Christopher COVILLE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Ouroboros- A World on Fire, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2019 Flux, Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2017 Dark Hours, Citizens and other Works, KMR Arts, Washington Depot, CT.

2016 Beyond Reckoning, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York.

Works of Fire, Robert and Elaine Stein Gallerie, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

2015 The Dark Hours, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

Foto Fever, Photography Festival Solo Booth, Photo Week, Paris France

Scope Basel, Contemporary Art Festival Solo Booth, Basel Switzerland.

2014 MIA Photo Festival, Milan, Italy.

Christopher Colville, In House Pop up Gallery, Etherton Gallery, Tucson AZ.

2013 Meditations. Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

Selections from Works of Fire, The Monorchid Bokeh Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.

2011 Instar, Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona.

Nothing is the Rule, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts.

Instar, @Central Gallery, Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona.

2009 Christopher Colville, Selections from the Sonoran Project, Emanations and the Iceland Trilogy, curated by Larissa Leclair. Foto Week DC, Insomniac Design, Washington DC.

2008 Since Returning Home, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, Arizona.

2007 Movements, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, Arizona.

2006 Dark Emanations, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, Arizona.

2005 Dark Emanations, 1101 Gallery, University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale.

Christopher S. Colville, Selected New Works from Trace Identities, North Light Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

2004 Lost Images, @Central Gallery, Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona.

2003 Trace Identities, John Sommers, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Quailty of Light, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.

2019 Out of the Box: Camera-Less Photography, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach , Florida

Shots in the Dark, four person exhibition New Mexico Museusm of Art, Santa Fe. New Mexico

2018 Not of This World: Transcending Reality In Photography, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City, New York

2017 Photoplay: Lucid Objects, JP Morgan Private Bank Art Collection, Paris Photo.

Tremelo, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City, New York.

Terra Matter, Etherton Gallery, Tucson Arizona.

The Landscape Show, Cattle Track, Scottsdale, AZ.

2016 Clestial Terestrial, Print Center, Phillidelphia PA.

Sight Lines, Houston Center for Photography. Houston Texas

Respite, Modified Arts, Phoenix AZ.

This is a Photograph, Penland Gallery, Penland Pensylvania.

Into the Night: Modern and Contemporary Art and the Nocture Tradition, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.

Scope Basel, Duncan Miller Gallery, Basel Switzerland.

AIPAD 2016, Etherton Gallery. New York City, New York.

2015 Bullet Points, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts.

One of A Kind, One of a kind photographic objects form the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum. Phoenix, AZ.

Cameraless, New Mexico State Museum. Santa Fe. NM.

Heat, San Francisco Camera Works, San Francisco CA.

Emerging Talents, Lens Culture. SF Camera Works. San Francisco CA.

Infocus Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoneix AZ.

AIPAD Etherton Gallery, New York, NY.

2014 SF Camera Works Benefit Exhibition, San Francisco CA.

Center for Photography at Woodstock Benefit Exhibition, Woodstock NY.

Infocus Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoneix AZ.

PAC L.A., Leica Gallery L.A. Los Angelas CA.

Exposure, Wright State University, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton OH.

Photo Independent, Los Angelas CA.

L.A. Photo, Los Angelas, CA.

2013 The Fixed Shadow, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton OH.

Infocus Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoneix Az.

Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson Az.

Critical Mass 2012, Southeast Museumn of Photography, Daytona Beach, Fl.

Critical Mass 2012, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta GA.

One of a Kind, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA.

What Are We Doing Here?, Modified Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.

Alternatives: Borders and Boundaries, Ohio State University, Athens, OH.

The Physical Photograph, Art Inersection, Gilbert, AZ.

2012 Looking at The Land, 21st Century American Views, A collaboration with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Rhode Island, NY.

Center for Photography at Woodstock Benefit Exhibition, Woodstock NY.

Terra Cognita, Noorderlicht Photo Festival. Noorderlicht Photography, Netherlands.

Not Kansas, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA.

Forecast: A new wave of creative talent, Penland Gallery, Penland PA.

Surface Tension, The Center for Photography at Woodstock. Woodstock, NY. May-July

Arizona Re-Viewed, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.

2011 Three Fold: Selections form the Independent Photo Book Library, Photographic Research Center at Boston University, Boston MA.

No Mirrors: Juried Camera-less photography exhibition, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA.

The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Launch exhibition, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York.

Arizona State University Faculty Exhibition, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona.

2010 Permanent Impermanence, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC.

Picturing Maricopa, @Central Gallery, Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona.

Texas National 2010, Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas.

2008 WPA Auction Gala, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC.

Retrospective, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona

2007 From Sun Pictures to Mega Pixels, Juried exhibition with catalogue, W.A.H. Center, Harlem, New York.

Member Exhibition, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, Arizona.

2006 Three Pulses, a three-person exhibition, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.

Antiphon, North Light Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Member Exhibition, Art Detour 2006, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, Arizona.

Faculty Exhibition, Phoenix Community College, Phoenix, Arizona.

2005 Food is Good, The Kitchenette, Phoenix, Arizona.

Faculty Show, Scottsdale Community College Department of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona.

2004 First to See the Light, Quay School of Art Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand.

Illuminated, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Faculty Show, Scottsdale Community College Department of Art. Scottsdale, Arizona.

Art for Art Sake, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, Arizona.

2003 Faculty Show, Scottsdale Community College Department of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Digital Experimental III, Period Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Inside8, Center of Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

9th Annual Graduate Juried Exhibition, Johnson Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Small Packages, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2002 Student Photography Initiative, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

G.A.A. Silent Auction, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Small Works, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Persuasion, North Light Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Latent Discoveries: Exploring Identity Through Environment, The Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Pratt School of the Arts, New York, New York; Joseph Gross Gallery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada. (Traveling Exhibition).

2001 Memory and In(ter)vention, Curated group exhibition including works from the collection of Geoffrey Batchen, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Small Works, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

505 Salon, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2000 Small Works, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sixth Annual Graduate Juried Exhibition (Juried by Kirby Gookin), The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1999 6th Annual Silent Art Auction, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

New Arrivals, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Group Exhibition, Penrose Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

Graduate Exhibition, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

1997 Specimens, Design Center, St. Louis, Missouri.

1997 New Technologies, Weitman Gallery of Photography, St. Louis, Missouri.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, GRANTS

2015 Top 50 Emerging Talents. Lens Culture.

2014 Nominee, Baum Award 2014

 2013 Ernst Cabat Award, Tucson Museum of Art, 2013

2012 Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50

2011 Photography Book Now, International Juried Competition, Honorable Mention.

2010 Nominee, John Gutmann Fellowship

Picturing Maricopa, Virginia F. Piper Charitable Trust.

2009 New Photography Grant, Humble Art Foundation.

2008 Artist Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts.

Public Art Commission, Phoenix Commission on the Arts.

2006 Artist Fellowship to create work in Iceland, American Scandinavian Foundation / Thor Thors Memorial Fund.

Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts.

2003 Van Daren Coke/Beaumont Newhall Fellowship for Demonstrated Artistic Excellence, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Black and White Photography UK Issue 225 February 2019, The American Connection, Susan Burnstine.

2017 Art in America, Rematerializing Photography, Leah Ollman Jun/July issue 2017

Focal Press the Copmpanion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography. Focal Press.

2015 Underscore, Issue #5. H/Publishing, Singapore

2013 Photography 11th Edition. Pearson Publishing. London, Stone, Upton.

2011 Movements and the Iceland Trilogy, Self-Published Artist Book.

2010 Underscore, Issue #2. H/Publishing, Singapore

2009 Art Voices Magazine, Interview, New Orleans, Louisiana. December 2009

2008 Recycling, Public Art Project Booklet, Phoenix, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Public Works Department. Phoenix, Arizona.

2006 Hayden’s Ferry Review #38 (including cover), Tempe, Arizona.

2003 University of New Mexico, 9th Annual Juried Exhibition Catalog

2000 University of New Mexico, 6th Annual Juried Exhibition Catalog

1997 Georgia State Review

EDUCATION

2003 MFA – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1997 BFA - Anthropology/Photography. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.