Mr Christopher Cook

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 interests

Chinese and Japanese Art, historical and contemporary
Surrealism
Italian Renaissance Painting
Practice-led PhDs
English Landscape Painting
Indian Art
Calligraphic Painting

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

Other Publications

7 exhibition catalogues
3 artist bookworks
3 volumes of Poetry

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

Profiles

Discretionary Member