ETHAN HAYES-CHUTE
Thinking about: Hypothetical domiciles; fantastical isolation; outsider architecture; self- sufficiency; landscape; self-preservation; wood; nails; voyeurism; viewer participation; found materials; daily life; nostalgia; seclusion; sublimity; "natural" habitats; ad-hoc construction; knick-knacks; contrasting scales; craftsmanship; customization; longing; decay.
Born 1982, Freeport, ME
Lives and works in Freeport, Maine & Berlin, Germany
Education:
Rhode Island School of Design, Class of 2004 BFA Painting
Residency:
Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen (nkd), Dalsåsen, Norway, 2011
Hóll - The Birgir Andrésson Residency, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, October 2010
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, Vermont, September 2010
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, Vermont, March 2005
Awards:
NKD Fellow, Nordic Artists' Centre, Dalsåsen, Norway, 2011
Individual Arts Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission, 2011
Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, 2010
The Golden Foundation Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson Vermont, 2010
Jurors' Prize, Center for Maine Contemporary Art's Biennial Juried Exhibition, 2006
Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Stopgap and Steadfast, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport ME
Make/Shifted Cabin, Entrée, Bergen, Norway
2010
Several Examples of Homesteading, Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2008
went to get wood, Program, Berlin, Germany
2007
wood n stuff Leif Magne Tangens, Skien, Norway
Can’t Find Them Anymore, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport ME
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012
Higher Atlas: 4th Arts in Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco (confirmed)
2011
Space Invaders, Rose Contemporary, Portland, Maine
Our House in the Middle of Our Street, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France [Cat.]
Metrospective 1.0, Program, Berlin, Germany
2010
Ethan Hayes-Chute & Yeshe Parks, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
The Kindness of Cronies, HOME WORK, Berlin, Germany
25th International Festival of Fashion & Photography, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France [Cat.]
Ins Blickfeld Gerückt, Institut Français, Berlin, Germany
Derridas Katze... que donc je suis (à suivre), curated by Alice Goudsmit, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2009
Projection, presented by Cleopatra's, Independent Curators International 2009 Gala, New York; NADA Art Fair Miami Beach, Florida; Gruppenausstellung, at AutoCenter, Berlin, Germany
Less is More, curated by Margherita Belaief, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Tales, Citric Gallery, Brescia Italy
EXHIBITION, Exhibition 211, New York City
2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine
[Cat.]
2008
Game Over, Giant Robot SF, San Francisco, California
Highway Child, Kollektiv Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Bourgious Plaisir, MiArt '08, Milan Italy
Auslaender
in Berlin, curated by Margherita Belaief, Citric Gallery, Brescia Italy [Cat.]
2007
Tiny, curated by Bruce Brown, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
Landscape: Theme And Variation, curated by Bruce Brown, Landing Gallery, Rockland, Maine
In Full Cry, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Future Fictions, Giant Robot New York, New York City
Zine Soup, Telefon Til Chefen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland
ME,
Streams, torrents, lakes, ... sunrises, and sunsets, for example. Program, Berlin, Germany
2006
Salong Berlin, curated by Alice Goudsmit, Transit Art Space, Stavanger, Norway
Secret West, Collaboration with Brent Wadden, Berlin, Germany
CMCA'S 2006 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary
Art, Rockport, Maine
Salong, curated by Alice Goudsmit, Projekt 0047, Berlin, Germany
2005
Thick Lens, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tiger Love and Other Animal Stories, Galerie Nota Bene, Montreal,
Quebec
projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project, Traveling Exhibition, Canada
and the US
Hayes-Chute Family Art Show, Freeport Historical Society, Freeport,
Maine