Christopher Gambino
b. 1996, New York NY
Education
✂The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA 2018
Residencies
2025 Fire Island Artist Residency
Solo/Two-Person Exhibitions
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), or Annabelle strikes a pose
2022✂Charm School, New York NY Solomon’s Seal with Jonathan Leib
Group Exhibitions
2026✂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
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
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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
✂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
