Chris Stevens, painter at zet gallery

Chris Stevens

Caunes Minervois, France

Painting  |  8 Followers
Education

BA(Hons) Fine Art

University of Reading
1974 - 1978
Individual exhibitions

Chris Stevens, Paintings

Laxeiro Museo Municipal Ramon Ma Aller, Lalin, Spain
2015
Solo exhibition reviewing work from the last twenty years.

El Camino

Hortensia Gallery, London
2016

Chris Stevens

Laxeiro Museo Municipal Ramon Ma Aller, Lalin, Spain
2015

Context

Roves & Roams, Reading
2012

Galerie Radekers

Amsterdam
2007

Smelik & Stokking Galleries

Rotterdam
2006

Smelik & Stokking Galleries

Amsterdam
2005

Smelik & Stokking Galleries

Den Haag
2005

Smelik & Stokking Galleries

Den Haag
2001

Smelik & Stokking Galleries

Amsterdam
2000

PM Gallery

London
1999

Smelik & Stokking Galleries

Den Haag
1997

Sue Williams Gallery

London
1992

Black Bull Gallery

London
1988

Black Bull Gallery

London
1987

Conduit Galleries

London
1985

Axiom

Centre for the Arts, Cheltenham
1985

Glynn Vivian Museum & Art Gallery

Swansea
1985

Northern Centre for the Contemporary Arts

Sunderland
1984

Axiom, Centre for the Arts

Cheltenham
1980

South Hill Park

Bracknell
1980

Images of Youth

Southern Arts touring exhibition
1980
Collective exhibitions

REALITY

SCVA, Norwich and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2015
A Group exhibition looking at representational British painting from the last fifty years including artists such as Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Walter Sickert

West

Griffin Gallery, London
2015
Group exhibition of artists living and working in West London.

Painted Faces

Saatchi Gallery,/Griffin Gallery London
2013

40x40

Riverside Studios, London
2012

XIV Interbifep

Galerija Portreta, Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovena
2011

Cluster

Stone Gallery, Dublin
2010

Group exhibition

De Queeste, Brussels
2009

Contrastes

Galeria Emergentes dst, Braga, Portugal
2015

Time Space and the Other

De Queeste Kunstkamers, Belgium
2008

Modern Figure

Oisin Gallery, Dublin
2007

Studio Show

Space Studios, Richmond House, London
2006

Sven Hoekstra, Frank Dekkers, Rob van Hoek & Chris Stevens

Smelik & Stokking Galleries, Rotterdam
2005

Miniature

Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003

Miniature

Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2002

Ealing Open

PM Gallery, London
2001

Gezicht op Kunst

Zwolshe Algemeene, Nieuwegein, Netherlands
2000

KunstRAI

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999

Ealing Open

PM Gallery, London
1998

Fabulous Transgressions

Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland
1997

BP Portrait Award

National Portrait Gallery, London
1996

Whitechapel Open Studios

Deborah House, London
1995

Whitechapel Open Studios

Deborah House, London
1994

Group show

Southampton Arts Centre
1993

River, Silence, Land, Figure

Maws Craft Centre, Telford
1992

Face Values

Quicksilver Gallery, Middlesex University, London
1991

Fussball In Der Kunst

Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserlautern, Germany
1990

International Contemporary Art Fair, with Sue Williams

London
1989

The Maginot Line

Riverside Studios, London
1988

Artists in Industry

Touring exhibition in the West Midlands
1986

Axiom Review

Axiom, Centre for the Arts, Cheltenham
1985

Works on Paper

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, USA
1984

Art at Work

Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
1983

Group show

Hiscock Gallery, Portsmouth
1978

New Contemporaries

Royal Academy, London
1977
Curatorial work and other works

REALITY

SCVA, Norwich & The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
13/11/2014
Reality is a personal reflection of British figurative painting over the past fifty years, which have been a direct influence on his development as a representational painter. As well as his own work there are thirty artists including Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Paula Rego, Walter Sickert, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville.

Beyond the Narrative

PM Gallery, London
18/09/2007
An exhibition of representational painting looking at the place of figurative painting in the Twenty First century.
Essays, articles, publications and other references

REALITY, Modern & Contemporary British Painting

REALITY
Chris Stevens
2014
Awards

Painted Faces prizewinner

01/12/2013

Set design for Cossi fan Tutte, Cheltenham Music Festival

01/01/1981

Southern Arts award for Painting

01/01/1981

South West Arts award for Painting

01/01/1982

Arts Council residency at Sunderland Football Club

01/01/1983

West Midlands Arts residency at Birmingham Airport

01/01/1984

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Award, ‘Artist as Printmaker’

01/01/1985

Painting in Los Angeles. Various commissions for North Street Films and Mercury Films including

01/01/1987

Paintngs for the movie, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

01/01/1989

BP Portrait Award prizewinner

01/01/1990

Standard Chartered Bank, London

01/01/2006

50over50 winner

01/01/2006