Christopher Graham
MFA, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting - Maryland Institute College of Art.
BFA, SUNY Purchase College- School of Art + Design.
Christopher Graham is an artist and art instructor. He works as a preparator and writes about contemporary art. The themes in Graham’s work include sight and perception in a painting practice that mixes controlled and spontaneous techniques. The concepts found in his artwork are informed by a lifelong struggle with learning disabilities that stem from a Cerebral Palsy diagnosis and an interest in the twentieth century American psychedelic counter-culture. Christopher earned an MFA in Painting from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and was awarded the Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellowship. In 2022 he published a catalog of work entitled Painting Light.
Sharing his insights from his own experiences as an artist is a passion of Christopher’s. For the Brentwood Art Center, Christopher wrote and taught a course on the encaustic work of Jasper Johns. Additionally he’s worked as a teaching assistant at Maryland Institute College of Art, and as an instructor for Los Angeles Community College District's Project MATCH Program at LA Valley College. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California which is situated on the ancestral lands of the Tongva and Chumash peoples.
