EDUCATION

1997 Yale University School of Art, M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking
1995 University of Texas at Austin, B.A.A., Plan II Honors Humanities & Studio Art

RECIDENCIES

1997 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2001 The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Grant – The Dallas Museum of Art
1997 Matching School Fellowship – Skowhegan and Yale University
1995 – 1997 Scholarship – Yale University School of Art

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007 Pooke Gallery, Natick Gallery, MA, Alec Dartley and Christopher Schade
2007 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Christopher Schade: Islands
2006 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Christopher Schade
2003 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Christopher Schade
2001 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Sandra Fiedorek and Christopher Schade
2001 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, Robert Dale Anderson: Dark Ages and Christopher Schade: Drawings
1999 Slugfest Gallery, Austin, Texas, New Work: Christopher Schade
1998 The Butcher Shop Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Shimmy: Christopher Schade and Nyame 0. Brown

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Heat
Arthouse, Austin, Texas, Five by Seven by X
2005 Salon Centro Projects, Mexico City, Mexico, Boy Meets Girls
2004 Arthouse, Austin, Texas, New American Talent, curated by Jerry Saltz
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 20th Anniversary Exhibition
d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Summer Group Show
CRG Gallery, New York, New York, Private
Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, California, The Third Coast: Texas on Townsend
2003 Goldspace, Brooklyn, New York, Lightshow
Garage Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Primal Destinations
Wonkwang Culture Center, Iskan City, South Korea, Invited Exhibition of Montlcair State University
2002 Arthouse, Austin, Texas, Five x Seven x X
2001 The Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, Five by Seven by X
Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, Group Show
Dunne & Brown, Dallas, Texas, Group Show
Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York, Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition and Auction
2000 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Drawing
Nancy Scanlan Gallery, Austin, Texas, Anniversary Art Show - A Collection of Alumni Art
Century 900 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Recent Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings: Christopher Schade, Nyame 0. Brown and Marc Connor
The Dougherty Art Center, Austin, Texas, Austin Community College Faculty Show
1998 The Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, Art School Faculty Show
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York, A Skowhegan Decade
1997 Yale University School of Art, Good and Good For You M.F .A. Thesis Exhibit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002 – Present Assistant Professor, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
1999 – 2002 Adjunct Instructor, Austin Community College (Painting, Drawing and Design)
1998 – 2002 Freelance Visual Art Critic, ArtLies A Texas Art Journal, Houston
1998 – 1999 Instructor, Adult Classes, The Austin Museum of Art, The Art School (Drawing)
1998 – 1999 Instructor, Informal Classes, University of Texas at Austin (Painting and Drawing)
1997 – 2000 Freelance Visual Art Critic, The Austin American Statesman
1997 Assistant Instructor, Yale University School of Art (Lithography)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 New American Painting

2007 Erin Keever, “Exhibit Captures the Art of the Island,” The Austin American Statesman, January 11, 2007, D7.

2007 Amanda Douberley, “Christopher Schade: Islands,” The Austin Chronicle, January 26, 2007, p.55.

2006 Helsem, Michael, “The Drama of Discontinuous Space,” Dallas Arts Revue, 21 September.

2006 Nikki Moore, “HEAT,” The Austin Chronicle, Vol. 25 No. 45, 7 July.

2006 Hillary McMahan, “Heat at d berman,” Cantanker Magazine, 19 June.

2004 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Curator Weaves New Craftiness into Expanded ‘New American Talent’ Show”, The Austin American Statesman.

2001 Wayne Alan Brenner, “Sandra Fiedorek, Christopher Schade”, The Austin Chronicle.

2001 Michael Barnes, “Gallery Watch”, The Austin American Statesman.

1998 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Homegrown Hodgepodge”, The Austin American Statesman.