1959 Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1997 Lives and works in Berlin
1984 - 1998 Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
1998 - 2002 Lives and works in Amersterdam
Currently lives and works in Houston

EDUCATION
1981 - 1984 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada (Sculpture)
1984 - 1986 MFA, Hunter College, CUNY, New York (Painting)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Christian Eckart: Works and Projects, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006 Christian Eckart: Purpose Driven, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 Einstein's Toaster - New Work by Christian Eckart , Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2002 My Way, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Exformation, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2001 New Models, Art of This Century, New York
2000 Circuits and Zootropes, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Christian Eckart, Windows, Brussels, Belgium
1999 White Album, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Christian Eckart, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
New Monochromatic Works – Christian Eckart, Robert McClain & Co. Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1998 Christian Eckart, Galerie René Blouin—Espace 502, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, organized by and in collaboration with Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada,
1997 Various Logic, Janis Gallery New York
Christian Eckart, Robert McClain and Co. Houston, TX
Face à Face, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
Christian Eckart, Works 1986–1996, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Christian Eckart, S.A.T. Exhibition Space, L.I.C., Queens, New York, presented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France and Salzburg, Austria,
1994 Christian Eckart, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Christian Eckart, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1993 Christian Eckart, Abbaye Saint-Andre, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France (catalogue).
Paintings – Christian Eckart, Sabine Watchters Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Paintings – Christian Eckart, Sabine Watchters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium
The Power-Chord Cycle Etching Portfolio, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York
Christian Eckart, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
1992 Sacra Conversazione Paintings, Galerie Tanit, Cologne, Germany
Shadow Paintings Project, Rubin Spangle, New York
1991 The Power-Chord Cycle, curated by Bill Jeffries, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Real, the Ideal, the Signified, curated by Zina Davis, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (catalogue).
Sacra Conversazione Paintings, Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York
The Power-Chord Cycle, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1990 Christian Eckart, Galerie Philippe Kriwin, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue).
Forum at the International Kunstmesse, Dusseldorf, Germany, presented by Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.
The Power-Chord Cycle, curated by Ron Moppet, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada (catalogue).
1989 Christian Eckart, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Christian Eckart, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York.
1988 Christian Eckart, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York.
Museum ex Horror Vacuii, Galerie ’T Venster, curated by Gosse Oosterhof, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Christian Eckart, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France.
1987 Christian Eckart, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Christian Eckart, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (catalogue).
1986 Christian Eckart, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Christian Eckart, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1984 Christian Eckart, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Bloodline, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005 The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Color Field Art, 1950 – 2005, organized by Dr. David Moos, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada(catalogue)
Universal Medium, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Beauty Supply, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 American Beauty, organized by Robert McClain, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Space Vehicles: Allusion Objectified, organized by Christian Eckart, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
2002 Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, organized by Dahlia Morgan, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida (catalogue)
in the abstract, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Looking At Painting - 1, organized by Isabel Kunigk, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Album: ACAD @ 75, part II, organized by Ron Moppett, Illingworth Kerr Gallery of Art, Alberta
2001 Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Building the Collection, organized by Annette Dimeo Carlozzi, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Pleasure of Sight & States of Being: Radical Abstract Painting since 1990, organized by Roald Nasgaard, Florida State University at Tallahasee, Tallahassee, Florida (catalogue)
2001: An Art Odyssey – Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection, organized by Kirsten Evendon, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada,
Geometry and Gesture, organized by Nikolaus Ruzicska, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Diskursive Malerei, organized by Lorand Hegyi, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
New York, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas. Benefit for New York City and inauguration of new gallery location
2000 Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium, organized by Christian Eckart, Harry Philbrick, and Osvaldo Romberg, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalogue)
Sculpture 2000, Robert McClain & Co. Fine Art, Houston, Texas, College of Art and Design (catalogue)
1999 Abstrakt, Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, organized by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue)
Abstractions, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
1996 - 1998 Disturbing Abstraction, University of Western Ontario
1997 Reductive Forms, Robert McClain & Co. Houston, TX
1996 Commencement of Disturbing Abstraction, organized by Mark A. Cheetham of the University of Western Ontario, The Artlab, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Canada; The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada; The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada. (catalogue)
Vltava, Motel Fine Arts, New York
Curved Monochrome Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
Abstract/Real, Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Austria
1995 The Golden and Baroque, Robert McClain and Co. Houston, TX
Trépanier Baer Gallery Calgary, Canada
Endless Line Paintings, Sabine Watchters Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Christian Eckart, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Curved Monochromes, Endless Lines, and Simple Models, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1994 The Veils, Sabine Watchters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium
Painting, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago, IL
1993 I Am the Enunciator, organized by Christian Leigh, Thread Waxing Space, New York (catalogue)
Slittamenti/Transactions (I Love You More Than My Own Death) , organized by Christian Leigh, 45th Biennale di Venezia, Granai delle Zitelle, Guidecca, Venice, Italy (catalogue).”
Living with Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison, The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey (catalogue).
Accrochage International, Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels, Belgium.
1992 Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York
Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibtition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Nothing New: The Positive Absence of Originality in Art, organized by Anthony Iannacci, Studio La Città 2, Verona, Italy (catalogue).
Quotations: The Second History of Art, organized by Barry Rosenberg, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (catalogue).
Psycho, organized by Christian Leigh, Inaugural Exhibition, KunstHall, New York (catalogue).
Frame Up, organized by Judith Tolnick, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.
Galleria Galliani, Genoa, Italy
1991 The Body in Question, organized by Gary Nickard and Melissa Harris, Burden Gallery, The Aperture Foundation, New York
Bildlicht: Malerei Zwischen Material und Immaterialität, organized by Wolfgang Drechsler and Peter Weibel, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria (catalogue).
Hybrid Abstract, organized by Joshua Decter, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont (catalogue).
Anni Novanta, organized by Renato Barilli, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna; Musei Comunali, Rimini; ex-colonia “Le Navi,” Cattolica.
Vertigo ‘The Remake’, organized by Christian Leigh, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
After Reinhardt: The Ecstasy of Denial, organized by Max Estenger and Meg O’Rourke, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York(catalogue).
Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue).
Les Couleurs de l’Argent, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France (catalogue).
Das Goldene Zeitalter, organized by Tilman Osterwald, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany(catalogue).
1990 Spellbound, organized by Christian Leigh, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Art Against AIDS, Public Art Project Exhibition, Washington, D.C. (catalogue).
Un Art de la Distinction?, organized by Caroline Bissière and Jean-Paul Blanchet, Abbaye Saint-Andre, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France (catalogue).
Neoclassico a Trieste: Attualità del Neoclassico, organized by Dr. Ricardo Caldura, Revoltella, Trieste, Italy (catalogue).
Christian Eckart, Stephen Ellis, Alain Kirili, Imi Knoebel, Koury-Wingate Gallery, New York.
Vertigo, organized by Christian Leigh, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (catalogue).
Mise en Abîme, organized by Vittoria Coen and Anthony Iannacci, Studio La Città, Verona, Italyr (catalogue).
1989 Horn of Plenty, organized by Gosse Oosterhof, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (catalogue).
Repetition, organized by Donald McKinney, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York (catalogue).
The Silent Baroque, organized by Christian Leigh, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue).
Projects & Portfolios, organized by Barry Walker, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, October–December (catalogue).
1988 Redefining the Object, organized by Barry A. Rosenberg, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (catalogue).
24 Square, organized by Saul Ostrow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Complexity and Contradiction, organized by Christian Leigh, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York (catalogue).
La Couleur Seule: L’Experience du Monochrome, organized by Maurice Besset and Thierry Raspail, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (catalogue).
Art of the 80’s: Artists from the Eli Broad Foundation Collection, Kresge Museum, Detroit, Michigan (catalogue by Phyllis Floyd Arnfield).
1987 Artist - Designed Toys, First Street Forum, Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue).
Reconstruct, organized by Robert Nickas, John Gibson Gallery, New York (catalogue).
The Art of the Real, organized by Robert Nickas, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue).
Gallery Group Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York.
Primary Structures, organized by Robert Nickas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
of Ever-Ever Land i speak, organized by Christian Leigh, Stux Gallery, New York (catalogue).
Faux Arts: Surface Illusions and Simulated Materials in Recent Art, organized by Ronald J. Onorato, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California (catalogue).
Facture, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York.
1986 organized by the Art Advisory Service, a project of the Associate Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Red, organized by Robert Nickas, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York.
Tableaux Abstraits, organized by Christian Besson, Villa Arson, Nice, France, April–May (catalogue).
When Attitudes Become Form, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York.
Ten Artists Working in New York and Washington, organized by Robert Feldman and Jock Reynolds, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.