Chris Dorland

Chris Dorland

BornNationalityBased In
1978CanadianNew York City
Biography

Chris Dorland (b.1978) is a Canadian/American artist living and working in New York. Chris Dorland’s work is a dystopian vision of the human-built world filtered through the sublimated violence of abstraction, consumerism and technology. Working with a variety of screens, scanners and drones, Dorland is interested in the ways in which machines increasingly perceive, record and reproduce the world through data visualization, scanning hardware and other optical devices. Dorland’s role in the studio becomes that of a technician as he moves between the scanning devices and printers, allowing the various machines to document, distort and produce new images of the world. ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled (data haven)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (data haven), 2021
172.7 x 304.8cm
Untitled (net runner)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (net runner), 2021
40.6 x 30.5cm
Untitled (earthwomb)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (earthwomb), 2021
116.8 x 91.4cm
Untitled (adrenachrome)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (adrenachrome), 2021
172.7 x 116.8cm
Untitled (stealth mode)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (stealth mode), 2021
116.8 x 91.4cm
untitled (chainsplitter)
Chris Dorland
untitled (chainsplitter), 2021
Untitled (night sprawl)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (night sprawl), 2024
193 x 233.7cm
Untitled (background host)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (background host), 2024
213.4 x 182.9cm
Untitled (necro techno)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (necro techno), 2024
213.4 x 182.9cm
Untitled (user generated)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (user generated), 2024
172.7 x 116.8cm
Untitled (metroplex)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (metroplex), 2024
172.7 x 116.8cm
Untitled (diagnostics)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (diagnostics), 2024
91.5 x 61cm
Untitled (dataset)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (dataset), 2024
117 x 91.5cm
Untitled (drain cartridge)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (drain cartridge), 2020
91 x 61cm
Untitled (drain cartridge)
Chris Dorland
Untitled (drain cartridge), 2020
91 x 61cm
Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant2009
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant2009
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