“Evans-as-author performs an overly dramatic version of our own complicity, as virtual navigators and political subjects, with the powers that be; but in lieu of fatalism, he offers animations too epic and interpretatively open to not suggest that there are more than a few routes into the future.” - Tyler Coburn

 

“Cliff Evans is a nice young man with a fertile imagination and a liquid capacity for ominous visual storytelling.” - Blackie Ocean

 

“Cliff Evans' animations are complex amalgamations of thousands of images culled from the internet. The images are transformed from representing the ways we want to be seen into visions of our present vectors.” - Christopher Coleman

 

 

 

      

Cliff Evans was born in Australia and grew up in East Texas. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was recently visiting faculty in video arts. Currently, Evans resides in Brooklyn, NY.

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibited extensively throughout the United States and the world, Evans' work has been shown in such spaces as The New Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, and Location One in New York City; The Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois; the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California;  Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, Mexico; Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland; and the China International Gallery Exposition, China World Trade Center in Beijing, China.

 

Evans' work has appeared and been reviewed in various media and publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Flashart, Artreview, Rhizome.org, and National Public Radio.

 

Awards and honors include: Artforum's Top 10 Artist Films for 2006 as picked by MOMA curator Barbara London; a traveling scholarship from The Medici Society Limited, London, UK; and a nomination for the Princess Grace Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, New York, NY. Evans has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY. Evans has also shot film with the Hungarian filmmaker, Bela Tarr.