- Chris Dorland @ Lyles & King, 2021
- Chris Dorland @ Lyles & King, 2021
- Chris Dorland @ Lyles & King, 2021
Chris Dorland (b.1978) is a Canadian/American artist living and working in New York.
Dorland works at the intersection of painting and digital media. With an emphasis on examining the ways in which surveillance technologies perceive, record and reproduce reality, he uses a variety of screens, drones and other optical devices to explore the increasingly tenuous boundaries between physical and digital environments, actual and virtual realities. Dorland has been developing and refining a unique compression of both analog and digital languages into a singular and dense aesthetic rife with both unexpected beauty and extreme chaos. Neither fully abstract nor functionally representational, Dorland’s work allows us to apprehend the force of intrusive technologies as they increasingly distort and glitch our understanding of reality. Dorland’s paintings and videos are a haunting meditation on contemporary life that evokes a dystopian vision of the human-built world through the sublimated violence of abstraction, consumerism and technology.
Past exhibitions include the Front International, Cleveland Triennal for Contemporary Art ; Aetopoulos, Athens ; Super Dakota, Brussels ; Martos, Los Angeles ; Lyles & King, New York ; Marianne Boesky Uptown, New York ; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles…
He is part of the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, Microsoft, Dawson College, Neuberger Berman, The Juilliard School of Art, The Langham, Chicago IL.
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!Mediengruppe Bitnik,
Virgil Abloh,
Chris Dorland,
Sin Wai Kin,
Kin-Ting Li,
Isaac Lythgoe,
Metahaven,
David Rappeneau,
Tabor Robak,
Christine Wang,
Yue Yuan
Liquid Life08 September – 22 October, 2022
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Chris Dorland Protocol
28 October – 18 December, 2021
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Chris Dorland Synthetic Skin
01 March – 13 April, 2019
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Sarah Abu Abdallah,
Juliette Bonneviot, Chris Dorland,
Celine Gillain, Peter Nagy,
!Mediengruppe Bitnik,
Jaakko Pallasvuo, Adriana Ramic,
Ariane Schick,
Barbara Westermann (DYS)-TROPISM18 April – 27 May, 2017
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Chris Dorland Happiness Machines
15 January – 27 February 2016