BORN
1959, New York, NY
Lives and works in Saratoga County, NY
EDUCATION
1982–1986 School of Visual Arts, New York
National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York
Art Students League of New York
AWARDS & HONORS
2010–2011 New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
2008–2009 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Studio Space Fellowship
2005–2006 Pollock Krasner Foundation, Painting Fellowship
2001 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1999 Cambridge Art Association, Best in Show, Rathbone Family Prize
EXHIBITIONS – SOLO
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, Artist in Residence, Chattanooga, TN
EXHIBITIONS – TWO & THREE-PERSON
2012 Rockefeller Fund, Saul Becker and Christopher Gallego, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Recipients, New York, NY
2008 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, The Painted Interior: Paintings by Morgan Craig, Christopher Gallego, and Douglas Martenson, Wilmington, DE
2002 Hirschl and Adler Modern, The Eloquent Line: Master Drawings by Christopher Gallego, Nancy Lawton and Graydon Parrish, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS – GROUP
2022–2023 Figure Ground Gallery, Atravesando El Ojo / Through the Eye, Seattle, WA
Lyme Academy of Art, Monochrome, curated by Amaya Gurpide and Jordan Sokol, Old Lyme, CT
2019 The Gallery at 200 Lex–NY Design Center, The League of Masters, New York, NY
2017 Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Ulster Community College, Artists as Innovators, Stone Ridge, NY
2016 Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Beautiful Object, Upsetting Still-Life, Long Island City, NY
2015 The Drawing Room Gallery, Inspection: the Poetics of Space, Works by Alyssa Dennis, Christopher Gallego, David Mitchell & Tollef Runquist, Cos Cob, CT
2012 Joshua Liner Gallery, Resolve, curated by Tony Curanaj, New York, NY
2011 Brigham Young University Museum, The Yankee Spirit: Selections from the New Britain Museum of American Art, Provo, UT
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Drawing, Philadelphia, PA
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings: From Coast to Coast, Philadelphia, PA
Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Contemporary Landscape Painting, curated by Dean Fisher, Ridgefield, CT
2010 Brandywine River Museum, Reality Check: Contemporary American Trompe L’oeil Paintings, Chadds Ford, PA, curated by Robert Jackson
2008 Arkansas Arts Center, Visions – Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, curated by Townsend Wolfe, traveling to Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Katonah Museum of Art, Here’s the Thing, The Single Object Still-Life, Katonah, NY, curated by Robert Cottingham
2007 Hirschl and Adler Modern, Highlights from the Collection, New York, NY
Seraphin Gallery, Small Works, Philadelphia, PA
Woodstock School of Art, Faculty Exhibition, Woodstock, NY
2006 Hirschl & Adler Modern, Summer Selections, New York, NY
2005–2006 Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Collection, traveling to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Santa Fe 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
2005 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, curated by Townsend Wolfe, Little Rock, AR
2002 Arkansas Arts Center, Magic Vision, curated by Townsend Wolfe, Little Rock, AR
2001 Arkansas Arts Center, Eighth National Drawing Invitational, curated by Townsend Wolfe, 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, curated by Barbara Bloemink and Gregory Hedberg, 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, curated by Lennart Anderson, New York, NY
Allied Artists of America, 77th Annual, New York, NY
1989 National Arts Club, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
TEACHING
2020 New York Academy of Art, MFA Instructor of Drawing
2018–Present Faculty, The Art Students League of New York
2001–Present Private Instructor of Drawing and Painting
2008 Art Institute of Boston, MFA Mentorship Program
2005–2008 Faculty, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
2001 Continuing Ed Faculty, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1992–1998 United Nations Fine Art Society, New York, NY
LECTURES
2019 Alia Fine Art Studios, Raleigh, NC
2015 The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT
2013 University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
2012 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2011 Oriens, LLC, New York, NY
2010 Woodstock Artists Association Museum, Woodstock, NY
2010 Brandywine River Museum, Panel Discussion, Chadds Ford, PA
2007 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2002 Art Students League of New York, Panel Discussion, New York, NY
1993 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST
Christopher Gallego Blog www.chrisgallego.com
Ebook The Art of Observation, 2012, 22 pages, Amazon, ASIN: B0088CP32W
VIDEOS
American Painting Video Magazine, Michael Klein Interview with Christopher Gallego, Spring Issue, 2012
PODCAST
Savvy Painter Podcast, Antrese Wood Interviews Christopher Gallego, March 2016