Christian Rieben's paintings address issues in contemporary cultural and political discourse through hybridized motifs of landscape, figuration, portraiture, and abstraction. The peripatetic upbringing he had and continues to practice as an adult is evident in his comfortable movement between discordant and harmonious themes, textures, and spaces within his large-scale works.
Rieben's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at The Reece Museum in Johnson City, Tennessee, The Bike Room, Chicago, Illinois, and Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia, to name a few. Selected group exhibitions include shows at il Museo Spannocchia, Italy, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, and Cumberland Haus, Berlin, Germany. Rieben recently finished up a six-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at East Tennessee State University and is currently living in a fishing village on the shores of Lake Michigan with his bloodhound Bingo.