CHRISTOPHER MIR

Born 1970 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

www.christophermir.com

Christopher Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms. These elements are often positioned within idealized landscapes in dream-like circumstances. Mir’s paintings invite us to experience a series of paradoxical relationships and unsettling juxtapositions. His figures and landscapes are drawn from specific sources yet remain anonymous; his painting style is relatively tight and refined, but his works are emotionally evocative and resonant. Mir’s narratives are equally complex and replete with provocative dichotomies such as, the mystical versus the physical,  the spiritual versus the secular, and the primal versus the futuristic.

Christopher is represented by Senda gallery in Barcelona. His work is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2004 he was awarded the Rema Hort Mann foundation grant, and he was among the first dozen artists to be invited to join the Artist Pension Trust.

EDUCATION:

1995-1997            Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA 

                          MFA Painting/Printmaking studied with John Moore, John                             Walker, and Alfred Leslie

1988-1992            Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

                           BA Painting and Anthropology

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Solo:

2010                 Remembering the Future, Windsor Art Center, Windsor, CT

2009                 Endgame, RARE gallery, New York, NY

                        The Dream of You is Real, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain

2008                  Love Lives Forever, Schuster Gallery, Berlin, Germany       

2007                  Dreams, Memories, Reflections Wadsworth Atheneum                                    Hartford, CT

2007                  Director's Choice: Christopher Mir, Silvermine Arts                                    Center, New Canaan, CT

2006                  Second Sight, RARE gallery, New York, NY

2004               Hello Daylight, RARE gallery, New York, NY

2003                   Vanishing Point, Simon Watson’s loft, New York, NY

Group:

2010                    deCordova Biennial, Lincoln, MA

2009                     (un) spoken, Artspace. New Haven, CT

2008                     Speak to Me, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2008                     Radius, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

2007             Uneasy Prospects, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

2005                     For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2004                     Works on Paper (Gallery Artists), RARE gallery,                                       New York, NY

2003                    The Collector’s Cabinet, curated by Simon Watson,                                     Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003                      Collective Conscious, curated by Simon Watson,                                          Mavi, New York

2003                     The Burnt Orange Heresy, curated by David Hunt, Space                             101, Williamsburg, NY

2003                     Labor Day, curated by David Hunt, RARE, New York,                                  NY

2002                      The Accelerated Grimace, curated by David                                      Hunt, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

2001                      Emerging Artists Exhibition, The Aldrich Museum of                                  Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT