Chris Mottalini - Artist Biography and CV

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Born: Buffalo, New York
Lives: Brooklyn, New York

Chris Mottalini (b. 1978) grew up in Buffalo, NY and has lived in New York City since 2000. His photographic work has been widely published (Lozen Up Books, Abitare, Pin-Up, Casa Vogue, Mark, Architectural Record, etc.) and internationally exhibited.

Mottalini's recent projects include the final portraits of demolished homes by the controversial Modernist Paul Rudolph, a photographic record of school bus stop shelters in Buffalo, NY (amateur architecture), an interpretation of Viking architecture in Newfoundland, Canada, etc.

Education

2000	B.S., News Editorial/Photojournalism University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
1999	Foreign study through CU Boulder, Communications/Journalism Uppsala University, Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011	"An Architect's Vision: Paul Rudolph Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
2010	Dumbo Arts Festival Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York After You Left, They Took It Apart (Demolished Paul Rudolph Homes) Julie Collins Smith Museum, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
2008	29 Photographs in a Little Room in the Back of a Shoe Store Leffot, New York, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011	Contact Photography Festival Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada Waiting Ground Kate Werble Gallery, Manhattan, New York
2010	Image.Architecture.Now The Julius Shulman Institute (at Woodbury University), Burbank, California Exit Art Annual Exhibition/Auction Exit Art, New York, New York The Exposure Project: Graphic Intersections Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2009	Aggregate: Art and Architecture (a Brutalist Remix) The Westport Arts Center, Westport, Connecticut After Architecture Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2008	Building Pictures Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois