crystal wagner

Available Works

Biography

Crystal Wagner received her MFA from the University of Tennessee in 2008, her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 2004, and her AFA from Keystone College in 2002. After teaching as a college art professor for five years, Crystal left academia to focus exclusively on her studio practice.

Wagner’s interest in combining 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional forms, alternative use of materials, and hybrid approaches to printmaking, and massive site-specific installations, have led to her artwork being exhibited extensively in the U.S and abroad. Notable commissions include a large-scale installation for the internationally recognized band The Flaming Lips. a large shadow box for GNU a snowboard company out of Portland, OR, a large-scale installation piece for NIKE, presented in the Shrine Auditorium for The KOBE X Blackout Experience, and two installations for Viacom, one of which is a 117 ft piece at thier headquarters in Times Square.It was featured by the New York Times and was broadcast on national television on VH1's Top 20 Countdown, The United States Embassy,  and most recently a large-scale installation for Warner Brothers, Grammy Musuem, Los Angeles, CA.

Currently you can find countless features on her work: New York Times, Architectural Digest, Artnet, Hi Fructose, Juxtapoz Magazine, Arrestedmotion.com, ArtAttacks Online, Art & Science Journal, Inspir3d.com, Complex Art & Design Magazine, Crome Yellow Magazine, Catapult Art Magazine, My Modern Met , Beautiful Decay Magazine and Dzinetripmagazine.com, many more. She was the recipient of an Awesome Without Borders, Awesome Foundation Art Grant and the Sculpture and Installation Category Award Winner of the SEE.ME, Art Takes Paris, international art competition. In print you can find features of her work published in Contemporary Paper Art Book, "Paper Art II" and the international contemporary installation book, "Global Installations" published by International Publishing. Select magazine features include: Dream Magazine, Bliss Magazine, 13 page article in Juxtapoz Magazine, 2015, Graffiti Art Magazine, 2016, Staf Magazine, 2016,  10 page spread in Hi Fructose Magazine's 2016 issue, Dream Magazine, India 2017, Frame Magazine, Amsterdam 2017, among countless others.

In 2015 she was awarded the highly coveted Pollock-Krasner Grant.

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Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, "Parallax", Galerie Openspace, Paris, France, 2020
Solo Booth, Art on Paper Fair, NYC, with Hashimoto Contemporary, 2020
Select Curated Exhibition of Represented Artists, David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco, 2019
Solo Exhibition & Large-scale exterior installation, "Ignis Fatuus", curated by AFA Gallery, Belcastel, Aveyron France, 2019
Solo Exhibition, Mesa Musuem of Art, Mesa, AZ, 2019
Large-scale installation, The Crystal Ship Mural and Street Art Festival, Ostend, Belguim 2019
Solo Exhibition, "Axiom", Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Large-scale Installation, Grammy Museum commission for Warner Brothers, "Get Animated", Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Solo Exhibition, "Traverse", Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, VT 2018
Curated Three Person Exhibition, Collsion Gray Matter, AFA Gallery, NYC, 2018
Solo Exhibition, Nexus, Treason Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2018
Solo Exhibition, Paradigms, Crown Collection Gallery, 2018
Solo Exhibition, Tropism, Fort Works Gallery, Fort Worth, TX 2017
Solo Exhibition, Stolen Space Gallery, London, 2017
Curated Group Exhibition, "Dimensions of Three", Allouche Gallery, NYC, 2017
Solo Exhibition, "Featured Artist for 19th Islamic Architecture Festival". Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah, 2016
Large-scale installation, commissioned for the Life is Beautiful Festival, Las Vegas, NV, 2016
Large-scale installation, featured at Mini Textile International Fiber Exhibition, Cernobbie, Italy, 2016
Large-scale installation, featured as a part of Lodz Art in Public Places, Lodz, Poland, 2016
Select Group Exhibition, Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition, "Flux" Bedford Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016
Select Group Exhibition, "Grand Opening" Allouche Gallery, NYC, 2016
Solo Exhibition, "Microcosm" Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2016Solo Exhibition, "Paroxysm" Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 2016
Art on Paper Fair during Armory Week, NYC, with Hashimoto Contemporary, March 2016
Solo Exhibition, "Surface Tension" Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, 2016
Curate Group Exhibition, Stolen Space Galery, London, December 2015
Art on Paper Fair during Miami Basel, with Hashimoto Contemporary, December 2015
Solo Exhibition, "Wanderlust", National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 2015
Solo Exhibition, "Biotica", 108 Contemporary, Tulsa OK, 2015
Solo Exhibition,  "Wild Efflux", Viacom Lobby, Times Square, NYC, 2015
Art on Paper Fair during Armory Week, NYC  with Hashimoto Contemporary, March 2015
Art Market Contemporary Art Fair, with Hashimoto Contemporary, May 2015
Scope Art Fair, Miami Art Basel, with Hashimoto Contemporary, December 2015
Curated Group Exhibition, Something/Nothing, Vertigo Gallery, Denver CO, 2015
Curated Group Exhibition, "Play" Galerie C.O.A, Montreal
Curated Group Exhibition, "Spectrum", StolenSpace Gallery, London UK
Curated Group Exhibiiton, "Boxes of Death", Roq La Ruem, Portland OR (exhibition traveled to Los Angelos, CA, San Francisco, CA, Portland
OR, Seattle, WA, and Tokyo Japan, 2014-2015
Large-scale installation, "Fall"  Southern Graphics Council International Conference,  Knoxville TN
Solo Exhibition, "Elasticity", Bagwell Art Gallery, Pellissippi State University, Knoxville TN, January 2015
Solo Exhibition, "Immersion", Rosemary Berkel and Harry Crisp Musuem, Cape Girardeau, MO
Large-scale installation, Commission for the Flaming Lips at Womb Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
"Pseudo-Forms", solo exhibiiton, P/M Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2015
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, NY, February 2015
Large-scale installation "Bio Interloper", ArtPrize, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, September 2014
Curated Group Exhibition, "Screen Print Biennial", Troy NY, September 2014
Visiting Artist/Panelist, Hartford's School of Art Distingushed Artist Symposium, Hartford CT, September 2014
Curated Group Exhibition, "Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction" a part of the Hartford's School of Art Distinguished Artist Symposium and Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford CT, Fall 2014
Featured Work, LoveArt Contemporary Art Fair, w/ P/M Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Spring 2014
Featured Work, Artmrkt Contemporary Art Fair, with Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Spring 2014
Curated International Group Exhibition, "Paper Cuts", Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2014
Curated Group Exhibition, "Space/Squared", curated by Sven Davis , White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2014
Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Spring 2014
Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Spring 2014
"McClelland Scultpture Award and Survey Exhibition", McClelland Art Musuem, Australia, Oct. 2014
"Synesthesia", solo exhibition, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA, March 2014
"Vestibule", solo exhibition, Ann Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, KY, Feb. 2014
"Deluge" large-scale installation, a part of "Flirting with Abundance" curated two-person exhibition, Artspace, Raliegh, NC, Dec. 2013
"Beyond Eden Art Fair", Thinkspace Gallery, with Spoke Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2013
Scope Art Fair, during Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, with Hashimoto Contemporary, Dec. 2013
"Hyperplastic", solo exhibition, Fountain Gallery, Purdue University, West Layfayette, IN, Aug. 2013
"Urban Kudzu II", large-scale printmaking and mixed-media installation as a part of a three person curated exhibiiton, "The Color Wheel", HereArt Gallery, Soho, New York, NY, Opening May 8th, 2013
Curated Group Exhibition, "A Paper Affair", Kennesaw State University, GA, Spring 2013
"The Arboretum", Solo Exhibition, University of Sounth Carolina, Beaufort, Opening February 8th, 2013

Featured / Press

Art and Object Magazine 2018
Dream Magazine 2018
303 Art Magazine 2018
Art Scope Magazine 2018
Mutual Art 2018
My Modern Met 2018
Boing Boing 2018
Frame Magazine 2017
Glasstire Magazine 2017
The Tennessean 2017
VICE 2017
Colossal 2016
Street Art News 2016
DesignBoom 2016
The Culture Trip 2016
Viral Nova 2015
Hi Fructose Magazine 2015
Beautiful Decay Magazine 2015
Bizarre Beyond Belief  2015
TUBE Magazine 2015
Boxes of Death Interview 2014
Juxtapoz Magazine Interview 2014
Southast Missourian November 2014
KRU NPR November 2014
Distinguished Speaker, Hartford School of Art International Paper Symposium
Cross Connect Magazine
Hi Fructose Magazine September 2014
Asylulm Art 2014
Jaz Jaz August 2014  
Tech News November 2014
Boing Boing November 2014 
My Modern Metropolis, mymodernmet.com, Dec. 2013
Supersonicelectric.com Dec. 2013
Material Lab London 2013
Moustache Magazine 2013
Trendhunter.com, Dec. 2013
Hi Fructose Contemporary Art Magazine, "Preiview: Art Basel Week, Miami, Scope Art Fair", Dec. 2013
Juxtapoz Magazine, "Beyond Eden Art Fair", Dec. 2013
Hi Fructose Contemoporary Magazine 2013 "Crystal Wagners Hyperplastic Installation"
Hi Fructose Contemoporary Magazine 2013 "Crystal Wagner's Flourescent Reflections in Nature"
ArtAttacksonline. com 2013
Inspir3d.com 2013
ARRESTEDMOTION.COM 2012
PRINTERESTING 2012
Two Coats of Paint
Knoxville Museum of Art
PRINTERESTING 2011
paint. it. noir.
Gallery Gray
Juxtapoz Magazine 2010
Art Nouveau Magazine
Juxtapoz Magazine 2009
Globatron.org: "Fabrication and Existence" an interview with Crystal Wagner
Knoxville News Sentinel
The Drawing Center
Viewing Program

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