BIO

Painter Chrys Riviere-Blalock studied at Meredith College, Parsons The New School for Design, and Appalachian State University. She has taught studio and art history classes in small NC colleges for over 25 years, served as an exhibition juror and visiting artist at colleges in North and South Carolina, and led undergraduate art travel/study programs in France. She is a 2011 and 2014 recipient of the NC Regional Artist Project Grant from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Arts and Science Council. Her work was selected for a solo exhibit on view 24/7 at the Hearst Tower Plaza during the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and has been shown in NY at Artists Space and the Prince Street Gallery, in MS at the Lauren Rodgers Museum of Art, in NC at GreenHill Center, the Bascom, the Hickory Museum of Art, and by the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission. Artist residencies include Mountain Gateway Museum and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, where she is a 2014 Hambidge Fellow. In 2020 she was invited by the US State Department to exhibit work at the US Embassy in Latvia as part of the Art in Embassies program.