CHRISTOPHER VOLPE

Hollis, NH

CONTACT

chris (at) christophervolpe.com 603.770.3058

christophervolpe.com | #christophervolpe

EDUCATION

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, MA/MFA, Poetry

Stony Brook University, NY, BA, English & Philosophy

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Coastal, Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, 2024

2023

Loomings, Cove Street Gallery, Portland, ME

Midair, Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

Loomings, New England College, Henniker, NH

2022

New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA

2021

Alchemy & After, Kingston Gallery, Boston

Hinterland, Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

2020

Stills from an Unknown Film, Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH

2019

The Emerald Pool, Holderness School, Holderness, NH

Turning Point, Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

2018

LOOMINGS, Matter & Light Fine Art, Boston, MA

The Sea and the Shore, Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

2017

Signs & Wonders, Joseph John Moakly Federal Building, Boston, MA

Loomings, Taylor Gallery, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH

Loomings, Owen Smith Schuman Art Gallery, Groton, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Disappearing Worlds, Georges Berges Gallery, NYC

Maine, the Painted State, Greehut Gallery, Portland, ME

2024

Nurture: Empathy for the Earth in conjunction with the conference “Thinking About Climate Change: Art, Science, and Imagination in the 21st Century” University of Massachusetts, Boston

2023 etc.

HORIZONS, Museum of New Art, Portsmouth, NH

Nocturnes, Hopkinton NH Center for the Arts

Maine Biennial, Greenhut Gallery, ME

Fire and Ice, Cummings Art Center, New London, CT

EXTRACTION, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

The Moby Show, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA

Environmental Impact II, multiple locations traveling throughout U.S. and Canada

Tenebras Lux (two-person), Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH

Oblique Horizon, Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH

Nor Roots, Nor Stars, Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Alton, NH

ArtCetera, Castle at Park Plaza, Boston, MA

Plunge, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

80th Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA

Boston International Fine Art Show, Cyclorama, Boston, MA

RESIDENCES, GRANTS, VISITING & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Visiting Artist, New England College, 2025

Presenting Panelist, “Thinking About Climate Change: Art, Science, and Imagination in the 21st Century” University of Massachusetts, Boston 2024

Art & Climate Change Plenary Speaker, Risk Narratives, Aegean University, Turkey

Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Fall 2023

Visiting Artists, New England College, Henniker, NH, 2023

Visiting Artist, College of the Holy Cross, MA 2022

Artist in Residence, Star Island, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire 2019 - 2020

Artist in Residence, Ogunquit Summer School of Art, Perkins Cove AIR Program, 2019

Shapley-Booth Fellow, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS). Presenter: Art of Climate Change, 2018

St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, 2017

St. Botolph Nellie Taft Grant, 2017

Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, 2018

Artist in Residence, AMC Highland Center, White Mountains, NH 2014 - 2017

Artist in Residence, Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, 2016, 2017

Artist Advancement Grant, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, 2012

Mass MoCA / Assets for Artists Grant, 2011

Manchester College Graphic Arts Program Advisory Board, 2010

New Hampshire Humanities Council Grant, 2008

McNair Faculty Mentor, University of New Hampshire, 2006

Calderwood Fellowship for teaching writing across the disciplines, Boston Athenaeum and Franklin Pierce College, 2005

Graduate Assistantship and Ann Pazo Mayberry Award (poetry), UNH, 1996

MUSEUM & UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS

Aegean University, Izmir, Turkey

New Bedford Whaling Museum

New England College

Smith College

University of New Hampshire

Whistler House Museum

TEACHING

Be Wild – Stay True! Poetic and Meaningful Abstraction, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA, 2024

Onward & Inward, Expressive Alla Prima Oil Painting, Hollis Art Space, 2023

Composition in Painting, Concord Center for the Arts, Concord, MA 2023

Working in Series, Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, MA 2021

Working in Series (Zoom), Concord Center for the Arts, Concord, MA 2021

Beginning Oil Painting (Zoom), Concord Center for the Arts, Concord, MA 2021

Painting the White Mountains, annual workshop, Sept. 2007 - 2020

Painting in Series, North Country Studio Workshops, Bennington, VT, 2019

Finding Your Work, Concord Center for the Arts, MA 2019

Working In Series, Creative Ventures, Milford, NH, 2019

Finding Your Work, Wild Salamander Creative Arts, Hollis, NH, 2019

Artist Mentor, Lesley University Visual Arts (MFA) Program, 2018

Contemporary Oils Master Class, Wild Salamander Creative Arts, Hollis, NH, 2016-2018

Plein Air in Scotland, 2017

Group and Couples Workshops, Wounded Warriors Program, AMC, 2017-2018

Plein Air Painting, Montserrat College of Art, Summer Intensive, 2017

The Poetry of Paint, Creative Ventures Gallery and Studios, 2017

The Art of Seeing, five-day workshop in Ogunquit, Maine, 2015

Beyond Plein-Air, Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, MA, 2013-2016

Writing About Art, New Hampshire Writers Project, Concord, NH, 2012

Contemporary Painting in Oils, Arts League of Lowell, 2014-16

Intermediate Oil Painting, Wild Salamander Arts Center, Hollis, NH, 2013-2016

Introductory Oil Painting, Cornerstone Gallery, Newmarket, 2010

Introduction to Oil Painting, Sanctuary Arts, York, ME, 2009

Comparative Religion, Chester College, 2007

Mythology in Art and Culture, Chester College, 2006-2007

History of Art, New Hampshire Institute of Art, 2007-2012

History of Art, Chester College of New England, 2005-2007

History of Art, Franklin Pierce University, Portsmouth Extension, 2003-2005

PUBLICATIONS (AUTHORED)

INSIDE ART, Editor, Streamline Publications, 2022 – With original content five days a week, present. INSIDE ART is the most widely distributed art newsletter in America (130,000+ subscribers).

Art New England Magazine, 2012 - present (columnist, feature writer, reviewer)

Loomings: Paintings in Tar, Oil & Gold Leaf with essays on Melville, America, and the Redeeming Power of Darkness, (author) 2021 (ISBN-978-1-00-664794)

On Making Art in the Anthropocene, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB), Stanford University, https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/on-making-art-in-the-Anthropocene

Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss 2021, original catalogue essay with images.

The Deep Dive: Moby-Dick and Making Art in the Anthropocene, Dark Ink Press, Issue 5, 2019

LOOMINGS: Art & Words by Christopher Volpe, PORTsmith, Fall/Winter 2018

Art of Climate Change: Contemporary Artists Respond to Global Crisis, Zygon, Journal of the Institute of Religion in an Age of Science, August 2018

Corot: An Early Outdoor Painter, in The Art of Plein Air Painting, ed. M. Stephen Doherty, Monacelli Press, NY, 2017

A Home of Permanent Beauty, Edmund Tarbell on the Piscataqua, lead essay in Illuminating Tarbell: Life and Art on the Piscataqua and Legacy in Action, Portsmouth Marine Society, 2016

Lisa Noonis: Balancing Act (catalogue essay), 2020

Lisa Noonis: TIDAL, Catalogue, The Banks Gallery, 2016

Carl Austin Hyatt, Portsmouth Harbor Salt Pile Series, Catalogue, The Banks Gallery, 2016

Painting in Verbs: Rediscovering the Art and Teaching of Charles Woodbury, Massachusetts Humanities Council. 2015

Maria J.C. a’Becket, Rediscovering an American Painter, Maine History, vol. 45, Dec. 2010, awarded the James Phinney Baxter Award for outstanding scholarly contribution.

A Legacy of Beauty, Painting in the Boston School Tradition (Blue Tree, 2006).

Living with Art, Eight Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2006) and The Humanistic Tradition, Book 1 (McGraw-Hill, 2006): writer, online learning and study guides.

REPRESENTATION

Alpers Fine Art, Rockport, MA

Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

New England Sketch Book, Newburyport, MA

Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, NH

Paul Scott Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Todd Bonita Galleries, Kittery, ME & Portsmouth, NH