Christopher Le Brun

Le Brun was born in Portsmouth in 1951. From 1970–74, he studied for the DFA at Slade School of Art and for an MA at Chelsea College of Arts between 1974–75. He has taught and lectured at art schools, including Brighton, the Slade, Chelsea, Wimbledon and Royal Drawing School. A double prizewinner at the biennial John Moores Painting Prize, Le Brun was one of ten Shortlisted Prize Winners in 1978,{{Cite web |title=John Moores exhibition 11, 1978 |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/john-moores-exhibition-11#section--the-exhibition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510145638/https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/john-moores-exhibition-11 |archive-date=10 May 2023 |website=National Museums Liverpool}} and won 3rd Prize in 1980.{{Cite web |title=John Moores exhibition 12, 1980 |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/john-moores-exhibition-12-0#section--the-exhibition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510150310/https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/john-moores-exhibition-12-0 |archive-date=10 May 2023 |website=National Museums Liverpool}} His first solo exhibition was in 1980 with Nigel Greenwood Gallery“Christopher Le Brun CV,” Lisson Gallery (website). https://lisson-art.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/body/16102/Christopher_Le_Brun_CV.pdf (Accessed 13 Jan. 2021). and soon after he was included in international exhibitions such as the Venice BiennaleLa Biennale di Venezia: Arti Visive ’82 (Milan: Electa, 1982). [{{ISBN|9788820802912}}] and Zeitgeist at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.Joachimedes, Christos M. and Rosenthal, Norman, eds., Zeitgeist (Berlin: George Braziller, 1984). [{{ISBN|9780807610954}}] His international art include, "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture]" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1984, "Avant-garde in the Eighties"{{Cite book|last=art|first=Los Angeles county museum of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdKHxAEACAAJ|title=Avant-garde in the Eighties: Exhibition Held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art 23 April-12 July 1987 /organised by Howard N. Fox ...|date=1987|publisher=County Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87587-138-7|language=en}} at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1987 and "Contemporary Voices" at MoMA in 2005.

He was one of the five artists shortlisted for a monumental sculpture commission, the Ebbsfleet Landmark (Angel of the South) in 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2008/may/07/ebbsfleetlandmark|title=The Ebbsfleet Landmark shortlist|date=7 May 2008|work=The Guardian|accessdate=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107012021/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2008/may/07/ebbsfleetlandmark|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=live}} In 2011, he was the chief co-ordinator of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. On 8 December 2011, he was elected president of the Royal Academy{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16105958|title=Christopher Le Brun becomes Royal Academy president|date=9 December 2011|accessdate=18 November 2016|publisher=BBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911010337/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16105958|archive-date=11 September 2018|url-status=live}} and interviewed about his role by the Guardian Professional Networks in 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/jul/02/christopher-le-brun-royal-academy-interview|title=Arts head: Christopher Le Brun, president, Royal Academy of Arts|author=Matthew Caines|date=2 July 2013|accessdate=18 November 2016|work=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031403/https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/jul/02/christopher-le-brun-royal-academy-interview|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=live}} During his presidency, he was closely involved in the most significant redevelopment in the academy’s 250 year history.“President of London’s Royal Academy of Arts to Step Down,” Artforum (30 Sept. 2019). https://www.artforum.com/news/president-of-london-s-royal-academy-of-arts-to-step-down-80931 (Accessed 13 Jan. 21) Le Brun stepped down in December 2019.“Christopher Le Brun to Step Down as President of the Royal Academy of Arts,” Art Dependence (2 Oct. 2019). https://www.artdependence.com/articles/christopher-le-brun-to-step-down-as-president-of-the-royal-academy-of-arts/ (Accessed 13 Jan. 2021). See also “Christopher Le Brun Royal Academy President to Step Down,” Artlyst (26 Sept. 2019). https://www.artlyst.com/news/christopher-le-brun-royal-academy-president-step/ (Accessed 13 Jan. 2021). He lives and works in London and is married to the artist Charlotte Verity.

File:Christopher Le Brun, SL L IX, 2016.jpg

Le Brun is an experienced printmaker working in etching, lithography, woodcut and monotype. He had long term collaborations with Peter Kosowicz and Simon Marsh of the former Hope Sufferance Press as well as Paupers Press in London, Garner and Richard Tullis in Santa Barbara,{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/10953373/Christopher-Le-Brun-president-of-the-RA-remembers-working-in-his-studio-1986.html|title=Flashback: Christopher Le Brun president of the RA, remembers working in his studio, 1986|last=Ranscombe|first=Siân|date=11 July 2014|work=Telegraph Magazine|access-date=20 November 2017|page=74|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530062751/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/10953373/Christopher-Le-Brun-president-of-the-RA-remembers-working-in-his-studio-1986.html|archive-date=30 May 2018|url-status=live}} Michael Woolworth Publications in Paris and Graphic Studio in Dublin. Most recently, he has been working with Paragon Press in London.

File:Union (Horse with Two Discs) 1999-2000, Roche Court, Wiltshire..jpg, 1999–2000, Bronze, 469 x 255 x 158 cm. Installed in New Art Centre, Wiltshire.]]

• City Wing, 2009–13, 1,050 x 325 x 60 cm, bronze. A monumental sculpture was installed on Threadneedle Walk in Bank, London in 2013.
• A cast of his large bronze sculpture, Union (Horse with Two Discs) 1999–2000, was acquired by and installed at the entrance to the Museum of London in 2005. This was Le Brun's first large scale bronze.

Notable publications include Seven Lithographs 1989, Fifty Etchings 1991, Four Riders 1993, Wagner 1994, Motif Light 1998, Paris Lithographs 2000, Fifty Etchings 2005, Seria 2015–2016, Composer 2017, Doubles 2018, New Painting 2018.

• His work can be found in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works?locale=en&utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Prow&classifications=any&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2016&with_images=1|title=The Collection {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119062131/https://www.moma.org/collection/works?locale=en&utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Prow&classifications=any&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2016&with_images=1|archive-date=19 November 2016|url-status=live}} and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/680923|title=The Sense of Sight|access-date=2021-08-13|website=www.metmuseum.org}} New York; Yale Center for British Art,{{Cite web|title=Christopher Le Brun, born 1951, British, Kingdom, 2015|url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:72220|work=Yale Center for British Art|access-date=June 19, 2022}} New Haven; Tate,{{Cite web|last=Tate|title=Christopher Le Brun PRA born 1951|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christopher-le-brun-pra-1481|access-date=2021-08-13|website=Tate|language=en-GB}} the V&A{{Cite web|title=Brunhilde|work=The Victoria and Albert Museum|date=5 August 1994 |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O229363/brunhilde-print-le-brun-christopher/}} and the British Museum,{{Cite web|title=Collections Online {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG35090|access-date=2021-08-13|website=www.britishmuseum.org}} London; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.{{Cite web|title=Works by Christopher Le Brun {{!}} Art Gallery of NSW|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=le-brun-christopher|access-date=2021-08-13|website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au}}

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• [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/christopher-le-brun-ppra Profile] on Royal Academy of Arts website
• [http://www.lissongallery.com/news/lisson-gallery-announces-representation-of-christopher-le-brun Lisson Gallery, London]
• [http://www.albertzbenda.com/artists/christopher-le-brun Albertz Benda, New York]

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