Christopher Foster (Born 1984) is a multidisciplinary visual artist dealing in a variety of media. He’s also a carpenter and designer currently based in Toronto, Canada. He graduated with an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art in 2008. His artwork explores spaces in transition, the built environment and material culture. He takes aesthetic cues from anachronistic technologies, urban decay and architectural vernacular. His art often employs a dark sense of humor meant to challenge popular beliefs of progress in contemporary culture. He works across a dynamic field of audiences and mediums, and his creative process is motivated by multiples and editions, installations that are site-specific, and production-based projects. His work has been exhibited across Canada from Dawson City Yukon to St. John's Newfoundland and they can be found in the public and private collections both internationally and nationally.
He has exhibited at Likely General, Toronto ON, Queen Specific, Toronto ON, Odd Gallery, Dawson City Yukon, Frontiers in Real Estate, Yellowknife ARCC, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's Newfoundland, New Civilizations, White House Gallery, Toronto, Visual Arts Nova Scotia Corridor Gallery, Lost & Found, Halifax NS, The Narrows, Halifax NS, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax NS, among other places. His art is easy to recognize because of the style that’s used to produce them. The choice of the subject matter makes his art to have the quality of being able to be used to decorate any space. That’s why they are popular with many collectors.
