Crown Point Press

Biography - Christopher Brown

Born

Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Lives and works in Berkeley, CA

Education

1976 University of California, Davis, M.F.A.
1972 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, B.A.

Selected One-person Exhibitions

2006 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2004 Paulson Press, Berkeley, CA
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID; Rail Variations
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2000 Andria Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1998 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Christopher Brown: Works on Paper, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Christopher Brown: Prints 1991-1995, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
The Birder’s Log, I Space, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Christopher Brown: Works on Paper, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Painting & Related Prints, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Christopher Brown: Works on Paper, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
History and Memory: Paintings by Christopher Brown, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
1994 Christopher Brown: New Paintings, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York, NY
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Galerie Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Christopher Brown: The Water Paintings 1976-87 Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington. Traveled to the de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1988 Christopher Brown: New Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1987 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1986 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Zolla/ Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985-86 The Painted Room, Madison Art Center, Madison WI; Traveled to: Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL; University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1985 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1984 Art Gallery, Shasta College, Redding, CA
1983 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1982 American River College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1980 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1979 DeSaisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, CA
Loeb Rhodes Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Artist’s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA (two person show)
1977 Introductions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 Artists and Mentors, Sonoma Valley Museum, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Byron Cohen Gallery
2003 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Prints from Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art
2000 The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Prints from the Anderson Collection, San Francisco, CA
Abstraction from Raucous to Refined, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
The Great Novel Exhibition, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
1999 Campbell-Thiebaud Galley, San Francisco
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
35 Years at Crown Point Press, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1997 Twenty-Five Treasures, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Seduced Surface: Eight Bay Area Painters, University Art Gallery, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
1996 Celebrating Ten Years, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1995 Manuel Neri/Christopher Brown, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Bay Area Tradition: Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, Wayne Thiebaud, CrownPoint Press, San Francisco, CA
Intuitive Perception, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1992 New York by Four Artists: Christopher Brown, John Baldessari, Vija Clemins, ClintonAdams, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Martin Mullen/Christopher Brown, National Institute of Art and Disabilities, Richmond, CA
1990 In Realm of the Plausible, curated by John Yau, Shea & Becker Gallery, New York,NY
1989-90 10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Modern Art Museum of FortWorth, Fort Worth, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Artist’s Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow; Tsentralnyl Zal Khoudozhnikov, Tbilsi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Tsentralnyi Zystnavochnyi Zai, Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
1989 BlumHelman, Los Angeles, CA
Substance/Surface, Robert Else Gallery, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
Contemporary Landscape, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TX
Prints form the experimental workshop, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago IL
Drew Beattie, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwrath, Deborah Oropallo, Fay GoldGallery, Atlanta, GA
Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1988 Award Recipients’ Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago IL
1987 Bay Area Artist Small Works Invitational, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco,CA
The Importance of Drawing, Fuller Golden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Awards in the Visual Arts #6, Award exhibition, traveled to: Grey Art Gallery, New York; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Newport Harbor Art
Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Under Currents, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland OR
1986 The Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
New Painterly Figuration in the Bay Area, Art Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA; Traveled to: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
New Romantics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago IL
Current, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Works on Paper, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1985 New Romantic Landscape, Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Summer Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino , CA
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB
Baseball Card Portraits of the Oakland A’s Team, Fuller Goldeen
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Kirk de Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
Bon a Tirer: Selected prints from Bay Area Fine Art Presses
DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
Dealers’ Choice, Kirk de Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Fresh Paint, Fifteen California Painters, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1981 Shasta College, Redding, CA
1980 Faculty Exhibition, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Second 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 Paul Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Roland Peterson – Christopher Brown, Artist’s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Selected Graduates, University of California, Davis, CA
1976 Table Show, Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Faculty Exhibition, American River College, Sacramento, CA

Teaching

2001-02 California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA, Visiting Artist
San Francisco Art Institute, Instructor
1981-94 University of California, Berkeley, Professor and Chair (1990-94)
1999 Southern Methodist University, Meadows Visiting Professor
1980 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Visiting Professor
1976-79 American River Junior College, Sacramento, Instructor

Honors and 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 Fleischacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1984 Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Grant in Art Criticism
1979 National endowment for the Arts Special Projects Grant in Art Criticism
1978-79 DAAD Grant: Guest Artist Affiliation with the 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

Recent Visiting Artist Lectures and Residencies

2001 Kansas City International Airport
California College of Arts and Crafts
2000 Oxbow School
New York Studio School
Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
CCAC
Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo, CA
S.F. Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Selected Public Collections

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, MA
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bank of San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB
Redding Museum, Redding, CA
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Coca-Cola Corporation , Atlanta, GA
Rosenberg Capital Management, San Francisco, CA
Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Hughes Air West, Los Angeles, CA
Prudential Insurance Co. of America, MN, CA & NJ
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Frito-Lay, Dallas, TX
Rayovac Corporation, Madison, WI
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

Selected Private Collections

Mr. & Mrs. Rene di Rosa, Napa, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Thurston Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI
Ms. Judy Kay, San Francisco, CA
MR. & Mrs. Sanford Robertson, San Francisco, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Seiler, Atherton, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Hans Buehler, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. & Mrs Richard Swig, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Aron Katz, Boulder, CO
Ms. Carmela Scaggs, San Francisco, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hobson, San Francisco, CA
Dr. & Mrs. Harold Zlot, Ross, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Linker, Tiburon, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Shands, Louisville, KY
Mr. Walter Goodman, Santa Fe, NM
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Falvey, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Louis Hermes, San Francisco, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Mortimer Herzstein, San Francisco, CA