John Berggruen Gallery
Christopher Brown
Biography
CHRISTOPHER BROWNBorn: Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 1951
Education: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL B.F.A. 1973
University of California, Davis, M.F.A. 1976
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2004 Paulson Press, Berkeley, California
Andria Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
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 (catalog)
1999 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1998 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Christopher Brown: Works on Paper Minneapolis, MN
Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Huntington Museum, “Christopher Brown: Paintings” Huntington, WVA
1996 Crown Point Press, “Christopher Brown: Prints 1991-1995” San Francisco
University of Illinois I Space Gallery, “The Birder’s Log”, Chicago, IL
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, “Christopher
Brown: Works on Paper“ Los Angeles, CA
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, “Recent Paintings and Related Prints“
San Francisco, CA
1995 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Palo Alto Cultural Center “Christopher Brown: Works on Paper”
Palo Alto, CA (catalog)
Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth “History and Memory: Paintings
by Christopher Brown” Fort Worth, TX (catalog).
Also traveled to:
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, HI
Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, FLA
1994 Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, “Christopher Brown: New Paintings”
Chicago, IL
1993 Yellowstone Art Center “Christopher Brown: Works on Paper”
Billings, MT
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arlene Lewellen Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1992 Edward Thorp Gallery “Christopher Brown: New Paintings”
New York, NY
Linda Farris Gallery “Christopher Brown: New Pastels” Seattle, WA
1990 Gallery Paule Anglim Christopher Brown “New Paintings”
San Francisco, CA (catalog)
Center for Research in Contemporary Art, “Christopher Brown:The
Water Paintings”. University of Texas at Arlington (catalog)
Also traveled to: de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara,
Santa Clara, CA, Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the
Pacific, Stockton, CA
1988 Gallery Paule Anglim, “Christopher Brown: New Paintings”
San Francisco, CA
1987 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angles, CA
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, CA
1985-86 Madison Art Center “The Painted Room” Madison, WI, also
Traveled to: Matrix Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
University of California, Irvine, CA
1985 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Matrix Gallery, University of California, 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, CA
1979 de Saisset Art Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
Loeb Rhodes Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artist¹s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1977 Gallery Paule Anglim “Introductions Œ77” 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, Idaho
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francsico, CA
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
San Jose Museum of Art, “Prints from Paulson Press”
2000 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
Palo Alto Art Center “The Great Novel Exhibition” Palo Alto, CA
1999 Campbell-Thiebaud Galley, San Francisco
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1997-98 California Palace of the Legion of Honor,”35 Years at Crown
Point Press”, San Francisco
1997 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, “Twenty-five Treasures”
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
University of San Diego Art Gallery, “Seduced Surface:Eight Bay Area
Painters” San Diego, CA
1996 Andrea Friesen Gallery, “Celebrating Ten Years” Ketchum, ID
1995 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, “Manuel Neri/ Christopher Brown”
San Francisco, CA
1993 Crown Point Press, “Bay Area Tradition: Robert Bechtle,
Christopher Brown, Wayne Thiebaud” San Francisco, CA
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Intuitive Perception” New York, NY
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1992 Richard Levy Gallery, “New Work by Four Artists: Christopher
Brown, John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Clinton Adams”
Albuquerque, NM
National Institute for Art and Disabilities, “Martin Mullen,
Christopher Brown”, Richmond, CA
1990 Shea and Becker Gallery “ in the Realm of the Plausible”
(curated by John Yau, catalog) New York, NY
1989-90 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, ³”10 +10: Contemporary Soviet
and American Painters” Fort Worth, TX, traveled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Artist¹s Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow
Tsentralnyi Zal Khoudoshnikov, Tbilisi
Tsentralnyi Zystnavochnyi Zai, Leningrad
1989 Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Else Gallery, Sacramento State University
“Substance/Surface” Sacramento State , CA
Cumberland Gallery, “Contemporary Landscape” Nashville, TN
Steven Wirtz Gallery, “Prints from the Experimental Workshop”
San Francisco, CA
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Chicago International Arts Exposition, Chicago, IL
Fay Gold Gallery, “Drew Beattie, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath,
Deborah Oropallo” Atlanta, GA
Oakland Museum, “Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on
Baseball” Oakland, CA
1988 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Award
Exhibition, New York, NY
1987 Janet Steinberg Gallery, “Bay Area Artist¹s Small Works
Invitational”, San Francisco, CA
Fuller-Goldeen Gallery, “The Importance of Drawing” San Francisco
Grey Art Gallery, “Awards in the Visual Arts #6”, New York, NY,
Traveled to:
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, “Undercurrents” Portland, OR
1986 Newport Harbor Art Museum “The Second Newport Biennial: The Bay
Area” Newport Beach, CA
Humbolt State University Art Gallery, “New Painterly Figuration in
the Bay Area” Arcata, CA, traveled to:
San Francisco Art institute, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, “New Romantics” Richmond, CA
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago,IL
Linda Farris Gallery, “Currents” Seattle, WA
William Sawyer Gallery, “American Realism² San Francisco, CA
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery “New Works on Paper”, Chicago, IL
1985 Works Gallery, “New Romantic Landscape”, Long Beach, CA
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, “Faculty Exhibition” University of
California, Berkeley
Dart Gallery, “Summer Show” Chicago, IL
Asher/Faure Gallery, “New Work” Los Angeles, CA
Coe Kerr Gallery “Bathers” New York, NY
Bluxome Gallery “California:Twenty Artists” San Francisco, CA
San Jose institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
De Saisset Museum, “Bon a Tirer: Selected Prints from Bay Area
Presses” University of Santa Clara, CA
Kirk deGooyer Gallery, “Dealer¹s Choice” Los Angeles, CA
1982 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “Fresh Paint: Fifteen
California Painters” San Francisco, CA
1981 Shasta College, Redding, CA
1980 University of Virginia “Faculty Exhibition” Charlottesville,VA
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1979 Oakland Museum “New Images, Bay Area” Oakland, 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
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Johnson County Community College Art Gallery, Overland Park, KS
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Achenbach Collection of Prints and Drawings, California Palace of the Legion
of Honor, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH
M.H.deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 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, San Francisco, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Rosenburg 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
New York Public Library
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Rayovac Corporation, Madison, WI
Recent Visiting Artist Lectures and Residencies
Kansas City International Airport-2001
California College of Arts and Crafts- 2001
Oxbow School- May, 2000
New York Studio School- March, 2000
Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT- June 1-8, 2000
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA- September 2000
CCAC- October, 2000
Clatsop Community College- Astoria, OR November 6-10, 2000
California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo, CA- November 16-17, 2000
S.F. Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,CA-- December 15, 2000
Press
CHRISTOPHER BROWN REROUTES HIS WORK - CHRISTOPHER BROWN REROUTES HIS WORK APRIL, 2004Artist Works
The Floating World
2008
oil on linen mounted on panel
80 x 80 inches
A First Study
2008
oil on linen
48 x 40 inches
House and Garden
2008
oil on linen
65 x 65 inches
Oakland, 2005
oil on linen
30 x 44 1/4 inches
Belmont, 2006
pastel on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches
The Birder Logs On
2006
oil on linen
80 x 80 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Christopher Brown
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