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For over a decade, the art of painter Chris Anderson has
addressed the theme of American cultural traditions and life in the contemporary
home and neighborhood.
Anderson studied visual art in Italy, at the Tyler School
of Art in Rome, in New York at the Pratt Institute of Art,
and in California, at Scripps College (BA, 1971) and the
Claremont Graduate University (MFA, 1973).
The artist has received numerous awards and honors for her
work, including fellowship grants from The National Endowment
for the Arts (Painting), New York Foundation for the Arts
(Painting), Artists Space (Artist's Grant), Ludwig Vogelstein
Foundation (Painting), New York State Council on the Arts
(CAPS Grant), and many research and scholarship awards,
including several from The City University of New York and
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright).
From 1996 to 2000, Anderson lived and worked as a Fulbright
Senior Scholar in the Arts in Berlin. The Fulbright Commission
awarded her a lecturing/research grant as the only visual
artist among over a hundred grantees under its auspices
in Germany in 1996-97 and a renewal in 1997-98 as the first
grantee in five years to receive the Honorary Fulbright
Senior Scholar Award. As a Fulbright Guest Professor she
taught "Experimental Painting and Drawing" for
graduate and undergraduate students at The Berlin University
of the Arts. In Germany the artist created over three hundred
paintings for solo exhibitions at Amerika Haus Berlin, the
10. Internationalen Kunstforum at Eichhofen Palace, the
Max-Planck Institut, and Galerie Dorow im Kunsthof Berlin
(catalogue).
Anderson has been the recipient of residency fellowship
awards from foundations here and abroad: Yaddo, Austrian
Chancellery of Art, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus,
The MacDowell Colony, Deutsche Burgenvereinigung (German
Castles Association, Marksburg Castle), Millay Colony, and
the Fieldstead Company for work in Italy on "The Florence
Portfolio," a body of prints now in the collections
of the Vatican, the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA, and over
twenty university, corporate, and private collections. In
2003, she received an Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Studio Center Award and in 2006, a renewal from the EFASC.
Most recently, she was awarded a grant from the Fieldstead
Foundation for work in Austria, England, and Scotland.
She has lectured as a guest artist for numerous art institutions,
including the Columbia University Graduate Department of
Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University
of New Mexico Albuquerque, Smith College, University of
Notre Dame (Pew Charitable Trust/CIVA Graduate Symposium),
Fine Arts Academy of Nuremberg, Germany (studio presentation) — and she
has taught studio art on the faculties of Skidmore College,
The University of Maryland, Parsons School of Design, Pratt
Institute of Art Manhattan, Regent College in Vancouver,
Canada, and Gordon College in Orvieto, Italy, among others.
The work of Chris Anderson has been shown extensively here
and abroad and may be found in over fifty public and corporate
collections. A selective list of solo and group exhibitions would include
the following: The Art Institute of Chicago; Kebble-Villa
Museum, Germany; American Embassy, Moscow; Bilbao International
Exhibition Centre, Spain; Muscarelle Museum of Art; Butler
Institute; The Washington Gallery; Exit Art; Artists Space;
The Society of the Four Arts of Palm Beach; Laguna Beach
Museum; and The Rockefeller Arts Center; and Istitito San
Lodovico in Palazzo Ranieri, Orvieto, Italy.
Selections from the artist's "Family Stories Series"
were shown in 2003 at Phillips' Pury & Luxemburg Galleries
in Chelsea in "On and Off the Wall", the New York
Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellows' Exhibition curated
by William Stover of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Her
work was also shown at the Sato Museum in Tokyo, Japan,
in "Considering Peace", a group exhibition sponsored
by the International Arts Movement to benefit UNESCO.
In July 2004, a solo exhibition of Anderson's work was held at Schloss
Mittersill in Austria. In 2005, she was curated into the Corcoran
Gallery of Art's benefit exhibition, "Select III, Washington Project
for the Arts," in Washington, DC. With work created in residence at
The Wayfarer's Trust in Freswick Castle, Caithness, Scotland, Anderson
opened two solo exhibitions, "At the Back of the North Wind," at The
Faculty School of Music, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, and
Catherine College, The University of Oxford, Oxford, England,
sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Foundation's "Oxbridge" conference with
the generous support of a Fieldstead Grant. In 2006 and 2007, Anderson
exhibited in solo shows of "Family Stories" at Wexler Gallery,
Philadelphia, and "Timepieces" at Bellevue Gallery, Vancouver, Canada,
as well as in invitational shows at Regent College and Schloss
Mittersill. In 2008, Anderson was invited to participate in "Amerika
trifft Bayern: 1988-2008 Jahre Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus." The
exhibition with catalogue, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of
the exchange between the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, was sponsored by BMW in cooperation with the
cities of Schwandorf and Regensburg, Germany.
The artist lives in Greenwich Village and works at the Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts Studio Center in midtown Manhattan.
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