Kristan Horton

Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF)

The fifth Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) will take place between 14th June and 7th September 2008 at the Lofoten islands in Northern Norway.

Stutter and Twitch.

works by Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, David Claerbout, Nancy Davenport, Adad Hannah, Kristan Horton, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

curated by Chen Tamir

"White Columns is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by the Toronto-based artist Kristan Horton. Using a hybrid form that juxtaposes improvised sculpture, haphazard set building, and low-tech animation, Horton’s works explore the fundamental pleasures of making, un-making, and recreating."

April 3rd - May 2nd

Black and white laser print on 3500 paper sheets 20lb/96, 8 ½ x 11"
DVD - Features an animation. The animation is a product of recording, printing, scanning and reassembling a 117 second video portrait.


April - May

Self-Storage, group exhibtion curated by Curatorial Industries, 2701 16th St, San Francisco, CA

The opening of this space – the first of its kind – was inspired by the historical precedent of the Dymaxion Chronofile, a system that Buckminster Fuller devised to chronicle his life. "Self-Storage" will gather boxes conceived and realized by the following individuals and organizations: Archigram Archive, Fern Bayer, Alejandro Cesarco, Joshua Churchill, Dexter Sinister, Trisha Donnelly, Patricia Esquivias, Buckminster Fuller, Ryan Gander, The John Fare Estate, Kristan Horton, Iman Issa, Marie Jager, Stephen Kaltenbach, Micah Lexier, Steven Leiber's Basement, The Long Now Foundation, Chip Lord, Tom Marioni, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Lisa Oppenheim, The Prelinger Library, Lisi Raskin, Amy Robinson, Sean Snyder, Superstudio, Andrew Tosiello, Frances Trombly, Tris Vonna-Michell, and The Winchester Mystery House.

Drawing of A History of the First World War (Disc 01), 2008
graphite on paper
3ft x 3ft

currently in the exhibition:
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, January 17th to March 2nd, 2008



Blackwood Gallery and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto.

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War

Bureau d´etudes (France), Dominique Blain (Canada), Paul Chan (USA), Köken Ergun (Turkey), Jamelie Hassan (Canada), Kristan Horton (Canada), Abdel-Karim Khalil (Iraq), Anri Sala (Albania). Sean Snyder (USA/Germany), Ron Terada (Canada), Maja Bajevic (Bosnia), Harun Farocki (Czech/Germany), Omer Fast (Israel/USA), Kendell Geers (South Africa), Johan Grimonprez (Belgium), Annie MacDonell (Canada), Sonja Savic (Serbia)

Curated by Séamus Kealy

A catalogue including documentation of the exhibition’s artwork and critical essays by Boris Groys, Séamus Kealy, Gene Ray, and Brigitte van der Sande will be produced in conjunction with Signals in the Dark.

Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany
DOING IDENTITY - BASTARD MÜNCHEN
TOY VOID -A Parasite World, We Believe What We See

Martin Hast (Germany/Vienna) and Kristan Horton (Canada)

curated by Bo Christian Larsson

Blast. Blast. Blast. (panel 3), 2008
graphite on paper
40cm x 30cm