EDUCATION
M.F.A., 1976, University of California, Davis
B.A., 1972, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Christopher Brown, Works on Paper,"Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, CA
1998 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "Christopher Brown: Recent Paintings", Campbell-Thiebaud,
San Francisco, CA
"Christopher Brown:Works on Paper", Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
1996 "Christopher Brown: Works on Paper", Fisher Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, CA
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, FL)
1995 “Christopher Brown: Recent Paintings”, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
“Christopher Brown: Works on Paper”, Palo Alto Cultural Center
1993 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
Campbell/Thiebaud, San Francisco, CA
1992 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 “Drawings and Prints”, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1990 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
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, CA
1987 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1986 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago,IL
Berkeley, California; Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago Illinois, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
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
1985 Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum Berkeley
1984 Art Gallery, Shasta College, Redding, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1983 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1982 American River College Redding, California
1980 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
1979 De Saisset Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Clara
1977 Loeb Rhodes Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, California
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California
1975 University of Illinois Student Union Gallery, Urbana, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006-07 SEAWORTHY, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
2002 “Aviary”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Large Paintings", Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Prints from Paulson Press", Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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
1996 "48th Annual Purchase Exhibition", American Academy of Arts and Letters", 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
1995 “Duck!”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"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
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
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, CA
“Eye on the Figure”, Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992 "Gallery Group Exhibition", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists", Johnson Community College,Overland Park, KS
1991 “A Palette of Vision”, Alza Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
"Art for your Collection", Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1990 "In the Realm of the Plausible", curated by John Yau, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York, NY
1989-90 "10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters", Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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
1989 Blum Helman, Los Angeles, California
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
"Drew Beattie, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Deborah Oropallo", Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1988 Awards Recipients Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, IL
1987 "Bay Area Artists Invitational", Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Importance of Drawing", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"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, CA
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, IL
1985 "Faculty Exhibition", University of California, Berkeley, CA
"New Romantic Landscape", Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1984 "New Work", Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
"Bathers", Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY
"California: 20 Artists", Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1983 “Bon a Tirer: Selected Prints from Bay Area Fine Art Presses, de Saisset Museum
Kirk de Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
1982 "Fresh Paint: Fifteen California Painters", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Drew Beattie/Christopher Brown/Jay DeFeo/Hassel Smith", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Figurative Drawings, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Shasta College, Redding, CA
1980 "Faculty Exhibition", University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1979 "New Images-Bay Area", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1978 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
"Faculty Exhibition", American River College, Sacramento, CA
1977 "Introductions" Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
"Roland Peterson-Christopher Brown", Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"Selected Graduates", University of California, Davis, CA
1976 "Table Show", Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"Faculty Exhibition", American River College, Sacramento, CA
HONORS & AWARDS
1988 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Art
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
1986 Award in the Visual Arts given by the Equitable and Rockefeller Foundations, with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts
1985 Eureka Fellowship, The Mortimer Fleishhacker Foundation, CA
1984 Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Award in Art Criticism
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Award in Art
Criticism
1978-79 DAAD Grant (Deutsches Akademisches Austausch Dienst): guest
artist affiliation with Academy of Art in Munich
1974-75 Mary C. McLellan Scholarship for independent study and travel in Europe
1973-76 Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Davis
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Cultural Center, Art News, October 1995, p. 155
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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VARIOUS PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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