Christopher Judd

Chris Judd portrait
Adjunct Professor of Art, Drawing
(he/him/his)
cgjudd13@gmail.com

Education

  • B.F.A., University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Art Students League of New York
  • Illustration Academy, Kansas City, MO

Biography

Christopher Judd was born and raised in Chugiak, Alaska and is a Drawing instructor focusing on realism and the figure. He’s a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Art Department, and has studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Illustration Academy in Kansas City. He has shown throughout the Anchorage area and in 2018 received an Honorable Mention in the All-Alaska Biennial Competition from the Anchorage Museum. He has coordinated numerous Life Drawing groups in the Anchorage area and worked as a private art instructor. He specializes in surreal graphite drawings, mostly of animals, lots of cats.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Life Drawing and Composition I
  • Life Drawing and Composition II
  • Intermediate Drawing

Exhibitions

Solo

2022     Dust on Pulp, Arc Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2019     Curio, Crush Wine and Bistro, Anchorage, AK
             Inktober, Enlighten AK, Anchorage, AK
2015     Grandma: A Thesis Exhibition, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK

Group

2022     Faculty Exhibition, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2021     100 x 100, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2020     Frozen Toad Experience, Studio 223, Anchorage, AK
2019     First Friday, Studio 223, Anchorage, AK
             Pieces and Parts, Cafe D’Arte, Anchorage, AK
2018     All-Alaska Biennial Exhibition, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
2017     Ambitiosior Specie Stercore, Azimuth Studios, Anchorage, AK

Career History/Work Experience

  • Freelance Artist for Blind Ferret Entertainment
    • Recurring illustrator for webcomics, NPC and The Gutters
  • Freelance artist for IDW Publishing
    • Illustrator for cover for Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comic
  • Graphic Artist  for Moose: The Movie
  • Artist for Moose: The Graphic Novel
Judd work-Foot
Judd work-Flock of Chicken Feet
Judd Work-Lion, Lion, Lion