Chris Niedland was born in Media, Pennsylvania in 1966, and has lived for most of his life in Wayne, PA. He is a self-taught artist and began painting professionally in 1991 while employed as an architect in Boston, Massachusetts. Late in 2003, he left the field of architecture to pursue painting full-time.
Since 1991, he has exhibited in numerous solo art shows at local cafes, restaurants, and hotels in the Philadelphia area and on DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. He exhibited in a group show in 2004 titled, "First Impressions," at the former Gallery Siano in Old City Philadelphia. Over 100 of his paintings reside in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and in Belgium, Canada, England, France, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, and Spain.
Chris Niedland's paintings have grown out of an initial experiment in "automatic" painting, originally inspired by the "automatic" writings of the surrealist André Breton. Chris's paintings are "automatic" in that he approaches each canvas with no preconceptions as to how it will or should look when it's finished. He paints quickly, without revision, working from his subconscious, improvising like a jazz musician does with music.
