Christopher Gambino

Christopher Gambino
b. 1996, New York NY

Education
✂Yale School of Art, Sculpture MFA (Expected 2028)
✂The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA 2018

Residencies and Awards
2025 Fire Island Artist Residency
2014-2018 SAIC Presidential Scholarship

Solo/Two-Person Exhibitions
2026✂Pangée, Montréal Canada The Thorn Stigmata and the Faded Branch of the Crown with Marie Segolene
2025✂Below Grand, New York NY The Christmas Show
          ✂Weatherproof, Chicago IL Puppa with Daniel H. Hoffmann
2024✂Horse Room, Worcester MA Who Shot Candy Warhol? with Jonathan Leib
          ✂Little by Little Alcove, New York NY Debut
2023✂The Hole at Weatherproof, Chicago IL WARNING! POSITIVELY DO NOT OPEN (girl in hole with knife)
2022✂Charm School, New York NY Solomon’s Seal with Jonathan Leib

Group Exhibitions
2026✂Spielzeug, Mexico City Mexico Reiterinnenstandbilder
        ✂Storey Gallery, New York NY Alive at the End of the World
         ✂Gonzo Presents, New York NY The Secrets of Minutes
         ✂24HR ATM LOTTO, Toronto Canada Gut (Drink it Dry)
         ✂Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York NY Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley
         ✂Isolde, New York NY Isolde, Isolde
         ✂Amity, Los Angeles CA I did it myself
         ✂Blue Velvet, Zurich Switzerland Courtesy curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos 
2025✂Hardboiled, New York NY/Online Arabesque
          ✂Amity, New York NY Attrition
          ✂Sue Tear, New York NY La Femme Personnage, Or, In Loving Gremory curated by Jonathan Leib
          ✂Spielzeug, New York NY Toys! Toys! Toys!
          ✂KMS Enterprises, New York NY Belly
          ✂Espace Maurice, Montréal Canada Greetings, Mary Garden with Paula McClean and Matt Morris
          ✂Pop Gun at Weatherproof, Chicago IL Miniotics
          ✂Pop Gun, New York NY Cable Knit with Molly Soda and Alex Bag
2024KMS Enterprises, New York NY Lovescene
         ✂Quarters Gallery Projects, Los Angeles CA Other Places art fair 6

Curated Projects
2025✂Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry, Online Kitty Kat
2024✂The Hole at Weatherproof, Chicago IL Jewel Box
         ✂Charm School, New York NY Appendix (co-curated with Isabelle Vincent)
         ✂Charm School, New York NY A Room Without a View
2023✂Charm School, New York NY HOT FUSS
         ✂Charm School, New York NY Lux (co-curated with Jonathan Leib)
2022✂Charm School, New York NY Solomon’s Seal

Talks and Panels
Fire Island Artist Residency: Meet the Artists, Cherry Grove Community House, 2025
The Doll as a Contemporary Art Object, New York Doll Convention, 2025

Press
Kristina Deska Nikolić “Curtain call for the abject” Les Nouveaux Riches, 2026
Seth Nguyen “Artist of the Week: Christopher Gambino” LVL3, 2026
“The Thorn Stigmata and the Faded Branch of the Crown” Art Viewer, 2026
Joshua Chee Sanford “Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley” Brooklyn Rail, 2026
Emma Huerta “A Story is That Which Remains After the Fact” Impulse Magazine, 2026
Alexandra Gold “Isolde the Palimpsest: At New Artist-Run Gallery, Becoming is a Forever Process” Copy, 2026
“18 Questions with Christopher Gambino” UntitledDb, 2026
Emily Colucci “Divas Down!: Christopher Gambino’s Mise-En-Crime-Scène “The Christmas Show” at Below Grand” Filthy Dreams, 2025
Emily Sandstrom “In a Group Show at Amity, These Artists Consider the Possibilities in Collapse” Interview Magazine, 2025
Jesse Firestone “Face to Face: November 2025” Impulse Magazine, 2025
Tannon Reckling “Christopher Gambino’s Fire Island Study of Self and Stage” Fag Rag Magazine, 2025
Matilda Lin Berke “Toy Story” Impulse Magazine, 2025
“Puqpa” Anonymous review, 2025
XY Zhou “The Armory Show and Openings Everywhere: New York This Week” Ocula Magazine, 2025
Liam Murray “Cable Knit at Pop Gun” Art and America, 2025
“Greetings, Mary Garden” OFluxo, 2025
“Greetings, Mary Garden” Daily Lazy, 2025

Publications
The Thorn Stigmata and the Faded Branch of the Crown, Marie Segolene and Christopher Gambino, 2026
Exhibition text for Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End, solo show by Gunner Dongieux at Spaanse Gallery, Saint-Gilles Belgium, 2026
New York City Slightly Dirty Revenge Poetry Martini, Marie Segolene & Cleo Sjolander, 2025
The 60s vol. 2, Pop Gun, 2025
“Christopher by Christopher” Erotic Books Unlimited, 2025
Miniotics, Pop Gun, 2025

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