Solo Exhibits

2006 New Orleans Museum of Art, “Katrina Exposed” , New Orleans, LA (May 20 – June 30)
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, “Disaster!” Port Angeles, WA (June-July)
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX (September-October)
Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, TX (September- October)
“Art Not Oil”, London, traveling exhibition
Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth, Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (September)
Photo Espana Festival, Madrid, Spain (June-July)
2005 Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Foto&Photo Festival, Cesano Maderno, Italy
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA
2003 Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, Ireland
1998 Benham Gallery, Seattle WA
1996 Benham Gallery, Seattle WA

Selected Group Exhibits
2006 Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA (June-July)
2006 Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth, Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, Houston TX, Best of Show award
2005 College of Santa Fe Art Gallery, Santa Fe MN, curated by Joslin Van Arsdale
2005 4th Annual Recycled Art Show, Seattle WA
2005 Urban Jungle Environmental Expo, U.N. International Environment Day, San Francisco CA
2004 Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art
2004 Agora Gallery SoHo/Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, juried by Susan Cross, Guggenheim Museum, New York 2004
2004 International Fine Art Photography Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins CO, 2004
2004 Photo Espana Descubrimientos 04, Madrid, Spain
2004 Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles CA
2000 "Intimate Landscapes," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
1999 Photographic Image Gallery, Portland OR
1999 Earth Day, Eastshore Gallery, Bellevue WA
1999 The Third Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle WA
1998 The Second Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle WA
1997 The First Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle WA
1997 “Visions of Grace” juried by Jock Sturges, Seattle WA
1996 Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA, 1996
1996 “The Search for Transcendence” juried by Joyce Tenneson, Seattle WA
1995 “Worth A Thousand Words” juried by Duane Michals, Seattle WA

Selected Press
2006 Rolling Stone Magazine, Spain, June issue
2006 Profile Magazine, London, April issue
2006 Grist Magazine, March issue (www.grist.org)
2006 Quest Magazine, Germany, March issue
2006 Harper's Magazine, February issue
2006 ART Magazine, Germany, February issue
2006 "C" International Photography Magazine, London, January issue
2006 Focus Magazine, Greece, January issue
2005 Focus Magazine, Italy, October issue
2005 London Daily Telegraph, "In Focus", September 4
2005 Art In America Magazine, Chris Jordan at Paul Kopeikin, September issue
2005 Tacoma News Tribune, In the Land of Plenty, Sunday August 21
2005 South China Morning Post, The Ring Recycle? More Like The Hard Sell For a Load of Rubbish, August 7
2005 New York Times, Chris Jordan's Great Big Beautiful Piles of Junk, Sunday July 24, by Philip Gefter
2005 Smithsonian Magazine, E-Gad!, August 2005, by Elizabeth Royte; also run as a feature on CNN, August 7 2005
2004 CNN Newsnight with Aaron Brown, artist feature, December
2004 PhotoMedia Magazine, Beauty and the Blight, portfolio feature, Fall issue
2004 Pacific Northwest Magazine, Shooting From the Soul, March 21
2004 Seattle Times, Throwaway Culture In Focus, Sunday Feb 15, also in Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express News & Tampa Tribune
2003 View Camera Magazine, Chris Jordan & the Miracle of the Mundane, July/August issue
2001 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Night Blooming: Chris Jordan’s Camera Captures Dazzling Urban Trees, by Regina Hackett, June 16

Awards and Grants
2006 Best of Show award, "Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth," Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston
2005 Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2004 First Place Winner, Gary Horowitz Award, 2004 Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art
2004 Photo Espana Descubrimientos 04, Honorable Mention runner up to festival prize, Madrid, Spain
2004 Finalist, Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Center for Documentary Studies, juried by Maria Morris Hambourg

  • 3.10.09
    Pulse New York/ Chris Jordan press mentions

    Chris Jordan's new photographs from 'Running The Numbers' received several 'shout-outs' from art bloggers who saw them at the Pulse Art Fair 2009 in New York.

    Horses Think: Don't Think

    A Sky Filled With Shooting Stars

  • 1.02.09
    Minds of Mountainfilm: Chris Jordan

    Photographer Chris Jordan sits down with Aaron Huey to discuss his latest work, Running the Numbers, which was exhibited at Mountainfilm 2008. Running the Numbers forces viewers to examine issues of American consumption and mass culture through extremely large digital photo constructions depicting the number of Americans in the penal system and the number of cell phones discarded everyday among others. This work, a follow up to Jordan's Intolerable Beauty, seeks to evoke feelings in the viewers, to awake them from malaise by translating these massive numbers we hear everyday into a visual language. Jordan and fellow photographer Huey discuss creating work that is not just about beauty, the ironies/hypocrisies of documenting consumption and the meaning of Mountainfilm.

    Link to the video here:
    http://telluride.plumtv.com/videos/minds_mountainfilm_chris_jordan

  • 1.22.08
    Chris Jordan interviewed on Rachael Ray

    View a video of Chris Jordan interviewed on Rachael Ray.
    Link: http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/chris-jordan/

  • 10.31.07
    Chris Jordan Video Links

    The Colbert Report
    Watch Interview

    Bill Moyer's Journal
     Featured on PBS
    "Running the Numbers"
    Watch Interview

  • 5.15.07
    image Running The Numbers

    There was a recent news story on Chris Jordan’s “Running The Numbers” series on ABC News on-line. To see it, click HERE

    Watch another short video about Running the Numbers HERE

  • 11.13.06
    image In Katrina's Wake

    Photographs from Chris Jordan's series In Katrina's Wake are on view at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibition is open every Saturday and Sunday in November. Please visit the Lannan Foundation website for details.

  • 5.05.06
    image PhotoEspaña

    Chris Jordan’s exhibition ‘In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster’ will be shown at PhotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts in Madrid, Spain, happening June 1st- July 23rd.  The festival has been held annually in  Madrid since 1998, turning the city for a month and a half into the world capital of photography.

  • 4.11.06
    Katrina Exposed

    Chris Jordan has been invited to participate in the upcoming exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, “Katrina Exposed.”

  • 3.23.06
    image In Katrina’s Wake

    In August, Chris Jordan will release a book titled “In Katrina’s Wake,” published by Princeton Architectural Press in New York. It will feature 50 of Mr. Jordan’s photographs along with essays by writers Bill McKibben and Susan Zakin on the causes and consequences of the Katrina disaster.

  • 3.16.06
    Artists Responding to Violence against the Earth

    Chris Jordan is participating in “Artists Responding to Violence against the Earth,” a group photography exhibition at the Museum of Cultural Art, Houston. The exhibition opens today and will run in conjunction with Houston’s FotoFest 2006.

  • 2.01.06
    image After the Flood

    Harper’s Magazine is publishing “After the Flood”, a photo essay by Chris Jordan. The images, from his series “In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster,” will appear in the February 2006 issue.

  • image In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster

    by Chris Jordan, Bill McKibben, Susan Zakin
    Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers, 96 pages
    (September 2006)
    Hardbound, Signed, $50

    Book Description:
    While many may argue whether the devastation of hurricane Katrina was the direct or indirect result of global warming, infrastructural neglect, inadequate preparation, or an incompetent governmental response, nobody will deny the heartbreak it wrought, the homes, businesses, and history washed away, the landscape uprooted, or the lives lost. Renowned photographer Chris Jordan went on assignment—his own—to capture the tragedy of the aftermath of this, the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States. In Katrina's Wake, his series of 50 photographs, layer, the horror of ruin with the uncanny beauty of nature, even in its most savage incarnation. His images show how the remnants of a place—from Mardi Gras beads to church pews, from computer stations to swing sets—recall the essence of a place. Essays by Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Royte, and Susan Zakin explore the causes and effects of global warming, noting that we are all responsible for the future of our planet. A portion of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to organizations dedicated to rebuilding New Orleans.

    Please add $15 for shipping and handling within the continental US only.
    The international shipping rate is $30.

    $50.00 plus $15.00 shipping and handling within the contenetntal US only.
    The international shipping rate is $30.00.

  • image Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption

    Exhibition catalogue.
    Photographs by Chris Jordan. Softbound $50.
    Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005. 23 pp., 19 color illustrations, 11x9".

    The exhibtion catalogue for the March 2005 premier exhibtion of Chris Jordan’s series Intolerable Beauty. Since then the work has gone on to show at numerous museums and remains highly sought after.

    $50 plus $10 shipping and handling within the continental US only.
    The international shipping rate is $20.

    $50.00 plus $10.00 shipping and handling within the contenetntal US only.
    The international shipping rate is $20.00.

  • image Running The Numbers: An American Self-Portrait

    Chris Jordan's latest series of photographs, 'Running The Numbers,' looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: thirty seconds of our aluminum can consumption, eight hours of commercial jet flights, and so on. The artists considers the works in 'Running The Numbers' to be a translation from the deadening language of statistics into a more universal visual language that might allow for more feeling. The underlying aim is to question our roles and responsibilities as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.

     

    $40.00 plus $10.00 shipping and handling within the contenetntal US only.
    The international shipping rate is $20.00.