(SOLD) CHRISTOPHER BROWN (b. 1951),  “Silver Creek”, 1982, 60” x 96”, oil on canvas

Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown was born in 1951 on a Marine Corps base in North Carolina, later relocating to Ohio at the age of three. His interest in art started at a very early age, and his work today draws on memories of childhood and being uprooted when he was first conceptualizing the world. He received his education in art at the University of California at Davis, studying under Roy De Forest, Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri, and others. He continues to work and live in Berkeley, California.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1985 Madison Art Center
1985 University Art Museum, Santa Barbara
1995 Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth
1995 San Jose Museum of Art
1996 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
1995 Palm Springs Desert Museum
1997 Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts
1998 Huntington Museum
1999 Campbell Thiebaud Gallery
2000 Friesen Gallery
2002 John Berggruen Gallery

Selected Group exhibitions

1979 The Oakland Museum of California
1984 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
1988 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1989 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1989 Albright-Knox Gallery
1990 Corcoran Gallery of Art
1997 Friesen Gallery
1999 Edward Thorp Gallery
1999 Palo Alto Art Center
2000 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2000 California Palace of the Legion of Honor
2001 San Jose Museum of Art
2001 Paul Thiebaud Gallery

Selected Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The M.H. De Young Memorial Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Walker Art Center
Crocker Art Museum
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Oakland Museum of California
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
University of California Berkeley Art Museum
Orlando Museum of Art