Born 1974
Lives and works in Spokane, WA
MFA, Art Center College of Design.
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts
The Spangle Maker, Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY
Christopher Russell, KMR Arts, Washington, Depot, CT
Cascades, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Explorers, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
The Explorers, Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY
The Explorers, David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
The Explorers, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Escape From LA, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR
Christoipher Russell, solo booth at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, NY, NY
The Ghost of Mechanical Reproduction, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
Ersatz Infinities, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Falls, David B Smith Gallery at Untitled Miami GRFALWKV, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver CO
GRFALWKV, Morgan Lehman, New York, NY
Dissonance, Coincidence and Errant Gradations of Light, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR
GRFALWKV, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco
Bedwetter and Beyond: The Complete Bookworks of Christopher Russell, LA Art Book Fair
MOCA Geffen Contemporary
Christopher Russell, Art San Diego, Featured Artist
Christopher Russell, Art Brussels
Christopher Russell, NADA Miami, Runaway, presented by Luis De Jesus
Runaway, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
Ghost Story, Sam Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Interiors, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Russell: Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum
Together, Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, CA
The Veil Trembles and is Very Thin, Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, CA
Becalmed, One Institute, USC, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, Van Harrison Gallery (Gallery 1R), Chicago, IL
ONE: Unique Photo-Based Images, Transformer Station Cleveland, OH 2019
Does Not Reproduce, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Teeth and Consequence, Private Places, Portland, OR
The Future Has No Presence, Asphodel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Talk To Me, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum
Artists and their Books, Books and their Artists, JP Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography, JP Getty Museum
Surface Tension, Works by Christopher Russell and Rafael Soldi, Corvalis Art Center
Self Destruct Mode, Private Places, Portland, OR (Two Person with Heidi Schwegler)
Process, Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV
Photography and Contemporary Experience, Portland Art Museum
Murmers and Intrusions: Nature and the Human Presence, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
Scientific Magic (two person with Sarah Cromarty) University of Laverne
Lens Work: Celebrating LACMA’s Experimental Photography at 50, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Queer Zines at AA Bronson’s House of Shame, Gwangju Biennale, Korea
An American Water Margin, University City Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
The Text: First Notions and Findings, Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center, Barcelona
Sleep of Reason, Cypress College, Los Angeles CA
Queer Zines, Curated by AA Bronson and Phil Aarons, LA
Art Book Fair at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary
The Book Lovers, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam
10x10 American Photobooks, Tokyo Institute of Photograaphy
10x10 American Photobooks, 10/Ten , New York
10x10 American Photobooks, PGH Photo Fair
Essential: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Che Mondo, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles cruated by Carole Ann Klonarides
Were Not Now, KM Gallery, Santa Monica
After Image: The Photographic Process(ed), Cerritos College Art
The Crash of Ruin Fitfully Resounds, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Drawing, Another Year in LA
Tilt/Shift LA, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Now WHAT? Norton Museum, Palm Beach, FL
Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
Stille Post, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
In the Realm of the Lenses, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Drama of the Gifted Child, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Multiples, Co-Lab, Copenhagen
Queer Zines, New York Art Book Fair, Phillips de Pury & Company
Schadenfreude, The Collins Building, Miami, FL
100 Years in the Making. Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Reading Room, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Material Concerns, Robert V Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA
The Rainbow Goblins, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Many Happy Returns, High Energy Constructs
Consider This; Eat the Market; Publish and be Damned, L.A. County Museum. LA CA
Open Walls, White Columns, New York, NY
The Picture I Carry in My Head, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Big and Holy, Cartelle, Marina Del Rey, CA
Out of the Sky and into the Ground, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA Out of the Sky and into the Ground, Pond
Behind Closed Doors, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Family and Friends, Mainstream and Alternative, Second City Council, Long Beach, CA Curated by Mary-Kay Lombino
Chicago Artists 1999, 312 Gallery, Chicago
Shrink, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Curated by Julie Lazar
Christopher Russell, Annabel Osberg, Artillery Magazine
Christopher Russell Goes Chasing Waterfalls, Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly
Christopher Russell, Lens/cratch, Aline Smithson
Artists and their Books, Books and their Artists, Glenn Phillips, J.P Getty Research Institute
Christopher Russell at Von Lintel Gallery, Christopher Knight, LA Times
Cut, Folded Pasted; Leah Olman, LA Times
The Photographer's hand in a Digital Worlds, Aperture (blog) Travis Diehl
Christopher Russell The Explorers, Lenscratch, Aline Smithson
Where Are They Now? Hammer Museum Blog, Lisa Aubry
Art Now LA, Demand, Feser, Gordon, Kim, Lipps, and Russell, Jody Zellen
PDN, Conor Risch
Exposure, Vol 49:1, A Promiscuous Lens, Christopher Russell
Artillery Magazine, Christopher Russell, Cooper Johnson
The Photobook: A History Vol III ed. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, Phaidon
The Oregonian (Online), LA Artist Christopher Russell Photographs The End of the World at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, David Stabler
Christopher Russell @ Mark Moore Gallery, White Hot Magazine, Shana Nys Dambrot
Christopher Russell Looks Through Prisms, LA Times Christopher Knight
SoCal Represents at Paris Photo LA, KCET Artbound Blog, Shana Nys Dambrot
Art Scene, May 2014, Jody Zellen
Romantic, Post-Apoclyptic, Artsy Editorial
Killer Pick of the Week, Eve Wood, Artillery Magazine
Flaunt Magazine, Matt Siegel
TAAWP.com video interview by Suzanne Oshinsky
NY Times T-Magazine Blog by Brooke Hodge, Not Browsing
Hyperallergic.com by Hrag Vartanian, Who says LA Doesn’t Read?
After Image: The Photographic Process(ed) James MacDevitt, Cerritos College
Fabrik Magazine by Matthew Gardocki and Catlin Moore
Artillery Magazine, Scratching the Surface, Tucker Neel
Bangstyle.com, Interview with Sabrina Park
Inthemake.com, Interview with Klea McKenna Art Pulse Magazine, Tilt/Shift LA, Tucker Neel
Designboom.com, Christopher Russell: Scratched Photographs
Hammer Projects 1999-2009 edited by James Elaine, et al
Blackbook Magazine, The 11 Most Original Works at Nada, Nick Haramis
Huffingtonpost.com, Reinventing Photography: Hybrid Photographic Forms, Carrie Yury
LAArtDiary.com, Christopher Russell, Tracey Harnish
TheNervousBreakdown.com, Echoes of Romance and Pollock, Andra Modav
Notes on Looking, Notes on Outside of LA, Geoff Tuck
LA Times, Christopher Russell at Luis De Jesus Gallery, Christopher Knight
LA Times, Stille Post: 7 Curators, 7 Artists, Sharon Mizota
SFMoMA Open Spaces Blog, by Cedar Sigo, Darin Klein
LA Times, Christopher Russell at Hammer Museum, David Pagel
Artillery Magazine (video interview) Christopher Russell--Cool Beyond Cool
5B4 Photography and Books, Landscape by Chrostopher Russell
Artillery Online, Feature Dialog, Darin Klein
The Daily Bruin, Exhibit Uses Unsettling Details
Art in America Online, Another LA: A Conversation Darin Klein, Danny Jauregui
Angeleno, Budget Decadence, Michelle Foody
Explore Psychology, Michael Lowe, Angeleno
THE, A Snapshot of Los Angeles Photography, Michael Shaw
Hammer Museum Brochure, Burned Out, Amy Gerstler
Frieze, Christopher Bedford
Blackbook Magazine, Rohin Guha
White Hot Magazine, Against the Grain, Farrah Karapetian
THE, Against the Grain, Carol Cheh
Art Scene, Lost and Found, Mario Catajar
Saatchi Gallery Online, Catherine Taft
Artslant.com, Ending Decadence, Catherine Wagley
Los Angeles Times, Around the Galleries, Leah
Ollman Artforum Online, Critics’ Pick, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
New Angeles Monthly, A History Repeats Itself, Maxwell Harwitt
X-Tra, Matias Viegner
Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight
New York Times, Roberta Smith
Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight
Artnet.com, Patrick Deegan San Francisco Bay Times
L A Weekly
San Jose Mercury 1999
Voyeur, Luc Sante
Chicago Sun Times Newcity, Chicago, IL
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
The Brooklyn Museum
Berkeley Art Museum
Buffalo University Library
California Museum of Photography Deutsche Bank
Hammer Museum
Henry Art Gallery
Honolulu Museum of Art
Jordan Schnitzer Museum, Eugene OR
J. P. Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute
J. P. Getty Museum, Photography
Lancaster Museum of Art and History
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Milwaukee Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Norton Museum, West Palm Beach Florida
New York University, Fales Library, Dennis Cooper Archive
Portland Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Santa Barbra Museum of Art
Sheldon Museum of Art
Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
University City Art Museum, Guanhzhou China