Chris Lux 

born 1980, San Francisco, CA

lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

San Francisco Art Institute, 2002

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

Chris Lux, House of Seiko, Los Angeles, 2025

Chris Lux, Hous eof Seiko, San Francisco, 2025

Chris Lux, Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium, 2025

Revel Hall, Chris Lux and Amelia Lockwood, GGLA, S.A.L.A, Los Angeles, 2024

Incense, GGLA, Los Angeles, 2023

Frog Crossing, Scooters for Peace, Tokyo, Japan, 2023

The Mask Store, Red Zone, Los Angeles, 2018

Garfield Park, Clear Editions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017

Absinthe, Sade, Los Angeles, 2016

With Nude Spoons, Et al, San Francisco, 2015

Postcards…. from the Museum of Gas, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, 2015

Sometimes I say, Hey, Hey Mark Jupiter Moon, London, England 2014

Museum of Gas, Stussy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

Paintings and Drawings, Muddguts, New York, 2014

Eating Out Of The Drain, The Popular Workshop, San Francisco, 2012

Find Out Why They Call Them Pigs, Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011

Give Me Some Peppermint Freedom, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, 2009

Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, 2008

Selected Group Exhibitions

Group Shoe 4, Veta, Madrid, Spain, 2024

Spirit Sink, Ruttowski 68, New York, 2024

House Party, GGLA, Los Angeles, 2024

The Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 2023

Group Shoe 3, House of Seiko, San Francisco, 2023

Imperfect Paradise, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2023

Sticks and Stones, BGSU gallery, Bowling Green, Ohio, 2023 

Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center – JACCC, Los Angeles, 2022

Group Shoe 2, Public Access, New York, 2022

City Too Hot, curated by Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. & Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Los Angeles, 2021

Summer Session 2: Chris Lux, Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Ratio 3, Los Angeles, 2021

PRIMAVERA at the Baxter-Hodiak House, Carlye Packer, Los Angeles, 2021

I Wake Up and Write Down My Dreams, curated by Big Pictures Los Angeles, No Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019

Fantasia, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, 2019

Ways To Kill The Night, Soma Project Space, San Francisco, 2018

The Slim-Waisted Gate, C. Grimaldis Projects, Baltimore, 2018

Lamp Show, 99 Cent Gallery, Brooklyn, 2016

Let’s Get Figurative, Nicelle Beauchene, NYC, 2015

Scapes, Auto Body, Bellport, 2015

Children, (w. Greg Ito), Mission Comics, San Francisco, 2015

Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum, Oakland, 2014

They’re, There, Charlie James Gallery, Los uAngles, 2014

1717 Contemporary Art Center, Gallery Paula Anglim, San Francisco, 2012

LGBT, Gallery V1, Copenhagen, Netherlands, 2011

Bullet Train, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco,  2011

How About Now, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010

Dream Summer, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, 2010

Muddguts Meets Homebase, M.A.M.A, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2010

Murals

KOKO Camden, London, UK, 2022

Legacy Records Mural, New York City, 2018

The Drake Hotel, Toronto, 2017

The Starline Social Club, Oakland, 2017

Google Office, San Francisco, 2016

Facebook MPK 20, Menlo Park, 2015

The Bloc, Los Angeles, 2014

Alphabet Energy Mural, Hayward, 2012

RVCA window display, San Francisco, 2011

John Avalos Campaign Headquarters, San Francisco, 2009

Pacific Primary Pre-School, San Francisco, 2009

Le Mur Billboard, Paris, France, 2008

Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, 2007

Grey Area Gallery, San Francisco, 2007

Press

Architectural Digest, “Tour Legacy Records, New York’s Newest Hot Spot from Delicious Hospitality and Ken Fulk”, Hadley Keller, 2018

HyperAllergic, “Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows”, Hyperallergic 2015

SFAQ, “The Melancholy Decadence of Chris Lux’s With Nude Spoons”, Leora Lutz, 2015

San Francisco Chronicle, “Chris Lux re imagines Ming Dynasty sexcapades”, Kimberly Chun, 2015

SFAQ, “Eating Out of The Drain”, Kendall George, 2012

San Francisco Bay Guardian “Chris Lux: “Give Me Some Peppermint Freedom”, Johnny Ray Huston, 2009

Contact

chrisluxstudio@gmail.com