CHRISTOPHER MIR (American b. 1970-)Painter Christopher was born in 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Camden, Maine, and now lives and works in Rockport, Maine. Christopher has had five solo shows in New York (four at RARE Gallery and one at Benrimon Contemporary). In addition he has had four solo exhibitions in Europe: at Galeria Senda in Barcelona, Schuster Gallery in Berlin, and two at TM Projects in Geneva. Christopher's paintings have also been exhibited at MASS MoCA, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the deCordova Museum. Major collections include the Yale University Art Gallery, Susan and Michael Hort, Simon Watson, Pamela Auchincloss, Matthew and Iris Strauss, Beth Rudin DeWoody, and Jeff Bezos. In 2003 Christopher was awarded the Rhema Hort Mann foundation grant. In 2010 he was commissioned to make a painting for the US Embassy in Zambia, Africa. Essays/ reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Art Forum, Creative Europe, and Take Magazine.