Chris Sollars work revolves around the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions, the results of which are integrated into mixed media video installations. Sollars holds a BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA from Bard College.  He is director and curator of 667Shotwell an experimental space in his home for artists to do experimental work, started in 2001 during the wake of disappearing San Francisco art-spaces. Sollars’ work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Mills College Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, and Miami Art Museum. Awards include 2002 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, 2007 Alternative Exposure Grant, 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, and 2009 Headlands residency. In 2008 he completed his first feature length film C RED BLUE J that screened at SFMOMA and was a part of CREATIVE TIME’s Democracy in America Exhibition that was reviewed on WNYC Radio and in the New York Times by Holland Cotter. His work has also been featured in articles and reviews in Contemporary Magazine; CameraWork; Art Net; BOOOOOOOM; Huffington Post; Art Practical; and Flash Art.