Christopher Leith Evans was born in 1954 in Bremerton, Washington, but lived for most of his childhood years in Brightwaters, Long Island, in the suburbs of New York City. After graduating from Bay Shore High School in 1972 he moved to Santa Monica, California, and began attending the University of California, Los Angeles.

While at UCLA, Evans studied with renowned figurative painters William Brice, James Valerio, Tom Wudl, and David Hockney, as well as landscape painter James Doolin. While pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree he was awarded a Graduate Fellowship and taught courses in drawing. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1980.

From 2002 to 2004 the New York Historical Society exhibited Evans' "New York in the Light of Memory," a complete panoramic view of the city as once seen from the North Tower of the World Trade Center - painted on a sphere. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith described the piece as "exhilarating."

Christopher Evans is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a Ford Foundation Travel Study grant. In 2004 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. In 2006 Evans was a guest Lecturer at the University of Southern California's Ryman Arts program.

Evans' work is represented in New York by the Fischbach Gallery. www.fischbachgallery.com