About

b.  1977    |    New  York,  NY    |    damienxcrisp@gmail.com

Bachelor of Fine Arts – University of Tennessee at Knoxville – Painting

Master of Fine Arts –  School of Visual Arts – New York NY –  Studio Arts

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Exhibitions

2012

“Night Of The Vampyre” –  Orchard Windows Gallery.  Curator Yasamin Keshtkar.  NY, NY

“PEEP,  A Curious Look Into Painting” –  Little Berlin.  Curator Alana Bograd.  Philadelphia, PA

“Outsiders; Extremists; & Children” –  Invasion.  Curators Bob Dombrowski, Mary Petruska.  Chattanooga, TN

2011

“Bacchus Presents” -  Bacchus.  Curator Natalie Rodgers.  Los Angeles, CA

2010

“Public Broadcast of Slave (Expanded)” –  522 West 21st Street.  NY, NY

“Nicholas Brooks+Damien Crisp+Ashley Klein” –  The Ocean / The Waves Gallery.  NY, NY

“Collective Show New York” -  Participant Inc,  with the collective Vector.  NY, NY

“Room” -  ProjectRoom,  Damien Crisp and Gillian S. Wilson;  curator Craig Roper.  Lincoln, NE

“Outerspace” -  Agent Double.  Curator Cetuss.  Geneva, Switzerland

“Chicane burns as citadels slave” -  Public Library.  Curator Jonathan Hartshorn.  Alburquerque, NM

2009

“Correspondences (Ex-spy)” -  Gallery 106 Green,  solo show.  Brooklyn, NY

Artist Registry -  White Columns.  NY, NY

2008

“Art Since The Summer Of ’69,  Dark Fair” -  Swiss Institute.  Curators Hanne Mugaas.  NY, NY

2007

“Last Show” -  Sooplex.  Curators Mike Calway-Fagen,  Julian Rogers.  Nashville, TN

“Big Secret Cache” -  Angstrom Gallery.  Curators Kristrin Calabrese,  David Quadrini.  Los Angeles, CA

“MFA Road Show #3″ -  Arthur Roger Project Space.  Organized by Dan Cameron,  SVA.  New Orleans, LA

“MFA Road Show #2″ -  Finesilver Gallery.  Organized by Dan Cameron,  SVA.  San Antonio, TX

“MFA Road Show #1″ -  Boots Contemporary Arts Space.  Organized by Dan Cameron,  SVA.  St. Louis, MO

“CAA New York Area MFA Exhibition” -  Time Square Gallery, Hunter College.  Curator David Row.  NY, NY

“All Tomorrow’s Parties” -  Visual Arts Gallery.  MFA Thesis show; curator Amy Smith-Stewart. NY, NY

2006

“Dark Matter USA” -  55 Mercer.  Curators Peter Gregorio, Mike Egan.  NY, NY

“Ignite 2″ -  Arworks Gallery.  Curator Mark Stafford.  Trenton, NJ

2004

“Real Imaginary Advertising” -  1010 Gallery,  Damien Crisp and Alisha Kerlin.  Knoxville, TN

“Wallspace” -  1010 Gallery,  Damien Crisp and Alisha Kerlin.  Knoxville, TN

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Writings and Publications

“Damien Crisp [196]“
Signs of Our Times | August 1, 2011

“The Exaggerated American South”
Unknown Journal | April 27, 2011
New York, NY

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
NYC Independent Media Center | March 4, 2011
New York, NY

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
Twin Cities IndyMedia | March 4, 2011
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
Seismologik | February 24, 2011
New York, NY

“The Kochs (Coke’s), A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
No Lies Radio | February 22, 2011

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
Accountablility Now | February 21, 2011
New York, NY

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
Our End Of The ‘Net | October 24, 2010

“A Note on a vision of: The End Of ‘Commercial Art’”
Unknown Journal | October 11, 2010
New York, NY

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation Of The Right”
CNN iReport | October 9, 2010
New York, NY

“The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation of The Right”
Unknown Journal | October 6, 2010
New York, NY

“The War Against Subjectivity”
Unknown Journal | September 25, 2010
New York, NY

“Fascist USA & Abstraction After 9/11″
Unknown Journal | September 11, 2010
New York, NYS

Slave (Expanded); Damien Crisp
Published by Unknown Press | paperback, 426 pages; 2010
New York, NY

“Damien Crisp [49], Slave Expanded”
The Prostitution Of Art | November 2, 2010
Boston, MA

“Jerry Saltz Resigns From NY Mag”
Unknown Journal | May 11, 2010
New York, NY

“Update: Gagosian’s Co-Conspirator”
Unknown Journal | May 4, 2010
New York, NY

“Larry Gagosian To Be Indicted”
Unknown Journal | May 4, 2010
New York, NY

“Brooklyn Terrorist Phantoms”
Unknown Journal | May 4, 2010
New York, NY

“Don’t Come To New York”
Unknown Journal | May 3, 2010
New York, NY

“Modern / Slave”
FAKE plastic | issue 4, May 2010
Northern Ireland

“The Near Future/ of Museums”
Unknown Journal | April 18, 2010
New York, NY

“Warhol’s Empty Births”
Unknown Journal | April 4, 2010
New York, NY

“Jeff Koons Dies In Tokyo Blast”
Unknown Journal | February 9, 2010
New York, NY

“Invisible (A day without art.)”
Unknown Journal | February 3, 2010
New York, NY

“The Cynical Twists Of Jerry Saltz”
Unknown Journal | January 25, 2010
New York, NY

“Alisha Kerlin / Endless Ghosts”
Unknown Journal | January 2010
New York, NY

“Brian Gahona (John Xero) / The Triangle Of The Shadow Of Doubt”
Unknown Journal | December 2009
New York, NY

“Slave, [There are no new waves, there is only] the ocean.”
Antique Children | November 30, 2009
Los Angeles, CA

“Damien Crisp”
Vector | issue 2, edited by Peter Gregorio; 2009
New York, NY

“Damien Crisp – excerpts from Identified As An American”
Vector | issue 1, edited by Peter Gregorio; 2008
New York, NY

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Press

“US protests spread to more than 1,000 cities”
vRRitti | 10/09/11

“Occupy Wall Street movement spreading to Chattanooga”
by James Harrison | Nooga.com | 10/0611
Chattanooga, TN

“The Movement is Spreading”
ChaCha | 10/03/11

“Untitled paintings on paper, help Damien Crisp escape to New York”
by RRogers | art | 05/23/11
New York, NY

“Pay Attention”
Vicissitudes Of The Damned 2 | 06/19/11
New York, NY

“The Koch Family: A Legacy Of Hate (Part One)”
by Erin Nanasi | Addictinginfo.org | 03/11/11
Houston, TX

“The Frantic Femme Tapes – Her First Dream About Damien Crisp”
The John Xero Interviews | 02/06/11
New York, NY

“Art-making robot and Sheldon’s Year of Woman top art in 2010″
by L. Kent Wolgamott | The Lincoln Journal Star | 12/26/10
Lincoln, NE

“Love and no logic at ProjectRoom”
by L. Kent Wolgamott | The Lincoln Journal Star | 09/04/10
Lincoln, NE

“Bearing Your Teeth in the Belly of the Beast”
by Nicholas Roudane | Oak Magazine | 09/29/10
New York, NY

“Damien Crisp”
R. | edition #78; 08/29/2010
Paris, FR

“Jerry Saltz Responds to Rumors of His Departure”
by Jerry Saltz | New York Magazine: Vulture  | 05/12/10
New York, NY

“Damien Crisp, Correspondences (Ex-Spy) @ 106 Green”
by Kris Chatterson | KCLOG | 12/06/09
New York, NY

“ProjectRoom showcases love in Friday’s exhibit”
by Michael Todd | Daily Nebraskan | 08/30/10
Lincoln, NE

“MFA Road Show”
by Dan Cameron
Boot Print | volume 1, issue number 2; December 2007
St. Louis, MO

“Moving Arts: Power, professionalism, and perversity”
by Jerry Saltz | Village Voice | 01/02/07
New York, NY

“Existential Irony: The sober, moving resonance of Dark Matter”
by Frank Holliday | Gay City News | 09/14/2006
New York, NY

“Dark Matter USA”
by Mo Ringey | If I Were A Diplomat | 08/26/06
New York, NY

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