Handle | Chris Curreri
2009
14.25 x 10.5 inches (25 x 19.5 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This artwork depicts an unexpected relationship between the human form and a found object. The body is a porous and pliable thing that destabilizes the boundary between subject and object. Curreri’s work draws our attention to the nature of aesthetic experience and that a conscious effort is required in order to alter conventional modes of perception.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1978 in Toronto
Lives and works in Toronto
Chris Curreri is a Canadian artist who works with film, photography, and sculpture. His work is premised on the idea that things in the world are not defined by essential properties, but rather by the actual relationships that we establish with them. Curreri received degrees from Ryerson University and Bard College and has won the RBC Emerging Artist Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation and an artist award from the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts. He was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award and longlisted for the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. Curreri was included in the 2002 Gallery TPW exhibition “The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art” and is currently a member of TPW’s Board of Directors.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Unruly Matter,” Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2017); “So Be It,” Gardiner Museum, Toronto (2015); “Something Something,” University of Toronto Art Center, Toronto (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Compassionate Protocols,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2017); “We are safe and all is well in our world,” Scrap Metal, Toronto (2017); La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2016); Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou (2016); Sobey Art Award Shortlist Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (2014); “Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014); “More Than Two (Let It Make Itself),” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Surplus Authors,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2012)
Selected public collections: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
2009
14.25 x 10.5 inches (25 x 19.5 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This artwork depicts an unexpected relationship between the human form and a found object. The body is a porous and pliable thing that destabilizes the boundary between subject and object. Curreri’s work draws our attention to the nature of aesthetic experience and that a conscious effort is required in order to alter conventional modes of perception.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1978 in Toronto
Lives and works in Toronto
Chris Curreri is a Canadian artist who works with film, photography, and sculpture. His work is premised on the idea that things in the world are not defined by essential properties, but rather by the actual relationships that we establish with them. Curreri received degrees from Ryerson University and Bard College and has won the RBC Emerging Artist Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation and an artist award from the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts. He was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award and longlisted for the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. Curreri was included in the 2002 Gallery TPW exhibition “The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art” and is currently a member of TPW’s Board of Directors.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Unruly Matter,” Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2017); “So Be It,” Gardiner Museum, Toronto (2015); “Something Something,” University of Toronto Art Center, Toronto (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Compassionate Protocols,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2017); “We are safe and all is well in our world,” Scrap Metal, Toronto (2017); La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2016); Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou (2016); Sobey Art Award Shortlist Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (2014); “Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014); “More Than Two (Let It Make Itself),” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Surplus Authors,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2012)
Selected public collections: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
2009
14.25 x 10.5 inches (25 x 19.5 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This artwork depicts an unexpected relationship between the human form and a found object. The body is a porous and pliable thing that destabilizes the boundary between subject and object. Curreri’s work draws our attention to the nature of aesthetic experience and that a conscious effort is required in order to alter conventional modes of perception.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1978 in Toronto
Lives and works in Toronto
Chris Curreri is a Canadian artist who works with film, photography, and sculpture. His work is premised on the idea that things in the world are not defined by essential properties, but rather by the actual relationships that we establish with them. Curreri received degrees from Ryerson University and Bard College and has won the RBC Emerging Artist Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation and an artist award from the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts. He was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award and longlisted for the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. Curreri was included in the 2002 Gallery TPW exhibition “The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art” and is currently a member of TPW’s Board of Directors.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Unruly Matter,” Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2017); “So Be It,” Gardiner Museum, Toronto (2015); “Something Something,” University of Toronto Art Center, Toronto (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Compassionate Protocols,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2017); “We are safe and all is well in our world,” Scrap Metal, Toronto (2017); La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2016); Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou (2016); Sobey Art Award Shortlist Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (2014); “Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014); “More Than Two (Let It Make Itself),” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Surplus Authors,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2012)
Selected public collections: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.