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KRIS LANZER
Born 1963 Rhode Island, USA
Education
      
1996 MFA, State University of New York, Albany, NY
1986 BFA, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1984 Scandanavian Seminar, Lunnevads Folkschool, Sjogestad, Sweden
Grants and Awards
2022 Printmaking Artist Residency, The Art Center, Dover, NH
2011 Writers Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 Visual Arts Residency at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1995 Mary Bishop and Francis Merritt Scholarship, Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts in Deer Isle, ME
Art Installations and Exhibitions
2023
Worldwide Printmaking, The Art Center, Dover NH
2022
Contemporary Abstraction, The Art Center, Dover, NH
Not So Private Collection, SITE. briefly in Dallas, TX
“ Chippy’s Psychedelic Tunnels” Installation. Tiny Stage, Bedrock Gardens, Lee, NH
“ It Was One Thing After Another, After Another” Installation. UnMonetized, UMVA gallery, Portland, ME
ARTpm, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
Artist Printmaking Residency Exhibition, The Art Center, Dover, NH (catalog)
On the Edge, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (catalog)
2021
Small Works, The Art Center, Dover, NH
Works for the Walls, solo, Adelle’s Coffeehouse, Dover, NH
“ Chippy’s Art Sanctuary” Installation. Tiny Stage, Bedrock Gardens, Lee, NH
2020
“Dover Traffic Spiral” Installation. Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
ARTpm, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
2018
ARTpm, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
Shift Register, curator/artist Shaina Gates, Foundation Artspace Gallery, Exeter, NH
2017
When the World was Flat: Journeys Then and Now, curator/artist Lynn Hassan, LIU Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Winter Dies, Spring Emerges, Gingko Tree” Installation, International Sculpture Day, Bedrock Gardens, Lee, NH
Dream-A-Book, BookWorks, Asheville, NC.
2016
“Passsage: a Spiraling Cardboard Tunnel” Installation, Salmon Falls Mills, Rollinsford, NH
2007
“Flow: An Interactive Group Performance of Voices, Architecture, and
Environment”, Installation. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
“In the Dead of Winter”, Installation. Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH
2006
“Considering the Space Between Road and Garden”, Installation. Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
2005
Dancing Bears, Community Project, Dover, NH
2004
“ A Story: Art, Nature, and Architecture” Installation. Group Exhibition, curator/artist Kim Bernard, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Joe's Garage: Cars, Parts, and Art, curator/artist/theatre director Eddie Langlois, Kruczek's Garage, Newmarket, NH
2003
“ Rooted Uprooted: A Walk in the Woods”, Installation. Artstream Gallery Rochester, NH
2001
Stone Books, NAHCOTTA Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2000
Solo Exhibition, Kris Lanzer: Drawings and Sculptures, curator/artist Ethlyn Honig, 55 Mercer Gallery, SoHo, NY
1996
“Yellow Remains Constant”, Installation. The Art Annex, Albany, NY
Solitude Projects and Community Service
2022
Spots Are Fading, Leaves are Falling, a solitude project, Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary, Orange, VT
Traffic Light Garden, a volunteer project at Central and Stark, Dover, NH
Dover Traffic Spiral, maintenance for roadside installation and admin for fB page, Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
2021
Traffic Light Garden, volunteer project at Central and Stark, Dover, NH
Dover Traffic Spiral, maintenance for roadside installation and admin for fB page, Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
2020
Traffic Light Garden, a volunteer project at Central and Stark, Dover, NH
Dover Traffic Spiral, maintenance for roadside installation and admin for fB page, Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
2019
“Word Project, Solitude for Art and Writing”, Wellspring House, Ashfield, MA
2018
Seacoast Prayer Flags for Peace, a community project, Gateway Taiji, Qigong, and Yoga School, Portsmouth, NH
Artists in our Community, a conversation with art students from Great Bay Community College, Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
Water, Flour, Salt: Making a Salve, a solitude project, Woods Hole, MA
2016
Solitude Project in Light and Water for Respite, in the place referred to by the Chumash as “the place where surf sounds loudly”, Malibu, CA
2015
Pulp & Shred: A Zine Series, a zine project at Wrong Brain Head Quarters, Dover, NH
Pulp Project, a solitude project for turning ten years of personal art journals into “pulp forms” and “pulp portraits”, Salmon Falls Mills, Rollinsford, NH
Publications
2023
Lanzer, Kris, Members Showcase, Absence/Presence?, Maine Arts Journal UMVA Quarterly, Winter, 2023
2022
Lanzer, Kris, Features and Essays, Beyond Plein Air: The Landscape—Real/Recreated/ Reassembled/Imagined, Maine Arts Journal UMVA Quarterly, Summer, 2022
Bibliography
Plesch, Veronique, Introduction Beyond Plein Air, Maine Arts Journal UMVA Quarterly, Summer, 2022
Cram, Deb, Dover Traffic Spiral: Art Inspired by Noise, Foster’s Daily Democrat, August 2, 2020
Public and Private Collections
Printmaking Studio, The Art Center, Dover, NH
Salmon Falls Mills, Rollinsford, NH
Garden of Sustenance, Dover, NH
New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, California, Sweden, and Vancouver, BC