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  SMS Gallery, New York NY Sacred Doom Endless Gloom
            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 Courtesys 
2025  Hardboiled, New York NY/Online Arabesque
            Amity, New York NY Attrition
            Sue Tear, New York NY La Femme Personnage, Or, In Loving Gremory
            Spielzeug, New York NY Toys! Toys! Toys!
            KMS Enterprises, New York NY Belly
            Espace Maurice, Montréal Canada Greetings, Mary Garden
            Pop Gun at Weatherproof, Chicago IL Miniotics
            Pop Gun, New York NY Cable Knit
2024  KMS 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
    Ksenia M. Soboleva “The Critic’s Table - Speed Round” Cultured Magazine, 2026
    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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