Cliff Evans

Cliff Evans is an American multidisciplinary artist of Australian origin.

Cliff Evans was born in New South Wales in Australia. He grew up in East Texas. He received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Evans lives and works in Arbutus and Baltimore.

Evans exhibited in the United States and the world, including The New Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Location One, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Fondation Beyeler, Art Sonje Center and the Today Museum.

Solo

• 2006 "The Road to Mount Weather," curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Location One, New York, NY
• 2007 "Cliff Evans: The Road to Mount Weather," curated by Chris Coleman, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
• 2007 “Cliff Evans: Empyrean,” curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
• 2008 “Empyrean,”curated by Stephan Stoyanob, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY.
• 2008 “Empyrean,” curated by Jason Hughes and Andrea Pollan, The Library, Baltimore, MD
• 2008 “The Road to Mount Weather,” curated by Cory Knedler, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
• 2008 “The Road to Mount Weather,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office
• 2009 “Empyrean,” curated by Jacqueline Ehlis, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• 2010 “Citizen,” curated by Stephan Stoyanov, Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO
• 2010 “Citizen,” curated by Christopher Coleman, Laleh Mehran, Dan Jacobs. The Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• 2012 “Sites and Stations,” curated by Jason Hughes
• 2012 “Drones in the Garden,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC

Group

• 2003 "Terra Cognita - Cinematexas," curated by Jay Hodges, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX.
• 2004 "Google-ing the Real," curated by Mary Ellen Strom and James Nadeau, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA.
• 2004 "5th Year Exhibition," Museum School, Boston, MA.
• 2005 "Collateral Damage" (w/TerrorFarmer) curated by Joanna Kao, Brickbottom Gallery, Boston, MA
• 2006 "Material Matters," curated by Jason Hughes, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore
• 2006 "Traveling Scholars," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• 2007 “Aqua Art Miami,”curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, Aqua Hotel Room 222, Miami Beach, FL.
• 2007 “[PAM] Perpetual Art Machine: Video Art in the Age of the Internet,”Co-organized by Nina Colosi and the [PAM] Founding Artists, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
• 2007 “ScopeHamptons,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, East Hampton Studios, Wainscott, NY.
• 2007 “Nine International Artists,” International Residency Program, Location One, New York, NY.
• 2007 “artDC fair,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC.
• 2007 “Evolve;Adapt,” curated by Paul Sabota & Steven Probert, Front Room Gallery, Cleveland, OH.
• 2008 “Agency: Artists and Advertising,” curated by Kevin Concannon & John Noga, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
• 2008 “Alternative Energy” curated by Stephan Stoyanov, China International Gallery Exposition, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
• 2008 "Scope New York" curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park, New York, NY March
• 2009 "Under Control" curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
• 2009 Hermes' “H Box,” curated by Benjamin Weil, Houston Cinema Arts Society’s 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston, Alabama Theatre, Houston, TX
• 2009 “Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” curated by Zeljka Himbele-Kozul and William Heath Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
• 2009 “Phantoms Too,” curated by Stephan Stoyanov, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• 2009 “Jump Cut Pop,” (w/TerrorFarmer) curated by the Haggerty Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
• 2009 “Whartscape 2009,” curated by Liz Donadio, Dina Kelberman, Jimmy Joe Roche, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
• 2009 Hermes' “H Box,” curated by Benjamin Weil, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
• 2010 “Urban Video Project,” curated by Light Works, Creative Corridor, Syracuse, NY
• 2010 “Matrix City,” Impakt Festival, curated by Ana Dzokic, Marc Neelen & Kristian Lukic, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 2010 “Mixology II,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curatorʼs Office, Washington, DC
• 2010 "ROMA - The Road to Contemporary Art, Piazza Orazio Guistiniani, Rome, IT
• 2010 "LOOP Video Art Fair," Barcelona, ES May
• 2010 “Depth Perception,” Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• 2010 Hermes' “H Box,” curated by Benjamin Weil, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, CH
• 2010 “Future Tense: Landscapes in Transition,” curated by Dede Young, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• 2010 “Phantoms,” curated by Stephan Stoyanov, Red House Gallery, Syracuse, NY
• 2010 "Hermes H Box (w/o the box)" curated by Benjamin Weil, The New Museum, New York, NY
• 2010 "Hermes (and w/the box)" Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, MX
• 2011 "Hermesʼ “H-Box.” curated by Benjamin Weil, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
• 2011 “11 en 2011,” curated by Maria Arletta de la Serna, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
• 2011 “Places,” curated by Stephan Stoyanov, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• 2011 Hermesʼ “H Box,” curated by Benjamin Weil, Today Museum, Beijing, China
• 2011 Hermesʼ “H Box,” curated by Benjamin Weil, Artsonje Museum, Seoul, Korea
• 2011 “Symmetry/Gates,” curated by Paul Young, Young Projects, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
• 2012 “Colliding Complexities,” curated by [dNASAb], Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
• 2012 “Magic Moments: The Screen and The Eye,” curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
• 2012 “Techno Nature,” curated by Gwenolee and Bernard Zurcher, Galerie Zurcher, New York
• 2013 “Moving Image: London,” Andrea Pollan & Curator’s Office Bargehouse, London, UK
• 2013 “Zpetna Draha Merkuru,” curated by William Heath & Zeljka Himbele, Karlin Studios / Futura, Prague, CZ
• 2013 “Mercury Restrograde: Animated Realities,” curated by William Heath & Zeljka Himbele, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• 2014 “Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” curated by William Heath & Zeljka Himbele, Galerija Galzeinca, Velika Gorica, Croatia.
• 2014 “Between Now and Then,” The Garage Door Video Series, curated by Shireen Abrishamian and Banyi Huang, Stoop at BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
• 2014 “Virtual Cities: Violence and Peace in Urban Art,” III Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ULA-2014, University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
• 2014 “WPA: Select 2014,” curated by Washington Project for the Arts and Mera Rubell, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
• 2014 “And Then: Varied Approaches to Narrative,” curated by John Anderson, Marlboro Gallery, Prince George Community College, Largo, MD
• 2014 “Invites Artist’s Presentation: Rachel Maclean,” curated by Rachel Maclean, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
• 2014 “Mercury Retrograde,” curated by William Heath & Zeljka Himbele, Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton
• 2014 “Baltimore Artists + WPA + Mera Rubell = LOVE,” curated by Mera Rubell, Marian Boesky Gallery - Uptown, New York
• 2015 "New Exhibitions," "Citizen: The Wolf and Nanny," curated by Neta Gal-Azmon, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

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• "Past Exhibitions". Thestamp.umd.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-25. 
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• Best Experimental Film, Museum School Film & Video Annual, 2003
• Deans Discretionary Fund, Museum School, 2003
• Princess Grace Award Nomination, 2004
• 5th Year Traveling Scholar, Museum School, 2004
• Charles Amos Cummings Memorial Scholarship, Museum School, 2004
• Clarissa Bartlett Scholarship, Museum School, 2004
• Artforum's Top 10 Artist Films for 2006 as picked by MOMA curator Barbara London
• Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum, Phaidon, 2009
• Premio Giovani Collezionisti Prize - Finalist, ROMA, 2010