2012

OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

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

2012

Resolve - Curated by Tony Curanaj
Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY

2011

The Yankee Spirit, Selections from the New Britain Museum of American Art
Brigham Young University Museum, Provo UT

Drawing, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings: From Coast to Coast
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Contemporary Landscape Painting, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT


2010

Saul Becker and Christopher Gallego, Rockefeller Fund, New York, NY

Reality Check; Contemporary American Trompe L'oeil Paintings
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA


2008
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, Little Rock, AR
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

2010-2011

New York Foundation for the Arts – Painting Fellowship

2008-2009

Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Studio Space Program

2005 - 2006

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 – 2ndPrize Award for Painting
Association for Visual Artists -Artist in Residence, Chattanooga, TN  

1990

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, Woodstock, NY 

2001 

New York Academy of Art,New York, NY 

1992 - 1998

United Nations Fine Art Society, New York, NY


Lectures

2010

Oriens, LLC, New York,NY
Woodstock Artists Association Museum, Woodstock, NY
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA 

2007

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE 

2002

Talent Now, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 

1993

Artist in Residence, 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", Cincinnati 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

Lewis, Audrey, “Reality Check, Contemporary American Trompe L'oiel”, p. 3
Brandywine River Museum, 2010

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





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