SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Transcendental Divide/Transitory Space, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles CA 2016

Private Frontiers: Michael Light and Chris Ballantyne Hosfelt Gallery SF CA 2012

Chris Ballantyne, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston MA 2011

Some Songs From the Shore, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010

Recent Work, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA 2009

Everything Means Something and Nothing is What it Seems to Be, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY 2008

When the World was Flat, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008

All You Need is a Clear View of the Southern Sky, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2007

Existing Outside of Another, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2007

The Drift, California State University Chico, CA 2007

The Curious Lights, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany 2005

Bloom Projects: Out of Place, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA 2005

Tournesol Award: Chris Ballantyne, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, CA 2005

Body of Water, Cheeckwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN 2005

Dream of New Jersey, DCKT Contemporary, New York,NY 2003

Sunny Expectancy, Peres-Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2003

What is Between Us, Peres-Projects, San Francisco, CA 2002



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Space//Squared, White Walls, San Francisco, CA 2014

Space//Form, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, OR 2012

10 Revolutions Around the Sun, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2012

Deconstructing Nature, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ 2011

Habitat, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO 2011

Connectivity Lost, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 2010

Faraway Nearby, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland, KS 2010

The American Scene, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE 2009

Passageworks, SFMoMA, San Francisco CA, 2008/09

Worlds Away, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2008

First Anniversary Group Show, Park Life, San Francisco CA 2007

Glass Love, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA 2007

This is my Country, Inaugural Group Show,Seminal Projects 2007

Summer Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2007

California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA 2006

I Love the ‘Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, New York 2006

Wallworks, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada 2006

Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2005

New Prints, International Print Center, NY, NY 2005

Welcome to the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, NY, NY 2005

Scene – Un – Seen: Chris Ballantyne and Salomon Huerta, Paulson Press, Berkeley, CA 2005

Young Americans, Galerie Hof & Huyser, Amsterdam 2004

Mental Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI 2004

Close Calls, The Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2004

Fresh Paint, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, November – February 2004

The Rules Everyone Will Follow From This Day Forth, peres-projects, Los Angeles, CA 2003

Telling Stories, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2003

Fuzzy Logic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 2001

The Book as Object, Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat Springs, CO 1999



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Baker, Kenneth Review: Some Songs from the Shore, Artnews, March 2010

Helfand, Glen Chris Ballantyne at Hosfelt Gallery, Artforum, April 2008

Wallworks: Contemporary Artists and Place, Art Gallery of Ontario 2007

Mc Govern, Thomas, Chris Ballantyne at Peres- Projects, Artweek, September, 2003

Helfand, Glen, Critic’s Pick, ArtForum.com, July – August, 2003

Bowie, Chas, Telling Stories, Portland Mercury, July 24, 2003

Limburg, Dirk, Volledig kunstaanbod in overzichtelijk dorpje, NRC Handelsbald, February 23, 2003

Westbrook, Lindsey, Critic’s Choice: Art, “What is Between Us”, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 15, 2003

Bing, Allison, Chris Ballantyne: “What Is Between Us”: Suburbia Goes Sublime, SFGate.com, January 2003

New American Paintings, The MFA Annual Edition 2002



SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Rotterdam Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY

Permanent Collection,The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Sprint Collection, Overland, KS



AWARDS

Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2005

Tournesol Award and Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2004 – 2005

Honorable Mention, MFA Graduation Show 2002

Work Grant, University of South Florida, 1997



EDUCATION

MFA, Painting and Drawing, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, 2002

BA, Painting, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1997