Christopher Noxon

Christopher Noxon is a self-taught maker of paintings, murals, nesting dolls, illustrated journals and other things. Noxon takes inspiration from the landforms, colors and energies around Ojai and the surrounding wilderness. His aim is to capture the energy and spirit of place, the simultaneous feeling of awe and humility, of togetherness and singularity, of personal insignificance and limitless possibility. Noxon has recently exhibited with the Santa Paula Art Museum in 2024 and Sullivan Goss Gallery, and his work is held in the collection of the Ojai Valley Museum.

Noxon is also the author and illustrator of Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, published by Abrams. Other books include Plus One: A Novel and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up. He has published stories in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and the New York Times Magazine.