Solo Exhibitions

2010       Conner Contemporary Art - 1358 Florida Ave NE, Washington DC
              "Infinity"  September 11 - October 23

2010       Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY
              "A Brief History of America and Its Peoples"  March 27 - April 24

2009       Gay Street Gallery - Gay & Porter St. Washington, VA
              "The Meaning of Everything"  August 1 - August 30

2009       Conner Contemporary Art -1358 Florida Ave NE, Washington DC
              "Unknowns"  January 31 - March 21

2007       Anchorage Museum of Art - 121 West 7th Ave., Anchorage, AK
2008       "Out of the Ordinary"  June 17 - May 16, 2008

2007       Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY
              "Redux"  March 31 - April 28

2005       Conner Contemporary Art -1730 Connecticut Ave, Washington DC
              "Certain Distance"  June 18 - July 30

2004       Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20^th Street, New York NY
              "Architectural Voodoo" November 26 - December 18 

2002       Conner Contemporary Art -1730 Connecticut Ave, Washington DC
              "Between the Benign" March 15 - April 28

2002       Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20^th Street, New York NY
              "Universal Time" March 28 - April 27

1999       Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20^th Street, New York NY
              "6,000,000,000" January 9 - February 15

1998       Middle Street Gallery - Middle Street, Washington VA
              "Tobacco" March 6 - 29

1998       University of Virginia - Artspace Gallery, Newcomb Hall;
               Charlottesville  VA
              "A Theoretical Parade" January 28 - February 21

1996       Kim Foster Gallery-62 Crosby Street, New York, NY
              "Blanks & New Frottages" September 6 - October 12

1995       District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC)-
               2438 18th Street, Washington DC
              "Ethnologically Careless" January 10 - February 11

1995       Kim Foster Gallery - 62 Crosby Street, New York, NY
              "Flying Near the Power Lines" June 1 - July 1

1993       Mattress Factory- 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh PA
              "Faith & Aphasia" December 12, 1992 - March 15, 1993

1993       Wohlfarth Galleries- 3418 9^th Street, Washington DC
              "Form & Fallacy" April 16 - May 8

1993       International Sculpture Center/Arnold & Porter
              1125 21st Street, Washington DC
              "Athenaeum" February 3 - March 25

1991       Bistborno Gallery- Donaugatan 2, Malmoe, Sweden
              "Disasters (Stolen Heartwork)" April 6 - 28

1990       Charles Lucien Gallery- 555 Broadway, New York NY
              "Disaster" May 1-31

1989       Rastovski Gallery- 560 Broadway, New York NY
              "John Kirchner" October 5- 28

Select Group Exhibitions

2009       Arts Guild of New Jersey - 1670 Iriving St, Rahway NJ
             "Moolah"  November 17 - December 11

2009       Art Chicago - 222 Merchandise Plaza, Chicago IL
             "Partisan" curated by Mary Jane Jacob - April 30 - May 4

2008       Conner Contemporary Art - 1358 Florida Ave NE, Washington DC
             "Inaugural Exhibition - Gallery Artists: Recent Work" - September 27 - November 9

2007      Art DC - Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Pl NW, Washington DC
             "The Fed" at Conner Contemporary Art - April 27-30

2007      Pulse NY - Regiments Armory, 26th Street & Lexington Ave., New York NY
             "Subterfuge" at Conner Contemporary Art - February 22-25

2006      Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20th Street, New York NY
             "Menagerie" July 7 - July 29

2006      Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20th Street, New York NY
            "Terrain" June 3 - July 1

2006       Middle Street Gallery - Middle St., Washington VA
             "unRappahannock County, Virginia"  June 2 - July 2

2005       Kim Foster Gallery - 529 West 20th Street, New York NY
              "A Tasting" July 9 - July 30

2005      Curator's Office - 1515 14th Street NW, Washington DC
             "Nocturnal Transmissions A One--Night Video Slam"
              Friday, April 29th 2005

2005       Lehman College Art Gallery - 250 Bedford Park Blvd., Bronx NY
              "The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment"
               February 8th - May 14th, 2005

2003       Conner Contemporary Art -1730 Connecticut Ave, Washington DC
              "5 Year < Retro"  December  5 - January 2, 2004

2003       Katonah Museum of Art - Jay Street, Katonah NY
              "Food Matters" August 10 - October 26

2003       Conner Contemporary Art-1730 Connecticut Ave., Washington DC
              "New American Landscape"- Mary Woodall & John Kirchner
               February 27- March 29

2002       Kim Foster Gallery- 529 West 20^th Street, New York NY
               "An Hors D’Oeuvre" July 11- August 3

2001       Kim Foster Gallery- 529 West 20^th Street, New York NY
              "Black + White" July 11- August 3

2000       Conner Contemporary Art- 1730 Connecticut Ave., Washington DC
              "Catherine Opie - John Kirchner" June 2- July 5

1999       Embassy of the United States of America- Santafé de Bogotá, Columbia
              "Art in Embassies Collection" March- October

1997       Galerie Bhak- 80-6 Chungdam-dong, Seoul, Korea
              "John Kirchner, Antonio Petracca, Eiichi Yoshino & Daniel Villeneuve" 
               July 18- August 2

1996       Albright-Knox Art Gallery- Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY
              "Empty Money Series" March- June

1994       Foster Peet Gallery- 62 Crosby Street, New York NY
              "Animate Presence: Nancy Olivier, Diane Samuels, John Kirchner"
               April 22 - May 27

1994       Wohlfarth Galleries- 3418 9^th Street, Washington DC
              "Annual Invitational Exhibition" March 18- April 12

1994       Foster Peet Gallery- 62 Crosby Street, New York NY
              "New Space" March 11- April 16

1994       Allegheny College Art Gallery- Meadville PA
               "Material & Substance"- February 1- March 2

1993       Foster Peet Gallery- 53 Crosby Street, New York, NY
              "Works on Paper" June 24- July 24

1993       Harman Gallery Inc.- 1828 Jefferson Place, Washington DC
              "Extract, (De)Constructs, Otiosity" May 21- June 30

1991       de Andino Fine Arts- 1609 Connecticut Ave, Washington DC
              "Two Site Specific Installations & An Introduction" July 13- August 17

1990       Rastovski Gallery- 560 Broadway, New York NY
              "Manifesto" January 11- February 24

1989       Gallerie Bebert- Rotterdam, Netherlands
              "Disasters" October 1- 30

1989       Islip Art Museum- East Islip NY
              "Personae; Contemporary Portraiture and Self-Portraiture"
               September 10- November 5

1989       Rastovski Gallery- 560 Broadway, New York NY
              "Simplicity, Causality, an Immense Collective Act, Joker and the Batman"
               September 9- 30

1988       Pat Hearn Gallery- 406 E. 7^th Street, New York NY
              "Occidental Man" February- March

1988       Virginia Lynch Gallery- Tiverton RI
              "Collection 88" December 4- January 31

1987       Valerie Furlano Gallery- Providence RI
              "L’Histoire de France" October

Publications

Gopnik, Blake "Arts Post - Gopnik's Daily Pic: Kirchner's "Infinity"
The Washington Post, October 8, 2010  washingtonpost.com

Robinson, W "Nude Boat Event at Conner Contemporary"
Artnet News, September 14, 2010 artnet.com

Roberts, Roxanne & Argetsinger, Amy "Why all the hull-abaloo?"
The Washington Post, September 14, 2010 p. C2

Kenny, Steven "The Meaning of Everything "
Rappahannock News, August 20, 2009 pp. B1 & B3

Judkis, Maura "John Kirchner"
Washington City Paper, February 4, 2009

Cox, Rose; "Object Lessons"
Anchorage Daily News, August 12, 2007 G8

Smith, Dawnell & Henning, Sarah, "Arts Scene: Children's Exhibit Settles into the Surreal "
Anchorage Daily News, June 28, 2007

Lawrence, Sydney "Capitol Roundupr"
Artnet Magazine, May 14, 2007 artnet.com

Schmidt, Franklin & Ester, "New Art Mecca"
Home & Design, Fall, 2006 p.136

Jacobson, Louis, "Certain Distance"
Washington City Paper, July 1, 2005 p.52

Graham, Ruth, "Building Basics"
The New York Sun, December 10, 2004 p.18

Gennocchio, Benjamin, "An Exhibit With More Food Than Many Pantries"
The New York Times, August 31, 2003 p.F1

Brown, Jeremy, "The Art of the Cheez Doodle"
The Scarsdale Inquirer, August 15, 2003 p.11

Jacobson, Louis, "New American Landscape"
Washington City Paper, March 21, 2003 pp. 82

Goodman, Jonathan, "John Kirchner at Kim Foster"
Sculpture Magazine, October, 2002 pp. 80-81

Dawson, Jessica, "John Kirchner: A World Turned Upside Down"
The Washington Post, April 18, 2002, pp. C1 & C5

Bird, Diana, "Kirchner Show"
The Rappahannock News, March 25, 1998, p. B1

LaValley, Jan, "John Kirchner: Not Your Typical Artist"
The Rappahannock News, December 13, 1997, p. B3

Rastovski, Lorie, "An Interview with John Kirchner"
Contemporary Artists Review, C.A.R. No. 9, Spring 1993, pp. 34-39

Tonetti, Linda, "John Kirchner at the Mattress Factory"
New Art Examiner, May 1993, p. 46

Scott, Sue, "John Kirchner: Athenaeum"
Art Papers, July/August 1993, p. 53

Pinchbeck, Daniel, "Odd Masters"
Art & Antiques, December 1992, p. 23

Adams, Brooks, "The Shock of the Mundane"
Vogue Magazine, March 1990, pp. 344-348

Levin, Kim, "Artwalk"
The Village Voice, May 29, 1990, p. 119

Suzy, "Suzy"
The New York Post, July 12, 1990, p. 10

Harrison, Helen A., "Likeness: A Subjective Concept"
The New York Times, October 1, 1989, p. 22

Select Corporate and Personal Collections

United States Department of State - Washington DC

The District of Columbia Arts and Humanities Commission - Washington DC

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