Mike Chavez-Dawson
Mike Chavez-Dawson (born 14 April 1974 in Maidstone) is an English artist and curator.
Chavez-Dawson graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University, Interactive Arts BA (Hons) in 1997 and MA (Art as Environment) in 1999. He is attaining a PhD (by practice) research fellow at MIRIAD under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Allmer, Prof. Jim Aulich and Prof. John Hyatt. He was the Visual Arts Editor for FLUX and founding curator for Flux Space for just over a decade.
Chavez-Dawson's work covers a number of disciplines including fine art & design, performance, music, curating and publishing. Collaborations with artist/writer Len Horsey have seen his interdisciplinary practice develop. Together they have devised a variety of performance & multi-part works titled Artours as live texts for numerous group exhibitions, projects and events.
Works
- 2011 'Notational Portrait(s) Performance Fig.1 Billy Childish, 18032011', Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
- 2010 'Apophatic Pareidolia is a condition...', BEARSPACE, London
- 2010 The Night of the Comet (Live Event), British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
- 2010 Re-Motive View(s), The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London
- 2009 Title Murdered, Storey Gallery, Lancaster
- 2009 'Selling the Psycho-Geographical Breakdown', Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- 2009 'A bANdA dA' (Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Shezad Dawood Selects for Late at Tate Britain), TATE Britain, London
- 2008 'The Remarkable Apperception, (The Market Place Requires Heykll & Jybe)', Embassy, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2008 The Mind Projected Cinema, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent
- 2007 Mr. Nature-Bold as The Mariachi (Feature - Shezad Dawood), Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge
- 2003 'Essential Phenomena, (Lavish Conviction, Part 2)', VTO, London
Curated projects
- 2011 Magda Archer: Crazy Mad, Cornerhouse, Manchester
- 2011 Re-Covering and The Reading, Untitled Gallery, Manchester
- 2010 Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester
- 2009 The Kiss of a Lifetime (Part 2), VANE (As part of the Northern Print Biennale), Newcastle