Christa Stephens

  • b. 1967, Portales, NM

  • Lives and works in Santa Fe, NM

Solo Exhibitions

  • Modular Concepts, Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2024

  • Patterns & Polyphonies (pop-up show), Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2023

  • Perceptual Abstractions: Field Theories From the Autism Spectrum, Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2022

  • Transforming the Desert, Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2022

Select Juried Group Exhibitions

  • Women’s Work, Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2024

  • Harmonize, Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2024

  • ArtsThrive: Art Exhibition & Benefit, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 2024

  • Kaleidoscope (virtual), Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2023

  • ArtsThrive: Art Exhibition & Benefit, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 2023

  • Tedocchio, Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2023

  • Women's Work, Ghostwolf Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2022

  • ArtsThrive: Art Exhibition & Benefit, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 2021

  • Biennial: Origins in Geometry, Museum of Geometric & Madi Art, Dallas, TX, 2021

  • Spot On #2: National Juried Exhibition, D’Art Gallery, Denver, CO, 2021

  • Phenomenon: Contemporary Abstraction (virtual), Artist Alliance Juried Exhibition, 2021

  • Color 2021: 4th Annual International Exhibition, 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, 2021

  • Juried Gallery, Lubbock Arts Festival, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX, 2021

  • Fragments (virtual), Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2020

  • Taos Art Insurgency: The New Protagonists, Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Taos, NM, 2020

  • Museum from Home: The Resilience Project (virtual), 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, 2020

  • The Art of Being Alone: Artists in Quarantine (virtual), Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, 2020

  • Biennial: Origins in Geometry, Museum of Geometric & Madi Art, Dallas, TX, 2019

  • Happy Little Clouds: Skyscapes of New Mexico, Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2019

  • Sync 10: Annual National Juried Exhibition, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO, 2019

  • Taos Art Insurgency: The New Protagonists, Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Taos, NM, 2019

  • Non-Objective Abstract National Exhibit, 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, 2019

  • National Juried Open Show, Pirate Contemporary Art, Lakewood, CO, 2018

  • Taos Art Insurgency: The New Protagonists, Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Taos, NM, 2018

  • Juried Gallery, Lubbock Arts Festival, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX, 2018

  • Women’s Work, Ghostwolf Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2018

  • 50th Arts International Juried Exhibit, International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, 2017

  • After: A National Juried Exhibition, Studio & Gallery, Durango, CO, 2017

Honors and Awards

  • 1st Place, Juried Gallery, Lubbock Arts Festival, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX, 2021

  • Bronze Award, Color 2021: 4th Annual International Exhibition, 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, 2021

  • Director’s Choice Invitational, Taos Art Insurgency: The New Protagonists, Taos, NM, 2020

  • 3rd Place, Juried Gallery, Lubbock Arts Festival, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX, 2018

  • Honorable Mention, 50th Intl. Juried Art Exhibition, International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, 2017

Publications

  • Taos Abstract Artist Collective. Spring Exhibition Catalog. Independently Published. 2024

  • Arc Gallery and Studios. Kaleidoscope. San Francisco. Independently Published. 2023

  • April Pearson-Decklever and Lincoln Decklever. Time for Sleep Mode, Little Robot. Popinjay Press. 2023

  • Julia Goldberg. Weekend Picks. Santa Fe Reporter: November 9 Issue. 2022

  • Riley Gardner. SFR Picks. Santa Fe Reporter: February 9 Issue. 2022

  • Arc Gallery and Studios. Fragments. San Francisco. Independently Published. 2020

  • Stew Mosberg. Mixing it Up. The Durango Telegraph: April 13 Issue. 2017

Gallery Representation

  • Aurelia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2021 - present

  • Ghostwolf Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2018 - 2019

Affiliations

  • New Mexico State Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • Taos Abstract Artist Collective, Taos, NM

Purchase Initiatives

  • New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Only Purchase Initiative, 2023-2025

  • New Mexico Arts, Southwest Artist Series Purchase Initiative, 2022-2024

  • New Mexico Arts, Large Scale Purchase Initiative, 2019-2022

Education

  • Drawing & mixed media, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2011

  • Painting, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Washington DC, 2010

  • Graphic design, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, 2005-06

  • Bachelor of Music, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX, 1990