Since completing studies at The University of Newcastle in 1990, Chris Langlois has drawn acclaim with his epic landscapes. Chris completed a Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts in 1990 majoring in painting and drawing, being joint winner of the Maitland Tertiary Art Award in the same year. He started exhibiting in 1989 and in 1990 held a solo exhibition at Watt Space, going on to exhibit solo shows in the next two years in both Sydney and Newcastle. Newcastle Region Art Gallery honoured him with his first major solo exhibition at a public gallery in 1993. In 2001, a large survey exhibition, Land Sea Sky, was held at Metro Arts, Brisbane that then the following year toured to Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
Since 1990 Chris has shown regularly with Legge Gallery in Sydney (1990-2000), Martin Browne Fine Art, both in Sydney and Melbourne (2001-2006), Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle (2001), and Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney (2007 till present), Gould Galleries in Melbourne and Bruce Heiser in Brisbane.
In the past ten years his work has appeared in major curated exhibitions at Bendigo Art Gallery, Melbourne’s Monash University Museum of Art, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, UTS Gallery, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
Chris Langlois’ work is represented in public collections including Bendigo, Newcastle, Campbelltown, Manly and Maitland Regional Galleries, Parliament House, Canberra, The University of Newcastle; University of Technology, Sydney, Artbank, as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
He lives and works in Sydney.
