CHRIS JORDAN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022   Lianzhou Photography Museum, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China,
curated by Moritz Neumuller
COP28 United Arab Emirates, Abu Dabhi, United Arab Emirates, curated by Nezar Andary
2019    Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea; traveled to six more museums across S Korea
Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT - Selected works
Barbara and Art Culver Center for the Arts, UCR ARTS, Riverside, California
2017     Sea Change, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC, with Aurora Robson
Chris Jordan: Message from the Gyre, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brawn University, Providence RI
2016    Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY (April 4 - 23, 2016) selected works
2015    Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo TX “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers
Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, April 2015, Intolerable Beauty: Facing the Mirror of
Mass Consumption”
2014     Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth Univ, Spokane, WA “Running the Numbers”
Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT, “Midway: Message from the Gyre”
2012    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, VA, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
2011     Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA “Running the Numbers: Portraits of
Mass Consumption”
Diemar/Noble Photography, London, UK, “Ushirikiano”, Photographs from the Prix Pictet
Commission trip to Kenya
Other Gallery, Shanghai, China “E Pluribus Unum”
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Other Gallery, Beijing, China “E Pluribus Unum”
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO “Running the Numbers:
Portraits of Mass Consumption”
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
2010    David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada “Running the Numbers”
Halsey Institute, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Seymour Marine Discovery Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA “Running the Numbers: Portraits of
Mass Consumption”
Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
2009   Museum of Science, Boston, MA “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “Running the Numbers II”
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Alcatel Lucent Headquarters, Paris, France
APEX: Chris Jordan, Portland Art Museum
Washington State University Art Museum, Pullman, WA, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
2008   San Antonio Public Library and Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2007   Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “Running the Numbers”
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2006   Lannan Foundation Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “In Katrina’s Wake”
Museo Circulo de Bellas Artes, Photo España Festival, Madrid, Spain

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

2023    Civilization, The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2022   HotSpot: Caring for a Burning World, La Galleria Nazionale, Rome, Italy
2021    Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience, ONCAD Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019    Plastic Entanglements, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, UCCA Beijing, Beijing, China
2018    Digital Trash, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ
15th Edition Festival Photo La Gacilly, La Gilly, France - Intolerable Beauty selected works –
June-September, 2018
2017    The Temple and PlatteForum, Denver, CO - “AXIS MUNDI, Artists on EcoPsychology
The Indestructible Wonder, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Noorderlicht House of Photography, Groningen, The Netherlands - ‘Guardians I, Plastic: Fossil to Fossil’
2016    Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada “The Edge of the Earth:
Climate Change in Photography and Video”
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL “Survival Architecture,” selections from In Katrina’s
Wake: Portraits of an Unnatural Disaster
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, “Plastic Fantastic?”
FotoFest 2016 Biennial, Houston, TX “Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet”
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, Kyoto, Japan
ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany “Globale - Exo-Evolution”
Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, MA, “Sizing It Up: Scale in Nature and Art”
2015    Lianzhou International Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China, selections from the series Midway: Message
from the Gyre
Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, MA “Sizing It Up: Scale in Nature and Art”
Venice Biennale, Official Azerbaijan Pavilion, “Vita Vitale”
VERVE Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM “Cause & Effect”
MuBE, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Vaughn, Ontario “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes
in Art, 1775-2012”
Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, “BIG BANG DATA”
2014    Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain, “BIG BANG DATA”
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012”
Location House, London, UK “HERE TODAY...”, in support of the IUCN 50th Anniversary of
the Red List of Threatened Species
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012”
The Projective Eye Gallery, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC “Sustain Me Baby”
IABR, Kuntsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, “Urban by Nature”
University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Iowa, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention”
2013    DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, “Climate of Uncertainty”
Museo Nacional de la Fotografia, Bogota, Columbia, “Fotografica Bogota 2013 –
International Photography Biennial”
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA, “First Light”
Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA, “ego | eco: Environmental Art
for Collective Consciousness”
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012”
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY “Seescape”
The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention”
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention”
2012    MOTI, Stichting Museum of the Image, The Netherlands, “The Image in the 21st Century”
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention”
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, “True North”
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul, Turkey, “No. 1”
Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Dublin Museum of Photography, Ireland, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
2011     Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, “Infinite Balance: Artists & the Environment”
St. Louis Artist’s Guild, Clayton, MO “Running the Numbers: Photographs by Chris Jordan”
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, Canada, “The Ocean in Us”, Safe Planet Exhibit
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, “The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment”
Arteversum, Dusseldorf, Germany, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, “The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age”
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, “Landscape Sublime”
Museum of Monterey, Monterey, CA, “Flows to Bay: Consumerism, Plastics & the Ocean”
Galerie Christophe Guye, Zurich, Switzerland, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, “Plastic Pollution”, Safe Planet Exhibit
Electric Works, San Francisco “In the Eye of the Whale” Bryant Austin
Passage de Retz, Paris, France, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA “Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate”

2010    Boise Art Museum, Idaho “Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the
Environment”
San Jose Museum of Art, “Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the
Permanent Collection”
Universidad Technologico de Cancun, Cancun, Mexico, “What Will Be”, Safe Planet Exhibit
at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Galerie Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France, Prix Pictet 2010 Shortlist Preview Exhibition
BREDAPHOTO, International Photo Festival, Netherlands
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Event
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, “Critical Messages: Contemporary
Northwest Artists on the Environment”
ARS Electronica Center, Linz, Austria, “Raise Your Voice”
Exit Art, New York, “ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty”
PRAE, Valladolid, Spain, “Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art”
Bohemian National Hall, New York City, “Substantialis Corporis Mixti”, Safe Planet Exhibit
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, “Critical Messages: Contemporary
Northwest Artists on the Environmental”
CDAN (Center of Art and Nature), Huesca, “Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and
Recycling in Contemporary Art”
2009   California State University Fullerton Main Art Gallery, “What’s the Rush? Topics on Convenience
Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, San Sebastian, “Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and
Recycling in Contemporary Art”
Brussels, “It is Our Earth”
The Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA, “Message in a Bottle”
Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, “Paper nOr Plastic”
Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, Sustainability-Congress, Bonn
Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, Kempinski Hotel, Dresden
Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, The Rotunda, Exchange Square,
Central, Hong Kong
Pasadena Museum of California Art, “Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information
Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, The Intelligence Squared Green
Festival, Royal Geographical Society, London
2008   Prix Pictet 2008, Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, Thessaloniki Museum of Photograph, Thessaloniki
Prix Pictet 2008, Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, DIFC, Dubai
Prix Pictet 2008, Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX; “Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now”
Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK, “3-logy Triennial 2008: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”
Affirmation Arts, New York, NY, “Garbage Picker”
Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, “Mass Consumption”
Mountainfilm, Telluride, CO
Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, NY, “Feeling the Heat: Art, Science and Climate Change”
Field Museum, Chicago, “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic,” curator Randy Rosenberg
FotoGraphia Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome, Italy
Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH “WASTE: Artists Speak Out on our Disposable
Culture”
Ministry of Culture, Monaco, “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic”
Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD “Digital Sequences”
2007   Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA “Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty"
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic"
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, “Weather Report”
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT “Nature Remains: The Artist as Environmentalist”
Bates College Museum of Art, “Green Horizons”
Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway. “Envisioning Change”
Natural World Museum, San Francisco, “Environmental Renaissance”
North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Big Picture”
Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusets, “Altered States, Views of Transition in Recent
Photography”
Texas State University Art Gallery, “Loyal Opposition”
TED Conference, Monterey, CA
2006   International Photomedia Biennial, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO
(Fellowship Award recipient)
Wesleyan University, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Connecticut
Lawrimore Project, Seattle
Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle
Houston Center for Photography, “Trace, Visions of Katrina”
New Orleans Museum of Art
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
“Art Not Oil,” London, traveling exhibition
Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, Houston, TX, “Artists Responding to Violence Against
the Earth” (Best of Show award)
2005   College of Santa Fe Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
4th Annual Recycled Art Show, Seattle, WA
Urban Jungle Environmental Expo, U.N. International Environment Day, San Francisco, CA
2004   Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art
Agora Gallery SoHo/Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, juried by Susan Cross,
Guggenheim Museum, New York
International Fine Art Photography Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins, CO
Photo España Descubrimientos 04, Madrid, Spain
Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Getty Museum

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

San Jose Museum of Art

Birmingham Museum of Art

Austin Museum of Art

Boise Art Museum

Nevada Museum of Art

North Carolina Museum of Art

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Cleveland Clinic

Sprint Collection

Fidelity Investments

Erica Tishman Collection

Michael Wilson Collection

Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection

Aspen Companies

Tobias Foundation

Kadist Foundation

Bruce Berman Collection

West Collection

Moon Collection

AWARDS AND HONORS

2018    Planetary Health Film Prize, Global Health Film Festival, London
2013    Human Security Award from the Center of Unconventional Security Affairs, UC Irvine
2012    Trailblazer, Sustainable Path Foundation, Seattle, WA
Artist Trust Fellowship for Media, Seattle, WA
Design Futures Council Senior Fellow
2011     Prix Pictet, London, UK, Commission Prize
Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer Fellowship
2010    Prix Pictet, London, UK, Nominated & Short Listed Artist
Ansel Adams Award for Excellence in Conservation Photography, Sierra Club
LEAD Award, Germany, For “Midway” series published in Stern Magazine, Bronze Medal
TreeHugger, Best of Green, Best Artist
2008   Prix Pictet, London, UK, Nominated & Shortlisted Artist
2007    Green Leaf Award, Natural World Museum and United Nations Environment Programme,
Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2006   Fellowship Award recipient, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Best of Show award, “Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth,” Museum of
Cultural Arts, Houston, TX
2005   Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2004   First Place Winner, Gary Horowitz Award, Allegany Arts Council
Photo España Descubrimientos, Honorable Mention runner up to festival prize, Madrid, Spain
Finalist, Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Center for Documentary Studies

SELECTED PRESS AND INTERVIEWS

https://www.jejunemagazine.com/home/chrisjordan

TED Talk, Turning Powerful Stats into Art

Plastisphere Podcast, Episode 5

Heart to Heart (Arirang TV), Interivew

Halsey Institute, Interview

Daily Good, An Abiding Ocean of Love: A Conversation with Chris Jordan

Museum of Science Boston, Artist's Talk: Chris Jordan on “Running the Numbers”

New Atlas, Interview: Environmental artist Chris Jordan talks sustainability

KQED.org, Picturing the Invisible: A Conversation with Artist Chris Jordan

PBS.org/Bill Moyers, Interview and Profile

LensCulture, Miracles and Tragedies: Conveying the Wonder of Life Through Photographs

Orion Magazine, Intolerable Beauty: an Interview

Yes! Magazine, Bearing Witness: Chris Jordan on Art, Grief, and Transformation

New York Times, A Great Big Beautiful Pile of Junk