Ajit Chauhan
ajit-chauhan.comBorn in 1981, Kansas, USA
Lives and works in San Francisco
Solo Exhibitions
2021
hapless, helpless, hell heaven, health, hello, hi, ho, home, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco
2020
20 Castanets, Et al. San Francisco
2018
Three Days a Week, Maeght Gallery, San Francisco
2017
Until It Makes Sense (with Erica Baum) SVIT, Prague
2015
Concrete Is Not Always Hard, Minnesota Street Project Space, San Francisco
2014
Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads in Them (with Colter Jacobsen), Alley Cat, San Francisco
2013
Palimpsest, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Comprenez so far? So far comprends. Right Window Gallery, San Francisco
2012
Clothing was temporary, Annarumma Gallery, Napoli
Inner Sleeves (with Colter Jacobsen curated by Larry Rinder), SVIT, Prague
2011
From the Pencil Area, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Don’t Be Upset—I’m Only Crying in English (with Kevin Killian), Sight School, Oakland
2010
Ohne Titel, Meet Factory, Int. Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
not-California, Divus Karlin Studios, Prague
2009
ReRecord, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Frieze Art Fair (solo presentation), London
What’s That Hanging On My Bicycle?, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Ajit Chauhan – San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SFACG, San Francisco
Having Visions, The de Young Museum, San Francisco
2008
Staring at the Sun, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Milky Way of Breeding Stallions That Roll, Ejaculating by Themselves, Adobe Books & The Backroom Gallery, San Francisco
2007
(Light Station), Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023
Austerity, Bibeau Krueger, New York
Collection of Works on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
The David Ireland House 500 Capp Street Benefit Auction, San Francisco
The Works II & Chris Kerr: May Your Hand Not Hurt, Round Weather, Oakland
Afloat Afield, LP Contemporary, Los Angeles
2022
Fragments are the only forms I trust, curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte, White Columns, NY
2021
Remembrance of things paper, Round Weather, Oakland
2020
Linea, with Michal Budny, Ajit Chauhan, Habima Fuchs, Lucy McKenzie and Laurent Dupont, Jiří Kovanda, Jan Merta, Marek Meduna, Jimena Mendoza, Markus Selg, Lenka Vítková, SVIT, Prague
2019
Body Count, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Strange, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2018
Artwork for Bedrooms, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Spin: Turning Records Into Art, KMAC Museum, Louisville
under the paving stones, the river, SNEHTA, Athens
WAY BAY II, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Seven Places of the Mind, curated by Margaret Tedesco, Fused Space, San Francisco
2017
To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word | Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Fibres, skeins, fabrics (Thoughts are thin fibres) Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava Renegade
Fiber, Marin MOCA, Marin, California
2016
Face To Face, Ernesto Esposito Collection at Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno
2015
Drawing, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato
2014
The Possible, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2012
The Big Bang, Watermill Center, New York
Independent Art Fair, New York
2011
American Gothic: Regionalist Portraiture from the Collection, UC Davis Museum, Davis
Eleven Lights on the Bay, Ajit Chauhan, Trisha Donnelly, Kota Ezawa, Vincent Fecteau, Colter
Jacobsen, Mitzi Pedersen, Will Rogan, Leslie Shows and Emma Spertus. The Apartment, Vancouver
Neuseum – Schunck, Heerlen
Topophilia – Work Detroit, University of Michigan
Microwave 8, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2010
The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London
Endgame (Leonard Baskin, Ajit Chauhan, Anne Collier, Andrew Dadson, Kota Ezawa, Lynn Hershman
Leeson, Roy McMakin, Tony Oursler, Mitzi Pederson) Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsberg
SONS – Shoes Or No Shoes, Museum in Kruishoutem
Syncopation (Cory Arcangel, Oliver Laric, Paolo Chiasera, Ajit Chauhan, Matt Stokes, Mark Titchner) Grimm Museum, Berlin
SOHO House, Permanent Collection, Miami
Paper! Awesome!, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco
Shadowshop – SFMOMA, San Francisco
Final San Francisco Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2009
A Mind Meld is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco
Front + Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito
Moment as Monument, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Ajit Chauhan’s art is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Saatchi Gallery in London, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the SONS Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art & others.
He has completed artists residencies in Prague (MeetFactory), Athens (Snehta Residency), Krems (AIR Niederöstereich),
Sausalito (Headlands Center for the Arts), Woodside (Djerassi Resident Artists Program), San Francisco (de Young Museum).
Ajit Chauhan was the recipient of the TOSA Studio Award, a year long Residency that provided a private studio at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco.
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