Cristopher Cichocki lives and works in the desert of Southern California’s Coachella Valley. Encompassing painting, installation, photography, video, sculpture, sound, and performance, Cichocki's work emerges from hybrid experimentation and conceptual strategies. Throughout the entropic depths of the Salton Sea to the smog hazed Los Angeles skies, he inserts his vision onto subjects of ecological decay and abandonment employing his signature palate of "radioactive" neon colors and construction materials. The artist's post-earthwork landscapes, topographies, and micro worlds are meditations into new found perceptions of both beauty and hazard. The nucleus of subject matter offers up an intense range of reflection bridging disscusions between art, science, and nature. The scope of Cichocki’s practice amplifies the world around us while illuminating the ephemeral, continually shifting state of existence.
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Recent exhibitions include: ROJO® NOVA Casa Franca Brasil, Rio de Janerio, Brazil; Time Based Art Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Full Pull, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden; Multiplicity Festival, Hi Future Theatre, Rio de Janerio, Brazil; Desert Abyss, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA; ROJO® NOVA, Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Remains in the End Times, The Popular Workshop, San Franciscio, CA.
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Cristopher Cichocki
Biography
Born in 1979 in Charleston, Illinois.
Lives and works in the Coachella Valley, California.
Education
1998 -2001
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• Lew and Edie Wasserman Recipient
• Bank of America Fine Arts Scholar
• CalArts Dean's Grant
• La Quinta Arts Foundation Recipient
2000
Yale Summer Artist Residency, Norfolk, CT
• Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship
1995 - 1996
California State Summer School of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• La Quinta Arts Foundation Fellowship
• California Governor's Award Recipient
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2011
Remains In The End Times, The Popular Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Multiplicity Festival, Hi Future Theatre, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
ROJO® NOVA Sao Paulo, Cinemateca Brasileira, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Time Based Art Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR
Catalysts, Univeristy of California Riverside, Palm Desert, CA
Ende Tymes Festival, Silent Barn, Ridgewood, NY
ROJO® NOVA Rio de Janerio, Casa França-Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Valley of The Ancient Lake, Salton Sea History Museum, North Shore Salton Sea, CA
The Red Show, The Date Shed, Indio, CA
2010
Full Pull, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden
ROJO® NOVA Artscapes, Scion Building, Culver City, CA
ROJO® NOVA, Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Natural Order (solo exhibition) Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Experimental Video Showcase, Wild Project, New York, NY
Mapping The Context, The Arts at Context, Indio, CA
Joshua Tree Arts and Music Festival, Joshua Tree, CA
2009
Desert Abyss (solo exhibition) Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA
Plankton Robots, Fluxco, Los Angeles, CA
Cristopher Cichocki, Recent Paintings, Panorama Towers, Las Vegas, NV
Cristopher Cichocki, Recent Paintings (solo exhibition) MVSVEM, Los Angeles, CA
Upset The Rhythm Showcase, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Elemental Shifting , Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Austin, TX
Live and Direct, ITDE, Chicago, IL
SXSW Arts and Music Festival, Austin, TX
2007
Optical Projections, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Monumento 872 Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Group Photo Open, Modern Masters, Palm Desert, CA
Group Photo Open, Viceroy Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
Minimal Maximal (solo exhibition) 333, Palm Springs, CA
Everything Is Shifting, Pehrspace, Los Angeles, CA
Druid Film Festival, Il Corral, Hollywood, CA
2006
Wooster On Spring, The Candle Building, New York, NY
Turn The Screws Festival, Il Coral, Hollywood, CA
Origins of The Desert Abyss (solo exhibtion) The Villagio, Indian Wells, CA
Salton Tide (collaboration with Warm Climate), Mr. T's Bowl, Highland Park, CA
2005
Coachella Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA
Ceremony, Bigoudi, Osaka, Japan
Word of Mouth, Ivar Theatre, Hollywood, CA
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Group Show, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Melting Pot, Center Stage, Highland Park, CA
2004
The Golden State Of Being, Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Clues Into The Underground, Actionsound, Los Angeles, CA
Symbiosis, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, CA.
2003
Non-Alphabetical Group Show, Storage Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Elements Could Shift, Cristopher Cichocki & Seth Kasselman, Blue 7 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Day in Day Out, LOCO, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Blind Date With An Exquisite Corpse, CallArts SBD, Valencia, CA
Something For Everyone (solo exhibition) CalArts Gallery D-301, Valencia, CA
Collections, CalArts SBD Gallery, Valencia, CA
One Night Only, Mulligan's, Valencia, CA
Examaning More Pictures, CalArts SBD Gallery, Valencia, CA
2000
Multiplicity/Acceleration, CalArts SBD Gallery, Valencia, CA
Untitled Group Show, Yale Stoekel Gallery, Norfolk, CT
The Sigourney X Tension Painting Show, CalArts Main Gallery, Valencia, CA
Constant Flux, collaboration w/ Tim Barnhard and Laura Cull, Yale Stoeckel Gallery, Norfolk, CT
Transportable Transports, collaboration w/ Beth Knight, CalArts SBD Gallery, Valencia, CA
Past Presented Future, CalArts SBD Gallery, Valencia, CA
1999
Conditioning For The New Millenium, CalArts Gallery A-402 Valencia, CA
Divine Intervention, Action Space, Los Angeles, CA
Hybrids and Mutants, CalArts Sub-Level, Valencia, CA
1998
The Time is Now (solo exhibition) Calarts Main Gallery, Valencia, CA
A Reconsideration of Clukky - collaboration w/ Jesse Lee Stout, CalArts Main Gallery, Valencia, CA
Ry Rocklen, Cristopher CIchocki, Justin Clark, Devin Ashe CalArts L-Shape gallery, Valencia, CA