BORN: Born 1970, Baltimore, Maryland

Lives and works in Hamden, Connecticut

Christopher Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms. These elements are often positioned within idealized landscapes in dream-like circumstances . Mir’s paintings invite us to experience a series of paradoxical relationships and unsettling juxtapositions. His figures and landscapes are drawn from specific sources yet remain anonymous; his painting style is relatively tight and refined, but his works are emotionally evocative and resonant. Mir’s narratives are equally complex and replete with provocative dichotomies such as, the mystical versus the physical, the spiritual versus the secular, and the primal versus the futuristic.

EDUCATION:

1995-1997 Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA

MFA Painting/Printmaking

studied with John Moore, John Walker, and Alfred Leslie

1988-1992 Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

BA Painting and Anthropology