Widely exhibited across Canada and internationally recognized, Chris Cran has become known for turning nothing into something, with the slightest push.
12 Facts About Chris Cran
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Chris Cran's paintings, included in numerous Canadian collections, have to do with visual tricks, images that appear one way but have been made another way.
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Chris Cran studied at the Kootenay School of Art, Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art and Design.
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Chris Cran was provoked and irritated by Greenberg's already outdated dogma.
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Chris Cran was of the next generation of artists who embraced post-modernity and Greenberg's ideas were entrenched in modernity.
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Chris Cran is an instructor for One Yellow Rabbit's Summer Lab Intensive.
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Chris Cran was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002.
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Chris Cran was elected a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2015.
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In 2005 Chris Cran was awarded the Keith Evans Memorial Scholarship to assist Chris Cran in his senior artist-in-residence tenure at The Banff Centre, where he mentored other artists while producing his own new works.
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Chris Cran's work was included in the second Canadian Biennial held November 2,2012 to February 18,2013, at the National Gallery of Canada.
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Chris Cran's work was selected for the 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, which featuring 36 Alberta-based artists in an exhibition curated by Nancy Tousley and entitled The News From Here.
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Chris Cran's work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Windsor, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Landfall Press, New York, New York, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Nickle Arts Museum, North York Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and private collections.