The artist lives and works in New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC, US.
EDUCATION
2013
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, US
2009
College of Arts + Architecture, University of North Carolina–Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, US
2006
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, PL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Integration, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY, US
2023
Love Chant, Bode, Berlin, DE
Ceremony, Welancora Gallery, New York, NY, US
Frieze Los Angeles, Welancora Gallery, CA, US
2021
KIAF Seoul, Bode, Berlin, DE
2020
When There is No Sun, Monica King Contemporary, New York, NY, US
2017
Blahk on Blahk on Blak, Gallery Twenty Two, Charlotte, NC, US
2012
Chris Watts: New Works, Artspace Visual Art Center, Raleigh, NC, US
American Gods, Genome Gallery, Charlotte, NC, US
2011
I am Chris Watts, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Frieze Los Angeles, Welancora Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2022
Combinations, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY, US
Framing the Stretcher, Mizuma & Kips, New York, NY, US
Open Doors, Welancora at Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, NY, US
Salon RBH, Bode Projects, Berlin, DE
2021
Witness or pretend: Decoding materiality in southern art, Bode Projects, Berlin, DE
BEHOLD, Welancora Gallery, New York, NY, US
Intersect Aspen, Monica King Projects, Aspen, CO, US
2020
Familiar, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI, US
Beautiful Bastards, 1209 Garage, Austin, TX, US
Spring in Action, Monica King Contmeporary, New York, NY, US
A response in uncertain times, Bode Projects, Berlin, DE
Intesect Aspen, Monica King Contemporary, Aspen, CO, US
2019
Young Hours, Galeria Pienkow, Lipinki, PL
Breaching the Margins, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts at Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI, US
Transparency, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC, US
2018
Not an edge but a hinge, Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, US
Black Blooded, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, US
MATERIAL WITNESS WITNESS MATERIAL, Knockdown Center, New York, NY, US
Roderick MacKillop Memorial Alumni Exhibition, University of North Carolina–Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, US
2017
Up All Night, Lump Projects, Raleigh, NC, US
mood: B L A C K, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC, US
Apple Pie: An American Art Show, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC, US
2016
Do You See Me?, Diggs Gallery Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, US
The Willows: If You Build It, Lord & Taylor, New York, NY, US
Art + Dialogue: Responding to Racial Tension in America, High Point University, High Point NC, US
2015
Art + Dialogue: Responding to Racial Tension in America, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC, US
So Much to She, Flanders Gallery, Aaron Fowler & Chris Watts, Raleigh, NC, US
THATS ON ME, Paris Blues, New York, NY, US
Realities in Contemporary Video Art, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, FR
trashDay, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, US
2014
#Live, Le Paris Paris Club, Paris, FR
INsideOUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, US
2012
Assorted - Yale MFA 14 Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, US
Interactive Landscapes: New and Collaborative Works, Elizabeth Ross Gallery at Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, US
North Carolina Artist Exhibition, Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC, US
2010
7 Center, Dialect Gallery, Charlotte, NC, US
Daydreaming with Swimmer’s Ear, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, US
RESIDENCIES
2022
The Soros Justice Fellowships, Open Society Foundations, New York, NY, US
2021
Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship Finalist
2019
Artist in Residence, Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation, Chelm, PL
Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, US
2018
The Art & Law Program Fellowship, Cornell University Art Architecture Planning, New York, NY, USA
Artist in Residence, Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, US
2017
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, New York, NY, US
2014
Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, US
2012
Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY, US
2010
Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, US