CHRIS COSTAN
sanctioned interventions (selected)
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, Purple Window Gallery (virtual)
2019 Color Persona, 25 pieces installed in locations around Berlin and in association with
Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
unsanctioned interventions (selected)
2023 Civilized (The Conquerors of Sicily), Palermo, Italy
The Death Expert, NYC
Diary (of Continental Drift), somewhere in Sicily
The Gift, Scily, 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
Othering (the Diamondback Terrapin), Brooklyn, NY
Mortality (or the Verrazano Narrows), Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
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 Serenisima, 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, NYC
2021 Naked Mole Rat, NYC
Wall Street, NYC
Eat, Kingston, NY
His Liver, Kingston, NY
Dresden, Bethlehem, PA
Tribal, Bethlehem, PA
Surveil, NYC
Overpopulation, NYC
Milky Way, NYC
Bambi, NYC
Fabric of Society, NYC
Neapolitan, NYC
Mermaid, NYC
The Snow Queen, NYC
2020 Billion Year Old Water, NYC
Dust is Dust, NYC
Lakota (Lakota Code of Ethics), NYC
Bluebeard (a fairytale), NYC
The Dull Orange Sun (sunset followed by twilight), NYC
The Whiteness of the Whale (Moby Dick). NYC
Trees Communicate, NYC
The Golden Touch (Midas), NYC
Salting the Earth, NYC
Choking on the Blood of Planet Earth and All It’s Creatures, a rogue intervention
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, rogue action,
25 piece intervention, Kingston, NY
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, Tribeca, NYC
2000 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, Tribeca, NYC
1998 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, Tribeca,NYC
1996 FAO Gallery, New York, NYC
1988 Germans Van Eck Gallery, NYC
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 Avenue B Gallery, NYC
1986. Avenue B Gallery, NYC
1985 Avenue B Gallery, NYC
Windows on White, NYC
1985 Chicago Books, NYC
group exhibitions
2024 A Legacy of Making (Italianita), curated but Joanne Mattera, The Cummings Gallery, New London, Ct (upcoming)
Alle VI, Im Hochhaus Gallery, curated by Uwe Jonas, Lichtenburg Studios, Berlin Germany (upcoming)
2023 International Waters, (German and American Artists), curated by Scott Pfaffman, The Wall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Italianita selected by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, NYC
Alle V, @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, (Artist/Mother Podcast Exhibition), Collar Works, Troy, NY
In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, NYC Culture Club, Oculus, World Trade Center, NYC
Artists Draw Their Studios curated by Michele Weinberg, The Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
2021 Everywoman Biennial, Superchief Gallery, NFT, NYC
Artists Draw Their Studios, Kleinert Gallery, Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY (upcoming)
Group Show, The Empty Gallery, Shrine Gallery, NYC (virtual)
2020 We the People Art Project, Leonides Arts New York, 3-D building sized screening,
Union Square, NYC and Newark, NJ
Atlantic Center for the Arts, ONline Inside OUT, episode 3 (virtual)
Drawing Challenge XI, Jason McCoy Gallery, NY, NY (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 Exhibit, NY, NY (virtual)
Alle 3, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin, Germany
Three Artists, Glen Falls House curated by Lemon Sky Projects, Roundtop, NY
2019 Peace – don’t make me laugh // You, a two minute brother, Spor Klubu, Berlin, Germany
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
Sculpture, Site Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Sculpture, 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, New York, NY
Social Photography II, Cell Phone Photography, carriage trade, New York, 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, New York, NY
2010 NY BYOA: Bring Your Own Art – X Initiative (548 W 22 St) New York, NY
2008 Art in a Box, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Benefit, New York, NY
20 Years of Printmaking, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Sporadic, 475 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Betsy Kelleher
2004 Art Star/ Sausage Factory, Debs and Co, New York, NY
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, New York, NY
Internal/ External (catalog), Foster Goldstrum Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Drop Dead Painting, 103 Reade St (curator, John Ford), NY, NY
Return of the Cadavre Esquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (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, Venice, Italy, curated by Umberto Scrocca
The Atmosphere: Art, Native Wisdom and Science, University Gallery, Albany, NY
1992 Apocalypse and Resurrection (catalog) The Gallery 30, NY, NY
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, (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, New York, NY
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, New York City,nconceived 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
individual awards
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters
residencies
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
permanent collections
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
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
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”
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 Tri Be Ca 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
memberships
ecoartspace.org
curatorial
In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone (Silent Spring, Rachel Carson) NYC Culture Club, World Trade Center, NYC, 2022
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, IL