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Christopher Brown was born in 1951 in Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina, where his father, Bruce, was a doctor. When he was three, his family moved to Ohio, and his interest in art began to bud. He had his mother to enroll him in Saturday morning art classes in a neighbor's home; an interest in art is among Brown's earliest memories. Painting for Brown continues to be connected with the formation and sensation of memory; that moment in his childhood during the move to Ohio, when harmony was disrupted just as his conceptualization of the world began.


When Brown was 13, his family moved again, this time to Illinois. His father became the student-health director at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where Brown attended college and majored in painting. After he graduated in 1973, he went to art school at the University of California at Davis. The faculty included Thiebaud, Wiley, Roy De Forest, Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri and Roland Peterson. At Davis, Brown began to think seriously about the concept of Pop Art in Great Britain as well as in America. To Brown, this concept meant both the presence-absence of the media image, the tension between its immediacy and yet its distance from us and from the reality to which it refers. 


After the first year at Davis, he took a year off and went to Europe on a grant from the University of Illinois. He spent several months in Spain, visiting the Prado, settling briefly in Malaga. Brown then went to Munich, where he spent most of the winter. Brown returned to Davis, where he graduated in 1976. After his graduation Brown spent five years on the move. First he moved to Woodland, an old farming community outside of Davis, where he taught part-time at American River College in Sacramento. Then in 1978, he moved to San Francisco, where he not only painted but also wrote art criticism for Artweek magazine in Oakland.



ARTIST BIOGRAPHY


1951                Born in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

1972               University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, B.F.A.

1974 - 1975    Mary C. McLellan Scholarship for independent study and travel in Europe

1973 - 1976    Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Davis

1976               University of California, Davis, M.F.A.

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


 

SELECTED 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 - 96    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 - 90    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 - 86    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



PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Achenbach Collection of Prints and Drawings,

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California

Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Bank of America, San Francisco, California

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York

Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Hughes Air West, Los Angeles, California

Johnson County Community College Art Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

M.H.deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California

Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., Los Angeles, California

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

New York Public Library, New York, New York

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

Prudential Insurance Co. of America; Minnesota, California and New Jersey

Rayovac Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin

Redding Museum, Redding, California

Rosenburg Capital Management, San Francisco, California

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

Security Pacific National Bank, San Francisco, California

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

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