CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL HEFNER

  • Extensive work on paper and film/video, design & installation.

  • First feature film “The Pink Hotel” completed April 2010.

  • Second feature film “The Poisoner” completed January 2014.

  • Screened and Exhibited Internationally

EDUCATION:    Bachelor of Arts in Film/Video, May 2006

Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:   

  • UNTITLED EXHIBITION - Living Room Gallery, Chicago. December 2023

  • UNDER GLASS, Two artist exhibition with Stephanie Brown, Gabel Project Space, Chicago. February 2023

  • MOLESKINE PROJECT RETROSPECTIVE, Group exhibition, Phoenix AZ, 2022

  • MOLESKINE PRJOJECT 9, Group exhibition, Pow! Wow! Hawaii, February 2020

  • PASSAGE, Exhibition with Jared and Jessica Joslin, Sphinx & Snakeskin, Philadelphia.  September 2019

  • MOLESKINE PROJECT 8, Group exhibition, Spoke SF/Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco. June 2019

  • GROUP EXHIBITION, The Convent, Philadelphia.  July 2019

  • FIRE, BONE AND ASH, Exhibition with Jared and Jessica Joslin, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago.  November 2018

  • ATTRACTIVE AND POPULAR, Two artist exhibition with Rebekka Federle, Firecat Project Space, Chicago.  July 2018

  • NOPLACE, Solo exhibition of drawings & sculptural installation, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago.  September 2017

  • IMMUTABLE MANTLE, Two artist exhibition with Heather Gabel, drawings and sculptural objects exhibited,  Ars Memoria Gallery, Chicago.  January 2017

  • FIVE WAYS TO SKIN A CAT, Curated & Exhibited group exhibition at GAG Chicago, May 2016 

  • VEILING, Solo exhibition of drawings & sculptural installation, Comfort Station Chicago December 2015

  • BLAB 10th Anniversary Show, Charcoal Drawing exhibited, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica. September 2015.

  •  VERGE Art NYC, Charcoal Drawings Exhibited.  May 2014

  • Intelligentsia Coffee Bar on Randolph,  Charcoal Drawings Exhibited  October 2013 

  • Made in the Midwest, Charcoal Drawings & Original Serigraphs exhibited.  November 2013

  • The Vacancy,  Four-artist exhibition with Tony Fitzpatrick, Duncan Robert Anderson and Daniel Bruttig at LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago.  Charcoal drawings and video installation exhibited.  August 2012

  • Dystopia, Group exhibition at Las Manos Gallery, Chicago.  Charcoal Drawings, Serigraphs & Film Loops Exhibited.  April 2012

  • BLOOD, Two-person exhibition with Andy Hefner at Saki Records, Chicago.  March 2012

  • Ragdale Exhibition,  Group exhibition curated by Audrey Niffenegger.  Drawings and Site-Specific Installation.  October 2010

  • Sustenance 337 Singleton Blvd., Dallas, TX “Cast-Offs” Charcoal Drawing Series Exhibited.  September 2010

  • EXPO Solo Exhibition, Finch Gallery, Chicago.  June 2008                   

 

SELECTED FILMS & SCREENINGS SINCE 2008                      

  • Music Video for Sarah La Puerta, “A GUN”, August 2022

  • Music Video for Jon Mueller + Aaron Turner “Piteous Cur”, July 2022

  • Music Video for The Sifted Few, “Skinny Little Sliver of A Moon”, April 2021

  • SAL ET CORIUM - Video Collaboration with Hvnter Gvtherer Jewelry & Leatherwear 

Premiered at The Chicago Athletic Association, January 2016

  • Music Video for HIDE “Flesh For The Living”

Premiered via The Brutalist, May 2016

  • Music Video for ZELIENOPLE “Don’t Stop Until You Die”

   Premiered via Self-Titled Magazine, October 2015

  • Music Video for JON MUELLER “Initiation”

  Premiered at Eaux Claires Festival, July 2015

  • Music Video for MUCCA PAZZA “The Sit Down Waltz”

  Premiered via Belt Magazine, July 2015

  • Music Video for DEATH BLUES “Onward”

Premiered via Rhythmplex.com, November 2014

  • Promotional Video for Jessica Joslin’s exhibition “The Immortal Zoo”

Included on Hi-Fructose Magazine website, October 2014

  • Music Video for EATERS “Far”    

Exclusive Premiere with Interview Magazine, February 2014

  • The Poisoner – Feature Film     Completed January 2014

Preview Screening at Lincoln Hall, Chicago, January 2014

  • Music Video for BENOIT PIOULARD “Reliquary”    

Premiered on Quietus U.K., March 2013

  • Music Video for THE HANDSOME FAMILY “Woodpecker”

Premiered on NPR’s First Watch, May 2013

  • Music Video for MUCCA PAZZA “Tube Sock Tango”

Premiered via Carrot Top Recordings Chicago, October 2012

  • Music Video for ERIK K. SKODVIN “Matiné”

Premiered via Miasmah Recordings Berlin, June 2011

  • Eva C – Video Installation, June 2011

Exhibited at Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago

  • Music Video for DANIEL KNOX “Ghostsong”    

Premiered via Webb Whale Music, April 2010

  • The Pink Hotel – Feature Film     Completed April 2010

Premiere at The Music Box Theatre, April 2010

Little Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010

Well Slept Film Festival, Chicago, IL, June 2010

Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Chicago, IL, July 2010

Freud’s Bathhouse and Diner, Winnipeg, Canada, July 2010

Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL, September, 2010

Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago IL , May 2014

 

ADDITIONAL PROJECTS

  • Guest Collaborator with Guy Maddin’s “Hauntings” Short Film Series.  Winnipeg, Canada.  July 2010

  • Weekly radio program “NIGHT TIME with Chris Hefner” on Lumpen Radio.  Chicago. July 2015-Present         

  • Design and printing commissioned by Andrew Bird, Cellar Door Provisions, Numero Group Records, Hands in The Dark Records, Mucca Pazza, Daniel Knox, Detholz! And Tom Musick.