FEATURED ARTIST
Chase Hall
About the Artist
Chase Hall is a painter, sculptor, photographer and videographer. Born in Sant Paul, Minnesota in 1993, Chase activates and disrupts generational traumas encoded in American history through his art. His work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States, the Netherlands, Senegal and Korea.
Chase has held multiple residencies throughout the United States, including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, The Macedonia Institute and The Mountain School of Arts.
Chase Hall has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 and Cultured’s 30 Under 35 Young Artists List in 2021.
Chase Hall currently resides in New York, NY.
Chase Hall @ David Kordansky Gallery
September 5 - October 14, 2023
David Kordansky Gallery
520 W. 20th St., New York
David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present The Bathers, an exhibition of new paintings by Chase Hall. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, September 5 from 6 – 8 PM. An in-gallery conversation with Hall and Daniel S. Palmer, Chief Curator of the SCAD Museum of Art, will take place on Thursday, September 7 at 10 AM.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 5 | 6 – 8 PM ET
In-Gallery Conversation: Thursday, September 7 | 10 AM ET
Chase Hall in the News
ARTSY • FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The 10 Best Booths at Frieze LA
Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery.
David Kordansky Gallery Booth B1 with works by Chase Hall. Situated directly inside the entrance of Frieze L.A.’s much larger East Site structure, David Kordansky Gallery’s booth is home to a solo show of new figurative paintings by New York–based artist Chase Hall. Varying in scale from intimate to jumbo, the 13 canvases in the show capture the artist’s memories of time spent on L.A.’s beaches as a teenage skateboarder and surfer.
NEW YORK TIMES • AUGUST 9, 2021
Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ Helped Me Beat the Odds. Will We Finally Even Them?
Chase Hall’s art was featured in this New York Times article about Jay-Z.
NOWNESS • JUNE 16, 2021
Private View: Chase Hall (Video)
Aleczander is the first solo exhibition in New York by American painter, sculptor, and photographer Chase Hall. Born in Minnesota, Hall’s latest large-scale work is an examination of race and its place in the canon of Western portraiture. With canvases of black and brown bodies standing over three meters tall, his imposing art challenges the viewer to consider the agency, backstory, and interior life of his figures.
NEW YORK TIMES • APRIL 16, 2021
New York Times Opinion pieces on Minnesota
Chase Hall’s art was featured in a series of New York Times Opinion pieces on Minnesota and racism:
What ‘Minnesota Nice’ Sweeps Under the Rug →
Minnesota Values White Comfort More Than Black Lives →
Minnesota Is One of the Best Places to Live in America. Unless You’re Black. →
SSENSE • OCTOBER 6, 2020
Troubled Waters: Meet Painter Chase Hall
It is tempting to read every cultural gesture against the daily dramas of what’s current: the pandemic, the protests, and the uprising. This is especially true when the subjects of that art are the same people who have been disproportionately affected. Yet it is equally true that good art can—and does—expand conceptually and culturally.
VOGUE • MAY 8, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery's Death Sparks an Outpouring of Grief and Rage on Social Media
“I have never left a house since I was every-day-so-far years old without knowing I’m in cross hairs, in danger, to the ones closest to the ones farthest, don’t attempt to understand my pain and the fake smile I wear everyday so far just to get by," wrote Chase Hall.