COLIN CHASE
Lives and work in New York
Education
1986
MFA, University of Michigan, School of Art and Design, Ann
Arbor,
MI
1982
BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and
Art,
School of Art,
New York
1979
AAS, Fashion Institute of Technology, Division of Textile
Design,
New York
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Intersection, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2005 not one not two June Kelly Gallery, New York
2003 season reason with a transitive verb, June Kelly
Gallery, New York
2001 To Turn a Somersault on a Needle’s Point, The
Phillips Museum
Franklin & Marshall, Lancaster, PA
1999 Free Associating New-Ancient Tongues, June Kelly
Gallery, New York
1995 Praise Poems and Mute Dialogue in the Upside-Down
Circle, June
Kelly Gallery,
New York
1993 Alchemy of Thought, The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
1993 Sculpture, Visual Arts Program, Saint Peter’s
Church,
New York
1992
After the Benediction of the Rain, Sculpture, June Kelly
Gallery,
New
York
1992
House of Many Stories, Sculpture, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon
College,
Gambier, OH
1990-91
New Sculpture, organized by the Flushing Council on the
Arts, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1989
Spirit Catchers, June Kelly Gallery,
New York
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2008-10 Reimaging the Distaff Toolkit, curated by Rickie
Solinger, Bennington Museum, VT.: Traveling Exhibition
2008 From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, curated by
Sophie Sanders and Shervone Neckles, Ice Box Project Space,
Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Catalogue
2007 Celebration: Nine Artists Commemorate the 35th
Anniversary of Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts Inc., Delta
Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC. Brochure essay by Dianne
Caesar.
2007 Crossing the Line, African American Artists in the
Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis Jr. Collection Cornell
Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
2006 Select Encounters, Broadway Gallery New York, NY
2005-6 Birdspace: A post-Audobon Artists Aviary,
Contemporary Art Center New Orleans LA, Traveling
Exhibition. Venues included Norton Museum of Art, West Palm
Beach Florida; The Hudson River Museum,Yonkers NY; The
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson , Arizona; Catalogue
2002 Out of the Woods, The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance,
Narrowsburg, NY
2002 Reactions, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
2001 Cross-Pollination, The Arboretum of Los Angeles
County, Arcadia, CA
2001 Cross-Pollination, Holland Tunnel Gallery, New York
2001 The Act of Drawing: Selected Works, Tompkins College
Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA;
Catalogue
2001 The Act of Drawing, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2000 The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary
Culture, 1982 - 2000, Exit Art, New York
2000
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, Chicago Cultural
Center, Chicago, Il
2000 Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, Studio
Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Catalogue
1999 Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections
from the Schomburg Center Collections, Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, New York; Catalog
1998 Pieces 2, curated by Sylvia Netzer, Gallery 128, New
York
1998 Postcards from Black America, curated by Rob Perrée,
De Beyerd, Centre For Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands
and the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands; Catalogue
essays by Rob Perrée
1997 Objectivity: International Objects of Subjectivity,
co-curated by Carla Hanzal and Barbara J. Bloemink,
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
1997 Pieces Speak, Gallery 128,
New York
1997 The 6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,
University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery
1997 Shaded Voices, School of Art, Cooper Union,
New York
1996 Til Spring Thaw: An Exhibition of Eclectic
Environmental Works, Aquamarine Park & Sculpture
Garden,
New York
1996
Small Works, Arthur Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, NY
1996 10th Anniversary Season, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long
Island City, NY
1996 The Shape of Sound, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and
Papo Colo, music curated by Ben Neill, Exit Art/The First
World,
New York
1995
Imaginary Beings, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo
Colo, Exit Art/The First World,
New York
1995 Required Nuance: Three Contemporary Sculptors, guest
curator, Carl E. Hazelwood, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
1995 Os Herdeiros da Noite: Fragmentos da Imaginario Negro,
Palmares 300 Anos, Pinacoteca Teca de Estados, Sao Paulo,
Brasil; curator, Dr. George Preston
1994 Composite, guest curator, Catherine Bernard, Neuberger
Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase, NY
1994 June Kelly: A Particular Vision, Anderson Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
1994 Sharing the Dream, organized by the LewAllen Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM; traveling exhibition
1994 House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts,
Summit, NJ
1993 The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of
African-American Art, PaineWebber Art Gallery,
New York;
traveling exhibition
1992
Fever, Inaugural Exhibition, Exit Art/The First World, NY;
traveling exhibition
1992 Houses of Spirit/Memories of Ancestors, Outdoor
Sculpture, Woodlawn Cemetery and Bronx Council on the Arts,
Bronx, NY
1992 Artists-in Residence, Longwood Gallery, Bronx Council
on the Arts, Bronx, NY
1992 Present Tense, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1992 Good Work, Arthur Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union,
NY
1992 Solutions, Longwood Gallery, Bronx Council on the
Arts, NY
1991
1991 Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival, Staten Island, NY
1991 New York Diary: Almost Twenty-Five Different Things,
P.S.1 Museum, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Long
Island City, NY
1990 Five Contemporary Sculptors, Cinque Gallery,
New York
1990
New Perspectives: Colin Chase, Whitfield Lovell, Frances
Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami,
FL
1990 Noah’s Ark, 20th Century, Triplex Gallery,
Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of
New York
1989 From the Studio, Then & Now: 20 years of
Artists-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Donald
M. Kendall Sculpture Garden, PepsiCo
Headquarters, Purchase, NY
1989 Thoughts and Memories, 128 Rivington Gallery,
New York
1989
Pillar to Post-Contemporary Wall Sculpture, Kenkeleba
Gallery,
New York
1989
Monoprints and Sculpture, The Interchurch Center
Gallery,
New York
1988
Faculty + 1, The Leonard Davis Center Gallery, City College
of the City University of New York
1988 Surface Instructions, The Bronx River Art Gallery,
Bronx, NY
1988 Workspace ‘88, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1988 Six Black Sculptors, Hudson Guild Art Gallery,
New York
1988 National and International Studio Arts, The Institute
for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
1987 From the Studio: Artist-in-Residence, 1986-87, The
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
1987
Required Nuance: Three Contemporary Sculptors, guest
curator, Carl E. Hazelwood, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
1986 Perceptions and Expressions II: Black Artists
Celebrate Black History Month, Michigan Union Gallery, Ann
Arbor, MI
1985 Works in Progress, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Catalogues, Reviews and Articles
From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, essay by Sophie
Sanders and Shervone Neckles, Ice Box Project Space, Crane
Arts, Phiadelphia, PA; p. 15, 2008
Birdspace: A post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Essay by David S.
Rubin, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA. p. , 2004
The Act of Drawing: Medium/Method/Meaning, Selected Works,
Essay by Cynthia Hawkins, Tompkins College Center Gallery,
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, p. 8, 2001
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, Essay by Deirdre
Scott, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY p. , 2000
Ellison Austen Walcott, “Colin Chase”, Art
Papers Magazine, January/February 2000
Black
New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the
Schomburg Center Collections, Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture,
New York, NY, p. 63 & 83, 1999
Mark Daniel Cohen, “Colin Chase, June Kelly
Gallery”, Review
Magazine: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York,
1999
Anthony DiMaggio, “Colin Chase, June Kelly
Gallery”, Review
Magazine: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York,
1999
Postcards from Black America, essays by Bob Perree, Center
for Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands and the Frans Hals
Museum,
Haarlem, Netherlands, p. , 1998
Cotter, Holland, “Sculpture That Basks in
Summer,” The New York Times, Friday, August 9, 1996
Hazelwood, Carl E., “Colin Chase at June Kelly
Gallery,” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art,
Spring 1996
Karmel, Pepe, “Persistence of Pagan Myth in Modern
Imagination,”
The New York Times, Friday, December 29, 1995
Hazelwood, Carl E., “Required Nuance: 3 Contemporary
Sculptors,” exhibition essay, The Studio Museum in
Harlem, NY, 1995
Raynor, Vivian, “Piecing Together a Multicultural
Heritage,” The New York Times, Sunday, August 7, 1994
Bernard, Catherine, “Composite,” exhibition
essay, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase, NY, 1994
Armitage, Diane, “Sharing the Dream,” THE
Magazine, July 1994
Fauntleroy, Gussie, "Sharing the Dream: Dialogue Caught in
Imagination," Pasatiempo, June 3, 1994
Watkins, Eileen, “Images of Houses Find Happy Home in
Summit
Exhibit,” Sunday Star Ledger, May 22, 1994
ArtMatters, February 1993
Szanski, Edward J., “Synthesizing Culture with
emotion, intellect,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February
23, 1993
Neff, Eileen, “Alchemy of Thought,” exhibition
essay, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA, 1993
ARTnews, review by Megan Mueller, November 1992
Sims, Lowery Stokes, exhibition essay, June Kelly Gallery,
1992
Fox, Margalit, “Sculptures Celebrating the Cycle of
Life,” New York Newsday, Tuesday, August 25, 1992
Brenson, Michael, “Cityful of Sculpture Under the
Sky,” The New York Times, July 26, 1991
Carrillo, Karen, “Colin Chase Sculpts the Spirit in
Objects,” The City Sun, January 16-22, 1991
Wallach, Amei, “Symbolic Humans,” New York
Newsday, March 24, 1989
The New York Times, review by Michael Brenson, March 10,
1989
Wilson, Fred, exhibition essay, June Kelly Gallery, 1989
Brenson, Michael, “Sculptors using the Wall as Venue
and Inspiration,” The New York Times, February 24,
1989
Awards
2008-9 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Visual Arts
2007-8 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Visual Arts
2004-5 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Visual Arts
2004 The New York Health and Hospitals Corporation
1990-91
Artist-in-Residence, Longwood Studios, Bronx Council on the
Arts, Bronx, NY
1987-88 National Studio Program, The Institute for
Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
1986-87 Artist-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem,
NY
Public
Collections
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
AT&T
The New School New York
Public
Commissions
1999-2003
Queens Hospital Center, DASNY. The New York Health and
Hospitals Corporation, Percent for Art Program Sponsored b
The Department of Cultural Affairs NY
1994-1998 Malcolm X Memorial, etched glass and bronze
lettering, Percent for Art Program, sponsored by,
Department of Cultural Affairs and NY
City Economic Development Corporation.