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RECENT SCREENINGS
FOTOGENIA | Mexico City | 2023
Denver digerati | evans school theater | denver | 2023
QLD XR FESTIVAL | Brisbane, Australia | 2023
Instants Vidéo | Friche Belle de Mai | Marseille, FRANCE | 2022
supernova | buell theater | denver | 2022
PAN-CINEMA EXPERIMENTAL | Cinemateca de Curitiba | Curitiba, Brazil | 2022
ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FEST | Kotzia Square | ATHENS | 2022
ALC VIDEOART Fest | MACA | ALICANTE, SPAIN | 2022
Ortometraggi Film Fest | Castello Petraroli | TURIN, Italy | 2020
New Wave Film Fest
| There is No Reason | Hong Kong | 2019
Splice Film Fest
| Film Noir Theater | Brooklyn | 2019
PiGrecoZen |
Carneviola Art Gallery | La Spezia, Italy | 2019
Oregon Cinema Arts Festival
| 5th Ave Cinema | Portland | 2019

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN HISTORY | KIRKLAND LAKE, ONTARIO | APR 5 - MAY 4 2024
NUR <NOW> | KAZAN, TATARSTAN | Mar 21-31 2024
ART OF FREEDOM II | CTAO Gallery | LAVAGNA, Italy | Mar 18 - APR 7 2024
BLACK AND WHITE | KANVAS DUBAI | 2023
CENTER COURT FESTIVAL | Köln, Germany | 2023
PROJECT 22 | TODA | DUBAI | APR 2023
LACDA | Los Angeles | 2019
LAVA art show | Creative Technology Center | Los Angeles | 2018

COMMISSIONS
Buoyant Pavillion
| Redmond, WA | “Iridescence” - PUBLIC INSTALLATION
Daniels’ and Fisher TOWER
| Denver | “Colorado” - PUBLIC INSTALLATION
GOLDSPEK
| “DREAMING WHILE AWAKE” - MUSIC VIDEO
DANNY ELFMAN
| “DANCE WITH THE LEMURS” @ Hollywood Bowl - LIVE VISUALS
Xbox
| Series X console - startup sound - COMPOSER

AWARDS
FILM ONE FEST | BEST EXPERIMENTAL | “CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN”
Hyperwave Film Awards | Finalist | “Mirage”
SHUTTERSTOCK | PIXEL OF FURY - EDITING
DIESEL U:MUSIC | ELECTRONICA AWARD | Venue “SUCKERS”

 

Denver-based artist Chris May works in the fields of experimental video, installation, performance, music, and sound. His work draws upon personal memories to inform his explorations of the transcendent through abstraction. The interplay of structure, space, and time create immersive, multifaceted narratives that resonate on multiple symbolic levels. May's exploration of spiritual principles stems from a deep-seated curiosity about the nature of consciousness and a desire to evoke introspection and contemplation in viewers.