Christopher Blay
CW.Blay@gmail.com
http://Blayblogger.blogspot.com
Education
BFA 2003 Studio Art Texas Christian University
AA 1998 Fine Art Tarrant County College
Selected Exhibitions/Performances (* Solo shows marked by asterisk)
2012
*Machine Time
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Dallas, TX
Frame Count
Timothy Harding and Christopher Blay
500X Gallery
Dallas, TX
*The Next Thrift Art Gallery Show: How Sorrow and Anger become Joy?
William Campbell Contemporary
Fort Worth, TX
*Modern Ruined, Thick and Wordy
Historic Bomar Apartments
Fort Worth, TX
2011
Homecoming Committe Launch Party
2525 Wisenberger St.
Fort Worth, TX
RE:Show (Muybridge's Closet)
1018 Gould Street
Dallas,TX
*Art Depreciation 1301: Art Before and After Culture
Ro2 Art Gallery 110 North Ackard
Dallas, TX
*Standard Model: Myths for a standard model of photography
Mighty Fine Arts Gallery
Dallas, TX
*Frank Artsmarter presents the second annual 10th anniversary Thrift Art Gallery Show and Auction
The William Campbell Contemporary
Fort Worth, TX
*Frank Artsmarter Stands for Art:
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
2010
Time Machine Beta, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Curator: Danette Dufilho, Gallery Manager
*Hidden Views, Installation, Fort Worth Central Library
Fort Worth, TX
*Frank Artsmarter Presents: Thrift Art Gallery Show and Auction 2010
Performance, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
DJ lo-Rez presents: What’s your resolution?
Performance, The DOJO, Austin TX
2009
*Microaudiotellarevolution: From the PRC to the TRC
Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
Curator, John Hartley
*Frank Artsmarter Presents: Thrift Art Gallery Show and Auction 2009
Performance, Landers Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2007
Peeps Show, Metrognome Collective, Fort Worth, TX
Vagina Monologues Installation, House of Blues, New Orleans, La
*Frank Artsmarter Presents: Thrift Art Gallery Show and Auction 2010
Performance, the Wreck Room, Fort Worth, TX
2005
*States of Things, Fain Warehouse, Fort Worth, TX
2004
Artists and their Mentors, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
2003
Metropolis, Arlington Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Curator: Elizabeth Delaney, Associate Curator
BFA Exhibit, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
2002
Group f8, Spring Show, Alpine Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2001
*Frank Artsmarter Presents: Thrift Art Gallery Show and Auction 2001
Performance, Fort Worth, TX
Photographs of Group f8 Fort Worth International Center, Fort Worth, TX
2000
Beauty as Revolution, Beauty As Revelation: Group f8, 7th Street Gallery
Other Views, Fort Worth International Center, Fort Worth, TX
Awards
2013
Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County $2,400 Grant for
"Keller Oral History Project"
Keller, TX
2011
2011 TCC Northeast Distinguished Alumni Award
Tarrant County College
Arlington, TX
Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County $2,500 Grant for
“Haltom City Stories”
Haltom City, TX
2009
Fort Worth Weekly
Critic’s Choice: Top 5 Artworks Created or Exhibited Locally
Fort Worth Weekly
Critic’s Choice: Gallery Art Show
2006
Fort Worth Weekly
Critic’s Choice, Visual Artist
Professional Appointments
2012
Advisory Board
Emergency Artist Support League
2012 - Present
2011
Exhibition Panel,
UTA Gallery 76102
2010 - 2012
Fort Worth, TX
Art This Week
Advisory Panel
Summer 2011
Fort Worth, TX
Bob Jones Nature Center
Grant funded visiting artist
June, 2011
Exhibitions Curated
2013
Letitia Huckaby: Redress
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College, Southeast, Arlington, TX
2012
Kris Pierce/Timothy Harding: Falloff
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College, Southeast, Arlington, TX
Architecture + Time: Measuring Space
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College, Southeast, Arlington, TX
Tarrant County College Art Faculty Biennial
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College, Southeast, Arlington, TX
Susan Harrington: A long History of Meaning
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Peter Helms Feresten ",,,My mind wanders to the south side of town".
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
2011
Note to Self
Adam Werner and Danny Haslett
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
String Theory: Connecting Lines
Anne Allen, Janet Chaffee and Tiffany Wolf
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
The Pencil of Nature
James Dewhirst and Angilee Wilkerson
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Carl Bajandas: Working Drawings
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Ryder Richards: Pow[d]er
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Black Codes from the Underground
Zoetina Veal and Niyi Olagunju
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
2010
AC-X: 10 years in the Corridor
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Julia Ousley: Urbanity
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Museum Staff Only
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlinton, TX
Rachel Bounds: Buried Sunshine
Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast, Arlington, TX
Hidden Views, Installation, Fort Worth Central Library
Fort Worth, TX
2002
Group f8, Spring Show, Alpine Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2000
Beauty as Revolution, Beauty As Revelation: Group f8, 7th Street Gallery
Fort Worth, TX
Bibliography
Anthony Mariani “States of Things, Indeed” Fort Worth Weekly (October 12, 2005)
Anthony Mariani “Fort Worth Weekly, Best of 2006” Fort Worth Weekly (September 20 2006)
Kultur “Story Fronts” Fort Worth Weekly (May 24 2006)
Anthony Mariani “The Revolution, Televised” Fort Worth Weekly (February 18, 2009)
Anna Caplan “Christopher Blay: Microaudiotellarevolution: From the PRC to the TRC” Art DFW (March, 2009)
