2009 "Landscape and Industry: Goggle Works Center for the Arts, Reading Pennsylvania “Continuum Art Fair” Fremont Avenue Gallery and Research Lab, Tucson AZ “Machine in the Garden” Hub Gallery Cochise College Sierra Vista, AZ
2008 "Fall Graduate Exhibition" Union Gallery, Tucson Arizona
"The art of Democracy" Union Gallery, Tucson Arizona
"Facing Front" Union Gallery, Tuson Arizona - Collaboration
with Professor Doug Neilsen & University of AZ Dance Department
"The Kids Are Alright" Union Gallery, University of Arizona
"Crossing" Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
"The Alchemy of Art" Online exhibition
"Chris McGinnis" Cochise College Gallery, Sierra Vista AZ.
"Distinct Visions" Fredmont House, Tucson AZ.
2007 "Nostalgic Spaces II" Miltons, Mt. Vernon Baltimore Md.
"Abstract Industry" Gallery 17, Baltimore Md. "Titan": The Metropolitan, Federal Hill, Baltimore Md. "A Study of Nostalgic Space": ID8 Gallery, Baltimore MD
2006 "Architectural spaces": Mill center, Hampden, Baltimore Md. "Senior Thesis Exhibition": Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of PA "Intercollegiate Juried exhibition": California University of Pennsylvania "Across Time Zones": Academy gallery, Zagreb Croatia "Across Timezones"(regional): Robert Shall gallery, Indiana University of PA "Foundation of the Arts of Bosnia & Croatia": Zagreb Croatia,
2005 "The Italian Landscape": Student Gallery, Akron Ohio Art University
2004 "Student Juried exhibition": Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of PA
Collections/Commissions:
Education:
2009 MFA Candidate University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona.
2006 BFA Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, Pennsylvania
2005 Zagreb Academy of Fine Art, Zagreb Croatia
Study abroad, Credit exchange in Painting and Figure Drawing
2004 Study abroad Viterbo, Italy "Painting the Italian Landscape"
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Awards/Scholarships:
Conaway Scholarship for Excellence $1200.00 Graduate Teaching Assistantship University of Arizona Spring 2009 Graduate and Professional Student Council Small Grant - 350.00 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Arizona Fall 2008 University of Arizona Small grant Fellowship - $2000.00
The Ralph Reynolds Memorial Art Emphasis Scholarship Second Place: Intercollegiate Juried Art Exhibition 2006 California University of Pennsylvania Dean’s list at Indiana University of PA, from 2001-2006
Articles/Publicity:
Chris McGinnis earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Graduating with high honors, he studied abroad in both Italy and Croatia exhibiting his work on numerous occasions throughout Europe. Chris' work has been published in the national Studio Visit Magazine, European Art Magazine, The Tucson Weekly, as well as multiple university publications. He was born in western Pennsylvania and has exhibited domestically in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Mexico and Maryland. Chris currently lives in Tucson Arizona where he pursues a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Arizona.
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