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Chris Mills
Email: ChrisMillsArtist@gmail.com | Website: www.chrismillsartist.com
Professional Summary
My acrylic paintings depict the ravaged landscape of “ghost forests.” These once-verdant topographies, a consequence of climate change, are remnants of wooded areas destroyed by groundwater salination, pesticides, herbicides, drought, pests, and storms. Themes include memory, loss, change and the tragic beauty of decay.
I work with diluted, flat, house paint on synthetic silk. My role includes being a facilitator, encouraging – and discouraging – migration and co-mingling of pigment.
As beautiful as they are disturbing, these denuded forms, in tortured and often luminous settings, reflect the tragic irony – and real-world truth – of what ghost forests mean: as a consequence of contemporary life, they illustrate the cost of systems that enable modern living yet are poisoning the literal and figurative well.
Education
BA, Haverford College
Exhibitions
Juried Prize Winner, Expressions of Radnor, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA February 2026
Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, April 2025
Expressions of Radnor, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA February 2025
Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, April 2024
Juried Exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, January 2021
Juried Exhibition, Metro Montage XVII, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA, June 2017
Solo Exhibition, Bryn Mawr College Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr PA, February 2005
Solo Exhibition, Café Procopio, Wayne PA, November 2003
Juried Exhibition, Studio 4 West, Piermont NY, August 2000
Juried Exhibition, Target Gallery, Alexandria VA, May 2000
Juried Exhibition, Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists, April 2000
Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA, November 1999
Juried Exhibition, Artforms Gallery, Philadelphia PA, February 1999
“Blow Up” cooperative exhibition, SITE Los Angeles, February 1997
Juried Exhibition, Artforms Gallery, Philadelphia PA, October 1996