Chrissy Conant

New York, United States

About Chrissy Conant

Born in Hawaii, raised in Princeton, New Jersey, lives and works in New York City. My sculptures are portraits of my personal struggles. Their success depends on my ability to confront and expose my deepest feelings. I examine such issues as my waning reproductive years, my vulnerability in dating and my submission to parental influence. Then I choose appropriate materials to best realize the work."Chrissy Caviar" was conceived as a way to deal with my looming 40th Birthday and address my life situation. I took fertility shots over the course of 6 weeks and then underwent surgery to retrieve 13 eggs from my ovaries. These were packaged and offered for sale. Human caviar as the most precious perishable luxury item because reproduction is the ultimate gift one can share."Teddy Chrissy" emerged from 25 years of dating frustration and how vulnerable I am as a single woman. To show these feelings in an artwork, I replaced the fur of a stuffed teddy bear with stainless steel pins. The pins stick out as a self-protective armor. My painstaking technique of pushing each pin by hand through the fabric in tight rows led to a personal catharsis."Chrissy Skin Rug represents my relationship to my parents. The rug is a silicone rubber cast of my bare skin. I position myself as a human rug on a wooden floor with an open mouth and eyes that gaze suggestively upward. Parental influences from childhood continue to suppress me, long after I have grown up and they have gone.
www.chrissyconant.com, www.chrissycaviar.com

Education:

Master of Fine Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

Bachelor of Art, Boston University, Boston Massachusetts

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions
2002
Project Room, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Unbound, One of a Kind: Unique Artists' Books, curated by Heide Hatry, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Burn Before Reading, Curated by Lilah Freedland, Scope NY, NY
2010
Pillow Pageant, curated by Emily Stevenson and Natalie Fizer, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY Uncomfortable Conversations, curated by Liz Kinnmark, Int’l Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY
2009
Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
Pool Art Fair, New York, NY
Molecules That Matter, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Molecules That Matter, Mayborn Museum Complex, Baylor University, Waco, TX
2008
Molecules That Matter, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Molecules That Matter, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Molecules That Matter, Philadelphia, PA
Continuous Current, School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY
Sexy Time: A Group Effort, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Pulse Art Fair, New York, NY
Molecules That Matter, curated by John Weber and Ray Giguere, Tang Teaching Museum of Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, in Partnership with the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL
MFA Computer Art Alumni Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, , New York, NY
Garden Confrontations, curated by David Gibson, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
The Biennial Art on Paper 2006, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, NC Four Freedoms, Martin Art Gallery, curated by Robert L.Tillman, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
E7 Emerge, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Arts, Newark, NJ
Work In Progress, curated by Jessica Hough, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
SELLOUT, curated by William Heath, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Art LA, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Real Art Today, curated by David Gibson, 92nd St Y Makor, New York, NY
Fabric of Fear, curated by Brenda Oelbaum, 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI
It Will Cost You..., curated by Beth DeWoody, Artek Contemporaries, NY, NY
What Is Branchville?, Branchville Gallery, Branchville, CT
Thread for Art, Thread for Art Space, Seattle, WA
Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL
Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Building Better Babies?, curated by Suzanne Anker, NY Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, curated by George Fifield, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2003
Gifted, curated by Lilah Freedland, Rare Gallery, New York, NY
ID_ENTITY, curated by David Gibson, NURTUREArt, Brooklyn, NY
Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, July 2003
Cristine Wang Fine Art, Williamsburg Bridges Asia, Brooklyn, NY
Scope Art Fair, New York, NY, March 2003
L’art Biotech’ a Nantes, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Recession 2003 $99 Bargain Store Show, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

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