Chris Chapman Exhibitions
Featured Shows:
Elverhoj Museum, Solvang - Widening Circles - September 25, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang – Permanent Collection Exhibit 2022, Sedgwick Group Show 2023, Featured Local Artist - July 13 to September 24, 2018
Easton Gallery, Montecito 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2002
Santa Barbara Arts, Santa Barbara – 2011
Gallery 113, Santa Barbara 1990–1999
Selected Group Exhibitions:
• Wildling Museum, California Ntl. Parks, September 2023 - February 2024
• Santa Paula Art Museum, Art About Agriculture, November 2022 to February ‘23, Annually since 2017 (Award)
• Wildling Museum, Recent Acquisitions, March 4 - September 4, 2022
• 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss, November to January 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
• Wildling Museum, Art from the Trail, April 17 - October 3, 2021, Valley Oak Gallery
Oak Group exhibitions since 1986 have benefited prominent land preservation organizations and environmental conservation, recent years:
Celebrating the Protection of Nature benefiting the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, May 2 - 31st, 2023
Foothills Forever, benefiting San Marcos Foothills, May 3 - May 28, 2022
Circle of Compassion, Benefit for Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, Santa Barbara Fine Art, May 1 - June 1, 2021
The Link Between Man and Nature, Benefit for NatureTrack, online show due to Covid, November 1 - December 31, 2020
State of Harmony, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, November 1 - 30, 2019, benefit for Coastal Ranches Conservancy
Icons of Preservations, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Jun 29 - August 25, 2019, benefit for Gaviota Creek Restoration Project
• California Impressionists Masters, Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, CA - October 3 - November 17, 2019
• Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA - California’s National Lands - July 20, 2019 - January 20, 2020
• Pastels USA, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA - May 16 - July 14, 2019
• Pastels USA, Art Center Gallery, Morrow Bay – August 16 – September 16, 2018
• Sierra Pastel Society Signature Members Show – Award – October 2017
• Easton Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, continually from 1997 – July 2017 final show
• Sullivan Goss, One Hundred Grand, December 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020,2021, 2022
• Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, Oak Group 30th Anniversary, Santa Barbara, July 2016
• CA National Parks, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA – July 17 – October 3, 2016
• California Islands Art, Ventura and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Oct – Nov, 2016
• Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, June – August 2015, Oak Group honors Ray Strong
• Pastels USA, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, June – August 2015
• Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA, Oak Group, Wilderness Spirit Award, Oct. 2013 – Jan. 2014
• Pastels USA, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross, CA, June 2013
• Los Olivos Quick Draw, 2013-2014
• Coutts Museum, El Dorado, KS, Paint the Parks, Winner, traveling exhibit 2013
• Pastels on High International Exhibition, Placerville, CA, Nov – Dec 2012
• Pastel Society of West Coast, Arts Building Gallery, Auburn, CA, Aug – Oct 2012
• Paso Robles Festival of the Arts, Masters Exhibition – Award - “Local Color”, May-July 2012
• Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, Pastel Society of West Coast, May – July 2011
• Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA:
Rancho La Viña 2010, El Chorro Ranch 2011, Oak Group Wilderness Spirit Award 2013,
CA Ntl. Parks Exhibit 2015, SCAPE 2016
• Glenna Hartmann Invitational – Award - S.B. Museum of Natural History, February 2010
• International Juried Endangered Species traveling exhibit: June 2008 to July 2009,
Wildling Museum & U.S. Department of Interior Museum
• Knowlton Gallery, Lodi, CA 2009
• Ventura County Museum of Art, Painting the Santa Clara Valley, June 7 - September 1, 2002
• Best of Best - Award - Lompoc Museum 2000
• Santa Barbara Art Association, numerous awards
• OASIS Desert Protection, U.S. Senate Museum, Washington, D.C. 1990
Teaching & Workshops:
• Private & Affiliate Workshops annually since 1999
• Landscape Painting, Santa Barbara City College Adult Education 1996 - 2009
• Nature Collage 1996 – 1998, Santa Barbara City College Adult Education
• Botanical Illustration, Santa Barbara City College Adult Education 2005 - 2009
Permanent Collection:
Wildling Museum, Solvang - Back into the Lake, pastel
Permanent Installations:
Carrizo Plain National Monument
University of CA, Sedgwick Reserve, botanical art signage
Descanso Gardens, La Canada, botanical art signage
Ventura County Museum of Art, Chumash Window, 40 x 60” from Arroyo Willow watercolor
Goleta Cottage Hospital – Two 30x50” pastels commissioned 2014
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital– Five 20x30” pieces selected 2011
Ridley Tree Cancer Center of Santa Barbara – Pescadero Fields ~13x25”pastel
Arroyo Hondo Preserve, Gaviota - art signage
Selected Publications & Films:
Carrizo Plain, A Sense of Place, 2019, Wildling Museum and Goodeye Films, screened at Santa Barbara Int’l. Film Festival
Ray Strong, a Legacy of Art & Preservation, 2018, Wildling Museum and Goodeye Films
Santa Barbara Seasons: 10 Painters in Paradise, Fall 2016
Plein Air Magazine, Oak Group 30th Anniversary, July 2016
Stories of Arroyo Hondo, Chris Chapman, 2016
Plein Air Magazine, Finding a Voice in Pastels, Fall 2012
American Artist Plein Air Edition, Fall 2011
Montecito Magazine , Fall 2017, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Winter 2018
Western Art & Architecture, Summer 2009
Washington Times, Dec. 28, 2008, Endangered Species Exhibit, US Senate Museum
Chumash Ethnobotany, Timbrook, illustrations by Chapman, Heyday Books, 2007
The Oak Group: Twenty Years 1986–2006, 2006
American Artist, September 2006
Portraits of Gaviota, Chris Chapman & Eric Hvolboll, 2005
Southwest Art, March 2005
Santa Clara Valley, Easton Press, 2001
Gardens of Santa Barbara, Easton Press, 1999