C H R I S T I N C O U T U R E
Born : Springfield Massachusetts
BFA / Painting magna cum laude, University of Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum School post graduate scholarship
U Mass/Bologna, Italy summer
Art Students' League, NYC summer
S E L E C T E D S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, "Nature is not your Friend- a consideration" (with 'Interventions' by William Hosie) 2011
Northampton Center for the Arts, "TOYZ n' TOTZ II" (collaboration with William Hosie) 2008
Tabor Gallery, Holyoke Community College, MA "TOTz" 2004
DABORA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "The Home School For Nervous & Delicate Children" 2003
Springfield College, Springfield, MA "TOYZ n' TOTZ" (collaboration with William Hosie) 2001
Galeria Arvil, Mexico City "Seducciones Nocturnas" 1988 travelling
Fauve Gallery, Amherst, MA "A Pastorall" 1987
Centro Cultural Vanguardia, Saltillo, MX , 1984
Galeria Arvil, Mexico City "Placeres Terrenales" 1983 travelling
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York "Predellas" 1982
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York , 1980
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, 1979
47 Bond Street Gallery, New York, 1978
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
Downstreet Art, N. Adams & Storefront Artists Gallery, Pittsfield, MA "Selections from the Cultural Corridor VI" 2011
Hallmark Gallery, Turners Falls, MA "Confluence: Franklin County Biennial" 2010
University of Maine, Farmington "After Poe: Works of Mystery and Imagination" 2009
University Gallery, U Mass, "The Massachusetts Review 50th Anniversary" selected cover art, 2009
NY Studio Gallery, NYC "FADE OUT, BLACK IN" 2008
Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA "Massachusetts Artists " 2007
Open Square, Holyoke, MA "Five College Faculty and Invited Artists" 2007, 2006
Boston University Art Gallery, "Offspring: Representations of Children in Contemporary Art" 2006
"Art In Odd Places" First Street Garden, East Village, NYC 2006
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA "Pretty Sweet:The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art" 2005
Dabora Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn "Tall Tales of Death" 2002, 2003, 2005
Chez TnG, Red Hook, NY "Miraculous" Contemporary Ex Voto Paintings 2003
Rahway Arts Guild, NJ "Three Twins" (curated by Lorie Field) 2003 travelling 2002
Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA "Maestros y Maestras" Homage to leonel Gongora, 2000
Westbeth Gallery, New York, "Private Mythologies" 1999 (curated by Elisa Decker)
The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell,MA "Dreamweavers" 1998-99 (curated by Francine Koslow Miller)
Galeria Jose Maria Velasco, Mexico City "Correspondence Lines" 1997
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York "The Domestic Landscape" 1995
Museum Gallery, University of Maine, Orono "Migrant Within" 1994-5 travelling
Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME "Night Light" 1993
Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, S.Hadley, MA "PictureThis, Imagine That" 1992
Staemfli Gallery, New York "The Art of Drawing IV" 1989
Oklahoma Art Center, OK City "Selections from the Westheimer Collection" 1988
One Penn Plaza, New York "Interiors in Paint" 1988 (curated by Gerrit Henry)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC "The Romantic Landscape" 1986
Sioux City Arts Center, Iowa "New Talent/New York" 1984 travelling
PS 122, New York "Four Painters" 1984
University Gallery, U Mass, Amherst "Eleven Alumni"1983 (curated by Sam Hunter & Babara Haskell)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC, "New Work" 1983
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman "Points of View '82" 1982
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY "Kindred Spirits" 1981
Landmark Gallery, NYC "Drawings 1980" 1980
Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City "Eureka! 5 North American Painters" 1979
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC "American Landscapes" 1978
A W A R D S and F E L L O W S H I P S
1st place, 'CONFLUENCE" Franklin County Biennial (Loretta Yarlow, Lisa Thompson) 2010
Millay Colony Artist in Residence 1995
Fondation Karolyi Artist in Residence 1989
Yaddo Artist in Residence 1987
Fullbright Finalist, Canberra, Australia 1985
1st prize (Barbara Haskell) Valley Women Artists Show 1985
Juror's Award (Holly Solomon) Small Works Show, NYC 1982
McDowell Colony Artist in Residence 1980
Scholarship, Brooklyn Museum School 1975- 76
C O L L E C T I O N S
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, MA
Armando Colina and Victor Acuna, Mexico City
Dawn Gideon Associates, New York CityMonique Knowlton, New York City
Stewart Mott, New York City
Jerry & Claudia Luebbers, Chicago
Jose Ludlow, Mexico City
Giancarlo Menotti, Italy
Michel Roux (Absolut Vodka), New Jersey
George Staempfli, Maryland
Veronica Volkow Fernandez, Mexico City
Jerome Westheimer, Oklahoma