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Christopher Brown

(American, born 1951)

Christopher Brown

Train Study #1, 2012

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Christopher Brown

China Hats, 1987

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Christopher Brown

Double Duck, 2012

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Christopher Brown

Woodpecker, 2010

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Biography

Timeline

1951: Born in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
1972: BFA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
1973 - 1976: Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Davis
1974 - 1975: Mary C. McLellan Scholarship for independent study and travel in Europe
1976: MFA, University of California, Davis
1978 - 1979: DAAD Grant, guest artist affiliation with the Academy of Art in Munich
1979: National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Grant in Art Criticism
1981: National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Grant in Art Criticism
1984: Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1985: Eureka Fellowship, The Mortimer Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1986: Award in the Visual Arts, given by the Equitable and Rockefeller Foundations with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts
1987: National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
1988: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Art

Exhibitions

2008: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005: Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California
2004: Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID; Rail Variations -solo
John Berggruen Gallery, San Fransisco, CA -solo
Paulson Press, Berkeley, California
2002: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA -solo
2001: Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID -solo
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO -solo
Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
San Jose Museum of Art, "Prints from Paulson Press"
: Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO - solo
2000: Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA-solo
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art "The Anderson Collection", San Francisco, CA
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Prints from the Anderson Collection", San Francisco, CA
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Art Center, "Abstraction from Raucous to Refined", Walnut Creek, CA
1999: Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA -solo
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Palo Alto Art Center "The Great Novel Exhibition" Palo Alto, CA
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1998: Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV -solo
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY -solo
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1997: Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN -solo
Friesen Gallery, Celebrating Ten Years, Sun Valley, ID
1995 - 1996: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, History and Memory: Paintings by Christopher Brown, Fort Worth, TX -solo
Traveled exhibition, selected venues:
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Edward Thorp Gallery, Christopher Brown - Recent Paintings, New York, NY
1989 - 1990: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Fort Worth, TX
Traveled exhibition, selected venues:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Artist's Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow
Tsentralnyi Zystavochnyi Zal, Leningrad
1988: Award Recipients' Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1985 - 1986: Madison Art Center, The Painted Room, Madison, WI -solo
Traveled exhibition, selected venues:
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA

Literature

: Albright, Thomas, "Fresh Paint", Artnews, September, 1982
: Tromble, Meredith, “Christopher Brown”, San Francisco Focus, September, 1993
: Baker, Kenneth, “Christopher Brown’s Paintings.”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 1993
: Whiting, Sam. “Brushing up on History” San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 1995.
: Smith, Roberta. Review. The New York Times, June 2, 1995
: Cultural Center, Art News, October 1995, p. 155
: Ollman, Leah, "Christopher Brown at San Jose Museum of Art and Palo Alto
: Nahas, Dominique, "Christopher Brown at Edward Thorp Gallery", Review, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-12
: Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, Review, April 24, 2004. E10
: Albright, Thomas, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, May, 1983
: Albright, Thomas, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, May, 1985
: Johnson, Ken, “Christopher Brown at Edward Thorp”, Art in America, November, 1992, p. 139
: Branson, Jamie, "Autobiographical Landscapes", Artweek, November 23, 1985
: Baker, Kenneth, "Christopher Brown", San Francisco Chronicle", October 23,1987
: Berkson, Bill, "Christopher Brown", Artforum, January, 1988
: Jan, Alfred, "Christopher Brown", Flash Art, January-February, 1988
: Bonetti, David, "The Elements of Fine Painting", San Francisco Examiner, September 8, 1990
: Moser, Charlotte, "Ambivalence Toward Painting", Artweek, Sept. 27, 1990
: Tamblyn, Christine, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, November, 1991
: "Introductions", San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 1977
: Fischer, Hal, "Christopher Brown", Artforum, February, 1980
: Kelley, Jeff, "Christopher Brown", Arts, September, 1980
: Boettiger, Susan, "Fresh Paint, New Fingerprints", San Francisco Chronicle,June 27, 1982
: Baker, Kenneth, "A Bay Area Biennial", San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 1986
: De Vuono, Frances, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, March, 1992, p.139

Christopher Brown

(American, born 1951)

Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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