EDUCATION
Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA)
2014 Master of Fine Arts (Magna Cum Laude) – Sculpture
Rochester Institute of Technology – School of American Crafts (Rochester, NY)
2003 Master of Fine Arts – Ceramics/Ceramic Sculpture
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
2001 Post-Baccalaureate Degree – Sculpture
The University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Ceramics
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Single Stone Wall", Outdoor Installation, Galway Ireland
2022 "Stick Grid", Installation, La Plata, Argentina
2019 “Here and Gone”, Street Art Installation, Exarcheia, Athens, Greece
2018 “Christopher Kanyusik: Equilibro/Contrapesto (Balance/Counterbalance), Compas del Convento, Rota, Spain
2015 “Chris Kanyusik: 25lbs.”, Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011 “Chris Kanyusik: Sculptures”, Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 “Christopher Kanyusik”, Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin, Germany
2004 “Chris Kanyusik: Sculptures”, Bethany College, Mankato, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Figure or Face”, Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA
2022 “UT22 Statewide Annual Exhibition”, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, UT
“Open Call 2022”, Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA
“Light and Shade”, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 “Autumn Earths”, The Helper Art Space, Helper, UT
“Liminal”, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
“Models in Motion”, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Tarzana, CA
“All Abstraction”, 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC
“Artist’s Vision 2021”, Marin Society of Artists, Marin, CA
2020 “Statewide Annual Exhibition”, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Salt Lake City, UT
“Winter Fires”, The Helper Art Space, Helper, UT
“Art in Isolation”, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
“A Ceramics Exhibition”, In Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
“CCAN 2020”, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
2019 “Pushing Paper”, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
“USU Faculty Exhibition”, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, Logan, UT
2018 “Suspend”, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
“Aniversario de Cinco Anos”, Galleria de Cubos Blancos, Cadiz, Spain
“Statewide Annual”, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2017 “Relative Visions”, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
“Statewide Annual”, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2016 “La Nino”, SMAART Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 “RESET: Reinventing the Wheel”, Studio FAB, Oakland, CA
“Friends with Karma: Peer Juried Exhibition”, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Portrait/Self-Portrait”, Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA
2013 “Small Works Show”, Gary Francis Fine Arts, Alameda, CA
“Annual Sculpture Exhibition”, Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA
“Body Language: Figures in Clay”, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
2012 “Protection, Transcendence and Closure”, Float Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Heroes and Villains”, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
“Ceramics Annual of America”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Visions in Clay”, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
“Feats of Clay”, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA
“Salon 300”, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2010 “Figuration”, Windsor Whip Works Gallery, Windsor, NY
“3rd Biennial Contemporary Juried Exhibition”, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
AWARDS
2021 “Models in Motion”, Honorable Mention
2020 “A Ceramics Exhibition”, 2nd Place
2019 “Pushing Paper”, Best of Show
2011 “Santa Clara Biennial”, Honorable Mention - Sculpture
2009 “Prairie Lakes Fine Arts Exhibition”, 2nd Place - Sculpture
2003 “Minnesota Fine Arts Exhibition”, 3rd Place - Ceramic Sculpture
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Utah State University Eastern (Price, UT)
Assistant Professor, Ceramics and Sculpture 08/16 – present
Laney College (Oakland, CA)
Instructor – Introduction to Art History 06/15 – 07/16
Instructor – Beginning/Advanced Sculpture 01/15 – 07/16
Merritt College (Oakland, CA)
Instructor – Foundations of Ceramics 8/15 - 7/16
City College of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Instructor – Continuing Education Ceramics 02/08 – 07/16
Walnut Creek Civic Arts (Walnut Creek, CA)
Instructor – The Human Figure in Clay 01/08 – 07/16
Instructor – Ceramic Sculpture 01/06 – 07/16
Instructor – Mold Making 06/15 – 07/16
Instructor – Abstract Sculpture 08/15
Instructor – The Human Head in Clay 06/06, 08/08
RELATED EXPERIENCE
The Helper Art Space and Gallery
Owner/Director 06/17 – present
Residencia Corazon (La Plata, Argentina)
Resident Artist 06/22 – 07/22
FaveLab (Athens, Greece)
Resident Artist 05/19 – 06/19
Pinea-Linea de Costa (Rota, Spain)
Resident Artist 07/18 – 08/18
Casanova Pottery Studio (Camaguey, Cuba)
People-to-People Studio Visit 06/16
Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Resident Artist 01/10 – 03/10
PUBLICATIONS
Geoff Wichert, “SWA 2022 Works Are Embedded in Our Common Cause”, 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine, http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/swa-2022-works-are-embedded-in-our-common-cause/, November 21, 2022
Rebecca Pyle, “Helper Utah, Cloud Factory, Dream Factory”, 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine, http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/helper-utah-cloud-factory-dream-factory, October 12, 2021
Christina Hughes, “Artist Voices: Helper Utah”, The Hughes Project, https://hughes-projects.com/2021/02/17/artist-voices-helper-utah-pt-2/,
February, 2021
Andrew Hislop, “Unique Wood Kiln Comes to Helper”, The Sun Advocate, August 14, 2018
artaxis.org, https://artaxis.org/christopher-kanyusik/, 2016
Nick Major, "Local Artists Come to Skyline to Showcase Their Work," The Skyline View, February 14, 2013.
Nirmala Nataraj, "'Protection, Transcendence, and Closure' at Float," San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2012, Section F, p.14.
Ilena Finocchi, "Exhibition Review, Ceramics Annual of America: 2011," Ceramics Monthly, January 2012, pp.48-51.
Susannah Israel, "Las cadre at Black Bean Ceramic Art Center," ARTSHIFT San Jose, November 8, 2011.
Michael Singman-Aste, "Chris Kanyusik's Savage Planet," www.postdiluvianphoto.com, December 8, 2009.
EDUCATION
Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA)
2014 Master of Fine Arts (Magna Cum Laude) – Sculpture
Rochester Institute of Technology – School of American Crafts (Rochester, NY)
2003 Master of Fine Arts – Ceramics/Ceramic Sculpture
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
2001 Post-Baccalaureate Degree – Sculpture
The University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Ceramics
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Single Stone Wall", Outdoor Installation, Galway Ireland
2022 "Stick Grid", Installation, La Plata, Argentina
2019 “Here and Gone”, Street Art Installation, Exarcheia, Athens, Greece
2018 “Christopher Kanyusik: Equilibro/Contrapesto (Balance/Counterbalance), Compas del Convento, Rota, Spain
2015 “Chris Kanyusik: 25lbs.”, Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011 “Chris Kanyusik: Sculptures”, Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 “Christopher Kanyusik”, Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin, Germany
2004 “Chris Kanyusik: Sculptures”, Bethany College, Mankato, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Figure or Face”, Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA
2022 “UT22 Statewide Annual Exhibition”, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, UT
“Open Call 2022”, Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA
“Light and Shade”, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 “Autumn Earths”, The Helper Art Space, Helper, UT
“Liminal”, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
“Models in Motion”, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Tarzana, CA
“All Abstraction”, 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC
“Artist’s Vision 2021”, Marin Society of Artists, Marin, CA
2020 “Statewide Annual Exhibition”, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Salt Lake City, UT
“Winter Fires”, The Helper Art Space, Helper, UT
“Art in Isolation”, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
“A Ceramics Exhibition”, In Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
“CCAN 2020”, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
2019 “Pushing Paper”, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
“USU Faculty Exhibition”, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries, Logan, UT
2018 “Suspend”, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
“Aniversario de Cinco Anos”, Galleria de Cubos Blancos, Cadiz, Spain
“Statewide Annual”, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2017 “Relative Visions”, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
“Statewide Annual”, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2016 “La Nino”, SMAART Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 “RESET: Reinventing the Wheel”, Studio FAB, Oakland, CA
“Friends with Karma: Peer Juried Exhibition”, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Portrait/Self-Portrait”, Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA
2013 “Small Works Show”, Gary Francis Fine Arts, Alameda, CA
“Annual Sculpture Exhibition”, Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA
“Body Language: Figures in Clay”, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
2012 “Protection, Transcendence and Closure”, Float Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Heroes and Villains”, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA
“Ceramics Annual of America”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Visions in Clay”, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
“Feats of Clay”, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA
“Salon 300”, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2010 “Figuration”, Windsor Whip Works Gallery, Windsor, NY
“3rd Biennial Contemporary Juried Exhibition”, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
AWARDS
2021 “Models in Motion”, Honorable Mention
2020 “A Ceramics Exhibition”, 2nd Place
2019 “Pushing Paper”, Best of Show
2011 “Santa Clara Biennial”, Honorable Mention - Sculpture
2009 “Prairie Lakes Fine Arts Exhibition”, 2nd Place - Sculpture
2003 “Minnesota Fine Arts Exhibition”, 3rd Place - Ceramic Sculpture
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Utah State University Eastern (Price, UT)
Assistant Professor, Ceramics and Sculpture 08/16 – present
Laney College (Oakland, CA)
Instructor – Introduction to Art History 06/15 – 07/16
Instructor – Beginning/Advanced Sculpture 01/15 – 07/16
Merritt College (Oakland, CA)
Instructor – Foundations of Ceramics 8/15 - 7/16
City College of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Instructor – Continuing Education Ceramics 02/08 – 07/16
Walnut Creek Civic Arts (Walnut Creek, CA)
Instructor – The Human Figure in Clay 01/08 – 07/16
Instructor – Ceramic Sculpture 01/06 – 07/16
Instructor – Mold Making 06/15 – 07/16
Instructor – Abstract Sculpture 08/15
Instructor – The Human Head in Clay 06/06, 08/08
RELATED EXPERIENCE
The Helper Art Space and Gallery
Owner/Director 06/17 – present
Watershed Studios (Galway Ireland)
Resident Artist 06/23
Residencia Corazon (La Plata, Argentina)
Resident Artist 06/22 – 07/22
FaveLab (Athens, Greece)
Resident Artist 05/19 – 06/19
Pinea-Linea de Costa (Rota, Spain)
Resident Artist 07/18 – 08/18
Casanova Pottery Studio (Camaguey, Cuba)
People-to-People Studio Visit 06/16
Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Resident Artist 01/10 – 03/10
PUBLICATIONS
Geoff Wichert, “SWA 2022 Works Are Embedded in Our Common Cause”, 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine, http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/swa-2022-works-are-embedded-in-our-common-cause/, November 21, 2022
Rebecca Pyle, “Helper Utah, Cloud Factory, Dream Factory”, 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine, http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/helper-utah-cloud-factory-dream-factory, October 12, 2021
Christina Hughes, “Artist Voices: Helper Utah”, The Hughes Project, https://hughes-projects.com/2021/02/17/artist-voices-helper-utah-pt-2/,
February, 2021
Andrew Hislop, “Unique Wood Kiln Comes to Helper”, The Sun Advocate, August 14, 2018
artaxis.org, https://artaxis.org/christopher-kanyusik/, 2016
Nick Major, "Local Artists Come to Skyline to Showcase Their Work," The Skyline View, February 14, 2013.
Nirmala Nataraj, "'Protection, Transcendence, and Closure' at Float," San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2012, Section F, p.14.
Ilena Finocchi, "Exhibition Review, Ceramics Annual of America: 2011," Ceramics Monthly, January 2012, pp.48-51.
Susannah Israel, "Las cadre at Black Bean Ceramic Art Center," ARTSHIFT San Jose, November 8, 2011.
Michael Singman-Aste, "Chris Kanyusik's Savage Planet," www.postdiluvianphoto.com, December 8, 2009.