Untitled, 2013
Embroidery and marker on School of the Art Institute of Chicago Residence Life armchair
Embroidery and marker on School of the Art Institute of Chicago Residence Life armchair
Justin Chance
1993 New York, NY/ Valley Stream, NY
justinbchance@gmail.com
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(2015 ) BA in Visual & Critical Studies
(2015) BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Dominion, Prairie, Chicago IL
Motherhood, Ginny on Frederick, London UK
Archive, Naranjo 141, Mexico City MX
2023
Love is Sci-Fi, Sydney, Sydney AU
Live, Tara Downs, New York NY
2021
Station, Tuesday, Richmond VA
Low-Life, Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA
2018
Long Distance, Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA
Two Person Exhibitions
2023
Winter (with Sylvie Hayes-Wallace), Hesse Flatow, New York NY
2022
Hangout (with The People of New York), D.D.D.D. Pictures, New York NY
Social (with David Sprecher), Apparatus Projects, Chicago IL
On Grist and Sunstroke (with Kim Farkas), Downs & Ross at Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan IT
2021
Better (with Hunter Foster), Gern en Regalia, New York NY
2019
Half Past (with Opal Mae Ong) Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn NY
2015
Motherfield (with Hunter Foster), May 2000, Chicago IL
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2024
Vampire Problem?, N/A, Seoul, KR (curated by Ginny on Frederick)
The Principal Cause of Serial Monogamy, Tara Downs, NY (curated by Cooper Brovenick)
2023
Flesh & Flowers, Made in America, NO NAME, Paris FR (curated by Lauren Taschen)
Public Life (Drawings), Chris Andrews, Montreal CA
Common Ground, Naranjo 141, New York NY
The World We Were Born in No Longer Exists, Gnosiophobia, New York NY Plant a Weed, Jack Barrett, New York NY (curated by Francesca Altamura)
2022
JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY, Silke Lindner, New York NY
In My Mold, Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin DE (curated by Miriam Bettin)
Elective Affinities, Chapter, New York NY
And Still No Rain, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto CA, (curated by Madeleine Taurins and Melanie Scheiner)
The Grid and the Curve, JTT, New York NY
Material Knowledge, Arsenal Contemporary, New York NY
Kilómetro Cero, General Expenses, Mexico City MX
Lingua Franca, Kapp Kapp, New York NY
Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict, Art Lot, Brooklyn NY (curated by Jacob Jackmauh and Lina McGinn)
The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse,
Green Gallery, Milwaukee WI (curated by Matt Morris)
Serendipity Trail, Bad Water, Knoxville TN
2021
Sundae, mcg21xoxo, Matsudo, JP (screening)
Bog Morals, Chris Andrews, Montreal CA
Transmission, Underdonk, Brooklyn NY
Proximity, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles CA (co-curated by Lindsay Preston Zappas)
“Some say the soul is made of wind”, Downs & Ross (Reade Street), New York NY
Latent Memory; Dust on My Tongue, Miriam, Brooklyn NY
An Epithet, or that which lingers after death, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL
Remnant, Artifact, Flow, Thierry Goldberg, New York NY (curated by Leah Newman)
2020
This Tragedy, Fonda, Leipzig DE
2019
Training Day: Howardena Pindell, Devin Kenny, Justin Chance, Housing, Miami Florida (screening)
Mal, James River Park, Richmond Virginia (organized by Underground Flower, supported by The Sunroom)
Materia Prima, Gern en Regalia, New York NY
F.A.B.U., Shoot the Lobster, New York NY
Charade, Lock Up International, London UK (organized by Ginny Projects)
Group Show, Grand Buffet & Pulvers Glass, (organized by Baba Yaga Gallery, Scott Keightley)
2018
"Only Once and Many More: Mary Lee Bendolph, Justin Chance, Beverly Semmes" Brooklyn NY (curated by Jenni Crain)
'Kelly Lloyd: Up like the sun, down like a Pancake", Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Baltimore MD
Sticks and Stones, Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA (curated by Chadwick Gibson and Cheyenne Julien)
Projects
2019 - ∞
The Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research
2018
rehearsal: Natural Dye Presentation, Amagansett, NY
'ECLIPSING', Group Exhibition, Arts Incubator, Chicago IL*
"Jomo Cheatham: Reparations for Interruptions", ADDS Donna* Chicago IL
*co-curated with Amina Ross
Grants / Awards / Fellowship
2019
Bell Cultural Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
2015
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
World Less Traveled Grant (for independent research in Trinidad & Tobago)
Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship
George Roeder Visual Critical Studies Departmental Award
2014
Ox-Bow School of Art Merit Scholarship – Ox-Bow School of Art
2012
Presidential Scholarship – School of the Art Institute of Chicago