Lichtenberg Studios Residency Award

Returning to Lichtenberg Studios after an initial residency in 2019, Costan will spend the month of April, 2025 creating a public project and/or a series of “interventions”. The month long visit in November of 2019 prompted Costan’s ongoing Interventions project. Since November 2019, she has created, installed and documented over 150 art interventions New York, the Hudson Valley, Pennsylvania, Washingto, DC as well as in many locations in Europe such as France, United Kingdom and Germany.

Beginning in 2006, Lichtenberg Studios has been the home of an international artist-in residence programme, located in the top floor of a Wilhelminian-period apartment building in the ‘Victoriastadt’ quarter, not far from the historical Tuchollaplatz square, in Berlin.

Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany

March 28-May 1, 2025

A Legacy of Making: American Artists Who Draw from Their Italian Heritage

Costan will be represented by 4 textile collages in A Legacy of Making curated by Joanne Mattera. This group exhibition artfully operates under the premise that the work of artists of Italian-American origin reflects their background. Or not. The textile collages selected for this show have been part of Costan’s oeuvre since 2011. This vein of her work have never before been shown.

Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

September 3rd - October 15th, 2024
Reception: Saturday, September 14th, 2024

Alle VI at Hochhaus Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Artists representing a variety of media and orientation will be shown at Alles VI, curated by Uwe Jonas, Berlin

ALLES VI
Im Hochhaus
studio in the HIGH-RISE
Zingster Strasse 25 | 13051 Berlin

July 9- September 9
opening July 9, 2024

Zero Art Fair, curated by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida

3 early works (c1994) or Costan’s will be exhibited at Zero Art Fair, as part of Upstate Art Weekend.

365 West Pond Lily Road in Elizaville, NY in the Hudson Valley
 11am until 6pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
July 19th - July 21st, 2024

https://www.zeroartfair.com/
#zeroartfairs

Artist Residents from Loft Nota Bene, Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain

Earlier collage work of Costan's will be included in a group exhibition of former artist residents of Loft Nota Bene at Galeria Cadaques. Cadaques, located in the Basque region of Spain is an “artists’ town on the Mediterranean Sea. Salvador Dali's home, which has been transformed into a small museum, can be found there. Costan spent a month at Loft Nota Bene in 2004.

Galeria Cadaques
c/hort d’en sanes, 7
17488 Cadaques, Spain
hours: 18:30-21:30

June 22 - July 17, 2024
opening: June 22

https://www.galeriacadaques.com/en/exhibitions-new/

Inclusion in; Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience

Costan is included in a book which presents the work of visual artists of Italian American descent.

The survey contains a foreword by Dr. Joseph Sciorra, director of Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City. He writes: "this book is a welcome updating of previous investigations concerning the Italian American visual artist.”

Costan is among a range of artists whose examples of artwork and a personal story are featured. This hardcover volume features 266 color photographs, an illustrated essay by the books editor that contextualizes the artwork. At a time when ethnicity and cultural legacy are part of the art world conversation, Italianità makes a relevant contribution.

Edited by Joanne Mattera
Published by Well-Fed Artist Press, 2024
296 pages, hardcover, 8½ x 11 inches
$72.50
Available through BookBaby and Amazon

Click here to purchase Italianità

Two versions of interventions featured at The Wall Gallery as well as eight rogue interventions posted on the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn

The Wall Gallery is opening International Waters, featuring a small group of American and German artists. Petra Flierl, Martin Colden, Gregor Wiest, Hagen Klennert and Frank Lambertz with the American artists, Bill Nogosek, Richard Dennis, Anna Patalona, Chris Costan and Chad Abbley.

The Wall Gallery will feature 8 of Costan’s rogue interventions. All versions are titled, ‘A River Runs to Thee’ (or) Rivers of the World were created in 2020 at the earliest moments of the Covid Pandemic. Two intervention pieces will be located in the gallery with six interventions on the streets in Red Hook.

Check out this review of the show.

International Waters
curated by Scott Pfaffman
61 Seabring Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn (F train)
October 7th - November 12th, 2023

A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists EXTENDED

Two of Chris Costan’s textile collages have been selected for the group exhibition, A Legacy of Making and will take place at the Calandra Institute in New York.

This show addresses a discernible Italian art tradition — represented by a group of contemporary Italian American artists. The various works share a sense of Italianness covering a range from the clearly articulated to the suggested to the non-existent… all generally connected to italianità. 

A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
Curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2023/11/an-italian-american-colloquy-with-joanne-mattera-and-john-avelluto.html
25 W 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York City
September 27th, 2023 - January 12th, 2024 NEW END DATE; April 15, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, September 27th, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
(212)-642-2094

Alle V at Hochhaus Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Costan will be included in an international group of artists in ALLE V at Hochhaus in Berlin, Germany. The show runs from July 4-August 23, 2023

Studio in HIGH BUILDING
HOCHHAUS Zingster Strasse 25 | 13051 Berlin
hours: Mon - Fri 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. - 6 p.m

Rauschenberg Emergency Grant, NYFA

Costan has been awarded a Rauschenberg Emergency Grant through New York Foundation for the Arts May 2, 2023

Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens: group exhibition at Stand4 Gallery

Three of Chris Costan’s interventions will appear in “Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens” a group show with Jennifer MacGregor guest-curating for Ecoartspace at Stand4 Gallery. The original intervention paintings will be placed in the gallery, with digitally printed versions installed on 5th Avenue in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn.

The exhibit will be on display at the gallery and at locations throughout Bay Ridge with film screenings at the Alpine Cinema.

Artists included: Rebecca Allan, Aaron Asis, Chris Costan, Kate Dodd, Peter Edlund, Kristin Reiber-Harris, Ellen Coleman-Izzo, Sergey Jivetin, Nathan Kensinger, Rita Leduc, Christopher Lin, Nikki Lindt, E.J. McAdams/ Jimbo Blachly,  Nancy Nowacek, Benjamin Swett.

Chris Costan’s three interventions;
BLOOD BLOOD (or the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab)
MORTALITY (the Verrazano Narrows)
OTHERING (or the Diamondback Terrapin)

Check out this review from Brooklyn Paper.

Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center
414 78th St, Brooklyn New York
April 15- June 17, 2023

Evergreen Review : Karen Schifano Interviews Chris Costan

Evergreen Review - Karen Schifano interviews Chris Costan

“In the middle of the night, as I was up worrying about climate change, I thought again of Chris Costan's interventions and of the interview we did for Evergreen Review. Feeling powerless as we all do, Chris found a way to use that frustration and energy to make art and put it out into the world, everywhere she traveled. I applaud this project!” - Karen Schifano

F/W issue of Evergreen Review, January- February 2023

Chris Costan's Tabletop Sculptures in the Time of Cholera featured in Evergreen Review

Three pieces from a series of Costan's Tabletop Sculpture in the Time of Cholera are featured in the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of The Evergreen Review. They are paired with the poetry of Amber Atiya who lives/works in Brooklyn. The Evergreen Review is a literary magazine founded in 1957. It has existed intermittently since then featuring the work of Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bertolt Brecht, Amiri Baraka, James Purdy and Edward Albee. It has always been known as a publisher that launched an assault on American propriety: literary, sexual, and social presenting writers. Fall/Winter, 2022 issue, Evergreen Review

The Patriot at O'Flaherty's Gallery

“The Patriot", a huge exhibition commemorating the moving of locations for O'Flaherty's on the Lower East Side. This show Includes artists using all mediums and featuring artists of all abilities. Rogue and pandemonium in spirit and sensibility with the hanging reflecting a mood of rebellion. This show harks back to times past when the New York art world was less structured and more open. Covered by Hyperallergic, Cultured Mag, New York Times and Time Out. An irreverent remembrance of times past was the mood. July 14-August 10 2022.

"For its summer 2022 show, flippantly titled “The Patriot,” the gallery burnished its lack of pretense. 

Perhaps the bombshell art movement we’ve all been waiting for will crawl out of its clutter and turn the exhibition into 2022’s equivalent of the “Ninth Street Show.”(what it is and) what's actually desired —is a new model for art’s circulation and display, one less strangled by notions of business".  - Jerry Saltz

Check out this review from Art Forum.

Upstate Art Weekend

Summertime Hues, a Pop-Up Group Exhibition associated with Upstate Art Weekend, Lemon Sky Projects, Kingston NY. July 22-24, 2022

Commemorating the 3rd annual Upstate Art Weekend, lemon sky projects is presenting a pop-up exhibition whose theme embraces a joie de vivre, with most of the artists spending significant time of living in the Hudson Valley. The show engages in a vibrant dialogue-- rough hewn bricolage approaches, counterbalancing more refined techniques--an explosion of color and textures to lift the spirits.

Artists: Jesse Bransford, Judith Braun, Colby Cannon, Susan Carr, Chris Costan, Anne Devine, Louis Constant Duit, Phyllis Galembo, Tommy Grenas, Clarity Haynes, Lisa Kirk, Anne Leith, Carmen Lizardo, Dylan Musler, Michael Rodriguez, Karen Schifano, Melissa Stern, Diane Tenerelli, Jonathan Williams.
66 W Chester St
in the back garden
Kingston NY

Hours:
Friday, July 22 noon-7pm
Saturday July 23 noon-7pm
cool off —-at a cold beverage reception—-: Sat July 23 5-7pm
Sunday July 24 noon-5pm

Alle IV, Studio Im Hochhaus, Berlin, Germany curated by Uwe Jonas

CHRIS COSTAN is included in Alle IV, a group exhibition curated by Uwe Jonas at Studio Im Hochhaus, Berlin, Germany. On view until July 30, 2022.

Painting at Night at Collar Works, Troy, NY, artists selected by Judith Braun

Painting at Night

Selected by Judith Braun, Costan is included in the exhibition Painting at Night. The theme was developed during an episode of Artist/Mother Podcast. Allison Reimus recalls the time she read a statement in a New York Times article about how “You can’t paint at night in your kitchen and hope to be a good artist. It doesn’t work that way.”In true Artist/Mother fashion, this seemed like a great statement to respond to for a group show, as an act of resistance and rejection. To imply that good art cannot be made in domestic spaces, or that a person cannot claim the title of artist without meeting arbitrary requirements is a patriarchal myth, one that artists who are mothers have been resisting for decades.

Exhibition Dates: May 27 - July 31, 2022
Location: Collar Works, 621 River St, Troy, NY

Artists Draw Their Studios at the Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College curated by Michele Weinberg

Chris Costan will be included in the Artists Draw Their Studios show.

Invited by artist Michele Weinberg, and inspired by her practice of periodically drawing her own studio, approximately 50 artists will contribute drawings of their workplaces in a unique project that exposes the diverse ways that artists perceive their own creative work and lives.

Exhibition Dates: April 6– May 6, 2022
Location: The Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College

In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, an exhibition

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New York City Culture Club is proud to present In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, a group exhibition at the World Trade Center, in New York City.

In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, compelled to act in accordance with concerns about planetary distress, each of the below artists have expressed commentary or philosophies in the form of art: Kim Abeles, Olive Ayhens, Elena Berriolo, Chris Costan,  Valerie Hegarty, Betsy Kenyon, Oskar Landi, Christopher Lin, Lenore Malen,  Laziza Rakhimova, Tattfoo Tan, Marion Wilson.

The artists incorporate concerns such as climate change, social justice, health and well-being, extinctions of flora and fauna and habitat loss into their works. All demonstrate the urgent need to live more responsibly within the Earth's finite resources. The show’s location will be effective in reaching a wide variety of people.

In Silent Spring (1962), the quote "in nature, nothing exists alone" illustrates Rachel Carson's critique that the actions of people have a vast impact on the natural world. All things in nature are interconnected, and impacting just one part of it will create numerous unintended results throughout the ecosystem.

Exhibition Dates: January 27, 2022 - March 7, 2022
Location: Oculus, C1 Level, South Concourse, World Trade Center Plaza, New York, NY 10007

click here for a review by LiveMag! of the exhibition