1959 New York, NY
Education
1982-1986 National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1978-1982 BA Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2010 WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2008 Seraphin Gallery, Reality of Light, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Seraphin Gallery, Evocative Realism, Philadelphia, PA
2002 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Now, New Britain, CT
1998 Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, On Location, New York, NY
1996 United Nations Gallery, New York, NY
1993 AVA, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Rockefeller Foundation (two-person exhibition), New York, NY
Reality Check; Contemporary American Trompe L'oeil Paintings
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
2009 Visions - Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings,
(traveling exhibition)::
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Katonah Museum of Art
Here's the Thing, The Single Object Still-Life, Katonah, NY
2007 Seraphin Gallery,
Small Works, Philadelphia, PA
Woodstock School of Art, Faculty Exhibition, Woodstock, NY
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, The Painted Interior,
Wilmington, DE (three person show)
2006 Hirschl and Adler Modern,
Summer Selections, New York, NY
Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Collection:
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2005 Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Collection (traveling exhibition):
Santa Fe Art Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA
Seraphin Gallery,
Out of Line, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Hirschl and Adler Modern,
Highlights from the Collection, New York, NY
Hirschl and Adler Modern, Summer Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Seraphin Gallery, Masters and Mavericks, Philadelphia, PA
Seraphin Gallery, Masters and Mavericks, The Nude, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Hirschl and Adler Modern,
Observation-Creation, 200 Years of Still-Life, New York, NY
Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show, Little Rock, AR
2002 Hirschl and Adler Modern,
The Eloquent Line, (three-person show), New York, NY
Arkansas Arts Center, Magic Vision, Little Rock, AR
2001 Arkansas Arts Center,
Eighth National Drawing Invitational
Galerie Albert Benamou, New York Realists Now, Paris, FR
Arnot Art Museum, Re-Presenting Representation V, Elmira, NY
2000 Hirschl and Adler Modern,
New York-Classicism Now, New York, NY
Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show, Little Rock, AR
1999 Federal Reserve Bank Gallery,
National Prize Show, Boston, MA
John Pence Gallery, Drawings, San Francisco, CA
Butler Institute of American Art, 65th Midyear, Youngstown, OH
1996 Arkansas Arts Center,
Collector's Show, Little Rock, AR
Tatistcheff and Co., Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1995 Hunter Museum of Art,
Spectrum '95, Chattanooga, TN
Tatistcheff and Co., Summer Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1994 First Street Gallery,
National Competition, New York, NY
Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show, Little Rock, AR
AVA, Artstravaganza, Chattanooga, TN
1993 Savannah National,
Collector's Choice Competition, Savannah, GA
1992 Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art,
International Art Competition, Miami, FL
1991 First Street Gallery,
National Competition, New York, NY
Allied Artists of America, 77th Annual, New York, NY
1989 National Arts Club,
Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Fellowships and Awards
2010 New York Foundation for the Arts - Painting Fellowship
2008 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation -
Studio Space Program
2005 Pollock Krasner Foundation - Painting Fellowship
2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Painting Fellowship
1999 Cambridge Art Association – Best in Show, Rathbone Family Prize
1993 Savannah National – Award for Painting, 2ndPrize
Association for Visual Artists -Artist in Residence, Chattanooga, TN
1991 Allied Artists of America -
Art Students League of NY Prize
Selected Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Professional Experience
2001- Private Instructor of Drawing and Painting
2008 Art Institute of Boston, MFA Mentorship Program
2005-2008 Woodstock School of Art, New York, NY
2001 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1992-1998 United Nations Fine Art Society, New York, NY
Lectures
2007 Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
2007 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2002 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1993 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Bibliography
Periodicals
Mullarky, Maureen, At "Katonah Musuem, Celebrating the Quotodian" New York Sun, April 17, 2008, p. 23
Yasiejko, Christopher, "Seeking the Soul of Interior Spaces",
The News Journal, Wilmington, December 10, 2006
Donohoe, Victoria, “A Sit-Down that Soothes Senses”,
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 24, 2006
Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review; Works on Paper”,
New York Times, March 3, 2006
Rosof, Libby, "Out of Line",
artblog, December 28, 2005
Fabbri, Anne R., "Christopher Gallego at Seraphin",
Art in America,
June/July 2005, p. 190
Durrell, Jane, "Strokes of Genius",
Citybeat, June 21, 2005
Sozanski, Edward, "Christopher Gallego/Evocative Realism",
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 28, 2005
Fallon, Roberta, "Art and Sold",
Philadelphia Weekly Online, February 9-15, 2005
Rosof, Libby, "Portraits of the Artists",
artblog, January 26, 2005
"The Eloquent Line",
American Arts Quarterly, spring, 2002, pp. 46-48
Doherty, Steven M., "Four Approaches to Drawing",
American Artist,
June, 2002, pp. 66-67
Johnson, Ken, "New York Classicism Now",
New York Times, September 8, 2000
Rodriguez, Edel, "New York Classicism Now",
New Yorker, August 14, 2000
McKown, Rich, "Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show",
Art New England, August/September, 1999
Glaser, Pam, "Two Artists, One Grand Vision",
AVA Newsletter, Summer, 1993
Exhibition Catalogs
Cottingham, Robert, “Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life”, Katonah Museum of Art, 2008
Wolfe, Townsend, "Visions, Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings", p. 96, Arkansas Arts Center, 2008
Fabbri, Anne, " Christopher Gallego, Reality of Light", Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 1-32, 2008
Wolfe, Townsend, "Christopher Gallego, Evocative Realism", Seraphin Gallery, pp. 1-16, 2004
Hedberg, Gregory, Ph.D., "The Eloquent Line",
Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, 2002, pp.1,2,3,10,11,16, 2002
Wolfe, Townsend, "Magic Vision",
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 2002,
pp.9, 44, 45
Wolfe, Townsend,"Eighth National Drawing Invitational",
Arkansas Arts Center, 2001
Attias, Laurie, "New York Realists Now",
Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, FR, 2001
Bloemink, Barbara, Ph.D., "New York - Classicism Now",
Hirschl & Adler, 2000
Koob, Pam, Kuebler, Joanne, "30/30-Thirty Works by Art Students League
of New York Alumni",
Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 1999
Pence, John, "Drawings",
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999, pp. 3,4
Christopher Gallego. 504 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019
845.532.4509 gallego@chrisgallego.com
