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EDUCATION
1995 MFA (Sonnenberg): The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1987 BFA (Sonnenberg): Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1996 MFA (Hanson): The University of Illinois at Chicago
1986 BFA (Hanson): Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
+ Store Gallery, London, England
+ Cohan and Leslie, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2005
+ Nye Haus, 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, October (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 BIBLIOGRAHY
2005
+ 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.
+ Merrily Kerr, "Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg", Flash Art, No.236, (May-June), p.139-140.
+ Roberta Smith, "Art in Review: Colony", The New York Times, (Fri. April 9), E37.
+ Noah Chasin, Time Out, (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.
1996
+ Laurie Palmer, "Corey McCorkle/Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg",Frieze (Summer) p.80-81.
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.
LECTURES
2005
+ Boston Museum School - Eight Sculptors (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
1995
+ Museum of Contemporary Art - Visiting lecturer, Chicago, IL
+ University of Illinois at Chicago - Guest critic, Chicago, IL
+ Art Institute of Chicago - Visiting Artist (Undergraduate Program), Chicago
AWARDS
+ Regional Artists' Biennial - Fort Wayne Museum
+ Clyde Burt Memorial Award
+ Union League Civic & Arts Foundation - Visual Arts Scholarship - Chicago, IL
+ Canada Council - Exploration Grant