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Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 1951
Berkeley, California
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| EDUCATION |
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M.F.A., 1976, University of California, Davis
B.A., 1972, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana |
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| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1999 |
"Christopher Brown, Works on Paper,"
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, California
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| 1998 |
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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| 1997 |
"Christopher Brown: Recent Paintings", Campbell-Thiebaud,
San Francisco, CA
"Christopher Brown:Works on Paper", Minneapolis Institute of Art,
Minneapolis, MN
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| 1996 |
"Christopher Brown: Works on Paper", Fisher Gallery, USC,
Los Angeles, CA
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| 1995-96 |
History and Memory: Paintings by Christopher Brown an
exhibition organized by the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth,Texas
(traveling to the San Jose Museum of Art, The Contemporary
Museum in Honolulu, The Palm Springs Desert Museum,California,
and the Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida)
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| 1995 |
Christopher Brown: Recent Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
Christopher Brown: Works on Paper, Palo Alto Cultural Center
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| 1993 |
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Campbell/Thiebaud, San Francisco, CA
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| 1992 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| 1991 |
Drawings and Prints, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
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| 1990 |
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
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| 1988 |
"Christopher Brown: The Water Paintings 1976-87", Center for
Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington,
travelling to the de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara,
California Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific,
Stockton, California
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| 1987 |
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
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| 1986 |
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Berkeley, California; Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago
Illinois, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Art Gallery,
University of California, Irvine
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| 1985-86 |
The Painted Room, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Travelled to:
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
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| 1985 |
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum Berkeley
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| 1984 |
Art Gallery, Shasta College, Redding, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
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| 1983 |
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
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| 1982 |
American River College Redding, California
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| 1980 |
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
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| 1979 |
De Saisset Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Clara
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| 1977 |
Loeb Rhodes Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, California
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California
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| 1975 |
University of Illinois Student Union Gallery, Urbana, Illinois |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1999 |
"Large Paintings", Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| 1998 |
"Prints from Paulson Press", Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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| 1997 |
"Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"Six Bay Area Painters", University of California, San Diego, CA
"Past Time", The Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
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| 1996 |
"48th Annual Purchase Exhibition", American Academy of Arts andLetters", New York, NY
"Fall Gallery Group", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"The Birder's Log", I Space, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| 1995 |
Duck!, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
"View/Review: Celebrating...", Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
"Narrative", James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
"Works on Paper", Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Christopher Brown-Works on Paper, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
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| 1994-95 |
Gallery Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York |
| 1994 |
Waterworks, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Lyricism and Light, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Christopher Brown: A Print Survey, Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Etchings, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
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| 1993 |
5 Painters, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"California North and South", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Bay Area Tradition: Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, Wayne
Theibaud, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Eye on the Figure, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe
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| 1992 |
"Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists", Johnson Community College,
Overland Park, Kansas
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| 1991 |
A Palette of Vision, Alza Corporation, Palo Alto
"Art for your Collection", Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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| 1990 |
"In the Realm of the Plausible", curated by John Yau, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York, NY
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| 1989-90 |
"10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Artist's Union Hall of the
Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, Tsentralnyl Zystavochni Zal,
Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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| 1989 |
Blum Helman, Los Angeles, California
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
"Drew Beattie, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Deborah
Oropallo", Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
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| 1988 |
Awards Recipients Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,
New York, NY
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
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| 1987 |
"Bay Area Artists Invitational", Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
"The Importance of Drawing", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Awards in the Visual Arts #6", Award Exhibition, travelled to:
Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
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| 1986 |
"New Painterly Figuration in the Bay Area", Art Gallery, Humboldt
State University, Arcata, CA, San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco, CA, Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Il
"New Works on Paper" Zolla Liebermann, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1985 |
"Faculty Exhibition", University of California, Berkeley, California
"New Romantic Landscape", Works Gallery, Long Beach, California
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| 1984 |
"New Work", Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, California
"Bathers", Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York
"California: 20 Artists", Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
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| 1983 |
Bon a Tirer: Selected Prints from Bay Area Fine Art Presses, de Saisset Museum
Kirk de Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
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| 1982 |
"Fresh Paint: Fifteen California Painters", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, California
"Drew Beattie/Christopher Brown/Jay DeFeo/Hassel Smith", Gallery
Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Figurative Drawings, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1981 |
Shasta College, Redding, California |
| 1980 |
"Faculty Exhibition", University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
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| 1979 |
"New Images-Bay Area", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
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| 1978 |
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
"Faculty Exhibition", American River College, Sacramento, California
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| 1977 |
"Introductions" Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
"Roland Peterson-Christopher Brown", Artist's Contemporary
Gallery, Sacramento, California
"Selected Graduates", University of California, Davis
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| 1976 |
"Table Show", Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California
"Faculty Exhibition", American River College, Sacramento, California
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| HONORS & GRANTS |
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| 1988 |
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Art |
| 1987 |
National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
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| 1986 |
Award in the Visual Arts given by the Equitable and Rockefeller
Foundations, with partial support from the National
Endowment for the Arts
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| 1985 |
Eureka Fellowship, The Mortimer Fleishhacker Foundation, CA
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| 1984 |
Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California,
Berkeley
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| 1981 |
National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Award in Art
Criticism
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| 1979 |
National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Award in Art
Criticism
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| 1978-79 |
DAAD Grant (Deutsches Akademisches Austausch Dienst): guest
artist affiliation with Academy of Art in Munich
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| 1974-75 |
Mary C. McLellan Scholarship for independent study and travel in
Europe
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| 1973-76 |
Regents Fellowship, University of California, Davis
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Nahas, Dominique, "Christopher Brown at Edward Thorp Gallery",
Review, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-12 |
Ollman, Leah, "Christopher Brown at San Jose Museum of Art and Palo Alto
Cultural Center, Art News, October 1995, p. 155
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Smith, Roberta. Review. The New York Times, June 2, 1995
Whiting, Sam. Brushing up on History San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 1995.
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| Davis, Randal, Bay Area Figurative Painting, Artweek |
Baker, Kenneth, Christopher Browns Paintings., San Francisco Chronicle,
October 21, 1993 |
Tromble, Meredith, Christopher Brown, San Francisco Focus, September, 1993
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Johnson, Ken, Christopher Brown at Edward Thorp, Art in America,
November, 1992, p. 139
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| De Vuono, Frances, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, March, 1992, p.139 |
Tamblyn, Christine, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, November, 1991
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Moser, Charlotte, "Ambivalence Toward Painting", Artweek, Sept. 27, 1990
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Baker, Kenneth, "Painting that Brings History up to Date", San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 1990
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Bonetti, David, "The Elements of Fine Painting", San Francisco Examiner,
September 8, 1990
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| Jan, Alfred, "Christopher Brown", Flash Art, January-February, 1988 |
Berkson, Bill, "Christopher Brown", Artforum, January, 1988
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Baker, Kenneth, "Christopher Brown", San Francisco Chronicle", October 23, 1987
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| Nadanet, Dan, "Direct Marks and Layers of Mystery', Artweek, May 20, 1987 |
Frank, Peter, Undercurrents: An Exhibition of West Coast Artists,
(Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR), 1987
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Schwabsky, Barry, "The Persistence of American Art", Awards in the Visual
Arts 6, (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Baker, Kenneth, "A Bay Area Biennial", San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 1986
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Garver, Thomas H., The Painted Room: A Cycle of Landscape Paintings,
(Madison Art Center, Madison, WI), 1985 |
Branson, Jamie, "Autobiographical Landscapes", Artweek, November 23, 1985
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| Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 1985 |
| Albright, Thomas, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, May, 1985 |
| The Washington Times, May 30, 1984, (captioned reproduction) |
San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, October 23, 1983,
(captioned reproduction) |
| Albright, Thomas, "Christopher Brown", Artnews, May, 1983 |
| Albright, Thomas, "New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture", Artnews, April, 1983 |
| Albright, Thomas, "Fresh Paint", Artnews, September, 1982 |
| Boettiger, Susan, "Fresh Paint, New Fingerprints", San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 1982 |
| Kelley, Jeff, "Christopher Brown", Arts, September, 1980 |
| Fischer, Hal, "Christopher Brown", Artforum, February, 1980 |
| "Introductions", San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 1977 |
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| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
University of California, Berkeley, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Redding Museum, Redding, CaliforniaBank of America, San Francisco, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Minnesota, California & N.J.
General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
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