About/Contact
Chasuk (b.1995 Napa, Ca.) currently living in coastal Massachusetts.
bizkellen@gmail.com
STATEMENT
I make art that aims to untangle my ever-changing view of the world as I move into adulthood through representation of everyday thoughts, objects, and textures. Most of the subject matter is derived from an accumulation of lived, observed or studied concepts related to anything from television, fabric patterns, tropes in art history, to relationships and grief. Creating a visual response to these collections of knowledge and anxieties allows me to hold on to my own tangled view of things. Each composition is approached with humor born out of the reflection of human circumstance. The output being, hopefully, a shared moment of reflection, a laugh, a relatable discomfort, or a newfound comfort.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Today O’Clock, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019
Call it What You Want, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018
Plastic Flowers, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2017
Thank You for Coming, PNCA Gallery 201, Portland, OR
Summer Staycation, Stephanie Chefas Projects annex, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
2022
Modern Folk, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
Included in Alicia McCarthy’s solo exhibition, Outpost Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Why Should we Call it Anything?, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020
Being Human is Hard, Part 2 Gallery:LA, Los Angeles, CA
Oakland Playground: Young Love, Dear Diary at Deco Art, Oakland, CA
Got it for Cheap, Fisk Gallery, Portland, OR
2019
Mending Distance, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Proof curated by First Brick, Disjecta, Portland, OR
TBA, Portland, OR
included in Alicia McCarthy’s solo exhibition, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Sentimental Mood, First Amendment, San Francisco, CA
Birthday, Good Mother, Oakland, CA
CAN DID, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
U.B.U., Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2nd Annual Ceramic show: Heaven and Hell, Diego Rivera Gallery at SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Coffee for Eight, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Got it For Cheap: Velvet Ropes, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Pocket Object, Juice Box Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas. Tusk, Chicago, IL. Family Books, Los Angeles, CA
included in Alicia McCarthy’s solo exhibition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
included in Anika Chasuk’s Hot Tip, First Amendment, San Francisco, CA
Juxtapoz Clubhouse, Miami, FL
2017
You Say One Thing, Bay Space, Portland, OR
Basement and of Yolk, OV, Portland, OR
Window Waiting, Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, OR
Gather, B10 Gallery at PNCA, Portland, OR
A Group Thing, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
Willy Nilly, Killjoy Collective, Portland, OR
Press
A Group Thing Exhibition on Widewalls http://www.widewalls.ch/stephanie-chefas-projects-artists-exhibition/
Plastic Flowers on Create! Magazine https://create-magazine.com/features/kellen-chasuk-at-stephanie-chefas-projects
Plastic Flowers on Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/death-permanence-and-isolation-in-kellen-chasuk-s-new-exhibit-plastic-flowers/
Plastic Flowers on Oregon ArtsWatch http://www.orartswatch.org/kellen-chasuk-inventiveness-triumphs-over-gloom/
Sentimental Mood on Widewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/group-show-first-amendment-gallery/
Interview on Art and About PDX http://www.artandaboutpdx.com/blog/interview-kellen-chasuk
Education
Pacific Northwest College of Art 2014-2017
San Francisco Art Institute 2018-2022, BFA in Painting