Open Studios by Upstate Art Weekend

Chris Costan will be included in Hudson Valley art event, Upstate Art Weekend, where she will present recent tabletop sculpture, works on paper as well as some historical work from her distant past.
Upstate Artists Open Their Studios: An intimate, yet region-wide initiative where 240 artists across the Hudson Valley and Catskills open their studios to the public—strengthening visibility, access, and connection to art, people, and place.

Visit My Studio - Saturday, May 16 & Sunday, May 17, 2026, 11am-6pm (across the river from Poughkeepsie)

Learn more about Open Studios by UAW

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

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

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