Christopher Cook (b. 1959, UK) studied at the Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam and the Royal College of Art, receiving his MA in Painting in 1986. He lives and works in Devon, UK. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Camden Art Centre, London; Haugesund Kunstforening, Norway; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany; Stedelijk Museum Breda, Netherlands; Today Art Museum, China; Museum of Art at University of Memphis; and Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. His works are in prominent public collections, including Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College; The British Museum, London; Cleveland Museum of Art; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. In 2017, he received the Valeria Sykes Award. From 2022-23 Cook was Visiting Professor to NTNU Taipei, and also lectured in several other universities in Taiwan. A solo show of work he produced there was held at Chini Gallery, Taipei in 2024. In 2025-6 he was selected for the John Moores Prize and exhibited at Mary Ryan Gallery, New York.