ALWAYS IS ALWAYS FOREVER
Nancy Chan, Matt Momchilov & Jesse Schlesinger
September 11th - October 17th 2009

Recent Work
ALWAYS IS ALWAYS FOREVER work

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am interested in looking at American subcultural spaces. The re/production of subcultural space continues to offer subjects a way of living outside normative structures of time or disciplinary articulations of being. As both a practice of self-making and a theory of resistance, subcultural identity marks its own construction while claiming realness. 

I am interested in the way that people construct their identities within the context of subcultural groupings, how subcultures establish ideas about beauty and value that are in opposition to mass cultural ones, and the constant negotiation between oppressed everyday lives and the imagined freedom of subcultural space. By placing at the center of the gaze the other of Otherness, the work wrestles with glances of pageantry and obliteration, ascendancy and celebration, promise and impossibility.

BIO

Momchilov received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with high distinction from The California College of the Arts in 2008. His work has been exibited in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces in the U.S. and abroad. He has been recognized for his accomplishments in art by The National Foundation for Advancement in The Arts, The Commission on Presidential Scholars, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, The Minnesota State Arts board, and is a two-time winner of the The Robert Ralls Memorial Scholarship (in 2006 and 2007). He currently lives and works in San Francisco.

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Education           

California College of the Arts, Bachelor of  Fine Arts with High Distinction

Solo Exhibitions            

2008          Flagtown Coyote, Tecoah and Thomas Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007         These Colors Don’t Run, The Painted Bird, San Francisco, CA

2004          Portraits, The Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, MN

Group Exhibitions

2009       

Just Because There are Questions Does Not Mean There Are Answers, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA                       
Buddy System, Rare Device, San Francisco, CA

2008         
The Trigger Collective, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA                    
Making Room for Wonder, SomArts, Curated by Tirza True Latimer, San Francisco, CA                    
Queerity, The Million Fishes Art Collective, Curated by Zee Bourdeaux and Tamara Lowenstein, San Francisco, CA                     Collection, Curation, and Display, The San Francisco Public Library, Curated by Christina La Sala, San Francisco, CA

CCA  Baccalaureate Exhibition,  California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA                  

PLAySPACE Benefit Auction, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
All-College Honors Awards Exhibition, The Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

2007      

Gun Show, The North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA
With Friends Like These, Clean Gallery, Curated by Ben Seevers, Oakland, CA      
Disgusteen, Tecoah and Thomas Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Best of Junior Review, The Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

Editions of You, Isabel Percy West, Oakland, CA 

2006      
Will Will All Be Well Benefit Auction, The Space Gallery, Curated by Monica Canilao, San Francisco, CA
Drawing Attraction, Ego Park, Curated by Sean Garrison, Oakland, CA    
The Virus Show, The Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA    
All-College Honors Awards Exhibition, The Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA    
OK City for Sale, Ego Park, Oakland, CA

2005       
Time, Space and Body, Isabel Percy West,  Curated by Galya Rosenfeld, Oakland, CA

2004        
Presidential Scholarship in the Arts Awards Exhibition, The Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of Women in the Art,                   Washington, D.C.                  
ARTSWeek Awards Exhibition, The Miami Childrens Museum, Miami, F
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Exhibition, The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Push It, Bistrotheque, London, U.K.                  
Self-Portraits, The Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

2003         
PCAE Group Show, Patricks Cabaret,  Minneapolis, MN

       

Awards and Recognitions

2007                

Robert Ralls Memorial Scholarship, All-College Honors, Scholarship Competition

2006                

Robert Ralls Memorial Scholarship, All-College Honors, Scholarship Competition

2004               

Presidential Scholar in Visual Art Level 1 ARTSAward , The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts National Silver Key, The Scholastic  Art and Writing Awards

Regional Gold Key, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

PCAE Grant recipient, The Minnesota State Arts Board

Collections                 

Sidney and Nancy Unobskey, San Francisco, CA                 
Edward and Elizabeth Jansen, New York, NY                 
Adam Hatch, Oakland, CA                 
Math Bass, San Francisco, CA                 
Zee Bourdeaux, Berlin, Germany                 
Mauri Skinfill and Justin Kerr, San Francisco, CA                   
Pete and Julie Johnson, Saucalito, CA                 
David Bjournguard, San Francisco, CA                 
Tynan Kerr, Minneapolis, MN                 
Ehren Reed, San Francisco, CA                  
Gabriel Ruben Dikel, New York, NY                      
Eric Stanley, San Francisco, CA                 
Matt Luton, San Francisco, CA                 
Kentaro Keneka, Oakland, CA                
Leoni Figaredo, San Francisco, CA                  
Benjamin Seevers, San Mateo, CA                 
Jason Fritz Michael, San Francisco, CA                
Elyse Stern, Minneapolis, MN

Press                                    
KQED Arts, Becoming Non Object and Just Because There are Questions, June 21, 2009,
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=24895

The San Francisco Chronicle, July 16th, 2009, By Kimberly Chun, 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/16/NSTM18LOPD.DTL&type=art

Antler Magazine, July 22, 2009, By Angela Simione,
http://www.antlermag.com/blog/?p=711

FecalFace.com, Julys Oakland Art Murmur, July 30, 2009, By Theo Konrad Auer,
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1636&Itemid=27                  

The San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 26, 2009, By Johnny Ray Houston,
http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.phpentry_id=9057&catid=85                  

The Volcanoland Chronicles, February 28, 2009, By Bianca Foss,  
http://volcanolandchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_28.html                   

The Oakbook, The Month Ahead in Oakland Art, June 3, 2009, By Theo Konrad Auer,
http://www.theoakbook.com/Category.aspx?Catid=14                

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