Chris Dorosz

Chris Dorosz is a Canadian-American artist who divides his time between San Francisco and Winnipeg. Dorosz has cultivated a hybrid painting-sculpture-photographic practice through which he explores the mutability of the physical world. Dorosz completed a BFA at Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design where he received the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship. In 2003 he won the Canadian Art and Royal Bank of Canada New Painting Competition He has exhibited across North America in solo exhibitions including the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Mission 17 Gallery in San Francisco, the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum and Plug-In Gallery in Winnipeg. His work has been featured in numerous group shows in Europe, the United States and Canada including the Royal College of Art in Edinburgh, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem and Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery in Halifax. Dorosz is a professor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he teaches colour theory.