Christopher Saah (American, born )

Timeline

1974
Born Washington, DC
1997
BA, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
1998
INTERNSHIP, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
2004
Society for Photographic Education, mid-Atlantic One of 10 photographers invited to present work at the 2004 Mid-Atlantic conference.
2004
Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA fellowship award, Photography and Digital Imaging
2005
Trawick Prize Semi-finalist, Selected as a semi-finalist from a field of 400 submissions. Selected as a winner of the annual photography competition, and included in the 2005 Photo Annual.
2006
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Exhibitions

2009
Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC, Washington Project for the Arts Annual Art Auction Gala – guest curated by Mark Alice Durant
2009
New Work, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2008
Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, Curated by Amanda Maddox, Assistant Curator of Photograph and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
2008
Decker Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, Sondheim Award Semi-Finalist
2008
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Elusive Surrounding – group exhibition of artists referencing displacement, skewed reality, and fictitious time and space
2007
Flashpoint, Washington, DC, Selected by the Flashpoint Advisory Panel to stage a solo exhibition as part of the 2006-2007 gallery season, curated by Andrea Pollan (solo)
2006
Nightscenes, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Invited to stage a solo exhibition (solo)
2006
Arlington Art Aenter, Arlington, VA Selected to participate in the annual MFA graduate exhibition, NEW ART EXAMINED
2006
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, MFA Thesis Exhibition (Meyerhoff Gallery)
2005
Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, MD, Selected to participate in the Emerging Artists Exhibition, curated by Marie Elena Amatangelo, Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
2005
Delaware Center for Contempary Art, Wilmington, DE, Selected to participate in the MFA Biennial Exhibition
2005
Washington Project for the Arts / Corcoran, Washington, DC, One of 3 people invited to participate in the inaugural WPA\C members show Turning the Page, based on over 350 submissions to the WPA\C Artists’ Directory
2004
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Columbia, MD Selected to participate in the exhibition DIALOGUE art.imagery.technology., juried by Cheryl Younger, director of the Photography Institute at Columbia University
2004
Signal 66, Washington, DC 4 Photographs included as part of a juried group exhibition
2004
Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC 4 Photographs included as part of an annual group exhibition (main gallery)
2004
Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC One of six artists selected to participate, including a stipend courtesy of the Andy Warhol Foundation
2004
Washington Project for the Arts / Corcoran, Washington, DC 2 photographs included in the exhibition CORE 13
2004
Pyramid Atlantic | MICA, Washington, DC One of 12 book projects selected to represent the Maryland Institute College of Art at the 8th Biennial Juried Book Arts Fair
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC Photography installation as part of a group exhibition, featuring the work of filmmaker David Lynch
2002
Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY Premier screening of the 16mm film CIRCLES as part of the New Filmmakers Series
1998
NMAA, Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, D.C. 2 Photographs included as part of a group exhibition for NMAA artists