Chris Klein

Christopher Klein is a British visual artist based in Quebec, best known for his richly colored, hyperrealistic paintings portraying original scenic costumes from theatrical plays, films, and period collections. His oeuvre was described as "a poetics of observation as a repeated and prolonged meditation on these beautiful fabrics, folds, pleats and colours". Since the mid-nineties, he has worked as a scenic artist on many films and theatrical plays.

Career

In Ontario, Klein he was hired as a Head of Scenic Art at the Stratford Festival. Klein has painted costumes from major productions such as The Phantom of the Opera, and exhibited them at Bernaducci Gallery. and Thierry Mugler.

Klein painted costumes for the cover of a Disney brochure celebrating The Lion King's 20th anniversary in London. Klein's paintings of scrapyards were included in an exhibition at Nicole Longnecker Gallery.

Awards Klein's distinctions as an artist include:

Shortlisted as a finalist to the Figuratieve Kunst Vandaag (FiKVA-foundation) International Award for Painters in 2022 Best of Show, Grey Cube Gallery, 2022 Grand Prize of the Teravarna Gallery Fall competition in 2023 Winner, Boynes Monthly Art Award, December 2023

Exhibitions

Solo shows

2013: Galerie Richelieu, Montreal, Canada 2013: Galerie Luz, Montreal, Canada 2017: Westland Gallery, London, ON, Canada 2016: Nicole Longnecker Gallery, “Industrialism in the 21st Century”, Houston, USA 2018: Agora Gallery, Summer Show, Stratford, Ontario, Canada 2019: Bantierra Palace, ArteLibre 20th Anniversary show, Zaragoza, Spain 2019: MEAM Museum, ArteLibre 20th Anniversary show, Barcelona, Spain 2019: Bernarducci Gallery, “New York Cool” New York, USA 2020: Art Palm Beach, Anthony Brunelli Gallery Booth, Florida, USA 2020: CK Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2020: American University Art Museum in Washington DC, USA 2021: Agora at the Bruce, Agora Gallery, Stratford, Ontario, Canada 2021: Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece 2021: Arte Roma Gallery, ArteLibre 20th Anniversary show, Zaragoza, Spain 2023: "Coronation", Plus One Gallery, London, UK 2023: San Francisco Art Market, CK Contemporary booth, San Francisco, USA 2023: CK Contemporary 10th Anniversary Show, San Francisco, USA 2023: Agora Gallery, Stratford, 10th Anniversary Show, Ontario, Canada 2023: HYPER'23, European Realism, Photobastei Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2023-2024: Christmas Show, Plus One Gallery, London, UK 2024: Fernand Nault: une passion, un legs, Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada