About

Christopher Edwards makes sculptures that blur the line between what is grown and what is made. Inspired by the algorithmic geometry of the natural world and the visual language of human technology, his process involves the juxtaposition and blending of visual sources to create objects with their own logic of form. His work is in the permanent collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Halekulani Corporation, and the Luciano Benetton Collection among others. He has produced large-scale commissions for commercial and private clients across Hawaiʻi and internationally. He lives in Honolulu, HI.

SELECTED SOLO AND SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Self-Assembly, Honolulu Museum of Art, FHC, Honolulu, HI, 2018. Solo exhibition.

ATTRIBUTE, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI, 2019. Three person exhibition.

Algorithmic Earth, Fishcake Gallery, Honolulu, HI, 2019. Two person exhibition.

Earth, Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI, 2017. Three person exhibition.

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

Kona Village Resort by Rosewood, Kona, HI: #157. Mauka Makai.

Halekulani Corporation, Honolulu, HI: #139. ‘Opihi Halepuna.

Halekulani Corporation, Honolulu, HI: #161, Wana Halekulani.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Honolulu Museum of Art (#55)

State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program (#158. Wana Lei, #138;  #111, Bone Tower Unit C; #110. Bone Tower Unit B; #109. Bone Tower Unit A; #100, Tropism; #94, Emergence; #61, The Urchin; #69, Moai)

Imago Mundi Project, The Art of Humanity, Luciano Benetton Collection, Treviso, Italy (#88, Ka Piko)

 

Exhibitions

2024

Artists of Hawai’i 2024, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI (juror: Tom Klobe).

Matchbox Plus – Miniature Art Show, Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Hawaiʻi Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2024, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI (juror: Suzanne Isken).

Fiber Hawai’i 2024 “In, Of, or About Fiber”, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI. Six pieces accepted (juror Cameron Taylor-Brown).

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a 2024, ARTS at Marks Garage, HI. Four pieces accepted, (jurors Don Ellis, Randy Brodnax and Marilyn Sochi Naka).

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2023

Matchbox Plus – Miniature Art Show, Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Hawaiʻi Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2023, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI (juror: Beth C. McLaughlin).

Halekulani Gallery, Honolulu, HI. Four person exhibition with Daven Hee, Russ Katto, and Eric LeBuse.

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a 2023, Downtown Art Center, HI. Three pieces accepted, awarded second place contemporary category (jurors Ramon Camarillo and Bob McWilliams).

2022

Matchbox Plus – Miniature Art Show, Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Flashpoint – the fire show, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI.

Hawaiʻi Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2022, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI (juror: Neida Bangerter, Director, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery).

Rewind Fast Forward, The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu, HI. (curator: MaryAnne Long).

Fiber Hawaii 2022 “In, Of, or About Fiber”, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI. Six pieces accepted (juror Amos Kotomori).

UNDERCURRENTS: Water + Human Impact, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA (curator: Elizabeth Awalt).

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2021

Hawaiʻi Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2021, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI (juror: Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy). Two pieces accepted.

Containment, Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI (curator: Elizabeth Baxter, curator of Art in Public Places for the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts)

Matchbox Plus XVII – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Out in the Elements, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI

Lasting Impressions, Arts at Marks, Honolulu, HI (curator: MaryAnne Long)

Something Fishy, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI (curator: Jackie Mild-Lau)

Plein Aire: 2nd Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI (juror: Richard Rochkovsky).

MAKING WAVES: Ocean Ecology and Craft, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA.
https://www.craftinamerica.org/exhibition/making-waves

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2020

Matchbox Plus XVI – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Hawai’i Craftsmen Statewide Exhibition 2020, Honolulu HI (juror: Susan Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director, San Jose Museum of Art). Three pieces accepted, awarded the Paul Loo Memorial Award.

10 in 5/20, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI. Ten artist digital exhibition (curated by Katherine Love).

ArtInTime 2020, 2nd Biennial Intimate Art Exhibition, Hawai’i State Art Museum Gallery Shop, Honolulu, HI (curated by Keiko Hatano with KJ Baysa in collaboration with Lisa Shiroma).

Fiber Hawaii 2020 “In, Of, or About Fiber”, Gallery I’olani, Kaneohe, HI. Five pieces accepted (jurors Junco Sato Pollack, textile artist professor emeritus, and Maika Pollack, Director and Chief Curator John Young Museum of Art and University Galleries, Assistant Professor of Art History at UH Manoa).

Fuller Craft Museum Biennial Exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (juror: Emily Zaiden, Director and Curator, Craft in America Foundation).

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2019

Matchbox Plus XV – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a 2019, Gallery I’olani, Kaneohe, HI (juror Bob McWilliams). Two pieces accepted.

The Visible Hand: Hawai’i Craftsmen Statewide Exhibition 2019, Honolulu HI (juror: Emily Zaiden, Director and Curator, Craft in America Foundation).

ATTRIBUTE, three person exhibition with Juvana Soliven and Maya Lea Portner, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI (curated by Gaye Chan).

Algorithmic Earth, two person exhibition with Rae Douglass, Fishcake Gallery, Honolulu, HI (curated by Keiko Hatano).

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2018

Matchbox Plus XIV – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Cupish, ARS Gallery, Honolulu, HI (Curated by Lawrence Seward and John Koga).

Kailua Gallery 2018 Group Exhibition, Kailua, HI (Curated by Ruth Sorensen).

Hawai’i Craftsmen 2018 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honolulu HI. Two pieces accepted (Juror: Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, Co-Founder and Director of the Honolulu Biennial Foundation).

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a, Honolulu, HI. Three pieces accepted, awarded Best in Show (juror Scott Young).

Fiber Hawaii 2018 “In, Of, or About Fiber”, Honolulu, HI. Two pieces accepted (juror Tom Klobe, professor emeritus and founding director of the University of Hawaii Art Gallery).

40th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI.  Awarded 1st place, 3 dimensional category (jurors Victor Kobayashi, Professor Emeritus University of Hawaii at Manoa, Michael Schnack, Co-Owner Cedar Street Galleries, Lisa Yoshihara, Transit Arts Program Administrator Hawaii Authority for Rapid Transportation).

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

2017

Matchbox Plus XIII – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

39th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI. Two pieces accepted, awarded 1st place, 3 dimensional category (jurors Rod Bengston, Gallery Director, University of Hawaii Art Galleries, Healoha Johnston, Assistant Curator of the Arts of Hawaii, Honolulu Museum of Art, Grant Kagimoto, Artist, President, and Delivery Boy Cane Haul Road).

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a, Gallery ‘Iolani, Kaneohe, HI. Two pieces accepted, awarded honorable mention (juror Shigeru Miyamoto).

Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

Hawaii Craftsmen 50th Anniversary Show, Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu HI.

2016

Ceramics of Hawaii 2016 Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honolulu HI. Two pieces accepted (Juror: David Kuraoka).

Matchbox Plus XII – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

Confluence 4, Gallery ‘Iolani Student Exhibition, Windward Community College, Kaneohe, HI

Hawai’i Craftsmen 2016 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honolulu HI. Two pieces accepted (Juror: Cindi Strauss, the Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft and Design and Assistant Director, Programming at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).

Fiber Hawaii 2016 “In, Of, or About Fiber”, Honolulu, HI. Three pieces accepted (juror Glen Kaufman).

38th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI. Two pieces accepted, awarded 2nd place in 3 dimensional category (jurors Charles Cohan, Professor of Printmaking, Dept. of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, James Jensen, Curator of Contemporary Art Honolulu Museum of Art, and Gregory E. Northrop, Art Consultant).

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a, Honolulu, HI (juror Ken Kang). Two pieces accepted.

Horror Vacui, Argus II Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI (juror Elysia Borowy-Reeder, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit).

“EARTH” – 3 person show with Hamilton Kobayashi and Kenny Kicklighter at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

2015

Matchbox Plus XI – Miniature Art Show at Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, HI.

The Art of Peace at Peggy Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, HI. 

Hawai’i Craftsmen 2015 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honolulu HI. Six pieces accepted (Juror Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims).

The Window at The ARTS at Marks, Honolulu, HI

Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a, Honolulu, HI (jurors Charlie and Linda Riggs, Keiko Hatano). Two pieces accepted (#61, #60).

2014

Hawai’i Craftsmen 2014 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition (Juror Janet Koplos). Three pieces accepted (#40, #36, #35).

36th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI. Two pieces accepted (#49, #45), awarded 1st place in three dimensional category for #49  (jurors Yida Wang, Artist/Art Educator, James Jensen, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Gregory E. Northrop, Art Consultant).

36 Views of Le’ahi, The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu, HI (juror Masami Teraoka).

Ka Waiwai Mohala, Gallery ‘Iolani Student Exhibition, Windward Community College, Kaneohe, HI

Best of Shows, The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu, HI. Two-person show with Kirsten Simonsen.

2013

Hi Tides, The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu, HI. Two pieces accepted, awarded Juror’s Prize (jurors James Cave, Editor of The Culture Bomb and Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Asst. Professor of Art History, Director of Intersections/ Visiting Artist program at University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Hawai’i Craftsmen 2013 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition (Juror Stefano Catalani, Director of Art, Craft, and Design at the Bellevue Arts Museum).

Selected Awards

The John Young Award, Hawaiʻi Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2023, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI, 2023 (#158. Wana Lei)

2nd Place, Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a 2023, Downtown Art Center, HI, 2023.

1st place in three dimensional category, 40th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI, 2018 (#96, Mauna Kea)

1st place in three dimensional category, 39th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI, 2017 (#81)

Honorable mention, Hawai’i Craftsmen’s Raku Ho’olaule’a, Gallery ‘Iolani, Kaneohe, HI, 2017

2nd place in three dimensional category, 38th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI, 2016 (#69)

The Ginny McGargahan Award of Excellence sponsored by the Timothy Y. C. Choy Fund, 2016 (#81)

The Peter Drewliner Award sponsored by the Peter Drewliner Trust, 2015 (#55)

1st place in three dimensional category, 36th Annual “Commitment to Excellence” Art Exhibition, Honolulu, HI, 2014 (#49)

Juror’s Prize, Hi Tides, The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu, HI, 2013 (#8)