Born
1959 New York, NY
Education
1978-1982 BA, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
1982-1985 Art Student's League of New York, New York, NY
1985-1986 National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Seraphin Gallery, Evocative Realism
2002 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Now , New Britain, CT
1998 Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, On Location , New York, NY
1996 United Nations Gallery, New York, NY
1993 AVA, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Naples Museum of Art, Contemporary Drawings from the Dyke Collection
Naples , FL
2007 Seraphin Gallery, Small Works , Philadelphia, PA
Woodstock School of Art, Faculty Exhibition , Woodstock, NY
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, The Painted Interior ,
Wilmington, DE (three person show)
2006 Hirschl and Adler, Summer Selections , New York, NY
New Britain Museum of American Art, Strokes of Genius :
Masterworks from the New Britain Collection , (traveling to):
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Santa Fe Art Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA
2005 Seraphin Gallery, Out of Line , Philadelphia, PA
2004 Hirschl and Adler, Highlights from the Collection
Hirschl and Adler, Summer Group Exhibition
Seraphin Gallery, Masters and Mavericks
Seraphin Gallery, Masters and Mavericks: The Nude
2003 Hirschl and Adler, Observation-Creation, 200 Years of Still-Life
Arkansas Arts Center, Collector’s Show , Little Rock, AR
2002 Hirschl and Adler, The Eloquent Line , (three-person show)
Arkansas Arts Center, Magic Vision
2001 Arkansas Arts Center, Eighth National Drawing Invitational
Galerie Albert Benamou, New York Realists Now , Paris, FR
Arnot Art Museum, Re-Presenting Representation V , Elmira, NY
2000 Hirschl and Adler, New York-Classicism Now
Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show
1999 Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, National Prize Show , Boston, MA
John Pence Gallery, Drawings , San Francisco, CA
Butler Institute of American Art, 65th Midyear , Youngstown, OH
1996 Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show
Tasticheff and Co., Group Exhibition , New York, NY
1995 Hunter Museum of Art, Spectrum '95 , Chattanooga, TN
Tatistcheff and Co, Summer Group Exhibition
1994 First Street Gallery, National Competition , New York, NY
Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show
AVA, Artstravaganza , Chattanooga, TN
1993 Savannah National, Collector's Choice Competition , Savannah, GA
1992 Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art, International Art Competition , Miami, FL
1991 First Street Gallery, National Competition
Allied Artists of America, 77th Annual, National Arts Club, New York, NY
1989 National Arts Club, Group Exhibition , New York, NY
Awards
2008 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
2005 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Painting Fellowship
1999 Cambridge Art Association – Best in Show, Rathbone Family Prize
1993 Savannah National – Award for Painting, 2ndPrize
Association for Visual Artists, Artist in Residence , Chattanooga, TN
1991 Allied Artists of America - Art Students League of NY Prize
Public Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Teaching
United Nations Fine Art Society, New York, NY
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Woodstock School of Art, New York, NY
Lectures
Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Bibliography
Yasiejko, Christopher, "Seeking the soul of interior spaces",
The News Journal, Wilmington , December 10, 2006
Donohoe, Victoria, “A Sit-Down that Soothes Senses”,
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 24, 2006
Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review; Works on Paper”,
New York Times , March 3, 2006
Bullette, "Art", Blogs@Myspace, February 1, 2006
Franz, Jason, "What I Loved", Blogs @ Cincinnati ,
January 5, 2006
Rosof, Libby, "Out of Line", artblog , December 28, 2005
Fabbri, Anne R., "Christopher Gallego at Seraphin", Art in America ,
June/July 2005, p. 190
Durrell, Jane, "Strokes of Genius", Citybeat , June 21, 2005
Sozanski, Edward, "Christopher Gallego/Evocative Realism",
Philadelphia Inquirer , January 28, 2005
Fallon, Roberta, "Art and Sold", Philadelphia Weekly Online , February 9-15, 2005
Rosof, Libby, "Portraits of the Artists", artblog , January 26, 2005
"The Eloquent Line", American Arts Quarterly , spring, 2002, pp. 46-48
Doherty, Steven M., "Four Approaches to Drawing", American Artist ,
June, 2002, pp. 66-67
Johnson, Ken, "New York Classicism Now", New York Times , September 8, 2000
Rodriguez, Edel, "New York Classicism Now", New Yorker , August 14, 2000
McKown, Rich, "Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show",
Art New England , August/September, 1999
Glaser, Pam, "Two Artists, One Grand Vision", AVA Newsletter , Summer, 1993
Exhibition Catalogs
Wolfe, Townsend, "Christopher Gallego", Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2005,
pp. 1-16
Hedberg, Gregory, Ph.D., "The Eloquent Line", Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, 2002, pp.1,2,3,10,11,16
Wolfe, Townsend, "Magic Vision", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 2002,
pp.9, 44, 45
Wolfe, Townsend,"Eighth National Drawing Invitational", Arkansas Arts Center, 2001
Attias, Laurie, "New York Realists Now", Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, FR, 2001
Bloemink, Barbara, Ph.D., "New York - Classicism Now", Hirschl & Adler, 20000
Koob, Pam, Kuebler, Joanne, "30/30-Thirty Works by Art Students League
of New York Alumni", Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 1999
Pence, John, "Drawings", John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999, pp. 3,4
Seraphin Gallery l Philadelphia Contemporary Art Gallery and Art Consultant
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