Chris Winfield Works Biography

CHRISTOPER JOHN WINFIELD

Born:              1950, Paris, France

Education:    Washington University, BFA Multi-Media, 1973, St. Louis, MO

1989-Present:         Gallery Director of Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA

2015               Solo Show: Triton Museum, A Subtle Measure, Santa Clara, CA

2010               Solo Show: Hartnell College Gallery, Subtle Measure, Salinas, CA

2010               Solo Show: Wells Fargo Bank, Subtle Measure, San Francisco, CA

2009               Claypoole-Freese Gallery, 4 Person Show, Carmel, CA

2007               Hartnell College Gallery, Thick Paint/Thin Paint: 50 Years of California Abstract Art from Monterey County Collections, Part One, Salinas, CA

Santa Cruz County Bank: Reaching Out, in partnership with The Museum of Art & History at the McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA

2006               Monterey Museum of Art, Neo Mod, Monterey, CA

2005               Crocker Art Museum, Neo Mod, Sacramento, CA

2004               Recent Acquisitions from the Museum of Art and History’s Collections,

Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA

2001               Monterey Museum of Art, Biannual Juried All-Media Exhibition, Monterey, CA

1999               Monterey Museum of Art, At the Millenium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, Group Exhibition

1999               Claypoole-Freese Gallery, 4 Person Show, Pacific Grove, CA

1983-1987    Designed and Produced Jewelry Line

1984               Quadrum Gallery, Group Show, Chestnut Hill, MA

1983               Provincetown Art Museum, Six Artists Show Their Work, Provincetown, MA

New Talent Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1982               Provincetown Art Museum, Young Artists Exhibition, Juried Group Show, Provincetown, MA

1981               Group Gallery, 3 Person Show, Provincetown, MA

Soroban Gallery, 2 Person Show, Wellfleet, MA

1972-1975    Rodney Winfield’s Studio Asst: Stained Glass and Jewelry Design, St. Louis, MO

POSITIONS

Board of Trustees, Center for Photographic Art, September 2015 – present

Events, Acquisitions and Collections Board, Monterey Museum of Art 2012- 2015

CURATORSHIPS

Bakersfield Museum, Co-curator “Face to Face: 30 Years of Portraiture.” Bakersfield, CA, 2014

Fresno Art Museum, Co-curator “California: A Landscape of Dreams.” Fresno, CA, 2011

Fresno Art Museum, Co-curator, “Karen Shapiro: New Work.” Fresno, CA, May-August 2010

BIBILIOGRAPHY

“NoCal Neo-Bauhaus”, Art & Antiques, Winter 2015-16, p 41

Ryce, Walter. “Art of the Dealer.” Monterey County Weekly, March 21-27 2013, p. 32

LECTURES

2013 Lecture to Monterey Art Museum docents with Josh Hardy on Gallery Ownership

2006 Neo-Mod Lecture on Chris’s Solo show at Monterey Museum

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Santa Cruz Art Museum, Santa Cruz, CA

National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA

Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

City of Monterey, Monterey, CA

Community Hospital of Monterey, Monterey, CA

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

George Y. Blair, Fresno, CA

Maryilyn and Jim Hebenstreit, Mission Hills, KS

Barbara and William Hyland, San Francisco, CA

Coralee and Sam Linder, Monterey, CA

Lorna and Dennis Meyer, San Francisco, CA

Jan and Michael Praisner, Menlow Park, CA

John B. Simpson, Port Ludlow, WA