EDUCATION
2010
Mills College, Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art
2000
University of California, Davis, Bachelor of Arts, History
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Solo and Two-Person Shows
2019
Windows, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015
Looking Back, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Animated, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA
Revolving Doors, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2014
Perceptual: Chris Fraser and Justin Lowman, Montalvo Project Space Gallery, Saratoga, CA
2013
In Stereo, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In Passing, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2012
Eidolons, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The air around us, Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
2011
2x2 Solos: Chris Fraser, ProArts, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Shows
2022
Dissolve, Institute and Museum of California Art, Irvine, CA
2021
Boundaries: Time, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Boundaries: Time, Nova Síň, Prague, Czech Republic
2019
Tinworks Art, Bozeman, MT
2018
Weather, D-Museum, Seoul, Korea
Lightplay, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2017
Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Your Mind, This Moment, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2016
Lightopia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Lightopia, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
2014
Transparencies, Agua8, Lugano, Switzerland
Lightopia, Design Museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Momentum, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2013
All Good Things…, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Space 1999, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lightopia, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Personal Structures, 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2012
Proceed, CR10, Linlithgo, NY
DocumentO, Krowswork, Oakland, CA
3020 Laguna Street In Exitum, San Francisco, CA
2011
Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Darkness and Light, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Lux ex Machina, Krowswork, Oakland, CA
Cream, from the Top, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2010
(…), MacArthur b arthur, Oakland, CA
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, Wiegand Gallery, Belmont, CA
Between You and Me – Mills College MFA Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Performances, Actions, Interventions
2018
Bob Miller’s Light Walk, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2016
Reciprocity, After Dark: Extended Cinemas, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2015
Ashley Bellouin + Ben Bracken + Chris Fraser, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
2014
The Magic Lantern, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Renewals/Returns, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013
From Picture to Room, KALA, Berkeley, CA
2012
Light Projection Lab, tête, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Sausalito, CA
2016
Awagami Artist in Residence Program, Yoshinogawa, Japan
2014
Eureka Fellowship, The Fleishhacker Foundation
Montalvo Arts Center, Irvine Fellow, Saratoga, CA
2013
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
KALA Fellowship, Berkeley, CA
2011
Real Time and Space Residency, Oakland, CA
2010
Headlands Center for the Arts, Graduate Fellowship, Sausalito, CA
The Jay DeFeo Prize
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Rachel Cramer, Artists Transform Old Warehouse Slated for Demolition in Bozeman, Yellowstone Public Radio, July 16
Pendarvis Harshaw, Rightnowish: Stepping Inside Chris Fraser's Pinhole Camera, KQED, March 29
2018
W Magazine Korea, How is Your Weather Today?, June 2
2017
Eureka at Thirty Years: Fleishhacker Foundation Artist Fellowships. San Francisco: Fleishhacker Foundation
2016
Anna Yudina, Lumitecture: Illuminating Interiors for Designers & Architects, Thames & Hudson, London
2015
Jonathon Keats, Can Sunlight Change Your Politics? This Chris Fraser Exhibition Will Challenge Your Perceptions, Forbes, October 29
Mikka Lautamo, Chris Fraser @ Wendi Norris, Square Cylinder, October 11
Danica Willard Sachs, Animated, Art Practical, September 24
Kimberly Chun, Artist Chris Fraser inspired by chain-link fences, San Francisco Chronicle, September 16
Artist of the Week: Chris Fraser, LVL3 Media, February 16
Pete Brook, The Walk-In Camera Obscura Plaything that Denounces Gentrification in San Francisco, Prison Photography, January 29
2014
An Xiao, Sculptures of Light and Illusion, Hyperallergic, January 22
Mikka Lautamo, Chris Fraser at Highlight, Square Cylinder, January 20
2013
Kenneth Baker, Chris Fraser: Making Something Out of Pure Light, SF Gate, December 18
Leora Lutz, “Space 1999” group exhibition at Incline Gallery, San Francisco, SFAQ Online, November 29
Kenneth Baker, “Space: 1999” at Incline Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle, November 1
Lightopia, exhibition catalogue, Vitra Design Museum, Mateo Kries and Jolante Kugler, editors.
Aaron Scott, Disjecta’s “In Passing”, Portland Monthly, March 6
John Motley, Chris Fraser at Disjecta, The Oregonian, February 8
2012
Victoria Gannon, Waking Dreams, Art21 Blog, July 10
Nikki Grattan and Klea McKenna, Chris Fraser, In the Make, July
2011
Rachel Clarke, BAN 6 @ YBCA, Square Cylander, August 11
Kenneth Baker, “Bay Area Now 6” at Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21
ProArts 2x2 Solos 2011, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Erica Levin
2010
Kenneth Baker, “Afterglow” inspires rethinking, San Francisco Chronicle, October 7
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Wiegand Gallery, Essay by Melissa Feldman
Gareth Spor, Devices & Situations, Taide Design #7, Fall
SELECTED LECTURES
2021
University of West Bohemia, Symposium
Sierra College, Artist Talk
2020
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Artist Talk
2019
University of North Texas, Artist Talk
2017
LASER, UC Davis, Artist Talk
2016
Living Room Light Exchange, Artist Talk
Awa Washi Kaikan, Artist Talk
UC Santa Barbara, Visiting Artist
2015
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Participatory Architecture, Panel with Larry Busbea and Jonathon Keats
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Visiting Artist
SF Camerawork, In Conversation with Monique Deschaines
2014
Montalvo Arts Center, Artist Talk
2013
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Artist Talk
Public Glass, Artist Talk
Loop Arts/Et Al., In Conversation with James Sterling Pitt and Dena Beard
KALA, On the performance of vision, Artist Talk
Disjecta, Artist Talk
2012
Highlight Gallery, In Conversation with Catherine Wagner
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Artist Talk
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Talk
Real Time and Space, Artist Talk
2011
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Everyday Optics, Push/Play, Artist Talk
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Art Moment, Artist Talk
ProArts, Artist Talk
COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art