
Profiles
Mr Christopher Cook
Discretionary Member
Biography
Biography
- Reader (Associate Professor) in Painting
- Critical project Module Leader
- ARC Research Group
- Land/Water Research Group
Qualifications
- M.A. (RCA)
- Italian Government Scholar
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
- Chinese and Japanese Art, historical and contemporary
- Surrealism
- Italian Renaissance Painting
- Practice-led PhDs
- English Landscape Painting
- Indian Art
- Calligraphic Painting
Research
Research
Research interests
- Research through practice
- Drawing/painting interfaces
- 17th century Dutch Still Life and Vanitas painting
- Photographic references in contemporary painting
- Japanese and Chinese Ink Painting traditions
Other research
- Contemporary Poetry
- Phenomenology
- Systems Texts
- Zen Buddhism
Grants & contracts
AHRB Small Grant 2000
Arts Council of England Award 2001-3
British Council Grant to Artists 2004
AHRC Small Grant 2005
Daiwa Foundation Award 2005
British Council grants to artists 2006
PAS Scholarship, British School at Rome 2009-10
Bogliasco Fellowship, 2013
Valeria Sykes Award, New Light exhibition 2017
Creative practice & artistic projects
Solo shows (2004 -)
Art Museum,University of Memphis , USA
Hirschl Contemporary Art London
CalState University, Long Beach, USA
Yokohama Museum, Japan
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Mary Ryan Gallery New York
Fine Art Society London
Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
Langgeng Foundation, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Mary Ryan Gallery New York October 2013
Art First London 2014
Hubner and Hubner Frankfurt, 2015
Publications
Publications
Other Publications
7 exhibition catalogues
3 artist bookworks
3 volumes of Poetry
Personal
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
- University of Memphis USA 2004
- CalState Long Beach USA 2004
- Moshashino University, Tokyo, Japan 2005
- Today Art Museum, Beijing 2007
- Royal Academy Schools London 2009
- SCAD Atlanta, 2010
- Lasalle College, Singapore 2011
- Jogjakarta College of Art 2011
- Northumbria University 2011
- Newcastle University 2011
- Chongqing University 2014
- Wuxi University 2014
Links
www.christophercook.cc