Shows and Publications

(last updated: 17 January 2012)

Upcoming and Current Exhibitions

Solo show:
EXTENDED - The L.I.E.S., Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany (Nov 11 2011 - Jan 21 2012)

Two-person show:
Chris Hipkiss and Robyn O'Neil, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (Jan 22 - April 29 2012)

Group shows:
Hey! Modern Art and Pop Culture, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France (Sept 15 2011 - Mar 4 2012)
Dessins contemporains surréalistes de Rotterdam: collection du musée Boijmans Van Beuningen, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France (1 Mar - 13 May 2012)

Solo Exhibitions

2011
The L.I.E.S., Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany

2009
Chris Hipkiss, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Chris Hipkiss, The Studio, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
Open Space (Chris Hipkiss featured by Galerie Susanne Zander), Art Cologne, Germany

2008
Chris Hipkiss: Drawings, INTUIT (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art), Chicago, IL

2007
Chris Hipkiss - Lines, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

2005
Chris Hipkiss, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany
Chris Hipkiss - Supernature, La Galerie Objet Trouvé, Paris, France

2003
Chris Hipkiss - New Drawings, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Chris Hipkiss, England & Co., London, England

2000
Visionary Drawings, England and Co., London, England
Mercury Springtime, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
New Year in Transamerica, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Visionary Drawings, Birmingham MAC, Birmingham, England

1997
Drawings by Chris Hipkiss, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1996
Chris Hipkiss: Visionary Drawings, Galerie Pecka, Prague, Czech Republic
Artist of the day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England

Group Exhibitions

2012
Chris Hipkiss and Robyn O'Neil, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Dessins contemporains surréalistes de Rotterdam: collection du musée Boijmans Van Beuningen, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France

2011
The Keno Twins 5, Colazione in Barriera, Turin, Italy
We Make Versions, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
KW69#6 Corinne Wasmuht Versammlung der Zeichen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Hey! Modern Art and Pop Culture, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
Zomertentoonstelling, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Keno Twins 4, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Carte blanche à la galerie Ritsch-Fisch, La Chaufferie (ESAD), Strasbourg, France
Traum und Realität, Galerie Siegel-Springmann, Freiburg, Germany
My Paris - Collection Antoine de Galbert/The French Scene, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Chris Hipkiss......en anderen, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sous le Vent... Collection Charlotte Zander, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France

2010
Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany
Cabinet, John Martin Gallery, London, England
Wunder auf Papier, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
Word: Language and Contemporary Art, Peters Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Intuition, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
hamer highlights, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Intermezzo, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2009
Group Show, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Essentially Us, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Une Rentrée Hors de Normes 2009, La Galerie Objet Trouvé, Paris, France
Group Exhibition, John Martin Gallery, London, England
Le Musée des Arts Buissonniers, Les Nouveaux Troubadours, Saint Sever du Moustier, France
Fixsterne: 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany
Backyard Genius, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
FRAC Picardie Acquisitions 2007-2008, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Picardie, Amiens, France

2008
In the Atrium: Recent Gifts to the Collection, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Drawing a Diversion, John Martin Gallery, London, England
New Views, Re-Views, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Philadelphia Collects, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Chthonic Youth, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Magische Architektur, Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster, Germany
On Line; Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Fear is a Four Letter Word, Omega Institute Spring Conference “Being Fearless”, Sheraton NY Hotel, New York, NY
Signs of Other Times; Marcel van Eeden - Chris Hipkiss, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hating 4 Never, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Jetzt/Now/Nyni, Galerie Miro, Prague, Czech Republic
Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

2006
Utopia, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Block Party: An exhibition of drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ex.06.01.06103: strange, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
Un Monde de Bruts, Les Nouveaux Troubadours, Saint Sever du Moustier, France
Exposition Collective, Galerie de l'atelier, Bordeaux, France
Parallel Visions II, The Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
Inner Worlds Outside - touring exhibition curated by John Thompson & Monika Kinley, at:
Fundación "la Caixa", Madrid;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2005
Outsider Art, Tate Britain, London, England
Wos up Man?, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA
Contemporary Landscapes...Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
Visions et Créations dissidentes, Musée de la Création Franches, Bègles, France
Obsessive Drawing, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Dessins Pointus en noir et blanc et en couleurs, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
In Another World, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Chthonic, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Outsider kunst; werken op papier van 8 kunstenaars, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Important Work by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2004
Drawn/Quartered, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Raw Vision, Mexico Gallery, London, England
Metamorphosis, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Gallery Choices 2004, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery show, England and Co., London, England
Chris Hipkiss and Jean-Pierre Nadau, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003
Write On, The Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
Outsider Art: The Inner World of Self-taught Artists, Bristol-Myers Squibb's Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ
The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY

2002
Works from the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, England
Le Pluriel des Singuliers III, Galerie d'art du Conseil Général, Aix-en-Provence, France
Hard Core Visionary: Beyond Pathological, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2001
Madness: Outsider Art meets Regular Art, Herenplaats (TENT), Rotterdam, NL
Noir sur Blanc - Mondes Interieurs, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
Keeping the Faith, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
The First Ten Years, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Eire
Science and Science Fiction, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Transcendentally Material, Mystically Objective, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Art Singulier, Espace Culturel Clement David, Roquevaire, France
Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum, New York, NY
European Self Taught Art: Brut or Naive?, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
Visionary Grace, Greenwich Arts Center, Greenwich, CT

1999
Summer Group Show: e-scapes - Passion of Place, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
30 Outsiders, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bodies of Transgression: Hedging the Edge by Self Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1998
Millennial Intentions: Post-20th Century Self Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, New Discoveries and New Work, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Art Unsolved: the Musgrave-Kinley Outsider Art Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Eire
Drawings..., Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
From the Heart to the Hand, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
The End is Near!: Special Exhibition of Works from AVAM, Hennessey and Ingalls Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA

1997
The MAG Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, England
Ingenious Creator, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
The End is Near!, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Miniature Paperworks by: Self-Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1996
Art and Soul: Works by Self Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Sacred Waters, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY
In Pursuit of the Invisible: the Collection of Mickey Cartin, The Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Gallery, The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
Summer Group Show Self Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Outsiders and Co., England and Co., London, England
International Works on Paper, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibition of Works from AVAM, Hennessey and Ingalls Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA
Drawing Outside the Lines: Works on Paper by Outsider Artists, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
On the Brink 1900-2000: The Turning of Two Centuries, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
The Widening Gyre, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1995
A Younger Edge - Anthony Dominguez and Chris Hipkiss, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1994
The Outsider, Rona Gallery, London, England

1992
Winter Solstice Exhibition, Sweet Waters Gallery, London, England

Hipkiss is represented in the following collections:

Collection Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Collection Cindy Sherman, New York
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
The Collection Arnulf Rainer, Austria
Intuit, Chicago, IL
FRAC Picardie, France
Museum Charlotte Zander, Bönnigheim, Germany
The American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Moscow Outsider Museum, Moscow, RF
Museum of International Folk Art, Sante Fé, NM

Magazines/Journals

Saumade, P. (2011), ‘Chris Hipkiss’, Hey! 5, 2011, 38-43
Nehb, H. (2010), ‘Galerieprofil: Michael Haas’, Kunst, April 2010 (1004), 18-22
Van Bree, H. (2008), ‘De kracht van seksualiteit; Roy Wenzel en Chris Hipkiss’, Out of Art, Jaargang 3 nummer 1, 35-40
Kienle, M., Jensen, J. (2006), ‘ Exploring The Obsession’, NY Arts, March
Rexer, L. (2006), ‘Art and Obsession’, Art on Paper, May-June Vol 10, No.5, 56-63
Sharp, J. (2006), ‘Slow on the Draw’, Art Review, March, Vol LXII, 82-85
Anderson, B. (2005), ‘Obsessive Drawing’, Folk Art (Journal of the American Folk Art Museum), Vol 30, No.4, 48-49
John Maizels, (2004), Raw Vision, London, Mexico Gallery and Raw Vision
Soussan,C, (2003), ‘Chris Hipkiss’, Artension, No. 12, 39-41
Long, L (2000), ‘For Northwest’, January, 47-48
Mason, B (1999), ‘Coming in from the Cold’, The Art Newspaper no. 90, March
Art review (1999), ‘Raw Visions’, Art Review, June, 54-55
Fredericksen, E (1998), ‘Drawing Lessons’, The Stranger, 23 July, p.25
Mason, A (1994), ‘The Visionary World of Chris Hipkiss’, Raw Vision no.9, 30-33

Publications

Charles Russell (2011), Groundwaters, Prestel, London/New York, 214, 224
Collecting Worlds, (2011), Kunstmuseum Thurgau/Benteli, 238-239
Viande de Chevet (2010), United Dead Artists, France
To Kick a Wind To (2009), United Dead Artists, France
Le Tendon Revolver (2009), United Dead Artists, France
Le Muscle Carabine, troisième gorgée (2009), United Dead Artists, France
Le Muscle Carabine, état second (2008), United Dead Artists, France
Le Muscle Carabine (2007), United Dead Artists, France
Laurent Danchin (2006), Art brut; L'instinct créateur, Gallimard, France
Monika Kinley (2005), Monika's Story: A Personal History of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Collection, Musgrave Kinley Outsider Trust [note: the section on Hipkiss included in this work is factually incorrect and misleading in its connotations.]
Freuh, J, Fierstein, L and Stein, J eds. (2000), Picturing the Modern Amazon, New York: Rizzoli 11 and 58.
Manley, R. et al (1998), ‘Chris Hipkiss’ in: The End is Near!, Los Angeles: Dilettante Press. 92-94.
Yao, J. (1996), In Pursuit of the Invisible: from the collection of Mickey and Janis Cartin, Mass.: Hard Press 43.

Press

‘Von Corinth bis Baselitz’, Allgäuer Anzeigeblatt, 21 July 2010.
Wilson, K.N. (2008), ‘Critic's Choice: Chris Hipkiss: Drawings’, Chicago Reader, July.
Weinberg, L. (2008), ‘Review: Chris Hipkiss’, Time Out Chicago, July 10-16, 75.
‘Lackspur für 900 Euro’, Rheinische Rundschau, Kultur, 20 April, 2007.
Debailleur, H.F., Rose, S.J. (2007), ‘Traits Bien’, Libération, 24 March, 31-32.
Russell, J.H. (2006), ‘Outsiders (Art Market)’, The Wall Street Journal, 14 Jan, 2.
Genocchio, B. (2006), ‘The March of the Scary Amazons; A Close Reading’, The New York Times Art Review, 5 Feb, 34.
Naves, M. (2006), ‘Coping Mechanisms’, The New York Observer, 9 Jan, 18.
Cotter, H. (2005), ‘The Desire to Draw, Sometimes a Compulsion’, The New York Times, 16 September, E37.
Stevens, M. (2005), ‘Ink-stained Wretches’, New York Magazine, 26 September, 74.
Maschal, R. (2005), ‘Art that holds your feet to the ice’, The Charlotte Observer, 13 November.
Shuster, R. (2005), ‘Visions of Order in an Anxious Universe’, Village Voice, 5-11 October, 78.
UBIK (2001), Arte, France, 16 December.
Taylor, JR (2000), ‘Around the Galleries’, The Times 2, 1 November, 21.
Steward, S (2000), ‘Outsider dealing’, The Observer Life Magazine, 29 October, 28-36.
Windsor, J (2000), ‘Views from the Edge’, The Independent, 25 March, 20-21.
Johnson, K (2000), ‘Visionaries who portray reality from the outside in’ and ‘Review: Chris Hipkiss’, New York Times, January 28, E35 and E37.
Jones, J (1999), ‘Five artists to invest in’, The Observer Life Magazine, 7 February, p7.
Kent Messenger (1996), ‘Most walls are too small for Hipkiss’, East Kent Gazette and Times, 3 July, p24.
Windsor, J (1995), ‘The Outed Outsiders’, The Independent, 1 May.

Catalogues

me Collectors Room (2011), My Paris: Collection Antoine de Galbert, Kerber, Berlin
Flosdorff, C (2009), Chris Hipkiss: Visionäre Landschaften, Galerie Michael Haas, Germany
Landesmuseen Gottorf (2009), Fixsterne: 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier, Wienand, Köln, Germany
Art Cologne (2009), Open Space: Five Years of Passion, Cologne, Germany
Master Drawings in London (2008), Master Drawings, London, 2008, London, England
John Martin Gallery (2008), Drawing a Diversion, London, England
Carlano, A (2008), Chris Hipkiss: Drawing from Nature, Intuit, Chicago
Whitechapel Gallery (2006), Inner Worlds Outside, Madrid, Fundación La Caixa; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Whitechapel Gallery, London
McColl Center for Visual Arts (2005), Contemporary Landscapes... Crossing Boundaries, Charlotte, NC
Musée de la Création Franche (2005), Visions et Créations Dissidentes, Bègles, France
Palmer Museum of Art (2005), Wos Up Man?, Penn State University Press, PA
England & Co. (2001), Obsessive Visions, London: England and Co.
Gallien,A, Lusardy,M, Pons,L (2001), Noir sur Blanc: Mondes Intérieurs, Travioles/Halle St. Pierre, Paris Martine Lusardy/Halle St. Pierre
England and Co. (2000), Chris Hipkiss: Visionary Drawings, London: England and Co.
Umberger, L (2000), Mercury Springtime: Drawings by Chris Hipkiss, Wisconsin: John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Marshall, C (1998), Art Unsolved at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, London: Lund Humphries.
Ferens Art Gallery (1997), History - the Mag Collection, Hull: FAG
England & Co. (1996), Outsiders & Co., London: England and Co.

Grants/Awards

2011  Drac Midi-Pyrénées.
2007  The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc.
2001  The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc.