Éducation
BA(Hons) Fine Art
University of Reading
1974 -
1978
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
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
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.
REALITY, Modern & Contemporary British Painting
REALITY
Chris Stevens
2014
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