Christopher Blyth

Biography:

Christopher Blyth graduated from the Cooper Union in 1993 with study at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Christopher has since exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions and was selected to exhibit at the Governors Island Art Fair. Christopher maintains a studio in Harlem, NYC. Describing Christopher’s paintings in a New York Times review, Helen Harrison writes “His involvement is almost entirely with the work of art as an end in itself, a product of the artist’s engagement with his materials and the visual and tactile effects they achieve.”

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2025 Helm Contemporary, Cross Currents: New York-London, New York, NY
2025 Gallery Makowski, New York, NY “Inner Being” curated by Robert Melzmuf
2025 Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA, “Variations”
2024 Matriarch, Maspeth, Queens, curated by Erin Perrazzelli
2024 62nd Stockton Art League, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA curated by Gina Werfel, Joe Mariscal
2019 Mizuma, Kips & Wada, New York, NY, “Interference Effect,” curated by Aleksandar Popovic
2017 Chashama 360 Furman, Brooklyn, NY, “Seen from the Anthropocene,” curated by Julia Kirchmer
2016 4 Heads, Governor’s Island Art Fair, Governor’s Island, NY
2016 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT “the thing of it is”
2010 NU Hotel, Brooklyn, NY “Twelve Rooms with a View”
2010 Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY “The Build Up” solo exhibition
2007 The Next Gallery, Metropolitan College of NY, New York, NY “Sustenance”
2006 The Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006 The New York Law School-OIA, New York, NY
2004 Baum Gallery of Fine Art, Conway, Arkansas University of Central Arkansas,
“Historic Encaustic”
2003 Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “New York Abstract”
2003 The Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY “Paper Works”
2002 Barbara Greene Fine Art, New York, NY “Rearranged”
2002 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY “New Paintings and Drawings” solo exhibition
2001 Barbara Greene Fine Art, New York, NY “Somos Simpaticos”
2001 Muroff-Kotler Visual Art Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY “Encaustic Works 01” Mia
Westerlund Roosen
2001 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY “New Paintings” solo exhibition
2000 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY “Permutations” solo exhibition
1999 Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, Brooklyn, NY “A Park for People
and Nature”
1999 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY “Abstract Eight”
1999 Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY “Size Matters” curated by Mike Weiss
1999 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, Brooklyn, NY “City/Water/Scape”
1999 Tobey Fine Arts, New York, NY “Summer Slam”
1998 City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ “Small Works”
1998 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Johnson State College, Johnson, VT “Experimental Figures”
1997 80 Washington Square East Galleries, “Small Works” Ealan Wingate – Gagosian
Gallery
1997 Omni Gallery, Long Island, NY
1996 The Cooper Union, New York, NY “Alumni Exhibition” Romy Phillips
1995 Z Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Police Building Gallery-OIA, New York, NY “Paint and Circumstance”
1994 Z Gallery, New York, NY “Observation and Imagination”
1993 The Painting Center, New York, NY “Young Talent
1993 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY “Pages”
1993 The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Education
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
1990 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Honors and Awards
2024 Ruby Zahn White Award, Stockton Art League, CA
1998 Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Bibliography
2010 Mullarkey, Maureen “Christopher Blyth: The Build Up” City Arts, June 15th
2003 Seidel, Miriam “New York abstracts energetic with color”” The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Friday, Dec 12th
1999 Halasz, Piri “(A Ten-Foot Pole)…”October http://home.mindspring.com/pOct99html
1997 Harrison, Helen “Works Invoking Christian Ritual” The New York Times, Sunday, June 22nd

Statement:

“My works are an abstracted and layered response to the environment I’m immersed in; reflections of urban or wild places and the passing of time therein. Inspirations vary and morph in the process, sometimes triggered by memory associations via the incorporation of a sketch or prior artwork. The human presence is also inferred, either directly or more generally, being inescapably the lens through which experience is felt and memory formed.”