bio

Chris Lujan is a Detroit based artist best known for her abstract figurative paintings using ink and oil paint.  She has been showcased in such venues as the General Motors Design Building 2024 permanent collection, Charles T. Fisher Mansion for the Junior League of Detroit showhouse of Hill Harper 2018, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum 2014, and the Detroit Youth Center 2005 public installation for the “Art on the Move” grant Project. Lujan has been a working artist for over 20 years and was first commissioned in 2000 to create five large oil paintings for a local church. since then she has been involved in a variety of art related projects including serving as a prop artist for Warner Brothers as well as working as a designer/sculptor for a Ford Motors billboard project. In 2014 Lujan was awarded a research grant to attend the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) conference at Stanford University, while also acting as a standing representative for Washington University in St. Louis. In 2013 Lujan helped create the “Front Room Book” for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and in 2005, Lujan, along with fellow artist Yanina Shoykhet received the Detroit “Art on the Move” fellowship to teach inner city kids about the arts, as well as to create an outdoor installation at the Detroit Youth Center. Lujan received a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) from The Collage for Creative Studies in 2006 and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. Currently Lujan is working as a Creative Clay Modeler for General Motors and is an artist in residence at the 333 Midland Art studio in Highland Park, MI. .