Chris Natrop

EDUCATION
2004 Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Saulsalito, CA
1994 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1993 B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Emphasis in Painting
Recipient of First-Year Merit Scholarship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL (Spring/Summer 2008)

2007
Lost in Space, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman Univerity, Orange, CA

2006
Into the Silver See-Through, Bank, Los Angeles, CA
fern space blast, Sonoma County Museum (curator Gay Dawson), Santa Rosa, CA
white white mayday in mustard and gold, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2005
11 1/2, OVERTONES (curator Susan Joyce), Los Angeles, CA

2004
spring paper twist, LiveArt Gallery, San Francisco

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

1996
I Dream of Genies, Place Pigalle Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Drawn Out, (curator Pam Posey) Sam Francisc Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
Around the Pool, (curator Terri Lindbloom) Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State Universuty, Tallahassee, FL (catalog)
Behind Crossed Doors, (curator Jeffery Mohr) Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Neveda Collage, Incline Village, NV
Laced in History, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyben, WI
2006
Pause (curator Rebecca Miller), Blackbird Space, Miami, FL (Dec 2006)
L.A. 225: Los Angeles Through the Eyes of Artists, Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PAPER: First anniversary group exhibition, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL
First Annual Group Show, Taylor de Cordoba, Culver City, CA
Inner Spaces / Outer Limits (curator Greg Klassan), WalkerÕs Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Drawing Group Show (curator Brian Mullman), Mor York Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Tiger Tiger Rain Rain (curator Matthew Heller), Jaxson House Gallery, Venice, CA
Interjacent, (curator Gioj DeMarco), I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Excavating Realities: Darlene Charneco and Chris Natrop (curator Jennifer Jankauskas), MAAS Projects, (annex of Mixture Contemporary), Houston, TX
Cross Pollination (curator Gay Dawson), Santa Rosa Musuem of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Rouge (curator Dominic Egan), A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

2004
BIG, Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ouroboros, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Happy Art for a Sad World (curator Hˇlianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin), Spike Gallery, New York, NY
ecotopia (curator 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
Annual Exhibition for Bay Area Artists, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, 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, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Annual Exhibition for Bay Area Artists, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Art for America, Clos Pegase Winery, Calistoga, CA
Annual Members Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2001 Landscape Group Show, BACCA 1010, Berkeley, CA
Visual Aid Benefit, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
Drawing II: International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
Images and Icons, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

ART FAIRS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
2007
Impulse (solo installation) at Pulse Art Fair, New York with Bank art LA, Santa Monica with Skestos Gabriele Gallery
2006
Aqua art fair, Miami Beach with Bank
2005
Arctic Landscape (curator Miguel Nelson), Marvimon House, Los Angeles, CA
Aqua art fair, Miami Beach with Bank
10 Year Anniversary Gala, (Extraordinary Forest Installation), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Invasive Species, (curator) Headlands Center for the Arts
-scope art fair, New York (featured artist) with YOO Projects

2004
Extraordinary Forest, Headlands Center for the Arts
-scope art fair, Miami Beach with YOO Projects
-scope art fair, Los Angeles with YOO Projects
-scope art fair, New York with YOO Projects

PRESS
2006
Holly Meyers. Works' energy is just so L.A. (review). Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2006.
Caryn Coleman. Interview: Chris Natrop. art.blogging.la. November 1, 2006.
____. Recommended Exhibitions. Art Scene Los Angles. December 2006.
____. Flavorpill Los Angeles. October 31, 2006.
____. Flavorpill Chicago. July 18, 2006

2005
____. The Ultimate Basel Blog, MIAMI HEAT: INSIDE THE FAIR. Artinfo. December 4, 2005.
Connie Butler. (curator: MOCA LA) New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition. Dec 2005. pgs. 3, 106-109 (reproductions)
Shana Nys Dambrot. Chris Natrop (review). Tema Celeste. No. 110 Jul- Aug 2005. pgs. 74-75 (reproduction)
Stephanie Cash and David Ebony. "Front Page: SCOPE". Art in America. May 2005. p. 53
Rebecca Epstein. "Paper and Profound". LA CITYBEAT. April 28, 2005. p. 54 (reproduction)
____. Flavorpill LA. April 27, 2005.
Melissa Goldstein. "Chris Natrop's Material World". 7x7 Magazine.
April 1, 2005. pgs. 15, 35 (reproductions)

2004
Lise Sarfati. "Across a Crowded Room" (uncredited photograph). New York Magazine. August 23, 2004. p. 115
____. "Happy Art for a Sad World" (review). The New Yorker Magazine. July 26, 2004. p. 16
"By Hand" Spark. PBS KQED Channel 9. San Francisco. Orig. air date: July 14, 2004
Kenneth Baker. "Art Notes: More "Close Calls" at Headlands." San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook. Jan. 20, 2004: p. D1

2003
Jamey Hecht. "Natrop: Drawing with a Knife." NY Arts Magazine. Nov. 2003: p. 33 (reproduction)
Roberto Juarez. "Split Dreams: Chris Natrop's Strange and Beautiful Worlds." NY Arts Magazine. Summer 2003: p. 55 (reproduction)
Lee Reinsch. "Abstract exhibit examines nature's bizarre qualities." Fond du Lac Reporter. July 22, 2003 (reproduction)
Andrea Hansen. "Artist Chris Natrop Exhibits Work." The Mayville News. July 20, 2003 (reproduction)
Luiza Barcam. "Visuri Bucati: Vern Exhibition in Romania." ArtMargins: Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture. June 10, 2003.
Patrick Sullivan. "Infinite Views." artMuse Sonoma Museum of Visual Art Quarterly Magazine. Feb. 2003: pp.4-5 (reproduction)
Gretchen Giles. "Fifteen to One: SMOVA exhibit raises the stakes and the odds." North Bay Bohemian. Jan. 9, 2003: pp. 23-24

2001
Daniel Rothbart. "North Berkeley: A Hot Bed Still." NY Arts Magazine. Nov. 2001: pp. 12-13

CATALOGUES
2006
Around the Pool, (curator Terri Lindbloom) Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State Universuty, Tallahassee, FL (catalog)
Carrie Paterson, Drawing Is A Verb, brochure essay for Lost in Space, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman Univerity, Orange, CA
Into the Silver See-Through, Pub. Lulu Press, 2005, 1st ed. (coming Dec. 2006)

2005
Chris Natrop: Inticracies of Perception, Work 2003-2005, Essay: Susan Joyce, Pub. Lulu Press, 2005, 1st ed.

GUEST LECTURES
2006
Sonoma County Museum
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Long Beach

2005
California College of the Arts, San Francisco