Mike Chavez-Dawson (born 1974 in Maidstone) is an English artist and curator.
Life and career
Chavez-Dawson graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University, Interactive Arts BA (Hons) in 1997 and MA (Art as Environment) in 1999. He is attaining a PhD (by practice) research fellow at MIRIAD under the supervision of Prof. Jim Aulich and Prof. John Hyatt. He was the Visual Arts Editor for FLUX and founding curator for Flux Space.
Chavez-Dawson's work covers a number of disciplines including fine art & design, performance, music, curating and publishing. Collaborating with artist Len Horsey, he has devised a variety of performance and multi-part works titled 'Artours' as live texts for numerous group exhibitions, projects and events.
The Guardian complimented the "imaginative flair" of Chavez-Dawson's curatorial work for David Shrigley. This exhibition supported Shrigley's nomination for the Turner Prize 2013.
Chavez-Dawson judged the neo:artprize 2013.
2013-2014 'The Dark Would: Language Art Exhibition' (Group Show), Summerhall, Edinburgh
2013 'Duchamps Ring by Mike Chavez-Dawson, 2013' Louisa Guinness Gallery, Miami, USA
2013 'The Specter of Derrida' Islington Mill, Salford
2012 'Re-Carrying the Frame / Part 1. LDP Associates' Manchester
2012 'Paraphrase' (group show), Contemporary Six, Manchester
2011 'Notational Portrait(s) Performance Fig.1 Billy Childish, 18032011', Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2010 'Apophatic Pareidolia is a condition...', BEARSPACE, London
2010 'The Night of the Comet', British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
2010 'Re-Motive View(s), The Surreal House', Barbican Art Gallery, London
2009 'Title Murdered', Storey Gallery, Lancaster
2009 'Selling the Psycho-Geographical Breakdown', Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2009 'A bANdA dA' (Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Shezad Dawood Selects for Late at Tate Britain), TATE Britain, London
2008 'The Remarkable Apperception, (The Market Place Requires Heykll & Jybe)', Embassy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008 'The Mind Projected Cinema', Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent
2007 'Mr. Nature-Bold as The Mariachi' (Feature - Shezad Dawood), Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge
2003 'Essential Phenomena, (Lavish Conviction, Part 2)', VTO, London
2012-13 David Shrigley: How are you feeling? Cornerhouse, Manchester
2011 Magda Archer: Crazy Mad, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2011 Re-Covering and The Reading, Untitled Gallery, Manchester
2010 Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2009 The Kiss of a Lifetime (Part 2), VANE (As part of the Northern Print Biennale), Newcastle
2013 'The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology', Waldrop et al - Apple Pie
