Education
1991-94 Bath College of Higher Education BA Fine Art- Painting
1990-91 Chetwynd Centre, Stafford - Foundation in Art and Design

Exhibitions / Projects

Upcoming
June 05
BOUDICCA Animate collected, exploded and condensed
Limited edition etchings and sound work in collaboration with BOUDICCA fashion house
Pub. Castle Editions

July 05
Untitled (group show)
VANE, Newcastle upon Tyne

July 05
Shoe shop (group show)
Globe Gallery, North Shields

2005
Everything in Vogue (solo exhibition)
mima – Pre-programme exhibition, Middlesbrough
Everything in Vogue – Graham Dolphin
pub. Art Editions North

Interference
The great Unsigned, Waugh Thistleton Architecture, London

2004
Carlos
Commissioned drawing
pub. John Brown Citrus, winter 2004

Practice
High Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

mima T commission
mima – Pre-programme commission, Middlesbrough

The great Unsigned
Zoo Art Fair, London Zoo, Regent's Park, London

PILOT 01 - International Art Forum
Limehouse Townhall, London

Arts Council plasma screen programme
Newcastle upon Tyne

Qvest Magazin
Collaboration with Mandarina Duck
No. 14 Female issue, Mai-Juin 2004
pub. Qvest, Berlin

QSL
mima – Middlesbrough
QSL audio publication
pub. mima gallery, Middlesbrough

M Publication
Volume 03
Collaboration with Lee Jeans and Dominik Gigler
M Publication, Volume 03
pub. M-109 Network, Frankfurt

ArtExpo 2004 > Mexico
Observatorio Centro Experimental, Mexico

2003
Mandarina Duck/ArtReview Party
Launch party with Mandarina Duck and ArtReview

Show magazine
Collaboration with Celine
Show magazine issue one
pub. John Brown Citrus publishing

ArtReview
Collaboration with Mandarina Duck
ArtReview, September 2003
pub. ArtReview Ltd.

ReSound
Stroud Valley Arts Space, Stroud
3 day sound art festival

Translator
VANE, Newcastle upon Tyne

2002
Rapture: Art’s Seduction By Fashion
Barbican Gallery,  London
Rapture; Art’s Seduction By Fashion –Chris Townsend
pub. Thames and Hudson

The Mind Is A Horse
Bloomberg SPACE, London

Grotesque Idyll
Kinnijoe Space, Hamburg

Everyword In Vogue (solo exhibition)
Five Years, London

The Difference Between You & Us
Five Years, London

2001
Drop Out
Five Years, London

Fresh Art (invited artist)
Business Design Centre, London

2000
Felt-tip (curator and exhibitor)
Zwemmer Gallery, London

Introduction Service
Zwemmer Gallery, London

1999
Kill Yr Idols
Laure Genillard Gallery, London

Accelerator
Southampton City Art Gallery
Arnolfini, Bristol
Oldham Art Gallery 
Acelerator catalogue,
pub. Southampton City Gallery, Arnolfini and Oldham Gallery

Publications
Everything in Vogue – Graham Dolphin
Edited by Judith Winter, texts by Chris Townsend, Judith Winter.
Art Editions North and mima, distributed by Cornerhouse.

QSL catalogue
mima publication with audio cd.

Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970 – Chris Townsend
Thames and Hudson 2002

Fresh Art 2001 catalogue
Business Design Centre, London

Accelerator catalogue edition of 1,500
Southampton City Gallery, Arnolfini and Oldham Gallery

Press, reviews and articles

2005
The Crack, Book review, May
Time Out, Art preview, 16-23 February
Flux, Art News, January
ArtReview, Art Agenda, December/January

2004
Carlos, drawing commission, Winter 2004
Qvest Magazin, artist project in collaboration with Mandarina Duck, May 2004
M Publication, artist project in collaboration with Dominik Gigler and Lee Jeans

2003
SHOW magazine, artist project in collaboration with CELINE and Selfridges, September
ArtReview, intervention within magazine, September
Mike Sims, ‘Property Rights’ Art Business Today, January

2002
Cahal Milmo, The Independent, 7 December, 2002
Cristina Ruiz The Art Newspaper, December
Patricia Bickers ‘Marriage a la Mode’, ‘Artnotes’ Art Monthly, November
Waldemar Janusczak The Sunday Times, 20 October
Martin Gayford The Daily Telegraph, 23 October
‘Hot Art’ Elle, October
Mark Hooper i-D, October
Adrian Searle The Guardian, 7 September
Sarah Kent Time Out, 18 September
Peter Chapman The Independent- The Information, 28 September
The Guardian- The Guide, 14 September

2000
Louise Bishop Creative Review, December
Stephanie Lutjens Dazed & Confused, December
Iain Aitch The Guardian- G2, 6 November
Samantha Ellis The Evening Standard, 3 November

1999
Chris Townsend Hotshoe, September/October
Christina Franzonni Zoom, September
Alex Farquharson Frieze, issue 47 June/July/August
Mark Harris Art Monthly, December/January
Phil Johnson The Independent, 21 February

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