Biographical Information
Christopher Harrington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where he has taught drawing, painting, and art history. He received his undergraduate degree from Binghamton University, an MA and an Ed.M in Art Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Hoffberger School of Painting. He has studied with Richard Pousette-Dart, Grace Hartigan and Sam Gilliam.
Mr. Harrington’s work has been exhibited at the Hunter Museum of American Art, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Contemporary Artists Center, in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Resurgam Gallery, in Baltimore, and the traveling show “Roadmap” organized by the Maryland Art Place. He received the highest honors for his work at the Period Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. Internationally, his work was exhibited in London, England in the International Juried Affordable Art Exhibition in 2003. This year he will be his fifth solo exhibition at Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
