About the artist:

Born - 1957 Denver, CO Education Yale University, New Haven, M.F.A. New York Studio School, New York Bates College, Lewiston, ME, B.A. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2011 Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seatle 1996 Winston Wächter Fine Arts, New York 1993 John Post Lee Gallery, New York 1991 John Post Lee Gallery, New York 1989 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 Chris Pfister and Piper O’Neill, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 1999 Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME 1998 For the Birds, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 1997 Group Show, Turner Runyon, Houston, TX 1997 American Landscape, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1997 Landscape and Abstraction, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY 1997 Classics Revisited, Winston Wächter Fine Arts, New York, NY 1995 Terrestrial Bodies, Zoller Museum, Penn State University 1995 Up the Garden Path, Dolgenos Newman Work Space, New York, NY 1994 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA 1994 The Seer, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Twilight IntervalsPat Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Littlejohn Smith Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 1993 John Post Lee Gallery 1992 White Columns, New York, NY 1991 Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991 Lyric, White Columns, New York, NY 1990 Jamie Wolff Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum at The Equitable Center, New York, NY 1989 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Memory and Artifact, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York & Washington, D.C. 1989 Landscape, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Landscape, Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 Annual Benefit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1989 Pat Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA 1988 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY 1988 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY 1987 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Downtown Perspectives, Adelphi University, New York, NY 1987 White Columns, New York, NY 1987 Looking at New Work, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY 1987 New American Landscape, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1986 Second Avenue Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1979 The School of Art, Lacoste, France Selected Bibliography Ash, John. “Chris Pfister at Bess Cutler Gallery.” Art in America, November 1989. Anderson, Alexandra. “The Next Generation.” Smart Magazine, October 1989. Glueck, Grace. “The New Romantics Paint the Past.” The New York Times. September 10, 1989. Kimmelman, Michael. “So Sad, So Pastoral, So End of the Century.” The New York Times. October 20, 1989. Kimmelman, Michael. “Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting.” The New York Times. April 28, 1989. Larson, Kay. “Memory and Artifact: Romanticism Revisited.” New York Magazine. November 13, 1989. Mahoney, Robert. Review. Arts Magazine, April 1988. Mahoney, Robert. “Gallery News.” Flash Art, April 1991. Mahoney, Robert. “Chris Pfister at John Post Lee Gallery.” Arts Magazine, September 1991. New Art Examiner. Review. Arts Magazine. April, 1998. New York Magazine. Review. Arts Magazine. November 1996. Zinsser, John. “Chris Pfister.” New Art International. May 1989.