Christopher McEvoy

Biography

Christopher McEvoy received his MFA in Painting from Boston University. Following graduate school he spent a year as the Starr Scholar at the Royal Academy of Art in London. McEvoy has shown his work in various regional, national and international group and solo exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions in New York include Some Kind of Nature, Mildred l. Washinton Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; New Work at Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY; and Liminal States:Paintings and Mixed Media Works at String Room Gallery, Aurora, NY. His fellowships and artist residencies include Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and international residencies at Oberfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, and Le Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France. McEvoy is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Painting Area Coordinator at the State University of New York at Oswego. He lives and works in Auburn, NY.

Performances and exhibitions 

Solo exhibitions

2018 

• Chris McEvoy: Some Kind of Nature Washington Art Gallery, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2017 

• Christopher McEvoy: New Work Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY (post sabbatical exhibition) 

2013 

• Transformer: New Mixed Media Paintings Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, NY 

2012 

• Liminal States: Paintings and Mixed Media Works String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY 

2009 

• Paintings: Christopher McEvoy John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY 

2003 

• Thinking in Paint: New Paintings by Chris McEvoy Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 

2001 

• Starr Scholar Exhibition Keepers Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London 

Two-Person Exhibitions

2009 

• Two: Recent Works by Frederick Bartolovic and Chris McEvoy SUNY Oswego Metro Center, Syracuse, NY 

2004 

• New Paintings, by Chris McEvoy and Joshua Ferry Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY 

Group Exhibition (selected) 

2019 

• 66th Rochester/FingerLakes Exhibition Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 
• Made in NY 2019 Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 
• Faculty Exhibition Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 

2017 

• New Work by VCCA FellowsWork Gallery, Amherst, VA 

2016 

• Luck of the Draw (vol.1) The Diane Endres Ballweg Gallery, Madison, WI 
• 26th Annual Members Exhibition Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY 

2015

• Tectonic Shifts, FATE National Juried Members Exhibition Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN 

2014

• Greater Than the Sum: National Collage Society Exhibition Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO 
• Convergence 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA 
• 24th Annual Members Exhibition Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY 
• Landscape Today and Tomorrow Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 
• { + },{ + },{ + }: Collage @SCENE (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing MI 
• Layers Kavanagh Gallery, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles IL 
• Made in New York Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 
• Mid-Atlantic New Painting 2014 The University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA 

2013 

• 64th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 
• 50th Annual Juried Competition Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA (Selected for Juror’s Choice Award) 
• FATE Biennial: Juried Exhibition Savannah College of Art and Design, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA 
• Here and Now Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY 

2012 

• Matter Reisman Art Gallery, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 
• National Collage Society 28th Annual Juried Exhibition Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA

Education 

• 2000 Boston University, Boston, MA Master of Fine Arts, Painting 
• 1999 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Painting 
• 1993 Buffalo State College, SUNY Buffalo, NY Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting