Christopher Schade
Austin, TX, United States
44 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Watertown, MA
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Works by Christopher Schade
Christopher Schade was born in Austin, Texas and was raised in Austin and in Quirihue, Chile. Schade received his Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Texas at Austin in Plan II Honors Humanities and Studio Art in Painting and then received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Upon graduation he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
He has had solo and two-person exhibitions at The Painting Center in New York, Kai Matsumiya Gallery in New York, Boston Design Center in Boston, Massachusetts, dberman gallery in Austin, Texas and Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Group exhibitions in New York City include shows at The Painting Center, Park Place Gallery, Blackburn 20/20, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brian Morris Gallery and GRG gallery, in Massachusetts at VERY, Drive-By Projects, Geoffrey Young Gallery and Sampson Projects Gallery, and in Texas at The Contemporary Austin Jones Center, dberman Gallery and Conduit Gallery. His work is in the flat files of Pierogi Gallery, New York and online in the White Columns' Curated Artist Registry and The Painting Center's Members Gallery. His work has been written about in Boston Art Review, Interview Magazine, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Dallas Art Revue, Austin American-Statesman and The Austin Chronicle.
He is a founder of the Artist Lecture Series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and has curated numerous group shows, most recently “Prime Matter” at the Teckningsmuseet (Museum of Drawings) in Laholm, Sweden. Since 2016 he has taught painting and drawing as Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston Art Department. In the spring of 2021, he joined The Painting Center in New York City as a member.
EDUCATION
1997 Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MA
1995 Bachelor of Arts in Art (Plan II Honors Humanities and Studio Art), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fortifications, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Michael Holden
2020 Envisaged Landscapes, The Painting Center Project Room, New York, NY (solo) (catalog)
2019 Passing Islands, Boston Design Center, Boston, MA, curators The Sphinx Northeast (Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow) (solo)
2016 Don’t Make a Scene, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2011 Christopher Schade and Josette Urso, Luchsinger Gallery, Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT, curator Erin Riley
2007 Islands, d berman gallery, Austin, TX (solo) (catalog)
Alec Dartley and Christopher Schade, Pooke Gallery, Natick, MA
2006 Island Painting, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo) (catalog)
2003 Figurative Forms: Christopher Schade Paintings and Drawings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
2001 Robert Dale Anderson: Dark Ages and Christopher Schade: Drawings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Sandra Fiedorek and Christopher Schade, d berman gallery, Austin, TX
1999 New Work: Christopher Schade, Slugfest Gallery, Austin, TX (solo)
1998 Recent Work: Christopher Schade and Nyame Brown, The Butcher Shop Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Quid Pro Quo, VERY, Boston, MA, curator John Guthrie
2021 Painting 2011- 2021, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Peter Frank
2020 Ensemble: Together Again, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Sword in the Sun, Blackburn 20/20, New York, NY, curator Essye Klempner
Mother Altar, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY
Love Match, Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA
Drivin' Along: 10th Anniversary Group Show, Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA
2019 Small and Smaller, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Heather Bhandari
Green: The Impossible Color, The Painting Center, New York, NY, curator Rachael Wren (catalog)
2018 Social Photography VI, Carriage Trade, New York, NY, curator Peter Scott
Art on the Marquee, Boston Cyberarts and Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, Boston, MA, collaboration with Wenhua Shi
The Nature Lab, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, curator Eric Wolf (catalog)
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, curator Julie Torres
The Creek Flows Into the River: New Work from the Hudson River Valley, Walnut Hill Gallery, Hudson, NY, curator Richard Saja
2017 The Works on Paper Show, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curators Michael Holden and Peter Schenck
The Landscape Show, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curators Michael Holden and Peter Schenck
2016 Reality is Wrong, Dreams Are For Real, David & Schweitzer Contemporary Annex, Brooklyn, NY, curators Brian Morris, Sue Knoll and Phil Knoll
Chronic Blooms, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Hanging Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Wonderland, No. Six Depot, West Stockbridge, MA, curators Sue Knoll and Phil Knoll
2015 Prime Matter, Teckningsmuseet (The Museum of Drawings), Laholm, Sweden
Earth Dreams, Eagle Studio, Brooklyn, NY, curator Alyssa E. Fanning (catalog)
TSA Flatfile Program 2015-16, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Prime Matter, Senaspace, New York, NY
DRAWING?, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Casheesh 14, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2013 It Hurts So Good To Be Loved So Bad, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY curator Geoffrey Young
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, curator Phong Bui
2012 Casheesh 6, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Speakers, 111 Front Gallery, Dumbo, NY
From Life, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects Gallery, Boston, MA
Taking Shape, Standpipe Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Paper Trails: Work from the New York Metro, Pearce Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design Aukland, New Zeland, curators Saydi Kaufman and David Keefe
Natural Reaction, Heskin Contemporary Satellite Space at Metropolitan Green, Brooklyn, NY, curator Elizabeth Heskin
2009 The Air Is Thick, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA, curator Joshua Marsh
2008 Precurse, Nationalmuseum, Berlin, Germany, curator John Hodany
Bornagain Again, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY, curator Eddy Steinhauer
Cultural Corridor III, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA, curators Peter Dudek and Geoffrey Young
2006 Heat, d berman gallery, Austin, TX
2005 Boys Meet Girls, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, curator Katya Gardea Browne
2004 Private, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
New American Talent, ArtHouse the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, curator Jerry Saltz
The Third Coast: Texas on Townsend, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
2021- The Painting Center, New York, NY (Member)
2019- White Columns, New York, NY (Curated Artist Registry)
The Painting Center, New York, NY (ARTSY)
2017- Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (ARTSY)
2012- Perogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (flat files)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016- Present Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
2015 Prime Matter, co-curated with Zoe Pettijohn Schade and Madlen Herrstöm, Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden (catalogue)
2014 Prime Matter, co-curated with Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Senaspace, New York, NY
2012 Speakers, First Annual Artist Lecture Series Exhibition, co-curated with Michael Lee and Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Brooklyn, NY
2011- Present Artist Lecture Series, co-curated with Michael Lee and Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Taking Shape, co-curated with Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Standpipe Gallery, New York, NY
Raymond Dumas and Michael Lee, Antidote Artist Curatorial Project, Verge Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Group Show, Antidote Artist Curatorial Project, Verge Art Fair, New York, NY
2003 Lightshow, co-curated with Edouard Stienhauer and Bettina Johae, Clocktower
Properties, Brooklyn, NY
CURRENT TEACHING POSITION
2016- Present Assistant Professor of Art, University Massachusetts Boston Department of Art and Art History, Boston, MA (courses taught: Introduction to Painting, Painting Workshop, Drawing I, Drawing Workshop, Studio Art Capstone)
2020 Katy Diamond Hamer, "The Sphinx Northeast Returns to Boston with Christopher Schade's 'Passing Islands'", online edition of Boston Art Review, access date: February 2, 2020.
2017 Frontspiece of the image, “Arch 3 (Ithaca/Paris/Winter/Day)” in Raritan: A Quarterly Review, November, 2017.
2016 Rachel Small, "How To Make A Scene, Or Not" Interview Magazine, published February 11, 2016.
2015 Jillian Stienhauer, “ArtRx NYC,” Hyperallergic, access date: November 24, 2015.
Martin Hägg, “Drawing in Its Own Right, ”Omkonst.., access date: October 22, 2015.
2014 William Eckhardt Kohler, “In Between: Various Artists at Various Galleries on the Lower East Side,” The Huffington Post, access date: January 1, 2014.
2012 Patrick Neal, "Forms of Life: Breathing New Life into Traditional Genres," Hyperallergic, access date: April 19, 2012.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Ehrsam, Anna and Jackson, Katherine, eds., Uni-verse Poetry-Prints-Proofs by Visionary Humans, Battery Journal Publishing: Brooklyn, NY. 215-220.
Zevitas, Steven, ed., New American Paintings Juried Exhibitions-In-Print, Featured Artists/Recent Work, The Open Studios Press: Boston, MA. 24.
Thomas, Shazzi, Christopher Schade: Envisaged Landscapes, The Painting Center: New York, NY
2019 Thomas, Shazzi, Green: The Impossible Color, The Painting Center: New York, NY. 12.
2018 Wolf, Eric, The Nature Lab, LABspace: Hillsdale, NY. 17.
2017 Lears, Jackson, ed., Raritan: A Quarterly Review, Raritan: New Brunswick, NJ. Frontispiece.
2015 Prime Matter, Teckningsmuseet: Laholm, Sweden. 53.
2007 Zevitas, Steven, ed., New American Paintings Juried Exhibtions-In-Print No. 68, curator: Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art Darsie Alexander, The Open Studios Press: Boston, MA. 140-141.
AWARDS
2018 Blanche E. Colman Award, BNY Mellon, Boston, MA
2015 Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2007 New American Painting Issue 68, curator Darsie Alexander, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2001 The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Grant, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX