Mary C. McLellan Scholarship for independent study and travel in Europe
1973 - 1976
Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Davis
1976
University of California, Davis, M.F.A.
1978 - 1979
DAAD Grant, guest artist affiliation with the Academy of Art in Munich
1979
National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Grant in Art Criticism
1981
National Endowment for the Arts Special Projects Grant in Art Criticism
1984
Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1985
Eureka Fellowship, The Mortimer Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1986
Award in the Visual Arts, given by the Equitable and Rockefeller Foundations with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts
1987
National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
1988
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Art
Exhibitions
2008
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California
2004
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID; Rail Variations -solo John Berggruen Gallery, San Fransisco, CA -solo Paulson Press, Berkeley, California
2002
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA -solo
2001
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID -solo Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO -solo Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID San Jose Museum of Art, "Prints from Paulson Press"
2001
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO - solo
2000
Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA-solo San Francisco Museum of Modern Art "The Anderson Collection", San Francisco, CA Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Prints from the Anderson Collection", San Francisco, CA Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Art Center, "Abstraction from Raucous to Refined", Walnut Creek, CA
1999
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA -solo Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA Palo Alto Art Center "The Great Novel Exhibition" Palo Alto, CA Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV -solo Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY -solo Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1997
Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN -solo Friesen Gallery, Celebrating Ten Years, Sun Valley, ID
1995 - 1996
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, History and Memory: Paintings by Christopher Brown, Fort Worth, TX -solo Traveled exhibition, selected venues: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Edward Thorp Gallery, Christopher Brown - Recent Paintings, New York, NY
1989 - 1990
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Fort Worth, TX Traveled exhibition, selected venues: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Artist's Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow Tsentralnyi Zystavochnyi Zal, Leningrad
1988
Award Recipients' Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1985 - 1986
Madison Art Center, The Painted Room, Madison, WI -solo Traveled exhibition, selected venues: Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
