biography
Christopher Gallego was born in Queens, NY, in 1959 and grew up in
Glen Cove, NY. After earning his BA from Long Island University in 1982,
he returned to NYC to study at the National Academy of Design
School of Fine Arts, completing in 1986. He taught painting at the
United Nations Fine Art Society from 1992-1998, where he worked with artists
from many parts of the world. From 2001 to present he has been teaching
private and group classes as well as workshops in New York City, New Jersey
and the Hudson Valley.
He has exhibited at Hirschl and Adler Modern, Seraphin Gallery,
the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Delaware Center
for the Contemporary Arts, the Katonah Museum of Art,
Marymount Manhattan College and the United Nations.
Currently he is participating in Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection,
which opened in spring 2008 at the Naples Art Museum
and is now up at the Arkansas Arts Center through November 9
He has lectured at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
the University of Tennessee, the Woodstock School of Art,
and the Art Students League of New York. He currently serves as
a Mentor with the Art Institute of Boston’s MFA Independent Study Program.
Fellowships include the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, 2008,
the Pollock Krasner Foundation, 2006, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2002.
His work has been reviewed by Art in America, the New York Times, the New York Sun,
artblog, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New Yorker.
He lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley,
and is represented by Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia.
