biography

Christopher Gallego was born in Queens, NY, in 1959 and grew up
in Glen Cove, NY.  After earning his BA in 1982, he studied at the
National Academy of Design in New York, completing in 1986. 
From 1992-1998 he taught painting at the United Nations Fine Art Society,
where he worked with artists from many parts of the world.  He has since
taught private and group classes as well as workshops in New York, New Jersey
and the Hudson Valley.

A partial list of exhibitions includes Hirschl & Adler Modern, Seraphin Gallery,
the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Brandywine River Museum,
the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Naples Museum of Art, The Arkansas Arts Center
and the Rockefeller fund.  A solo exhibition of his work is scheduled for April 2012
at OK Harris Works of Art, New York.  

He is currently participating in Resolve, a group exhibition curated by Tony Curunaj, 
at the Joshua Liner Gallery, New York,on view until February 25.

He is the recipient of fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts,
the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation , the Pollock Krasner Foundation
and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

He and his wife Elizabeth Carpenter live in New York City and Ulster County, NY 



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