Chris Bors

Chris Bors is an American visual artist based in New York City who uses a variety of media, including painting, photography and video. His work is based on appropriation, autobiographical references, and obsessive personality traits, which can be traced to a steady diet of television, underground comix, and hardcore punk music. His art has been exhibited at PS1 MoMA, [Cite web
url=http://www.ps1.org/exhibitions/view/33
title=B Hotel
author=P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center | authorlink= P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center ] White Columns, and Sixtyseven gallery in New York, Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, and the Videoex Festival in Zurich, among many other venues. His work has been reviewed in "The New York Times", [Cite web
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/28liarts.html?_r=2&ref=nyregionspecial2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
title=Material Things, Cataloged
author=Genocchio, Benjamin | authorlink= Benjamin Genocchio
publisher=The New York Times | date=2007-01-28 | accessdate=2008-08-30] [Cite web
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E5D91430F931A2575AC0A9629C8B63&scp=7&sq=chris+bors&st=nyt
title=Young and Provocative, Time Is on Their Side
author=Genocchio, Benjamin | authorlink=Benjamin Genocchio
publisher=The New York Times | date=2004-09-12 | accessdate=2008-08-30] "Time Out New York", "The Brooklyn Rail", and "PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art", as well as being featured in "Vogue Italia", "K48", "Razor," and "zingmagazine". He has curated exhibitions at Here Art in New York and Vox Populi in Philadelphia and written on art for artnet, ARTINFO, "ArtReview", "artUS" and "Artillery". His writing on music has appeared in such publications as "Thrasher", "All That" and "In-Effect". He hosted the radio show Twisted Melodies on WJFF 90.5 FM in Jeffersonville, New York. He is the director of the fake gallery Triton Gallery, LLC [ [http://www.tritongalleryllc.com Triton Gallery, LLC] ] — a collaborative project with Ketta Ioannidou — purportedly located in Nicosia, Cyprus. His art is available at Pierogi [ [http://pierogi2000.com/flatfile/borsc.html chris bors @ pierogi 2000] ] and Jack the Pelican Presents [ [http://jackthepelicanpresents.com/artistindex.html jackthepelicanpresents.com artists] ] in Brooklyn, New York.

Selected videography

"TV Party", 2008
"R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell", 2008
"24 Second Psycho", 2005
"Slayer...Slayer...Slayer...", 2003
"I Win", 1999

References

External links

* [http://www.chrisbors.com www.chrisbors.com] the artist's website

Selected bibliography

Elena Bordignon. "Arte," "Vogue Italia", February, 2008
Cheryl Katz. “A Product Of His Time, The Performance Acts of Chris Bors,” "PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art", No. 76, January, 2004
Bill Arning. "Projects '98," "Time Out New York", August 27 – September 3, 1998