Tara Downs

Justin Chance

Biography

Justin Chance (b. 1993 in New York, US) is an artist and writer based in New York. Chance received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a BA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Chance’s work has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the following venues: “Archive,” Naranjo 141, Mexico City, MX (2024); “Love is Sci-Fi, Sydney, Sydney, AU (2023); “Live,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); “On Christ and Sunstroke (with Kim Farkas),CFA, Milan, IT, presented by Tara Downs (2022); “Social (with David Sprecher), Apparatus Projects, Chicago, US (2022); “”Station,” Tuesday, Richmond, US (2021); “Low-Life,” Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US (2021); “Better (with Hunter Foster), Gem en Regalia, New York, US (2021); and “Long Distance,” Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US (2018). The artist’s work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including, “A Study in Form (Chapter Two),” James Fuentes, New York, US (2024); “FLESH & FLOWERS, Made in America,” No Name, Paris, FR (2023); “JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY,” Silke Linder, New York, US (2022); “In My Mold,” Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, GE (2022); “And Still No Rain,” Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA, (2022); “The Grid and the Curve,” JTT, New York, US (2022); “Material Knowledge,” Arsenal Contemporary, New York, US (2022); “Elective Affinities,” Chapter NY, New York, US (2022); “The Grid and the Curve,” JTT, New York, US (2022); “Remnant, Artifact, Flow,” Thierry Goldberg, New York, US (2021); “Some say the soul is made of wind,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2021); “Training Day: Howardena Pindell, Devin Kenny, Justin Chance,” Housing, Miami, US (2019); and “Kelly Lloyd: Up like the sun, down like a Pancake,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, US (2018). The artist’s work is included in The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection.

Justin Chance, Green Screen, 2022—2023. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 68 × 77 in / 172,7 × 195,6 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Live. Tara Downs, New York, 2023.

Justin Chance, Textbook, 2022–2023. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 63 × 87 1/2 in / 160 × 222,3 cm

Justin Chance, Textbook, 2022–2023 (detail). Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 63 × 87 1/2 in / 160 × 222,3 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Live. Tara Downs, New York, 2023.

Justin Chance, Aloha Sadness, 2022–2023. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 66 1/2 × 85 1/2 in / 168,9 × 217,2 cm

Justin Chance, Aloha Sadness, 2022–2023 (detail). Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 66 1/2 × 85 1/2 in / 168,9 × 217,2 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Live. Tara Downs, New York, 2023.

Justin Chance, Planner, 2021-2023. Found poster, inkjet print, muslin, thread, archival bookbinding adhesive, ballpoint pen, 28 × 18 in / 71,1 × 45,7 cm

Justin Chance, Planner, 2021-2023. Found calendar, 30 × 22 in / 76,2 × 55,9 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Live. Tara Downs, New York, 2023.

Justin Chance, A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1953), 2023. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 59 × 73 in / 149,9 × 185,4 cm

Exhibition of Winter. Hesse Flatow, New York, 2023. Photo © Jenny Gorman

Justin Chance, Snowflake (Benton High School, St. Joseph MO, Class of 2011, pg. 7-8), 2023. Yearbook page, 11 3/4 × 10 1/2 in / 29,8 × 26,7 cm (framed)

Justin Chance,Want, 2022. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 50 × 77,5 in / 127 × 196,8 cm

Justin Chance,Want, 2022 (detail). Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 50 × 77,5 in / 127 × 196,8 cm

Justin Chance,Endgame, 2022. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 72 × 46,5 in / 183 × 118 cm

Justin Chance,Endgame, 2022 (detail). Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 72 × 46,5 in / 183 × 118 cm

Exhibition view of On Grist and Sunstroke. Tara Downs at Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan, 2022.

Justin Chance, Hamlet, 2021-2022. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 48 × 60 in / 121,9 × 152,4 cm

Justin Chance, Hamlet, 2021-2022 (detail). Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 48 × 60 in / 121,9 × 152,4 cm

Exhibition view of The Grid and the Curve. JTT, New York, 2022.

Justin Chance, Vista, 2021-2022. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 43 × 75 in / 109,2 × 190,5 cm

Justin Chance, Vista, 2021-2022 (detail). Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 43 × 75 in / 109,2 × 190,5 cm

Exhibition view of Social. Apparatus Projects, Chicago, 2022.

Justin Chance, Gender Reveal, 2022. Vinyl on wall, dimensions variable

Justin Chance, Blue Ribbon, 2021. All weather vinyl decal on gallery awning. Featured in exhibition: Better, Gern en Regalia, New York.

Justin Chance, Blue Ribbon, 2021. All weather vinyl decal on gallery awning. Featured in exhibition: Better, Gern en Regalia, New York.

Justin Chance, Past Due, 2022. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 41 × 68 in / 104,1 × 172,7 cm

Exhibition view of Material Knowledge. Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York, 2022.

Justin Chance, Sentence, 2022. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, cotton, silk, dye, 48 x 70 in / 172.7 x 190.5 cm.

Justin Chance, Commonwealth, 2020 – ongoing. Installation of woven crayon and pastel on paper, UV varnish. Featured in exhibition: Low-Life, Smart Objects, Los Angeles.

Justin Chance, Commonwealth, 2020 – ongoing. Installation of woven crayon and pastel on paper, UV varnish.

Justin Chance, Race, 2020—2021(detail). Flooded basement papier-mâché, images from waterlogged photobook, marker, graphite, watercolor on paper, 32 × 19,5 in / 81,3 × 495,3 cm

Justin Chance, Race, 2020—2021. Flooded basement papier-mâché, images from waterlogged photobook, marker, graphite, watercolor on paper, 32 × 19,5 in / 81,3 × 495,3 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Low Life. Smart Objects, Los Angeles, 2021.

Justin Chance, Dying, 2020
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, dying marker; quilted,
65 × 47 in / 165,1 × 119,4 cm

Justin Chance, Dying, 2020 (detail). Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, dying marker; quilted,
65 × 47 in / 165,1 × 119,4 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Low Life. Smart Objects, Los Angeles, 2021.

Exhibition view of Some say the soul is made of wind. Tara Downs, New York, 2021.

Justin Chance, Kitchen, 2019. Dyed and piled wool, desk fan, aluminium, tea, 22 × 15 × 6 inches / 55,9 × 38,1 × 15,2 cm

Justin Chance,Rose for an Opposing Wall 1, 2015-2016. Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye; quilted, 27 × 48 in / 68,6 × 121,9 cm

Justin Chance, Hver dag, 2021. Dyed and piled wool, portable twin window fan and cooling unit, masking tape, Kleenex, tea, 11 1/2 × 33 × 3 in / 29,2 × 83,8 × 7,6 cm

Justin Chance, Somewhere Over, 2018. Wet and needle felted wool, dyed silk, cotton, crayon, graphite, pastel thread; quilted, 48 × 52 in / 121,9 × 132 cm

Exhibition view of Justin Chance: Long Distance. Smart Objects, Los Angeles, 2018.

Justin Chance, A English Rose, 2018. Piled wool, standing fan, gesso, cotton ball, 44 × 23 in / 111,8 × 58,4 cm

Justin Chance, A English Rose, 2018 (alternate view). Piled wool, standing fan, gesso, cotton ball, 44 × 23 in / 111,8 × 58,4 cm

Biography

Justin Chance (b. 1993 in New York, US) is an artist and writer based in New York. Chance received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a BA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Chance’s work has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the following venues: “Archive,” Naranjo 141, Mexico City, MX (2024); “Love is Sci-Fi, Sydney, Sydney, AU (2023); “Live,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); “On Christ and Sunstroke (with Kim Farkas),CFA, Milan, IT, presented by Tara Downs (2022); “Social (with David Sprecher), Apparatus Projects, Chicago, US (2022); “”Station,” Tuesday, Richmond, US (2021); “Low-Life,” Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US (2021); “Better (with Hunter Foster), Gem en Regalia, New York, US (2021); and “Long Distance,” Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US (2018). The artist’s work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including, “A Study in Form (Chapter Two),” James Fuentes, New York, US (2024); “FLESH & FLOWERS, Made in America,” No Name, Paris, FR (2023); “JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY,” Silke Linder, New York, US (2022); “In My Mold,” Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, GE (2022); “And Still No Rain,” Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA, (2022); “The Grid and the Curve,” JTT, New York, US (2022); “Material Knowledge,” Arsenal Contemporary, New York, US (2022); “Elective Affinities,” Chapter NY, New York, US (2022); “The Grid and the Curve,” JTT, New York, US (2022); “Remnant, Artifact, Flow,” Thierry Goldberg, New York, US (2021); “Some say the soul is made of wind,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2021); “Training Day: Howardena Pindell, Devin Kenny, Justin Chance,” Housing, Miami, US (2019); and “Kelly Lloyd: Up like the sun, down like a Pancake,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, US (2018). The artist’s work is included in The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection.