Chris Reiss was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1986. He’s drawn and painted for as long as he can remember.
In 2008 Reiss earned his BA as an art major from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He also attended a figure painting summer course at New York Studio School and interned with abstract expressionist Sammy Peters in Little Rock, Arkansas.
For the next decade Reiss lived in several states, working as a line-cook and making art part-time.
In 2019, Reiss moved to Jacksonville, Florida and became a full-time artist.
In 2021, Reiss moved to Colorado Springs where he currently resides. Reiss works out of his home studio and on-site making original drawings and paintings and printing his own reproductions to sell at local markets, fairs and festivals.
You can find Reiss every Saturday morning this Summer at the OCC Farm and Art market set up behind the OCC Historical Society Building.
Chris Reiss' Art 