Channing Hansen

Lives and works: Los Angeles, USA


Education

2008
Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, USA

1997
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA


Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2019-2020
Channing Hansen, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, California, USA

2019
Pattern Recognition, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong

2018
Morphogenesis, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2017
Fluid Dynamics, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, USA
Channing Hansen, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Self Portraits, CRG Gallery, New York, USA

2016
K2, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, USA


Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2019-2020
Thread, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, USA

2019
It's All Black and White, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, California, USA

2018
Alan Shields Project, Van Doren Waxter, New York, USA
Textile Abstraction, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Columbia (exh. cat.)
Black & White & In Between: Contemporary art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California, USA.
Inherent Structures, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA

2017
Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, USA
Brass Tacks, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Intertwined, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA
99 Cents or Less, Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, USA

2016
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
TWO X TWO, Dallas, USA
Intertwined, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA

2015
The Slow Burn, Ditch Projects, Springfield, USA
When the Sun Hits, The Pit, Los Angeles, USA
Warp and Weft, Chain Stitch and Pearl: Textiles in the Ahmanson Collection, Fieldsted & Company, Los Angeles, USA

2014
Made in LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Word Today, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany

2013
Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
An Annotated Exhibition, Hilary Crisp Gallery, London, UK

2012
Organic/Synthetic, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, USA
2011-2012
Womb-Womb Room, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2002
Interstices, Solway Jones, Los Angeles, USA


Performances (Selected)

2016
Artists on Artists: Channing Hansen on Barbara Kasten, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (performance)

2000
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, Performance with Beck Hansen, Yoko Ono Piano Drop, Schloss Moyland Museum, Joseph Beuys Institute, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, USA

1999
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Art Beatus, Vancouver, CanadaBeck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, LaForet, Tokyo, Japan Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

1998
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CABeck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance, Yoko Ono Piano Drop, Track 16, Santa Monica, USA
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance, Thread Waxing Space, New York City, USA
Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches, performance of Al Hansen's Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, Plug, In, Winnipeg, Canada

1996
Hansen on Happenings, performance, Kölnisches Stadt Museum, Cologne, Germany

1991
Untitled Happening, The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles, USA
Untitled Happening, Café Troy, Los Angeles, USA


Selected Publications

2019
Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon (print)

2018
Swinkels, Dorothé. "Handbreien met een algoritme," Textiel Plus, August (print)
Campbell, Andy. "Andy Campbell on Channing Hansen," Artforum, February (print)

2017
Smith, Roberta. "Art and Museums in NYC This Week," New York Times, 23 February (print and web)
Gopnik, Blake. "Could Channing Hansen's Knits Bring Painting Back From the Dead?" Artnet News, 16 February (web)

2015
Lester, Paul. "Q&A with Los Angeles Artist Channing Hansen," The Agency Daily, 6 March (web)
O'Brien, Melinda. "The Talent," Southbay Magazine, February-March (print)

2014
Bloomingdale, Natalie. "Art and Power," Angelino Magazine, December (print)
Chang, Richard. "'Made in L.A.' focuses on emerging artists from City of Angels," Orange County Register, 20 June (web)
Frank, Priscilla. "'Made in L.A. 2014': To Walk Amongst Giants Or To Jam Out Alone?" Huffington Post, 21 June (web)
Knight, Christopher. "‘Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent," Los Angeles Times. 19 June (print and web)
Plagens, Peter. "Exhibit a Creation of Show, Not Tell," The Wall Street Journal, 19 August (print and web)
Wu, Su. "Art Matters: A Biennial in, and About, Los Angeles," New York Times, 13 June (print and web, image)
Zimskind, Lyle. "Channing Hansen's Quantum Paintings are Really Knit," Los Angeles Magazine, 17 July (web)

2012
Baxter, Jared. "Night Terrors," Artslant, 17 January (web)
Butler, Connie. "This is Art-These People are Artists: Pacific Standard Time, Conceptual Art, and Other Momentous Events from a Local Point of View," Art Journal, Spring (print)


Public Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam