Chris Lloyd graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. Between 2001-2003 he was director of the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax, NS. Since 2001 he has been writing daily email to the Prime Minister of Canada while trying to become the official PM portrait painter. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2003) and the Art Gallery of Calgary (2005) and participates in many group exhibitions across the country. In 2003 he participated in the 21st Symposium d’art contemporain de Baie-St-Paul, and in 2005 the TRAFIC: Inter / nationale d’art actuel en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Manif d’art 3: cynismes? the Biennale of Québec. In 2005 he moved to Saint John, NB to create and manage a new artist-run centre for contemporary art, Third Space. In 2006 he participated in Transmission, an exhibition at Villa Arson, Nice, featuring work from the collection of the CNEAI, as well as AWOL, an exhibition at Current Gallery in Baltimore, MD. In 2007 he joined the editorial committee for decentre: concerning artist-run culture, a book project sponsored by YYZ, and moved back to Montréal to pursue freelance curating and other projects. He still pesters the Prime Minister.