Chadwick Rantanen -the artist based in Los Angeles, California. His work appropriates the forms and materials of familiar consumer goods, modifying and recontextualizing them to create acts of accommodation, compromise, maintenance and parasitism.
His solo exhibitions have been presented at many galleries as Secession, Vienna, Austria; Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, Italy; Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway; Essex Street, New York, New York; Neutrality, Overduin and Co., Los Angeles; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria; Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany; Luhring Augustine, New York, USA, CLEARING, Paris, France, Swiss Institute and Kunsthaus Glarus, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, USA, Artists Space, New York, USA, and his work is in the collections of the Walker Art CEnter, ArtNow International, San Francisco, USA, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN and Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY.
Chadwick will spend 3 months in Tbilisi, working on his solo and collaborative projects at Stamba D block.
