Chris Russell CV


Born in Boulder, Colorado 1983

Lives and Works in Portland, Oregon


Education:

2006 B.F.A. with High Distinction in Painting and Drawing, California College of the Arts


Awards:

2005 The Mikae Hara Scholarship

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 CCA Creative Achievement Award


Residencies:

2012 Summer Martin Artists in Residency Program, Piedmont, Italy


Selected Publications:

Theradavist.com, “Christopher Russell’s Art Rambler is a Mobile Paint Studio”

Dewitt Cheng, review of “Transitions” Art Ltd. April 2014

X/I/II TENWORDSONESHOT 2012

New American Painting, Issue #91, December 2010

Traci Vogel, review of “You Are So Balanced; I don't Want to Complicate Things”

SF Weekly, August 17th 2009

New American Painting, Issue #79, December 2008

Isabelle Ringer, review of “Part of Everything” Piedmont Post, February 2008

Theo Conrad, review of “Part of Everything” Novometro.com, March 2008


Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:

2023 Give and Take, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Or

2022 After Life, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2021 Our New Age, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Or

2019 Wild Flowers, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2019 Ramble, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Or

2017 Naturalize, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Or

2014 Ebb, Loczi Design Curated by Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, Ca

2012 Solid Rock, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy

2010 High Points, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy

2010 Fort Big Mountain, 111 Minna, San Francisco, Ca

2009 Contemplating Her Infinite Disguise, Gallery Extraña, Berkeley, Ca

2009 You Are So Balanced; I don't Want to Complicate Things, Park Life, San Francisco, Ca

2008 Part of Everything, Rowan Morrison, Oakland, Ca

2007 AK or Bust, Art D’Core, Danville, Ca

2006 Kari Morris & Chris Russell, Boontling Gallery, Oakland, Ca

2006 Searching For Water, Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, Ca


Group Exhibitions:

2023 Seattle Art Fair, with Russo Lee Gallery, Seattle, Wa

2022 Seattle Art Fair, with Russo Lee Gallery, Seattle, Wa

2020 Celebrating Wild Beauty, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Or

2022, 21, 20, 19, and17 Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Or

2018 In Bloom, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Or

2016 New Views, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Or

2014 Transitions, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Ca

2014 Inspirational Places, Cripta della Chiesa bizantina di S Michele Arcangelo
Piazza Cavour, Turin, Italy

2012 December Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2012 Panoramas & People, Cultural Park of Le Serra Grugliasco, Turin, Italy

2012 Paper Cuts, Dogliani, Italy

2011 Inaugural Group Show, DK Kalchuga Deko Bazar, Moscow, Russia

2011 The Wandering Flood Moves Through Us, Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, Ca

2010 Inaugural Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2010 I Want to Feel at Home Here, Milepost 5, Portland, Or

2009 This Is The End Of The World As We Know It, MOHS Exhibit, Copenhagen, Dk

2009 Babylon, Swift Pigeon Studios, Oakland, Ca

2009 Improvised Branches, Art@Oakbook, Oakland, Ca

2008 RoMoLoCo 2, Rowan Morrison, Oakland, Ca

2008 Natural Synthesis, Adaptive Path, San Francisco, Ca

2008 Freak of Nature, 111 Mina, San Francisco, Ca

2008 Resurrection, Lobot Gallery, Oakland Ca

2008 Seth Armstrong, Michael Young and Chris Russell, Forthrite, Oakland, Ca

2008 What’s Up, Swift Pigeon Studios, Oakland, Ca

2007 RoMoLoCo, Rowan Morrison, Oakland, Ca

2007 Alumni at the Centennial, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, Ca

2006 Joy Ride, Don O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

2006 The Magic Stones in the Secret Cave, The Floral Gallery, Fruitvail, Ca

2006 You, Me, Now, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, Ca

2006 Senior Painting Show, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, Ca

2006 Velotree, Space Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2006 Awesome: The Contemporary Sublime, The PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2005 Tautologicolloquialligature, North South Gallery, Oakland, Ca

2005 All-College Honors & Scholarship Awards Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, Ca

2005 Expo, Thomas Bruce West Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

2005 The Drawing Show, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Co

2005 Overhung, Boontling Gallery, Oakland, Ca

2005 A Bahl Beemsh, Boontling Gallery, Oakland, Ca


Public Art:

Tree, Collaboration hanging at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley, Ca