Chris Natrop

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Education and Residencies 2004 Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Saulsalito, CA 1994 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 1993 BFA, Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Solo Exhibitions 2010 myopic spring tangle, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Dewdrop Redux, curated by Habib Kheradyar, Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA And Further the Dewdrop Falls, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL 2007 Lost in Space, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA 2006 Into the Silver See-Through, Bank, Los Angeles, CA Fern Space Blast, curated by Gay Dawson, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA White White Mayday in Mustard and Gold, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2005 11 1/2, OVERTONES , curated by Susan Joyce, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Spring Paper Twist, LiveArt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Fault Lines, Windhover Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI Linkage: An Installation by Chris Natrop, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 New Work, Bay Area Center for the Consolidated Arts, Berkeley, CA Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Paper Cuts, The Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA 2009 Under the Knife, curated by Sinead Finnert-Pyne, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2008 CUT: Makings of Removal, curated by Karen Rapp, Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA Party Favors, curated by Holly Myers, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA Raw Boundaries, KN Gallery, Chicago, IL Holland Papier Bienniale 2008, Museum Rijswijk/Coda Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Possible Impossible: Six Artists at the Prink of Abstraction, curated by Holly Myers, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Around the Pool, curated byTerri Lindbloom, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL Drawn Out, curated by Pam Posey, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA Behind Crossed Doors, curated by Jeffery Mohr, Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Neveda Collage, Incline Village, NV Laced in History, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyben, WI 2006 Pause, curated by Rebecca Miller, Blackbird Space, Miami, FL PAPER: First anniversary group exhibition, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL First Annual Group Show, Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA Inner Spaces / Outer Limits, curated by Greg Klassan, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI Drawing Group Show, curated by Brian Mullman, Mor York Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Interjacent, curated by Gioj DeMarco, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Excavating Realities: Darlene Charneco and Chris Natrop, curated by Jennifer Jankauskas, MAAS Projects, (annex of Mixture Contemporary), Houston, TX Cross Pollination, curated by Gay Dawson, Santa Rosa Musuem of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 BIG, Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Ouroboros, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA Happy Art for a Sad World, curated by Helianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Spike Gallery, New York, NY Ecotopia, curated by Reed Anderson, LUMP gallery, Raleigh, NC Close Calls: 2004, Headlands Center for Arts, Marin Headlands, CA 2003 Placebo, The Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA PERF, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany Visuri Bucati 2, Museul de Arte, Brosav, Romania New American Artists, Galleria Ruggieri, Genoa, Italy X-Zincografia-Open Space, Venice, Italy Split Dreams, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Visuri Bucati, Romanian Literature Museum, Bucarest, Romania VERNLAND, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2002 Order Bipolar, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA Small Spaces/Big Theory, UrbanLab Gallery, Chicago, IL ReOrganica: An Evolving Exhibition, Soap Box Gallery, Venice, CA Centering: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Sacred Art, SMOVA, Santa Rosa, CA New Work from Five American Artists, Arte Contemporanea Genova, Genoa, Italy ReOrganica, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 Re: Duchamp Project, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Art for America, Clos Pegase Winery, Calistoga, CA Landscape Group Show, BACCA 1010, Berkeley, CA Drawing II: International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE Images and Icons, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA Art Fairs 2008 Pulse Miami, Bank (designed and autographed 300 VIP Pulse Miami tote bags) Pulse New York, with Bank 2007 Impulse (featured artist/solo installation), Pulse New York with Bank (winner of “Pulse Prize”) artLA, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Santa Moncia, CA 2006 Aqua Miami, Bank, Miami, FL 2005 Aqua Miami, Bank, Miami, FL Scope New York, YOO Projects, New York, NY 2004 Scope Miami Beach, YOO Projects, Miami, FL Scope Los Angeles, YOO Projects, Los Angeles, CA Scope New York, YOO Projects, New York, NY Awards 2007 “Pulse Prize,” Pulse Art Fair, New York 1988 First-Year Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press Wharton, Annie. Cut: Makings of Removal. (2008, November). THE: LA’s Monthly Magazine for the Arts, p. 44 Cheng, Scarlet. Paper work? Bring it on. (2008, October 26). Los Angeles Times. Dambrot, Shana Nys. CUT: Makings of Removal. (2008, September). Flavorpill. MOCA Presents Paper Cuts: Contemporary Drawing At MOCA. (2008, August 9). artdaily.org. Dambrot, Shana Nys. Rules Help Control the Fun. (2008, July). Flavorpill. Lee, Elaine. Paper Works. (2008). d+a magazine, issue 042, pg. 58. Dority, Kendra. Goodbye Realism, Hello Abstraction. (2008, February 12). The Occidental Weekly. Gray, Emma. L.A. Confidential. (2008, January). Artnet.com. Recommended Exhibitions. (2008, February). Art Scene Los Angles. Top 10 Shows In Los Angeles This Month. (2008, January 14). Saatchi Gallery Magazine. (2007, December). New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition. (juror: Alma Ruiz, curator MOCA LA). Meyers, Holly. Works’ energy is just so L.A. (2006, December 8). Los Angeles Times. Coleman, Caryn. Interview: Chris Natrop. (2006, November 1). art.blogging.la. Recommended Exhibitions. (2006, December). Art Scene Los Angles. Los Angeles. (2006, October 31). Flavorpill. Chicago. (2006, July 18). Flavorpill. (2005, December). New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition. (juror: Connie Butler, curator, MOCA LA) pgs. 3, 106-109 Cash, Stephanie and David Ebony. Front Page: SCOPE. (2005, May). Art in America, p. 53. Epstein, Rebecca. Paper and Profound. (2005, April 28). LA CITYBEAT, p. 54 (reproduction) Los Angeles. (2005, April 27). Flavorpill. Goldstein, Melissa. Chris Natrop’s Material World. (2005, April 1). 7x7 Magazine, pgs. 15, 35 Sarfati, Lise. Across a Crowded Room (uncredited photograph). (2004, August 23). New York Magazine, p. 115. Happy Art for a Sad World. (2004, July 26). The New Yorker Magazine, p. 16. “By Hand” Spark. PBS KQED Channel 9. San Francisco. Orig. air date: Jul. 14, 2004 Baker, Kenneth. Art Notes: More “Close Calls” at Headlands. (2004, January 20). San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, p. D1. Hecht, Jamey. Natrop: Drawing with a Knife.(2003, November). NY Arts Magazine, p. 33. Juarez, Roberto. Split Dreams: Chris Natrop’s Strange and Beautiful Worlds. (2003, Summer). NY Arts Magazine, p. 55. Reinsch, Lee. Abstract exhibit examines nature’s bizarre qualities.(2003, July 22). Fond du Lac Reporter. (reproduction) Barcam, Luiza. Visuri Bucati: Vern Exhibition in Romania. (2003, June 10). ArtMargins: Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture. Catalogues and Essays Natrop, Chris. My Dewdrop Complex 2008, Pub. Lulu Press, Dec. 2008, 1st ed. Paper Cuts: Contemporary Works on Paper, (museum brochure) MOCA Jacksonville (brochure) Around the Pool, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (catalog) Paterson, Carrie, Drawing Is A Verb, Lost in Space, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman U., Orange, CA (brochure) Natrop, Chris. Selected Projects 2006, Pub. Lulu Press, Dec. 2006, 1st ed. (catalog) Chris Natrop: Intricacies of Perception, Work 2003-2005, Pub. Lulu Press, Nov. 2005, 1st ed. (catalog) Joyce, Susan. Tripping The Light Fantastic, Nov 7, 2005 (catalogue essay) Special Projects 2008 Designed and Autographed VIP Tote Bag for Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL 2007 Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Taste, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Live Auction 2006 Venice Family Clinic Art Auction, Santa Monica, CA 2005 Arctic Landscape (curator Miguel Nelson), Marvimon House, Los Angeles, CA Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco 10 Year Anniversary Gala, (Extraordinary Forest Installation), San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtInvasive Species, (curator) Headlands Center for the Arts 2004 Extraordinary Forest, Headlands Center for the ArtsMonster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco 2002 Co-Founded the artist group, VERN Short Film 2008 And Further the Dewdrop Fell, 1080p HD video (in production) 2004 1181 Minutes, sped-up paper cutting Visiting Artist and Guest Lectures 2008 Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, School of Art, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Guest Lecturer, Vincent Prince Art Museum, East Los Angeles College 2006 Guest Lecturer, Sonoma County Museum Guest Lecturer, University of California Los Angeles Guest Lecturer, University of California Long Beach 2005 Guest Lecturer, California College of the Arts, San Francisco