CV

Born:

1972, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Education:

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1993-1997
Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, Ca, 2008

Performances and Exibitions

1991

    • The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles, CA, Untitled Happing
    • Cafe Troy, Los Angeles, Ca, Untitled Happening

1996

    • Kölnisches Stadt Museum, Cologne, Germany; performance “Hansen on Happenings”

1998

    • Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; Performance Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”
    • Track 16, Santa Monica, California, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; Performance Channing Hansen – “Yoko Ono Piano Drop”
      • Thread Waxing Space, New York, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; performances by Channing Hansen, Beck Hansen, Marianne Faithfull, foot (Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Jim Dunbar), Larry Miller, Rebecca Moore & special guests.
      • Plug, In, Winnipeg, Canada, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; performance by Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”

    1999

      • Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; performance by Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”
      • LaForet, Tokyo, Japan, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; performance by Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”
      • Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, performance by Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead.”
      • Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; performance by Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”

    2000

      • Schloss Moyland Museum, Joseph Beuys Institute, Germany, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”;Performance Channing Hansen and Beck Hansen – “Yoko Ono Piano Drop”
      • Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Canada, “Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; Lecture “Al Hansen, His Life and Art” by Bibbe Hansen; performance by Channing Hansen – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”
      • Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, “Beck &  Al Hansen: Playing With Matches”; Performance Workshop conducted by Bibbe Hansen; Happening conducted by Bibbe Hansen  including workshop participants; Lecture “Al Hansen, His Life and Art” by Bibbe Hansen; performance by Channing Hansen  – Al Hansen’s “Elegy for the Fluxus Dead”

    2002

      • SalwayJones, Los Angeles CA, Group Show, Intersticies, curated by Carlo McCormick

    2012

      • Night Gallery, Los Angeles CA, In collaboration with Alexander Grant, “Womb-Womb Room”

    Bibliography/Reviews:

      • 2006: David Velasco, Total Bequest Live, review of 3rd Rail Revisited—An Evening of Al Hansen Performance at Andrea Rosen Gallery, Art Forum Diary.