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San Francisco Art Institute

California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles

Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles — Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sculpture/New Genres at all levels; Interdisciplinary Critique; Senior Junior Studio/Mentor [all genres]; Senior Studio/Mentor [all genres]; Multidisciplinary Workshop; Painting Workshop; Image Exploration (painting/photo class)

UCSD, San Diego (Beginning Sculpture; Beginning Painting)

UCLA, Los Angeles (Advanced Drawing; Beginning New Genres; Advanced New Genres)

Falls the Night, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Confessions of a Crap Artist (Holy Smoke), Part 2, e31 Gallery, Athens, Greece

Confessions of a Crap Artist, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, Germany

The Adages of Erasmus, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Superslicksurfcat and Project Blue Book, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA

Hallucinations and Manifestations, part 1, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Hallucinations and Manifestations, part 2, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany

The Complete Loss of Self, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Land of No Return, Dogenhaus Projekte Berlin / M. Kapinos, Berlin

New Work, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia

It's Easier to Take Apart Than to Put Back Together, Tanja Grunert & Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany

Chill Out, Roger Merians Gallery, New York

Project Blue Book, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Lost Dogs & Beer, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles

New Work, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

New Work, Petersburg Gallery, New York

New Work, Dennis Anderson, Los Angeles

New Work, Dennis Anderson, Los Angeles

New Work, Dennis Anderson, Los Angeles

New Work, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Global Times Painting To, Half Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Alex Becerra

Tales From Topographic Oceans, 2 Person Show with Ned Evans, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by BVB Art Productions

Hearsay: Contemporary Artists Reveal Urban Legends, LosJoCos Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Wendy Sherman

Wunderkammer, Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis

Hearsay: Contemporary Artists Reveal Urban Legends, Lancaster Museum of Art, CA, curated by Wendy Sherman

Hearsay: Contemporary Artists Reveal Urban Legends, Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, curated by Wendy Sherman

Anti-Vision, SEE STUDIO, Paris, France, curated by Guillaume Leingre

Triple Oh!, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia, curated by David Pestorius

Museum of Abject Sentimentality, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne Campus, Melbourne, Australia, curated by Philip Edwards

Another Cat Show, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA

West of the 405, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Meg Linton (catalog)

The Archaic Revival, Zic Zerp Gallerie, Rotterdam, Holland, curated by Dani Tull and Ewoud Van Rijn (catalog)

Works on Paper, Inc. Greatest Hits and Selected B-Sides, c. nichols project, Los Angeles, CA

Denim Solutions/Ambien Sex, Pop-Up Gallery, Hollywood, CA

Extract, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Beers 3, Byenscro, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Optimist's Parking Lot, The Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Suzanne Adelman and Keith Walsh

Some City Angels, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Marlena Donohue

Slab in Temporary Space, Temporary Space, Houston, TX, curated by Wendy Mason and Nancy Zastudil

Swell, Nyehaus / Friedrich Petzel Gallery / Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro

Collecting California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)

Falls the Night, The Ocean / The Waves Gallery, New York, NY

10 Year Anniversary Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA

The Hills Are Alive, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Laurie Steelink

Queensland Art, Brisbane, Australia, curated by David Pestorius (catalog)

Collecting California, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA (catalog)

I'm Gorgeous Inside, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Jasmine Little

Galerie Valerie, Galerie Sandra Beurgel, Berlin, Germany, curated by Valerie Stahl von Stromberg

Orbis Veteribus Notus, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Emphasis Santa Monica, Susan & Pete Barrett Gallery, Edythe & Eli Broad Theater, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Bruria Finkel (catalog)

Aspects of Mel's Hole, Grand Central Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, curated by Doug Harvey (catalog)

Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles, CA

"The Best Of" Show, Gallery Kapinos, Berlin, Germany

In Your Dreams, Lithographs with Thaddeus Strode, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Softcore, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Early 90s, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Western Lands, Gallery Balmoral, Los Angeles, CA

Middle School: Smart Art Press: The First Thirteen Years, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

TURRBAL-JAGERA: The University Of Queensland Art Projects 2006, Brisbane, Australia, curated by David Pestorius (catalog)

CAMPARI (This show was not sponsored by…), Park Projects, Los Angeles, curated by Luciano Perna

The Wonder and The Horror of the Human Head, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, Cubitt Gallery, London, curated by Meg Cranston

Color Photographs: Locations 1-5, Cannon Hudson, Paintings/Chris Wilder Photographs, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Daniel Hug

Inaugural Exhibition, Rental Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles

Kapinos Artists, Gallery Kapinos, Berlin, Germany

Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Eagle Rock Community Center, curated by Cindy Ojeda

100 Artists See God, traveling museum show, curated by John Baldessari & Meg Cranston: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (March 7 – June 27, 2004); Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (July 31 – October 3, 2004); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (November 19, 2004 – January 9, 2005); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA (June 9 – September 4, 2005); Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA (September 29, 2005 – January 8, 2006); Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (February 4 – April 16, 2006) (catalog)

Surf Culture, Sydney, Australia; The Beacon, Southgate, Melbourne, Australia; Milk Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)

The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

Surf Culture, Honolulu Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, HI

Surf Culture, San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Surf Culture, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

Preview, Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Surf Culture, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA

Lunatics Taking Over the Asylum, Works On Paper, Los Angeles

On Schindler, David Pestorius Project, Brisbane, Australia

Monochromes, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia

Surftrip, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA

Group Show, Bochynek, Duesseldorf, Germany

Spin Me Round, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia

Cyborg Manifesto, Laguna Beach Art Museum, CA

Life Lessons, Laguna Beach Art Museum, CA

Entropie zu Hause — Sammlung Schürmann, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen

Martin, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB, and Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland (catalog)

Sunshine & Noir — Art in L.A. 1960–97, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark and traveling in Sampler 2 (curated by Diana Thater)

They Came Here First!, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (catalog)

are we touched — identities from outer space, Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

Perfect Day, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY

Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Harbor, CA (catalog)

It's the Cathode Ray, Big Sail Gallery, Los Angeles

Angel Hair — EX.LA., curated by Michael Kapinos, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig

The Moderns, curated by Tony Payne, Feature, New York, NY

Sampler 2, curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner Gallery, New York

Screen, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Space Space, Post Gallery, Los Angeles

Group Show, Sarah Cottier Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

Eine Deutsche Sammlung — Ein Deutscher Wagen. Peter Ludwig und der Volkswagen, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (catalog)

Group Show, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, curated by Diana Thater

(cut) — LOS ANGELES — 90 ernes kunstscene, Kunstforeningen, Kopenhagen, Breda Fotographica '94, Breda, The Netherlands

I Myself & Me, Inter-Art Center, New York

Multiples, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

Technocolor: The Future That Never Was, curated by Bennett Roberts, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

influx, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago

Kustom Kulture, Laguna Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)

I Thought California Would be Different, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

Boomerang, a benefit for Act Up Los Angeles and The Magic Johnson Foundation, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles

Group Exhibition, curated by Tim Neuger, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

Group Show, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles

California Survey, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO

The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

The Pursuit of a Devoted Repulsion, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica

Tattoo Collection, Air de Paris, Paris and Urbi Orbi, Nizza

Tattoo Collection, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen, New York

The Store Show, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles

Not on Canvas, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

Group Exhibition, Petersburg Gallery, New York

New Art from L.A., Kyle Belding, Denver, CO

Sculpture into the Third Dimension, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA

Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York

Spent: Currency, Security, and Art on Deposit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibited in Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY

Los Angeles Current Abstract Painting, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles

14 Solo Exhibitions, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles

L.A. Six, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

Outer Limits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

Group Show, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

Fresh Art from Hollywood, Newspace, Los Angeles

Wallmounted Works, Mandeville Gallery, UCSD, San Diego

Group Exhibition, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles

Breaking Through the Looking Glass: West, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

Breaking Through the Looking Glass: East, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

Heterdoxy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

Project Blue Book, Imschoot, Uitgevers, Gent, Belgium

Rudy Can't Fail, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

12 X 12, curated sound performance by Steve Bankhead and Chris Wilder at Country Club Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Orbis Veteribus Notus, video screening as part of installation piece, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

When Worlds Collide, video screening, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica

When Worlds Collide, video and performance, University of Queensland, Australia, curated by David Pestorius

Colour Flight / Music For Len Lye, internationally traveling exhibition and performance, curated by David Pestorius. Opened at Sydney Opera House on July 9, 2004 in conjunction with the Sydney Biennale; screened at Art Forum Berlin; Austrian Film Museum Vienna; Foundation Cartier in Paris; Musterraum Munich; Toulouse Visual Arts Festival (curated by Isabelle Gaudefroy); Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane; Somerville Live, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth; Queensland Music Festival; Brisbane Powerhouse

Crystal Voyager Remix, with T. Kelly Mason, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA

Into the Lapse, curated by Brian Butler and Jean Rasenberger, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London

Into the Lapse, Friesenwall 120, Cologne

Into the Lapse, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig

Into the Lapse, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin

Into the Lapse, The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen (catalog)

Into the Lapse, Société des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Into the Lapse, 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Into the Lapse, FAR BAZZARE, Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles

Travel Tape, Foundation for Art Resources, Film/Video, Los Angeles

Fascination and Falling Water, Foundation for Art Resources, Film/Video, Los Angeles

A Personal View, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (Video: Left to Right)

Seven Artists, Parr Gallery, San Francisco (Video-Installation: Jack Palance)

Signals, Video Gallery, San Francisco (Video: Onebighair)

Natasha Boas, The Other San Francisco: Void California and Tales from Topographic Oceans; Huffington Post, HuffPost Arts & Culture; April 20, 2016

Wunderkammer Catalogue, curated by Ciara Ennis; Pitzer College Art Galleries; 105 pages, color reproductions; ISBN: 978-0-9966445-0-1. Foreword by Glenn Harcourt; essays by Christopher Michno and Ciara Ennis; designed by Stephanie Estrada

Hearsay: Contemporary Artists Reveal Urban Legends Catalogue, California State University, Fullerton's Grand Central Press. Introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand; curatorial statement by Lauren Haish & Wendy Sherman; essays by Doug Harvey, Tyler Stallings, Mat Gleason; design by Wendy Sherman

The Archaic Revival Review, catalog, PrintRoom Publication #11, curated by Dani Tull and Ewoud Van Rijn

Anne Phillipi, "Art of the Hour," Driven #1 / BMW Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2012

Andrea Gilbert, "California Dreamin'," City Uncovered (Athens, Greece), May 18, 2007

Matthew Wilder, "The Wonder and Horror of the Human Head," review, Artforum.com, March 2006

Mike Kelley & John Welchman, "UFOlogy," an interview between Mike Kelley and Chris Wilder, in Minor Histories — Statements, Conversations, Proposals, March 2004, MIT Press

Harold Fricke, "Preview," SPOT Magazine, Debut Issue, October 2003

Sven Druehl, "Der Paranoia-Diskurs: Conspiracies, UFOs und Verschworungdenken," Kunstforum, January–February Issue, pp. 102–135

"Alchemical Dollar" piece featured in Another Magazine, Spring Issue

Doug Harvey, "The Endless Summer Show," review of Surf Culture show at Laguna Museum of Art, LA Weekly, August 29, 2002

C. R. Stecyk III, Surf History, The Art History of Surfing, Exhibition Catalog, The Laguna Art Museum & Gingko Press; essays by Bolton Colburn, Ben Finney, Tyler Stallings, C. R. Stecyk III, Deanne Stillman & Tom Wolfe; designed by David Carson

Kristian Woznicki, "Chris Wilder," Frieze, March–April 1999, p. 90

"Dialogue Between Chris Wilder and Mike Kelley," BE-Magazine, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, May 1998

Brigitte Werneburg, "Kunst in Berlin Jetzt: Wilder, Merkel, Quandt," die tageszeitung, August 16/17, 1997

Nina Peters, "Abgedrehtes Teil," Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, August 9, 1997

Martin Conrads, "Sand in den Schuhen — Marihuana am Strand," Zitty, Berlin, August 17, 1997

Norman Lindner, "Ufos und der Strand von California," Berliner Zeitung, August 16/17, 1997

Martha Schwendener, "Sampler2: More Videos from Southern California," Time Out, January 31 – February 7, 1996, p. 25

Joshua Decter, review, Artforum, December 1995, p. 91f

David A. Greene, "Look Up in the Sky!," Los Angeles Reader, November 18, 1994, p. 30

Christopher Miles, "In and Out of this World," Artweek, November 17, 1994, p. 15

"Unfair — Art Cologne — Saatchi Collection," Flash Art, Vol. XXVII, Nr. 174, January/February 1994, p. 51

Lita Barrie, "A Forest of Toys," Visions, Winter 1993, p. 23f

David Pagel, Art Issues, November/December 1992

Lane Relyea, "Politically Correct/Incorrect — on Graduates and Dropouts," Art Space Magazine, July/August 1992

Peter Kosenko, "Disillusioned Desire," Artweek, October 22, 1992

"L.A. In Review," Arts Magazine, October 1991

Lane Relyea, review, Artforum, October 1991

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, "Slaves of L.A.; and Others," Art Space Magazine, Summer 1991

Roberta Smith, "Teddy Shapiro, Chris Wilder," The New York Times, July 20, 1989

Mark van Proyen, "Pathos on Pico Boulevard," Artweek, September 1989

Christopher Knight, "Drawing the battle lines in L.A. painting," Los Angeles Times, March 1989