individual awards
Rauschenberg Emergency Grant (NYFA), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters
solo exhibitions
2004 Bodysuit; Works on Paper and Sculptures, Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, MA
Findings; Works on Paper and Sculptures, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY
2000 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NY
1998 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, Tribeca, NY
1996 FAO Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Germans Van Eck Gallery, NY
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 Avenue B Gallery, NY
1986 Avenue B Gallery, NY
1985 Avenue B Gallery, NY
Windows on White, NY
1985 Chicago Books, NY
sanctioned interventions (selected)
2025 Big Building, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
Valve Pluralism, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
Unter den Linden, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
Electric Discharge/ Elektrische Entladung, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
2023 Bay Ridge, An Eco Project, curated by Jennifer MacGregor, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mortality (or The Verrazano Narrows)
Blue Blood (or the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab)
Othering (the Diamondback Terrapin)
2021 Of Nature (an installation), Habitat for Artist (HFAEast), Kingston, NY
Watching (The World is Blue), Grand Flag Project: curated by James Esber, Brooklyn, NY
Listening, Grand Flag Project-curated by James Esber, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Blood in the Window, in association with Purple Window Gallery (virtual)
2019 Color Persona, 25 pieces installed in locations around Berlin, in association with Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
group exhibitions
2025 und andere Arbeiten auf Papier (and other works on paper), Altelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
Alle VII (Everything, 7), Im Hochhaus Gallery, curated by Uwe Jonas, Berlin
Open Studio in association with Upstate Art Weekend, Milton, NY, Hudson Valley
2024 Zero Art Fair, curated by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, Elizaville, NY
Alle VI (Everything 6), Im Hochhaus Gallery, curated by Uwe Jonas, Lichtenburg Studios, Berlin
A Legacy of Making (Italianita), curated by Joanne Mattera, The Cummings Gallery, New London, Ct
2023 International Waters, (German and American Artists), curated by Scott Pfaffman,
The Wall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Loft Nota Bene 35 Years of Creation, from the collection of Catherine Skira Sagnier,
Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
Italianita, curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American
Institute, NY
Alle V, Im Hochhaus Gallery, organized by Uwe Jonas, Berlin, Germany
Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, A Public Art Exhibition, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Boris Vian and His Universe, Prieuré d’Auzay, Auzay, France
Alle 4, Studio Im Hochhaus Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Patriot, O’Flahertys, East Village, NYC
Summertime Hues, Lemon Sky Projects Pop Up Show, Upstate Art Weekend,
Kingston NY
Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY
In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, NYC Culture Club, Oculus, World Trade Center, NY
Artists Draw Their Studios curated by Michele Weinberg, The Hewitt Gallery,
Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
2021 Everywoman Biennial, Superchief Gallery NFT, NY
Artists Draw Their Studios, Kleinert Gallery, Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
Group Exhibition, The Empty Gallery, Shrine Gallery, NYC (virtual)
2020 We the People Art Project, Leonides Arts New York, 3-D building sized screening,
Union Square, New York and Newark, NJ
Drawing Challenge XI, Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC (virtual)
Print, Fold, Send, collaboration for Reconstructed Codex, curated by Sabra Moore,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Online, Inside Out, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL (virtual)
Hudson Guild Summer Group Exhibition, NY (virtual)
Alle III, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin
Three Artists, curated by Lemon Sky Projects, Glen Falls House, Roundtop, NY
2019 Peace – don’t make me laugh // You, a two minute brother, Spor Klubu, Berlin
Holiday, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Priority Mail, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Biennial Project at the Venice Biennale, Biennale Project Website (virtual)
Residents Exhibit, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Program, New Smyrna Beach FL
Art on Paper, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Off the Wall, Floor and Ceiling, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Painting in the 20th Century, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Artworks Detroit, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
Flora and Fauna, Core New Art Space, Denver CO
2017 Me, My Selfie and I, Hudson Guild Gallery, NY
Xenographia, organized by Umberto Scrocca Screening at Electronic Art Café, Rome, Italy
2015 Angels and Demons, Im Grund 21, Worthsee, Germany
2013 Momentum, The Hudson Guild, NY
Social Photography II, Cell Phone Photography, carriage trade, NY
2012 The Good Outlaw, AC Institute, 547 W 27 St), NYC, organized by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
2011 Social Photography, Cell Phone Photography, carriage trade, NYC
2010 NY BYOA: Bring Your Own Art – X Initiative, 548 W 22 St, NYC
2008 Art in a Box, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, NY
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Benefit, NY
20 Years of Printmaking, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, NY
2005 Sporadic, 475 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Betsy Kelleher
2004 Art Star/ Sausage Factory, Debs and Co, NYC
Fundamental Change, A.D.D. Gallery, Hudson, NY
2003 Newer Genres; Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking Studios,
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ
1995 Stand Up Straight, 450 Broadway Gallery, NY
Internal/ External (catalog), Foster Goldstrum Gallery, NY
1994 Drop Dead Painting, 103 Reade St (curator, John Ford), NY
Return of the Cadavre Esquis, The Drawing Center, NYC (catalogue)
traveling to: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
The American Center, Paris, France
Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Xenographia Nomadic Wall, Cinema Elysees, L’Amour Parallele, Festivale Internationale
du Nouveau Cinema Video, Montreal, Canada
1993 Xenographia Nomadic Wall, XLV Venice Biennale,.prganized by Umberto Scrocca, Venice, Italy
The Atmosphere: Art, Native Wisdom and Science, University Gallery, Albany, NY
1992 Apocalypse and Resurrection (catalog) The Gallery 30, NYC
1991 Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers (catalog),
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (catalogue)
Hot off the Press (catalogue), Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
1990 Intaglio Printmaking in the 1980’s, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)
Print Selections from the Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum
1989 Art by Chance, Kansas City, M, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, curated by Kay Larson (catalogue)
New Work, New York, Seattle Art Museum, curated by Kay Larson,
Seattle, WA (catalogue)
New Work, New York, Lawrence, KS Spencer Museum of Art
1988 Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY (catalogue)
Exposure, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Detonation, Connotation, Implication, Eisner Gallery, CCNY, NYC,
Art in Nature, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, curated by Ronny Cohen
Group Exhibition, Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Reconstruction Project, Galerie Powerhouse, organized by Sabra Moore, Montreal, Canada
Happy, Happy, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC
1987 Reconstruction Project, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
organized by Sabra Moore
Present Intelligence, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
1985 Getting Off, Civilian Warfare Gallery, NY
Small Works by Big Thinkers, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Reconstruction Project, Artists Space, NY,c onceived by Sabra Moore for
Artists Call Against US Intervention In Central America
The Elements, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Art and Ego, 419 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
1983 The Urban Girls, 55 Mercer, New York, NY
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn NY
Pieced Work, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Color: Harmonious and Discordant, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Money on Money, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York NY
1982 Challenge and Response, Turman Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
Pieced Work, Jacob Javits, Federal Building, New York, NY
The Lamp Show, Public Image Gallery, NY,
1982 On the Shelf, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
Women and Art in Society, Cooper Union, New York, NY
5th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
The Amherst Collaborative Project (Women & Life on Earth Conference), Herter Gallery,
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
unsanctioned interventions (selected)
2025 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Berlin
The Calling (the Death of Socrates), Berlin
Transformation, Berlin
The Tigris and Euphrates, Paris
Frosty Hot, Mexico City
The Terminator, Mexico City
Hyperpalatable, Mexico City
Everyman, Mexico City
The Terminator, Mexico City
2024 The Puppet Show, London, UK
Textile Print of the North American Buffalo, Margate, UK
Large Seed With Flesh, Hamburg, Germany
One Million Colors, Cologne, Germany
Headlights, Canterbury, UK
World, NYC
Red Nails, Washington, DC
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, The US Capital Building, Washington, DC
2023 Civilized (The Conquerors of Sicily), Palermo, Italy
The Death Expert, NYC
Diary (of Continental Drift), somewhere in Sicily
The Gift, Sicily, Italy
Phenomenon (Snow), Palermo, italy
Fear/Fascination, Sicily, Italy
A River Runs to Thee (Rivers of the World), Red Hook, Brooklyn
(6 versions of this intervention)
A Very Small Place on Earth I, Emerald Isle, NC
A Very Small Place on Earth II, Emerald Isle, NC
The Woman and the Shoe, Kingston,NY
2022 Snow White (or Resignation Syndrome), NYC
Superpower, Arezzo, Italy
The Lagoon, Venice, Italy
The Etruscan Slave, Rome, Italy
La Serenissima, Venice, Italy
Protection, Mantua, Italy
The Myth of Sedna, Dorsoduro, Venice
Blood Brain Barrier, Washington, DC
The Equator, NYC
Sea Fan of the Deep, NYC
The Divine Rights of Kings, Sens, France
Slime Mold, Annecy, France
Boots on the Ground, Dijon, France
Deep Time, Paris, France
Eating Cake, Paris, France
Iphigenia at Aulis, NY
2021 Naked Mole Rat, NY
Wall Street, NY
Eat, Kingston, NY
His Liver, Kingston, NY
Dresden, Bethlehem, PA
Tribal, Bethlehem, PA
Surveil, NY
Overpopulation, NY
The Milky Way, NY
Bambi, NY
Fabric of Society, NY
Neapolitan, NY
Mermaid, NY
The Snow Queen, NY
2020 Billion Year Old Water, NY
Dust is Dust, NY
Lakota (Lakota Code of Ethics), NY
Bluebeard (a fairytale), NY
The Dull Orange Sun (sunset followed by twilight), NY
The Whiteness of the Whale (Moby Dick). NY
Trees Communicate, NY
The Golden Touch (Midas), NY
Salting the Earth, NY
Choking on the Blood of Planet Earth and All It’s Creatures, a rogue
collaboration with Papergirl - Brooklyn, NY
Money, That’s What I Want (The Wealth Gap), Kingston, NY
Color Persona II, Kingston, NY.
A River Runs to Thee (Rivers and the World), Kingston, NY
Choking on the Blood of Planet Earth and All It’s Creatures,
25 piece Intervention, Kingston, NY
permanent collections (selected)
Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami-Dade Community College, North Dakota Museum of Art, Newark Museum, Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Dayton Art Institute, Amarillo Art Center, Roanoke Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Newport Harbor Art Museum, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Zimmerli Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Dieu Donne Press & Paper, Palm Springs Desert Museum
residencies
Lichtenberg Studios, Museum Lichtenberg in the Stadthaus, Berlin, Germany, 2025
Habitat for Artists Micro Residency/Artport Kingston, Kingston, NY 2021
Lichtenberg Studios, Museum Lichtenberg in the Stadthaus, Berlin, Germany 2019
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2019
Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain, 2004
Stone Barn Center for the Arts (now defunct), Rome, NY, 2003
Just Above Midtown Archives: Cap Laboratory Grant 1985-86
corporate collections (selected)
Lang Communications Inc, Prudential Insurance Inc, Ernst & Young Inc, Dow Jones Inc, Arthur Anderson Inc, Walt Disney Corporation, Marshall Erdman & Associates, Champion Paper
bibliography
An Italian American Colloquy, Two Coats of Paint, Sept 9, 2023
A Holding Pattern for Living, Chris Costan interviewed by Karen Schifano, Evergreen Review
F/W 2023
Chris Costan (sculpture) + Amber Atiya (poet) The Evergreen Review F/W 2022
in-nature-nothing-exists-along-group-show/ Westbeth, Home to the Arts January 2022
Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers, In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, Live Mag! page 51, Issue #18 2022
Mattera, Joanne, Italianita, Blogspot, NYC June, 2021
Malcolm, Janet “Nobody’s Looking at You”, The New Yorker, Page 63, September 23, 2013
“Just Do Art!” East Village News, December 11, 2013
“Just Do Art!” “Momentum” Downtown Express, Oct 9, 2013
Bodysuit Wraps Up in Northampton “Town Crier, March 5, 2004
Mitchell, Phoebe, “Structures of Everyday Life” Daily Hampshire Gazette,February 13,2004
Silverstein, Joel, “Chris Costan, Montages and Sculpture, Reviewny,com / current/ 00_01/ October_1/ review 8 . html , 2000
Silverstein, Joel, “Chris Costan”, Cover, Vol. 12, #3, October 1999
Dalton, Jennifer, “Chris Costan’s Paintings Set the Imagination Awhirl”, The TriBeCa Trib,, October, 1998
Grant, Daniel, “Art in Brief” Berkshire Eagle, July 21 1994
Larson, Kay, “Art/ Kay Larson” New York Magazine, March 9, 1992
Colby, Joy Hakanson, “Collect Calling” The Detroit News, November 6, 1990
Ebihara, Yoshiko, “New York Art Scene is a Survival Game” Brutus, (Tokyo), Aug 15, 1989
Hoffman, Daniel, “Spencer Exhibit” The Kansas City Star, September 4 1988 (also republished in The Topeka Capital Journal)
Hackett, Regina, “Seattle Art Museum Trio Is Impressive” Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 23, 1988
Cohen, Ronny, New York Reviews, ARTFORUM, May, 1987, page 145
Larson, Kay, “In Brief” New York Magazine, March 9, 1987, page 84
Schwabsky, Barry, “New York Reviews” Flash Art, May/ June 1986
Mueller, Cookie, Art and About, Details Magazine, April, 1986, page 64
Brody, Jacqueline, “Prints and Photographs Published” The Print Collector’s Newsletter May/June 1986
Davis, Jane, New York Reviews, Chris Costan, ArtNews, June, 1985
books and catalogues
Italianita, Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience, edited and edited by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra, 2024
Chris Costan, Color Persona, 9 Jahrgang Heft 73 Lichtenberg Studios, 2019
Salaan Magazine, (inaugural issue), five sculptural images, 2019
Openings, A Memoir of the Women’s Art Movement, New Village Press, author, Sabra Moore, 2016
Social Photography III, Carriage Trade, NYC, 2014,
Maintenant 8, May 6, Dada Journal, Three Rooms Press, NYC, 2014
“Sea”, Live Mag, Issue 9, 2011
Internal/ External, Foster/Goldstrum Gallery, NYC, 1995
Return of the Cadavre Esquis, The Drawing Center, NYC, 1993
Apocalypse and Resurrection, essay by Douglas Maxwell, NYC, 1992
A Benefit Auction for the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, essays by Trudy Hansen and Eleanor Heartney, 1991
Intaglio Printmaking in the 1980 ’s, essay by Trudy Hansen, 1990
Committed to Print, Social and Political Themes in Recent American Art, curated by
Deborah Wye, 1988
Art by Chance, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, catalogue with essay by George McKenna, 1989
New Work, New York, Spenser Museum of Art, curated and catalogue essay by Kay Larson, 1988
Between C & D, (4 unique cover art), Vol. 2, No. 1, 1985
Reconstruction Project, curated and compiled by Sabra Moore, 1984
editorial
There’s Something About the Environment, Ecoartspace Blog (virtual)
https://ecoartspace.org/Blog/10629063 June, 2021
Heresies, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics
-Vol 6, no 4, issue 24, 1989, Collective Associate
-Vol 5, no 4, issue 20, 1985, Mother Collective
lectures
artist’s lecture, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, 2025
artist’s talk, The Rotary Club, Milton, NY, 2024
artist’s talk, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2013
curatorial
In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone (Silent Spring, Rachel Carson) NYC Culture Club, World Trade Center, NY, 2022 co-curated with Laziza Rakhimova
Hannah Wilke, Les Levine, Judy Rifka, Carolee Schneeman, Night Gallery, Tribeca, NYC 1984
education
MA, MFA, Visual Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy, summer independent study
BA, Visual Art + English Literature, University of Illinois, Chicago