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 City

Monique 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



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