Chris Larson is represented by ENGAGE Projects in Chicago, IL. He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Sculpture from Yale University in 1991. Over the course of his career, Larson has received numerous prestigious awards, including the New Work Project Grant from The Harpo Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a Bush Artist Fellowship, the McKnight Artist Fellowship, and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota. 

Larson’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at prominent institutions such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN; the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY; and The View Contemporary Art Space in Switzerland. His art has also been presented at major biennials, including the 2nd Biennial del Fin del Mundo in Ushuaia, Argentina; the 4th Bienal de Montevideo in Montevideo, Uruguay; the 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York City; and the 11th Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In 2018, Larson presented a comprehensive solo exhibition, Chris Larson: Ten Years, at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH.

In addition to his gallery and museum exhibitions, Larson’s film work has garnered international recognition, with screenings at several film festivals, including the World Premiere of Stillness of Labor at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Tabor International Film Festival in Croatia, the DTLA Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA, and the Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes-Milan-Athens, among others.

Larson’s work is represented in the permanent collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, and the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, among others.

In 2019, he co-founded Second Shift Studio Space in St. Paul, MN, a nonprofit residency program and gallery dedicated to serving artists/makers/thinkers whose gender identity has historically marginalized them. 

Larson is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He integrates actions of sculpture, video, photography and drawing to respond to specific architectural spaces, sites, and their histories. Using relocation, replication, and repetition, he questions the inextricable relationships between body, machine, labor, and home. He disassembles the idea of the permanence of architecture, and introduces a new concept of fluid architecture that he uses to analyze the illusion of stability and draw attention to and challenge the unintended consequences of progress. He acknowledges that the conversations of the everyday hold vast potential for the examination of socio-historical complexities and the transcendental realities of object and body. Through gathering, archiving and restoration as a means of transformation, Larson’s work continues to evoke actions of reverence and renewal.