CHRIS VERENE
2021-2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Born 1969, United States
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Associate Professor of Photography at The College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Artist Biography
Chris Verene was born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1969, and made his first photographs in the late 1980s as a teenager in his father’s small hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. For thirty-five years he has continued in the documentary style, intensively photographing the stories of his family members, friends, and their community. He is the author of two major books, Chris Verene (Twin Palms, 2000) and Family (Twin Palms, 2010). Since 2009, he has been making an episodic film series on the same storyline, titled: “Home Movies.”
Verene’s work has been called social realism, and he is described as a natural storyteller, focusing on the whole intimate truth of human narratives. He is a photographer, musician, filmmaker, and performance artist, with three decades of published work.
Verene is represented in numerous museum collections, including The Whitney, The Met, The Jewish Museum, The Getty, The San Francisco MoMA, MOCA, The High, and The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He received an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2016), and was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2002). He is Associate Professor of Photography at The College of Staten Island, CUNY. He is represented by Postmasters.
EDUCATION
1996 MFA – Photography/Art Studio, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
1991 BA – Film Studies & Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Home Movies,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 “The Self-Esteem Salon,” 601Artspace, New York
2019 "Chris Verene," The College of Staten Island, New York
2018 “Chris Verene,” Copenhagen Photography Festival, Copenhagen
2017 “Chris Verene,” The Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
2015 “Home Movies,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
2013 “The New Family Chapters,” (Two-Person Exhibition), Valentine Gallery,
New York
2014 “Carl Martin/Chris Verene: Affinities,” (Two-Person Exhibition), Opal Gallery,
Atlanta
2012 “Family,” Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
“Town Hall Meeting,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Galesburg Family,” Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 “The Self-Esteem Salon,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon,” Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon,” The Re-Institute, Millerton, New York
“Chris Verene – Family,” Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
“Chris Verene – Family,” Truman Medical Center Gallery, Kansas City
“Chris Verene – Family,” Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery (PDNB), Dallas
2010 “Chris Verene – Family,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Chris Verene – Family,” Kelman-Visser Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Chris Verene,” Sioux City Art Museum, Kansas City
“Family,” Quality Pictures, Portland
“Family,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
“Family,” Gescheidle, Chicago
2009 “Family,” DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles
“Self-Esteem Salon,” Martos Gallery, New York
2008 “Self-Esteem,” Gescheidle, Chicago
“Family,” ADA Gallery, Richmond
2007 “Galesburg, Yes,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
“Self-Esteem,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
"Galesburg," Gescheidle, Chicago
“Self-Esteem,” Quality Pictures, Portland, OR
“Galesburg,” ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006 "Galesburg," Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
2005 “The Self-Esteem Salon: The Frisbee Series,” Frisbee Art Show, Miami
“The Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage Series,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
“Galesburg: The New Chapters,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
“Chris Verene,” Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City
“The Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage Series,” The Armory Art Show VIP
Group with Frisbee Curatorial Group, The Old Chelsea YMCA, New York
2004 “The Big Umbrella: The New York Series,” Aleksandra Mir and Chris Verene,
PS1/MoMA, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon at Art Basel,” The Frisbee Art Show, Miami (cancelled)
“Chris Verene,” Fotographie Am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany
“Chris Verene: From Galesburg To Atlanta, 1986-2004,” (Retrospective)
The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
2003 “Galesburg,” Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas
2002 “Galesburg,” Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison
“Galesburg,” Ramapo College Gallery, Ramapo
“Galesburg,” Rose Gallery, Santa Monica
“The Self- Esteem Salon, The Baptism Series,” (Collaboration with Christian Holstad),
Deitch Projects, New York
“The Baptism Series,” (Collaboration with Christian Holstad), Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
2001 “Galesburg,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
2000 “Chris Verene,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Chris Verene,” American Fine Arts Co. Colin DeLand Fine Art, New York
“Chris Verene,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York (cancelled)
“Self-Esteem,” Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
“Galesburg,” Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta
“Camera Club,” Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 “Chris Verene,” Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
"Selections from Galesburg," The Cheekwood Museum, Nashville
1998 “Camera Club,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Galesburg,” Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
1997 "Revealing Regionalism," Midtown Plaza Galleries One & Two, Atlanta
“Galesburg and Camera Club,” as part of “You Should Know Better,” curated
by Samantha Tsao, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1996 "Galesburg Used to be an All-American City," Georgia State University, Atlanta
1995 "Portraits of Holly Hollywood," Sylvia's Art of This Century, Atlanta
1994 "Proud to be from Galesburg," Atlanta Photography Gallery, Atlanta
"Galesburg (Five or Maybe Six Years)," Ruth Leitman Gallery, Atlanta
1991 "Chris Verene & Friends," Emory University, Atlanta
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Hot Dog,” PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 “Encounter,” Mom’s Gallery, New York
2019 “Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall,” The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT
2018 “Inexterior,” Leyendecker Gallery, Canary Islands, Spain
2018 “Notable American Women,” MX Gallery, New York, NY
2017 “Picturing Family,” Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2016 “Sideluck San Miguel de Allende,” San Miguel Municipal Building, Guanajuato,
Mexico
“American Real,” The Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland
“Photographie Support,” Galerí Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
2015 “#WCW (@womencrushwednesday),” Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Practice Process Place,” Gallery of the College of Staten Island, New York
“The Raconteurs,” Gallery Walk Terminus, Atlanta
2014 “Homeland (In)security: Vanishing Dreams,” Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
“Look At Me: Portraiture From Manet To The Present,” Leila Heller Gallery,
New York
“Unbelievable Things: 25 Years of Art on Merge Records,” LIGHT Art & Design,
Chapel Hill, NC
2013 “the kids are all right,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
“the kids are all right,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
“the kids are all right,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“Everyday American: Photographs from the Berman Collection,” Steven
Kasher Gallery, New York
“La Calaca,” Public Art Projection, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
2012 “The Second Seating for the Last Supper,” Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
“Only You Only Me,” Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Belgium
“First Class / Second Class,” Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York
2011 “100 Portraits,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE
1870,” The Walker Art Center
2010 “Mirror, Mirror,” Postmasters Gallery, New York,
“Human Resources,” The Company, Los Angeles
“The Library of Babel, In and Out of Place,” Zabludowicz Collection, London,
England
“EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870,”
The Tate Modern, London, England
“EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870,”
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“The Art of Caring,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
“The Art of Caring,” The Art Museum of South Texas,
“The Art of Caring,” New Orleans Museum of Art
2008 “Love, Love, Love,” Martos Gallery, New York
2007 “June Bride,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
“Gallery Artists,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York “Year 07,” Marcia Wood
Gallery, Atlanta
“The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography,” The Contemporary
Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2006 “The Seventh Side of the Die,” Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
“The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography,” The
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
“Shoot The Family,” traveling 2006-2009, The Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, MI
“Shoot The Family,” traveling 2006-2009, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
“Shoot The Family,” traveling 2006-2009, Western Gallery of Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA
“CRACKER,” NurtureArt, & Naked Duck Gallery, New York
2005 “The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography,” The Jewish
Museum, New York
2004 “K-48 Klubhouse,” Deitch Projects, New York
“The Beauty of Darkness,” Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“The Armory Art Show,” John Connelly Presents, New York
“Cake Walk,” Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
“Portraits,” Curated by Roe Ethridge, Champion Gallery, New York
“Group Show,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
“Pool Party,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
“Portrait Photography,” Curated by Roe Ethridge, Brooklyn Gallery, New York
2003 “Gallery Artists,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
“Nathan Cummings Foundation Show,” New York
“American Dream,” Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
“The Furtive Gaze,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College,
Chicago
“K-48, The Bedroom Show,” Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
2002 “Visions from America: Photographs From the Whitney Museum of American
Art 1994- 2001,” The Whitney Museum of Art, New York
“Family,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Sexual Healing: Various Forms of Sexual Photography,” Reflex Modern
Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland
2001 “It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Photographs,” Cherry Street Temporary Gallery, Galesburg, IL
“A Way with Words,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
“Uneasy,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
"The Penis Show," Eyedrum, Atlanta
2000 “Do You Hear What We Hear?,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Because Sex Sells,” Nikolai Fine Art, New York
“Tell It Like It Is,” Gallery Rebecca Camhi, Athens, Greece
“2000 Whitney Biennial,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Emerging Artists,” San Diego University Art Museum, San Diego
1999 “Vanitas,” Agnes Scott College, Atlanta
“Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography,” New Jersey Center for Visual
Arts, Summit, NJ
“New Voices, New Visions,” University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
“In Your Face,” curated by Dr. Robert Shimshak, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1998 “Backstage,” curated by Helen Varola, Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York
“Connections and Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from
Atlanta Collections,” Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
“In the Heat of Summer,” Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta
“Photos Emerging,” presented by Liebman Magnan Gallery and CRIA, New York
“Portraits,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Peepshow: John Waters, Cheri Nevers, Ken Probst, Chris Verene,” Vaknin
Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta
1997 “Friends Indeed,” Photography sale benefiting Photographers for Friends,
Selected by Tom Cashin, New York
"Contemporary American Landscape," Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
"Tableaux: Ten Contemporary Photographers," Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
"Post-Construction," Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
"Sleep," James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
"Look Back & Get Down: A Celebration of Athens & Atlanta Music 1977-1997,"
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
"Unique Portraits by Contemporary Southern Artists," ArtWalk at Lenox Square,
Atlanta
"To See a World," Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
"1997 Atlanta Biennial," Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta
"Collectors Collecting," Lenox Square Gallery, Atlanta
"Nine Southeastern Photographers," Peachtree Lofts Gallery, Atlanta
1996 "Olympic Experience, or What I Did in Summer 1996," Bathhouse Show,
Piedmont Park Arts Festival, Atlanta
"Obsessions," Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta "American
Photography Institute," Tisch Gallery, New York
1995 "National Association of People with AIDS," City Hall East Gallery, Atlanta
"Contemporary Southeastern Photography," Creadle School of Visual Arts,
Winter Park, FL
"Summer Artists' Work in Progress," The Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
"November Show," Hastings Gallery, Atlanta
1994 "Electric Blanket," AIDS Projection Project, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
"Sex, Love, and Death," Nexus Art Center, Atlanta
1992 "My Eye Your Body," Exhibit A Gallery, Atlanta
“Seed Factory Show,” Curated by Dan Cameron, Seed Factory, Atlanta
1990 “Members' Show,” Atlanta Photography Gallery, Atlanta
1988 “Democratic Convention Show,” Atlanta Photography Gallery, Atlanta
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Statement on Galesburg and DeKalb Illinois
For the past thirty-five years, I have continuously photographed my family members, friends and the community around Galesburg, Illinois. Throughout my childhood, my parents and I spent summers and holidays with my father’s family in his small hometown in western Illinois. My parents went to college there, where our family goes back for more than five generations, and where three generations of my family live today. I was born in DeKalb, Illinois, a similar town to the north that is known for its own brand of corn. I always felt that Galesburg was my home, though we lived in other places. When I took up photography in high school, I made my first photographs in Galesburg. Once I learned how to drive, I would drive myself there in the late 80s and early 90s on long photographic excursions that would become much of the work that is in my first book, Chris Verene (Twin Palms 2000). When I saw some press that listed me incorrectly as born in Galesburg, I was pleased, and I felt it gave extra attention to an overlooked town, and I adopted the idea with a sort of poetic license about the work. I drew inspiration from the poet Carl Sandburg, a Galesburg native, who changed the spelling of his name from berg to burg to match the town he loved, and about which he often wrote. For the past ten years or so, I have set to correct the record.
2018 “Self-Esteem University,” Copenhagen Photography Festival, Copenhagen
2015 “Self-Esteem University,” Florida International University, Miami
2009 “The Self-Esteem Salon,” SoHo, New York
2005 “The Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage Series,” The Armory Art
Show VIP Group, The Old Chelsea YMCA- with Frisbee Curatorial Group
2001 “The Self Esteem Salon,” Christie’s Auction House, New York
"Chris Verene and Vereni The Great, presented by David Armstrong,"
The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown
“Vereni The Great,” Pink Pony, New York
“Vereni, ¡Escapista!,” Times Square, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon,” Gramercy International Art Fair, New York
2000 “Fight Evil With Evil,” with Delia R. Gonzalez and Gavin R. Russom,
The Turkey’s Nest, Brooklyn
“Home Shopping One with Gentle Heights,” for Christian Holstad,
The Fifth International Gallery, New York
"Vereni The Great,” Thread Waxing Space, New York
“The Self-Esteem Salon: The Whitney Museum of Art – A Corollary to
Camera Club,” The Whitney Museum of Art, New York
1999 “Bach on a Hook and M.I.M.E.,” Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York
1998 “Self-Esteem Salon,” Vaknin Schwartz & Boho Luxe, Atlanta
AWARDS
2021 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2016 The New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Photography, Recipient
2015 The Henri Cartier Bresson Award for Documentary Photography, Nominee
2002 Pollock-Krasner Award, Full Support, Verene is the first artist to receive
this grant for photography.
1996 American Photography Institute, New York University, Fellow
The Atlanta Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta Olympics Fellow
SELECTED RECORDED MUSICAL WORKS
2010 “Greatest Hits,” Snowboots, New York
2008 “De donde eres,” Cordero, Bloodshot Records
2006 “En este momento,” Cordero, Bloodshot Records
2004 Cordero, national tour, CD and national television appearances,
CNN, MTV Espanol, LATV, Performances at Radio City
Music Hall, and many US Theaters
2003 Tour with Los Lobos, Tour with Indigo Girls
2001 Cordero, Drummer and Manager, Reviews: The New York Times,
The Village Voice, TimeOut NY, (featured music act), FOX5 TV
"Good Day New York"
2000 “Bach On a Stick,” Bach On A Hook Chris Verene Co-producer, drums,
vocals, styling, Pearineel Records
Featured in the Whitney Biennial 2000 audio tour
1998 “Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall,” The Rock*A*Teens Cover Photograph
Merge Records
1997 “Cry,” The Rock*A*Teens CD artwork, drums, (member and performer 1995-1998)
Daemon Records
1996 “The Rock*A*Teens,” CD artwork, drums Daemon Records
1996 “Shaming of The Sun,” Indigo Girls, guest drummer Sony Records
1992 “But Me, I Fell Down,” D.Q.E. (founding member with Grace Braun), drums,
vocals, manager, promoter.
Cargo Records/Feel Good All Over Records/ Hoppilty Hoi Records
‘84-’94 D.Q.E. “Pictures of Cliffs,” music cassette, “Ride This Ride,” music cassette,
“N is for Knowledge,” music cassette, “Rehabilly,” music cassette, “Masturbation
Made a Mess Out of Me,” 7-inch vinyl record
TEACHING AND LECTURING
2012-Present
Associate Professor of Photography, Dept. of Performing and Creative Arts,
The College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y., New York
2016 Visiting Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, December 13
2015 Guest Lecturer, “How to Survive Gallery Representation,” School of Visual
Arts MFA, December 8
Visiting Lecturer, MFA & BFA Florida International University, April 15 - 19
2013 Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer, “Family,” Film Screening, Akron Art Museum, October 17
University of Akron, Critique Leader, Arts Program, Oct. 16 - 17
Youngstown State University, Guest Professor, Arts Program, Oct. 15
The Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, Internship Director, Spring Semester
Artist Lecture Series: Chris Verene, Virginia Community University, February 4
2012 KBH Film and Foto Skole, Copenhagen, Denmark, Visiting Faculty in Residence
The Danish School of Media and Journalism, Copenhagen, Denmark, Guest
Lecturer, Workshop: “Town Hall Meeting”
Thesis Director, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts,
New York
Photography School of Copenhagen, Professor in Residence
2011 Program Director, Full-Time Professor of Photography, Westchester Community
College, SUNY
Thesis Director, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York
Columbia College Chicago, Visiting Professor,
The Aperture Foundation, Keynote Speaker, “Family”
The Walker Art Center, McKnight Fellowship, Guest Critique Leader and Juror, Minneapolis
New York Photo Festival, Guest Lecturer
Parsons The New School for Design, Guest Panelist, "Afterthoughts on Documentary Photography"
Guest Critique Leader, MFA Photo Sarah Lawrence College
2010 Thesis Director, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of
Visual Arts, New York
Guest Professor and Critique Leader, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009 Guest Lecturer, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK
Thesis Director, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media,
School of Visual Arts, New York
Guest Lecturer, Evergreen College
Guest Lecturer, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK
2008 Guest Lecturer, Georgia State University
2007 Guest Lecturer, Yale University
Guest Lecturer, Evergreen College
Workshop Leader, Hendrix College
2006 Visiting Lecturer, International Center for Photography, New York
Guest Teacher, Syracuse University
‘01-’04 Adjunct Professor of Photography, Undergraduate, School of Visual Arts,
New York Instructor: Senior Critique, Critique, Color Photography,
Directed Independent Study
2002 Guest Teacher, Indiana University
Guest Teacher, Syracuse University
2001 Arts Juror, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Guest Lecturer, Yale University
Guest Lecturer, Sarah Lawrence College
Guest Lecturer, University of Central Arkansas
Guest Lecturer, University of Georgia
Guest Lecturer, Georgia State University Guest Lecturer, Emory University
2001 Resident Guest Instructor, Icelandic Academy of Art
Guest Lecturer, Cooper Union
Visiting Lecturer, International Center for Photography
Instructor, International Center for Photography
Guest Lecturer, Bard College
Visiting Artist, The Schoolhouse School, Provincetown, RI
Guest Lecturer, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
Faculty, Photography, Video and Related Media, MFA School of Visual
Arts, New York (2000 - ‘02)
2000 Keynote speaker: Convocation 2000 Georgia State University
1998 Full-time Adjunct Professor, Atlanta College of Art (students at all levels)
Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University
1994 Instructor: Beginning and intermediate Photography, Emory University
MONOGRAPHS
2000 “Chris Verene,” Twin Palms Publishers, New Mexico
2001 “Chris Verene / Camera Club,” Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 “Family,” Twin Palms Publishers, New Mexico
MOTION PICTURES
2019
“Home Movies 2019,” Documentary Series. Screening at the Landmark Midtown Art Theater, for Atlanta Celebrates Photography
“Strangers,” by The City And Colour. Music Video. Directed by Michael Maxxis and Chris Verene
2017
“Me Tumba,” by Ani Cordero. Music Video. Directed by Chris Verene with Ani Cordero
2015
“Home Movies,” Documentary Series. Screenings at The Cleveland Institute of Art
2014
“Home Movies,” Documentary Series. Screenings at Postmasters Gallery, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Verene, Chris. "Letter From Tombstone: The Wild West Meets The Southern Border," The New Yorker Magazine, June 10 & 17. Story by Valeria Luiselli, Photographs by Chris Verene
2018
Verene, Chris and Cordero, Ani. “The American Tour,” Imaginary Concerts Volume Two, ed. Peter Coffin, New York. Anthology Editions, 2018. Unpaginated. Print. ISBN: 1944860177
Rock*A*Teens, “Sixth House,” package artwork and design by Chris Verene, Merge Records LC 29279, 2018, compact disc and 33 1/3 rpm LP
Georgia State University: GSU PHOTO, “Chris Verene,” Alumni Profile, photography portfolio by Chris Verene, February 13, 2018, https://gsuphoto.com/2018/02/13/chris-verene/
2017
Noelle, Janine. “’I wish I knew then that being happy and enjoying daily life is way more important [than] getting success or money in the art world.’ – A Conversation with Chris Verene." The Business of Art, photography by Chris Verene, Feb. 12, 2017, culturevolt.ninja/thebusinessofart/2017/2/1/a-conversation-with-chris-verene
Carlisle, Wendy. “AMBER GOT HER GIRLS BACK, AND NOW THEY LIVE IN THE ABANDONED RESTAURANT.” Arkana Journal, photography by Chris Verene, Vol. 1, Jan. 17, 2017, arkanamag.org/2016/11/28/amber-got-her-girls-back-and-now-they-live-in-the-abandoned-restaurant/
Verene, Chris. “Family.” Landscape Stories, March 27, 2017, magazine.landscapestories.net/en/archive/2017/habitare/projects/chris-verene
2016 The Huffington Post, “Doin’ Work - Flash Interviews with Contemporary
Photographers: Chris
Verene,” Tara Wray, May 10
FeatureShoot, “An Intimate Glimpse into Working Class Lives in
Midwest America,” Eva Clifford, March 14
It’s Nice That, “A Voyeuristic Insight into The Seedy Camera Clubs of the 1990s
from Chris Verene,” Rebecca Fulleylove, March 16
Cover Our Tracks, “Chris Verene on His Work with The Rock*A*Teens,”
Loring Kemp, July 5
2015 Baxter Street Camera Club of New York Blog, “Christmas is Hard to
Photograph,” Tim Carpenter, December 25
FeatureShoot, “Photographer Infiltrates Camera Clubs,” Ellyn Kail, June 29
Vellum Art Magazine, “Chris Verene, Camera Club,” Stephanie Young, July 2
Juxtapose Art and Culture Magazine, “The Camera Club by Chris Verene,”
Portfolio, June 23
ArtNet News, “Chris Verene: Just the Facts of Our Dysfunction,” Blake
Gopnik, January 7,
Feature Shoot, “Top Ten New York Events,” Ellyn Kail, January 5
2014 ArtNet, “Most Exciting Artists of 2014,” December 29
New York Times, “Chris Verene: ‘Home Movies’,” Ken Johnson, December 18
Collector Daily, “Chris Verene: Home Movies at Postmasters Gallery,” Loring
Knoblauch, December 17
Musee Magasine, “Chris Verene: Home Movies at Postmasters Gallery,” December 4
Burn Away, “Friends and Family: Chris Verene and Carl Martin at Opal Gallery,” Brett Levine, November 14
Editors Artnews, “5 Art Events to Attend in New York This Week,” November 24
Hyperallergic, “ArtRx NYC,” Hrag Vartanian, November 25
Hyperallergic, “Flipping the Hierarchy of Needs,” Rob Colvin, November 5
Flavorpill, “5 Most Buzzed About Art Events this November,” Sehba
Mohammad, November 3
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, “Two Talented Photographers Demonstrate
What Unites- and Divides Them,” Review by Felicia Feaster, October 20
Fototazo, “How to Develop a Project – with Chris Verene, Nicolas Nixon,
Brian Ulrich, Susan Lipper,” August 6
Atlanta Celebrates Photography, “Great Pictures from the Party with Carl Martin
and Chris Verene,” Stuart Hawkins
Art in America, “Drew Barrymore’s Art Camp,” February
Artsy, “Chris Verene Draws Our Attention to the Effects of Economic Downturn,”
Anna Furman, January 12
2013 Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture: Chris Verene, Akron Art Museum,
October 17
Searching for the Light, “Chris Verene and Tom Sullens,” Carl Gunhouse, June 12
2012 Flak Photo, Website Feature Presentation
“Only You Only Me,” Museum Catalog, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art
Contemporain, Belgium
IMA Magazine, “Chris Verene,” Portfolio, October
2011 Heather Mills, Feature, Slate Magazine, December 23,
Lucky Magazine, Detail from Decorating with Fine Art. January
Five Points Journal of Literature and Art, Cover Story, Georgia State University
The Journal, Feature Photograph, New York City
The Wire, Feature Photograph, October
Janine Noelle, “Art and Public Awareness: 13 Years of the Self-Esteem Salon,”
“Chris Verene and the Galesburg Series,” The Art of the Rural, May 17
Ken Grant, “Family,” FOTO8 Magazine, March 24
Charlotte Lipton, “Surgin G Hormones,” Adbusters, #94, March/April
Jess Hemerly, “SFMOMA’s Voyeurism and Surveillance Exhibit: Examining
the Camera’s Most Unsettling Uses,” January 20
2010 “Family,” Artist Monograph, Twin Palms Press
Brian Boucher, “Chris Verene,” Art in America, November
Baldwin Rosencrans, “Family,” October 12
Holland Cotter, “Art in Review: Chris Verene ‘Family’,” The New York Times,
October 1
Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, October 1
Cora Fisher, “Chris Verene Family,” The Brooklyn Rail, October
Amy Stein, “A Few Questions for Chris Verene,” Amy Stein Photography.com,
September 28
New Yorker, “Goings on about town: ART: Chris Verene,” September 22
Wendell Brock, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, September 21
Neue Zurcher Zeltung, “Chris Verene Family,” September 13
Carolina Miranda, “At the Art Openings: Decadence, Decay and Dogs,” Gallerina,
September 13
Elisabeth Biondi, “Off the Shelf: Chris Verene’s Family,” The New Yorker, August 27
TATE Etc., “Chris Verene on Camera Club”, Summer
Wendell Brock, “Chris Verene: A Highlight of Atlanta Celebrates Photography,” Access
Atlanta, September 15
Paul Laster, “Daily Dose Pick – Chris Verene Family,” FlavorPill, September 6
Christian Viveros-Faune, “Chris Verene Welcomes You to Another America,”
Village Voice, May 11
“The Library of Babel, In and Out of Place,” Zabdulowicz Collection, London
“EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870,”
Yale University Press Photograph Magazine, “Chris Verene”
Elizabeth Avedon Weblog, “Chris Verene- Family”
2009 “The Art of Caring,” New Orleans Museum of Art
Aline Smithson, “Chris Verene,” Lenscratch, August 27
Io Donna, “New York Artists,” Italy
2008 Chris Verene, “Dear Cheri,” H-BOMB, 2007-2008
“The Theater of the Face, Portraiture since 1900,” Max Kozloff, Phaidon Press
“Galesburg Christmas Lights Contest Winner,” Boxed Set of Artist Cards,
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Bust Magazine, “Making Out”
2007 Lori Waxman, “Galesburg,” ArtForum, May
The New Yorker, “Galesburg”, September
2006 “The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography,” Yale University Press
Ralph Rugoff, “Shoot The Family,” Independent Curators International, London
2005 William Pym Walter, “Free for All,” Artforum.com
Walter Robinson, “Galesburg Chronicles,” ARTNET.com
2004 Welt am Sonntag, “Chris Verene”
Felicia Feaster, “Cheri On Top,” CreativeLoafing.com, Atlanta, Sept 16
Catherine Fox, “A Man’s Many Passions,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
September 19
Photonews, “Galesburg”
Art Papers Magazine, “Chris Verene”
ArtForum, “Chris Verene, From Galesburg to Atlanta,” November
Flaunt Magazine, “Quinceanera”
2003 K-48 Magazine, “The Baptism Series,” (Collaboration with Christian Holstad)
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, “What Were They Thinking”
2002 Los Angles Times, “A Different Kind of Family Album,” July 5
“Family,” Catalog for The Aldrich Museum
The New York Times: The Arts Tuesday, “Art Review,” June 25
A.M. Homes, Collaboration with PARKETT # 64, New York and Germany
PBS TV, "Egg The Art Show," National documentary television special
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, “What Were They Thinking,”
2001 Linda Sherbert, “Making a Scene,” Atlanta Magazine, November, p.36
Joanna Lehan, “The Great Verene,” Photo District News, April 2001
Christian Perring, Ph D. “Review – Chris Verene,” Metapsychology Online Review, November 19
Flaunt Magazine, “Dolce & Gabbana; Tradition: Back to School,” Fall Fashion
Issue, September
Linda Yablonsky, “Chris Verene,” Camera Club,” Time Out New York,
May 28-Jun. 4, Issue No.140 p. 57
Flaunt Magazine, “D Squared,” Spring Fashion Issue Doonan, Simon.
Catherine Saint Louis, “Simon Says,” The New York Observer, April 3
The New York Times Magazine, “What They Were Thinking,” June 17
Rachel Kushner, “Openings: Chris Verene,” ArtForum, March
Jane Harris, “Chris Verene at Paul Morris and American Fine Art,” Art in America, April
Harper’s Magazine, “Artist Feature,” p. 30
Joanna Lehan, “The Great Verene,” Photo District News, April
Joell Baxter, “Reviews,” New Art Examiner, February
American Photo, "Book Review," January
2000 "Chris Verene," Twin Palms Publishers, New Mexico
A. H. Homes, “American Pie,” Vanity Fair
Jerry Saltz, “My Sixth Sense,” The Village Voice
Andy Grundberg, “Photography Books Review,” The New York Times
Book Review, December
Edith Newhall, “The Human Factor,” New York, October 23, p. 120
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, October 16 & 23, p. 62
reproduced on p. 63 Zoo, Issue 7, November, p. 248
Vince Aletti, “Photo Review,” The Village Voice, October 24
Ken Johnson, “Art Guide,” The New York Times, October 20
Flaunt Magazine, “Art in the Back,” October, p. 192
Joyce B Korotkin, “Chris Verene,” NY Arts Magazine, International Edition, October
Rebecca Cochran, “Chris Verene,” Flash Art, Fall
Bust Magazine, “Freedom Fighters,” September Victoria
Pedersen, “Chris Verene,” Paper, September
Aperture, “Till Death Do Us Part,” introduction by Francine Prose, no.159,
spring Brittain, David. Vogue
Hommes International, “Photography,” Spring / Summer
Elle (Dutch), “Chris Verene / Cheri Nevers,” May
“Chris Verene / Cheri Nevers,” artist catalogue, Reflex Modern Art: Amsterdam
A.M. Homes, “American Pie,” Vanity Fair, March
1999 Carol Vogel, “Choosing a Palette of Biennial Artists,” New York Times, December 8
JDT, “Small-Town Life Revealed,” In Brief
Simon Says, “The Armory Show 1999,” February, vol.3, issue 6
Grady T. Turner, “Sexually Explicit Art,” Flash Art, May-June, vol. 33, no. 212
The Sunday Star-Ledger, “Art Form Still in the Process of Exposing Itself,” May 16
Emory Magazine, “Prodigal
Son,” Winter
BIG, “Heavy Metal,” Winter
1998 Jerry Cullum, “Chris Verene at Vaknin Schwartz,” Artnews, December
Linda Yablonsky, "Chris Verene, Camera Club," Time Out, New York, June
Felicia Feaster, “Chris Verene at Paul Morris,” Art in America, October
Jerry Cullum, “Chris Verene, Galesburg,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, September
1997 Creative Loafing, “Chris Verene,” Cover Story Feature, November
Felicia Feaster, “On the Edge, Cabbagetown’s Chris Verene Looks into the Soul of the Real World,”
Creative Loafing, November 29
Atlanta Journal/Constitution, “Change is in the Air," September 14
Creative Loafing, "Spare Changes," October
Creative Loafing, "Post Time at Vaknin Schwartz," October
Roberta Smith, "The Celluloid Cave," The New York Times, June 27 Village Voice, "Voice Choices: Chris Verene/Robert Beck," June 4
“To See a World," Georgia Museum of Art
"Revealing Regionalism," Atlanta Journal/ Constitution, January 17 Review of
"Revealing Regionalism," Creative Loafing, February 3
"Revealing Regionalism," Atlanta Magazine, June Art Papers, May/June, July/Aug,
Sept/Oct
1996 Felicia Feaster, "The Trip to Galesburg," Creative Loafing, April
Susan Todd-Raque, “Galesburg and Camera Club,” Art Papers
1995 “A Summer to Create”, The Register-Mail, Entertainment, June 29
HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGIES
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca and others. Homeward, Selections from the Wieland Collection. Photograph by Chris Verene. Atlanta: The Wieland Collection, 2017. p. 139, 355. Print. ISBN 978-0-9972492-2-4
Verene, Chris. “Camera Club,” in Desire, ed. Patrick Remy. New York: Prestel/Random House, 2015. pp. 3, 26-32 & back cover. Print. ISBN 978-3-7913-4952-7
Verene, Chris. “Camera Club,” in Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to The Present, ed. Paul Morris and others. New York: Leila Heller Gallery, 2014. pp. 168-169, & back cover. Print.
Verene, Chris and Holstad, Christian. “The Self-Esteem Salon, The Baptism Series” in Live the Art: Fifteen Years of Deitch Projects. ed. Jeffrey Deitch. New York: Rizzoli Publications, 2014. pp. 61-62. Print. ISBN 978-0847836475
Kozloff, Max. The Theater of the Face, Portraiture Since 1900. New York: Phaidon Press, 2008. pp. 61-65. Print. ISBN 978-0810968295
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Walker Art Center
The Jewish Museum
The George Eastman Museum
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
The Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation
The Paul R. Jones Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Photography
The High Museum of Art
The Birmingham Museum of Art
Cheekwood Museum
Hartsfield International Airport
The American Photography Institute, New York University
Georgia Museum of Art
The Margulies Collection
Zabdulowicz Collection
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, CA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
GALLERY REPRESENTATION (INTERNATIONAL)
2009-Present Postmasters Gallery, New York
2010-Present Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
2000-Present Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010-Present Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
2009-2012 Kelman-Visser Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
GALLERY REPRESENTATION (NATIONAL)
2003-Present Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000-Present Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX