A Legacy of Making, an exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum (upcoming)

An extension of the series of exhibitions, Italianita, curated by Joanne Mattera, this exhibition will focus specifically on the idea of immigration and heritage. There will be a There will be an emphasis on culture, folklore, food/cultivation, and handwork.emphasis on culture, folklore, food/cultivation, and handwork.Three collage, textile works of Chris Costan’s will be included in this spin-off of the Italianita series.
Located along the Raritan Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, the Hunterdon Art Museum began life as a grist mill in the 1800’s later becoming an art center and is now a museum.

September 27, 2026-January 10, 2027

#Hunterdon Art Museum #Italianita #ItalianitaALegacyofMaking

Transient Sculpture in the Time of Cholera installed in Berlin, Germany

materials: detritus from the street along with found objects… GDR glazed brick as base

A Tabletop Sculpture in the Time if Cholera, made at Lichtenberg Studios has been installed at a public site in Berlin at the request of and in association with Lichtenberg Studios.

installed May 1- 2025 remaining indefinitely

Upstate Open Studios in association with Upstate Art Weekend

materials: ceramic, mixed media, formica rectangle, on granite base 2025

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND IS GETTING BIGGER

For the first time, UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, which takes place in and around the Hudson Valley will include UPSTATE OPEN STUDIOS  Although Chris Costan lives/works in NYC she has a place in the Hudson Valley where the focus is on the studio. For this open studio visit you will find a mix of early work and current work.

July 19/20 2025

Saturday and Sunday

11-6pm

https://www.upstateopenstudios.org

https://www.upstateopenstudios.org/map

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL0WF1fxhn3/?igsh=OHE1MXdxd3liMmxz

ALLES VII (Everything 7)

Chris Costan will contribute to ALLES VII along with a group of German and international artists. Costan’s The Bee, The Flower and the Electric Field, a travel version of an intervention piece will be included in this group exhibition:

ALLES VII (Everything 7)

studio im HOCHHAUS

Against the background of increasing discussion of the economization of the fine arts and, in particular, ever higher records for prices on the art market, a broad movement is growing that is questioning these developments. Artist run studio im Hochhaus is a publicly funded gallery.is located on the ground floor of a high-rise, a 1980s GDR housing project. The program provides a perspective on cultural/art spheres alongside the internationality that is already present in Berlin. 

studio im Hochhaus

July 15 to September 7, 2025

Zingster Straße 25 | 13051 Berlin

Öffnungszeiten: Mo – Fr 10-18 Uhr, So 14-18 Uhr

"und andere Arbeiten auf Papier"

Kapitel 78: Wenn das Wissen im Irrtum begründet ist -

und andere Arbeiten auf Papier.

Eröffnung am Mo, 14.04.2025 um 20:00 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Di-Fr, 16:00-18:00 Uhr

 Art Salon ist eine Plattform, bei der sich Künstler
und Besucher treffen können. Die Teilnahme an der jeweiligen
Ausstellung ist nach Anmeldung / Rücksprache direkt möglich.
Der Titel kann eine Inspiration sein, muss aber nicht zwingend
bearbeitet sein. Die Arbeiten werden um 19:00 des jeweiligen
Montag Abends gebracht, und dann zur Eröffnung um 20:00
aufgebaut / gehängt.Abgeholt werden die Arbeiten dann am nächsten Montag, unter
der Woche ist die Ausstellung zu den angegebenen Öffnungszeiten
zu besuchen.Des weiteren kann es am Eröffnungsabend zu spontanen Aktionen
kommen, so dass auch schon mal ein Konzert zur Eröffnung stattfand.

ATELIERHOF KREUZBERG
SCHLEIERMACHERSTRAßE 31
10961 BERLIN

RESIDENT ARTIST LECTURE, LiICHTENBERG STUDIOS

Chris Costan will present a lecture and visual presentation at Lichtenberg Studios where she is an artist-in residence.

Lichtenberg Studios has been the home of an international artist-in residence programme since 2010. It is located on the top floor of a Wilhelminian-period building which houses the Lichtenberg Museum. The museum resides in the ‘Victoriastadt’ quarter, in the historic Tuchollaplatz Square, Berlin

This presentation was made possible by the artist-in-residence program, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin.

April 9, 2025, 7pm

Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin, Germany

http://lichtenberg-studios.de/en/2025-2/

LICHTENBERG STUDIO ARTISTS' RESIDENCY

Returning to Lichtenberg Studios after an initial residency in 2019, Costan will spend the month of April, 2025 working on her continuing series of Interventions. The (month long) previous residency in November of 2019 prompted the beginning of Costan’s ongoing Interventions project. Since that first Lichtenberg Studios visit, she has created, installed and documented over 180 art interventions in New York City, the Hudson Valley, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC as well as in many locations in Europe such as France, United Kingdom and Berlin and Cologne.

Beginning in 2006, Lichtenberg Studios has been the home of an international artist-in residence program, located on the top floor of a Wilhelminian-period building which houses the Lichtenberg Museum. The museum resides in the ‘Victoriastadt’ quarter, in the historical Tuchollaplatz Square, Berlin.

http://lichtenberg-studios.de/en/2025/07/chris-costan-2/

Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany

April 1--May 2, 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, 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 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.