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State University of New York at Purchase.
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Chris Dorland
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Dorland received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from State University of New York at Purchase. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Rema Horticulture Mann Grant, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. Dorland is an alumnus of the Art & Law program residency.
Dorland’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Queens Museum of Art, New York and Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, White Flag Projects, Street-Louis, Missouri, and The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois. He has exhibited at galleries including Martos Los Angeles, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Sikkema Jenkins, Marianne Boesky Gallery, RandallScottProjects Valentina Bonomo Gallery, and Five ELEVEN. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Bronx Museum, the Whitney Museum of Art and Neuberger Berman.
He has been featured in several publications such as Whitewall Magazine, POSTmatter, Frische, and The WILD Magazine. He has curated exhibitions.
Notably Skin Jobs at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Los Angeles and DATA TRASH at I-20 Gallery in New New York Dorland has also been commissioned to create public projects by Art Production Fund and the New Museum, and Juilliard School of Music.
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Describing his work as “a reflection on consumer society and the modern ruin,” Dorland uses the logic of painting and collage, developing a series of interconnected yet distinct bodies of work that, seen together, build a comprehensive and metaphorically layered visual language that speaks to the contemporary experience of globalization, technology and Capitalism. In this way, his work visualizes the blurring of hyper-representation and hyper-abstraction that is a hallmark of consumer Capitalism.
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