Chris Owen

Chris Owen was born in 1967 in the central Montana Community of Billings. Summers spent on his grandparents’ ranch in the Judith Basin inspired his love of the Western way of life, and his grandfather’s tales of having met the great C. M. Russell helped catalyze the desire to express this love through art. He majored in art at Montana State University–Billings and attended Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles.

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At the 2003 National Western Coors Art Exhibit, Denver, Colorado, he was named Featured Artist and won the National Western Permanent Collection Purchase Award. He won the Wyoming Museum Purchase Award at the 2005 Cheyenne Frontier Days Governor’s Invitational Western Art Show, Cheyenne, Wyoming. At the Graphic Arts Industry’s 2006 international competition in Chicago, Illinois, the print titled A Cowboy’s Morning won the Benny Award for the best giclée print of the year. His work is in the permanent collection at the Pearce Western Art Collection, Corsicana, Texas. He has also exhibited at the C. M. Russell Art Auction, Great Falls, Montana, and Western Visions at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Chris Owen is represented by Trailside Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona.