CHRISTOPHER TANNER
EDUCATION
1974 San Francisco Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA
1978 B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Faces in the Crowd,” Pangea, New York, NY
2018 “Here’s Looking at You, Howl!,” Happening Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Eye of the Heart,” La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2014 “Footballhead: Tales of Shame and Humiliation,” Dixon Place, NY,NY
2013 “Treasure,” Smart Clothes Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “Com’on to my House,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2010 “The Queen of Hell and the Horn of Plenty,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “Give Me the Cobra Jewel,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Off the Yellow Brick Cliff: Paintings, Drawings & Collages,” Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 “How High the Moon,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Ravaged by Romance,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Christopher Tanner,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
2002 “New Work,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Holland
1996 Gallery Juno, New York, NY
1995 Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Courtland Jessep Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1994 The Kitchen, New York, NY
1993 Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Courtland Jessep Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1991 Gallery OZ, Paris, France
1990 Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 La MaMa, E.T.C. Galleria, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Let the Color Begin,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022 “Wonder Things,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2021 “Rapture: A Queer Taste for Color, Texture and Decorative Pattern,” Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2020 “Let’s Talk Abstraction,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2019 “Textures,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017 “PEACE,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“All the Blues”, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2016 "From the Racks," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015 “Dimensional,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Works on Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2013 “Dealer’s Choice,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Ecce Homo,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “The Bling is the Thing,” Jim Kemper Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 “SILVER,” 25th Anniversary Show, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Black | White,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Outsight Inn,” Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2010 “Thinning – A 24th Anniversary Exhibition,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Art Chicago 2010,” Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Art Chicago 2009,” Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Cold Water,” La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2006 “The New Collage,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Inaugural Exhibition,” Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
“Multiple Partners,” curated by Gae Savannah, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
“Collage: Signs and Surfaces,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Unnatural: Extraordinary Views of Nature,” Full Spectrum Gallery, Lakewood, NJ
2003 “Madison Avenue: Where Fashion Meets Art,” installation w/Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt at CHANEL
2001 “Rupture & Revision: Collage in America,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY
“All that Glitters,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
“Revival: New & Old Favorites,” Bridgewater Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Liebman Magnen, New York, NY
1998 “Framed,” Lexington Avenue YWCA Gallery, New York, NY
Hof n Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
“Think Pink,” La MaMa, La Galleria, New York, NY
1996 National Arts Club, New York, NY
1995 Elaine Benston Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1993 Howard Yzersky Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Gallery Oz, Paris, France
1989 Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY
Robertson Gallery, New York, NY
1986 California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Robertson Gallery, New York, NY
Bridgewater Gallery, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 “A Call to Love: Chris Tanner by Karen Finley,” Howl! Arts, Karen Finley. September 5, 2018.
2015 “New York City’s La MaMa Galleria: Christopher Tanner’s Eye of the Heart,” Artes Magazine, Edward Rubin. February 13.
2013 “Ecce Homo: ‘Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and the Art of Rebellion,’” New York Times, Holland Cotter
2010 Drawn Together, Art and Antiques, October, Edward Gomez
Review, Art in America, July, Edward M. Gomez
2009 “Cold Water,” New York Times, Holland Cotter
2007 "Faaab-ric", The New York Blade, Rafael Risemberg, March
"The Simple Life", Metropolitan Home, March
Exhibitions: What to See Now, “How High the Moon,” Harpers Bazaar, March
2005 Exhibitions: What to See Now, “The Art of Embellishment,” Harpers Bazaar, February
2003 Review, Art in America, July, Matthew Guy Nichols
2002 “Christopher Tanner,” Elle Décor, October
1999 “Art as Glamour,” Arts & Antiques, Edward Gomez, June
1997 “Think Pink,” New York Times, Holland Cotter
1996 “Home is Where the Art is,” New York Times, Holland Cotter
1995 Review, Art in America, June, Robert Kushner
1991 “Time Out NY”, David Hirsh, various articles
1987 Dan’s Papers, Bridgehampton, NY, Night & Day
AWARDS
2018 Acker Award, NY
2008 Yaddo Artist in Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY
PERFORMANCE
As a performing artist Christopher Tanner has worked with Cyndi Lauper, Penny Arcade, Everett Quinton, Bloolips, Mabou Mines, The Wooster Group, David Lynch and Karen Finley.
2013 “Footballhead: Tales of Shame and Humiliation,” Dixon Place, New York