Fitzpatrick

CHRIS FITZPATRICK
info [at] chrisfitzpatrick [dot] net

Chris Fitzpatrick is a curator, writer, and sound artist living in San Francisco, CA.

EDUCATION
2007-2009 California College of the Arts, MA in Curatorial Practice (candidate)
1997-2003 San Francisco State University, BA in Fine Arts, BA in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts

SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK
2008 Air China, Flight 986, San Francisco to Beijing
2008 Futurological Retrospection, Americana: Iowa, the Mary Augustine Gallery at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
2008 Base / Basin, The Center for Land Use Interpretation Wendover Research Unit, Wendover, UT.
2007 Swan Songs, Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
2007 Metagymnastics: The secret relationship between plants and humans, the Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
2007 Time Lines, Mina Dresden, San Francisco, CA
2004-2006 Co-director / co-founder, Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001-2002 Co-director, The Artery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2001 Television, installed in thirty small businesses, San Mateo, CA

ADDITIONAL WORK
2008 Assistant, The 8th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (August - September)
2007 Visual Arts Intern, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (January - June)
2006 Juror, SFMOMA Scavengers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2004-2006 Head Sound Engineer, Club Six, San Francisco, CA
2002-2003 Features Editor, PopMatters Magazine, Evanston, IL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ed. Chris Fitzpatrick & Matthew Post, “Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present” (Burgerworld Media: San Francisco, April 2008)
Ed Halter, “Present Tension” (www.rhizome.org: New York, March 25th, 2008)
Jeanne Storck, “Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present” (www.shotgun-review.com: San Francisco, March 19th, 2008)
Michael Leaverton, “Space Shot” (SF Weekly: San Francisco, July 25th, 2007)
Reyhan Harmanci, “Eat and Drink It Up” (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 12th, 2007)
Michael Leaverton, “Fuck Art, Let’s Eat” (SF Weekly, April 11th, 2007)
Michael Leaverton, “Out of Time” (SF Weekly, February 7th, 2007)
David Downs, “Cheap Wine, Free Cheese” (East Bay Express, July 26, 2006)
Kevin Miller, “Bolly’hood Re-mix” (Institute for Studies In American Music, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Spring, 2004)
Chris Fitzpatrick, “Messing With the Culture Industry Armada: Interview with Nato Thompson” (www.popmatters.com, 2002)
Chris Fitzpatrick, “Paranoia Over Privacy” (www.popmatters.com, www.alternet.org, 2002)
Josef Woodard, “The Look of Love” (The Los Angeles Times, 2001)

Swan Songs
July 28 - August 24, 2007

Featuring work by Robert Gendler, Mark A. Horton, Yvonne Mouser, Sham Saenz, and Aaron Sandnes.

Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA.