 2009
- Arena: Road Show - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
- White Noise – James Cohan Gallery, New York
- The Little Shop on Hoxton Street – Limoncello Gallery, London, England
- Arena: The Art of Hockey - Juste Pour Rire Museum, Montreal, Quebec
- Meeting Point – Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto (curated by Earl Miller)
- 2008
- Arena: The Art of Hockey - Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
- Contemporaries – Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada
- Accident Blackspot – Freight and Volume, New York
- The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
- 2007
- The Lath Picture Show – Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
- 2006
- Common Ground - Public Art Fund, New York (curated by Rochelle Steiner)
- BAM: Next Next Visual Art - Brooklyn, New York (curated by Dan Cameron and Yukie Kamiya)
- Interstate: The American Road Trip – Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (curated by Allyson Baker and Andrea Zittel)
- LDN vs NYC: Inflatable Collapsing New People - New York (curated by Karim Hamid)
- 2005
- Free Trade (video screening) - Outpost Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- A.B. Normal - Nyehaus, New York (curated by Tim Nye)
- Withdrawl - Chez Valentin, Paris, France (curated by Joe Scanlan)
- Much Madness is Divinest Sense - Cohan and Leslie, New York
- Drawings: A-Z - Coleccao Madiera Corporate Services , Portugal (curated by Adriano Pedrosa)
- 2004
- I feel mysterious today - ICA, Palm Beach (curated by Dominic Molon)
- Spacemakers - Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, Germany (curated by Courtenay Smith/ Brett Bloom)
- Sprawl - Hudson Clearing, New York (curated by Emily Wei and Haan Chau)
- Colony - Hudson Clearing, New York (curated by Emily Wei and Haan Chau)
- 2003
- Game Over - Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
- Back in Black - Cohan and Leslie, New York
- Instant Coffee Mediatheque - 2003 Images Festival, Toronto
- 2002
- Art video Lounge - Art/Basel/Miami Beach, Miami (curated by James Rondeau)
- Building Structures - P.S.1/MOMA (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)
- Home Wrecker – Good Bad Collective, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Karl Conrad)
- 2001
- Promises – Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada, (curated by Christina Ritchie)
- The Fifth International – New York (curated by Michelle Maccarone and Chivas Clems)
- 2000
- Death Race 2000 – Thread Waxing Space, New York (curated by Rachel Lowther)
- New Work – Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX (catalogue)
- Drawing 2000 – Barbara Gladstone, New York (catalogue)
- Tweak – Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (curated by Michael Buckland)
- Greater New York – P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – organized in collaboration with The MuseuM of Modern Art (catalogue/CD Rom)
- 1999
- Calendar 2000 – Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies
- 1998
- Lo-Fi Baroque – Thread Waxing Space, New York (catalogue)
- Fandom – White Columns, New York
- World Views (in co-operation with Creative Time) – Deutsche Bank, New York
- New Work – Thomas Blackman Exhibition Space, Chicago
- Behind Closed Doors: Video in Interior Spaces – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Limousine – Free Parking, Toronto (catalogue)
- Untitled – Gallery 312, Chicago
- (Tag to play) – The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
- Group Exhibition – ALLGIRLS Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- New Work – MWMWM, Chicago
- 1995
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog (but I don’t really mind) – TBA, Chicago (catalogue)
- Depends – Gallery 400, Chicago
- A Tough Solstice – Tough (The Uncomfortable Spaces), Chicago
- Glom – Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)
- Visual Arts Scholarship Exhibit – Union League Civic Arts Foundation, Chicago
- The Regional Artists’ Biennial – Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN (catalogue)
- Group Show – N.A.M.E., Chicago
- Real Small (Little Things) – Traveling Exhibition: Budapest, Chicago, New York, Memphis
- Il y a toujours un voleur entre deux policier. – Gallery 2, Chicago
- Selected Bibliography
- 2009
- Larry Humber, “Hockey Scores A New Arena”, The Globe and Mail, (Mon. Oct. 12th)
- 2008
- Ingrid Chu, Time Out New York, (Issue No. 663, August 20-26)
- Ray Cronin, “Spotlight : Serious Play from Halifax to Brooklyn”, Canadian Art, (Summer), p.42-46
- Maxwell Williams, Tokion Website, Posted May 21
- “Focus”, Art Review, (January, Issue 18), p.76-79
- 2006
- Bryony Roberts, “Interstate: The American Road Trip”, The L Magazine, (June), p.70
- Jessica Dodell-Feder, “Art, Parked”, Queens Chronicle, (Thurs. June 7), p. 21
- 2005
- H.Sonnenberg and C.Hanson, “ Dialogue: Art and Labor with Jessica Stockholder and Joe
Scanlan”, Art Journal, ( Vol. 64, no 4 Winter 2005), p. 50-70
- Marshall Webb, Canadian Art, ( Winter 2005, Volume 22, Number 4
- JArt Review, " Bright Young Things - New International Discoveries", (Dec/Jan), p.100
- Martin Coomer, Time Out London, (issue No. 1834, October 12-19), p.38
- Simon Houpt, "In Snow's wake a new generation of Canadian artists take Manhatten", Globe and Mail, (Wed. Oct.5), R1
- Martha Schwendener, Time Out New York, (Issue No.517, August 25-31), p.61.
- Earl Miller, "Nice Nihilism: The Art of Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg", C Magazine
(Issue 85, Spring 2005), p.32-35
- 2004
- Scott Rothkopf, "Electoral Collage: A Portfolio", Art Forum, (September), p.240
- Karen Rosenberg, "Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg", Frieze, Issue 84 (June), p. 141
- Jeffrey Kastner, "Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg", Art Forum, (May), p.211
- C. Hanson and H. Sonnenberg, “Fruit Bowls and Hockey Fights”, One Star Press, Paris, France
- Merrily Kerr, "Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg", Flash Art, No.236, (May), p.139-140
- Roberta Smith, "Art in Review: Colony", The New York Times, (Fri. April 9), E37
- Noah Chasin, Time Out New York, (Issue No. 442, March 18-25), p.72
- Ken Johnson, "Art in Review", The New York Times (Fri. March 19), E35
- Brian Sholis, "Critics' Pick, artforum.com
- Kim Levin, "Voice Choices", Village Voice (March 24-30), p.86
- Ken Johnson, "Art in Review: Sprawl", The New York Times, (Fri. Jan.23)
- 2003
- Samuele Menin and Valentina Sansone, "Sculpture Forever - Contemporary Sculpture (Part 1), Flash Art, No. 230, (May -June), p.122-129
- Sarah Milroy, "Next Generation", The Globe and Mail (Sat. May 10), Section 5
- 2002
- Melanie O’Brian, “Promises: Espousal and Constraint”, Mix (Vol. 27 No-4 Spring 2002), p.50-51
- 2001
- Adrian Dannatt, “New York Diary by Adrian Dannatt”, The Art Newspaper, (Dec. 2001), No.120
- Michael Wilson, “Critics’ Pick”, artforum.com
- Roberta Smith, The New York Times (Fri. Dec.14), E41
- Kim Levin, “Voice Choices- Short List”, Village Voice (Dec.18), p.80
- Craig Stewart, “Promises”, Terminal City (Oct. 12-18), p.17
- Michael Scott, “Gallery lives up to Promises”, Vancouver Sun (Nov.15-21), C4
- Germaine Koh, “Soft Design for Mushy Thought”, Mix (Winter 2001), p.24-28
- 2000
- Massimiliano Gioni, “New York Cut Up”, Flash Art (Jan.- Feb.), p.67-69
- Ken Johnson, “Art in Review : Death Race 2000”, The New York Times (Fri. Dec. 22), E46
- Alfred Mac Adam, “Drawings 2000”, ARTnews (October), p.177
- John Russell, “Making Pen and Ink Seem Passe: The Proliferation of New Ways to Draw”,
The New York Times (Aug. 18), E33
- Klauss Kertess, “Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery”, exhibition catalogue
- 1999
- Charlene Roth, “Hendrika Sonnenberg & Chris Hanson – LACE”, New Art Examiner (June).
- Frances Richard, “The Hub and The Glitch – On Hendrika Sonnenberg and Chris Hanson”,
exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
- David Pagel, “Art Review”, LA Times (March 3), p.F8
- Steve Mumford, “Lo-Fi Baroque”, Review (Jan. 15), p.41-42
- David A. Greene, “Rec Room”, The Village Voice (Feb. 3), p.139
- David A. Greene,”Fandom”, Frieze (January), p.84-85
- 1997
- Roberta Smith, “Art in Review”, The New York Times (Fri. Nov. 14), E45
Janet Cavallero,”Mitchell Kane, Hendrika Sonnenberg and Chris Hanson”,
New Art Examiner (Feb.), p.46-47
- 1995
- Deborah Wilk, “Youth Culture Killed My Dog (but I don’t really mind)”,
Flash Art (Summer), p.76
- Joe Scanlan, “Youth Culture Killed My Dog (but I don’t really mind)”, exhibition catalogue, Chicago:
Thomas Blackman Exhibition Space
- Hamza Walker, “Glom”, exhibition catalogue, Chicago: Randolph Street Gallery
- Terry R. Myers, “Regional Artists’ Biennial”, exhibition catalogue, Fort Wayne Museum of Art
- Awards
- 2009
- Canada Council - Research/Creation Grant
- 2007
- Canada Council – Career Development Grant
- 2005
- Canada Council - Project Grant
- 1995
- Regional Artists’ Biennial - Fort Wayne Museum
- 1995
- Clyde Burt Memorial Award
- 1995
- Union League Civic & Arts Foundation – Visual Arts Scholarship – Chicago, IL
- 1989
- Canada Council – Exploration Grant
- Lectures
- 2007
- University of Illinois of Chicago – Voices Lecture Series, Gallery 400
- Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada – lecture and individual critiques
- 2006
- American University, Washington D.C – Artist in Resident : lecture and individual critiques
- Rhode Island of School and Design - lecture and individual critiques
- 2005
- Boston Museum School - Eight Sculptors - lecture, seminar, and individual critiques
- University of Tennessee - lecture, seminar and individual critiques
- 2004
- Yale University School of Art - Art and Labor - panel discussion, individual lecture, critiques
- 2003
- Toronto International Art Fair, Cultural Program - Negotiating Art Projects: Partners who make art
- 1996
- Art Institute of Chicago - Visiting Artist (Graduate Program), Chicago, IL
- Randolph Street Gallery - Project space exhibition committee member, Chicago, IL
- University of Illinois at Chicago - Guest critic, Chicago, IL
- 1995
- Museum of Contemporary Art - Visiting lecturer, Chicago, IL
- Art Institute of Chicago - Visiting Artist (Undergraduate Program), Chicago
- Public Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- PS1, Brooklyn, New York
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Foundation 2021, New York
- Judith Rothschild Foundation
- Peter Norton Foundation
- Metropolitain Bank and Trust, Cleveland
- Ernst and Young, London, England
- Affiliations
- Artist Pension Trust, New York Branch
