Artist Biography
EDUCATION
2004
Columbia University, New York, New York
MFA in Visual Art, New Genres
1999
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
BFA in Visual Art, Sculpture (Magna Cum Laude, (With Distinction)
BA in Women’s Studies (Magna Cum Laude)
2004
Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
Fine Art Video Seminar with Valie Export
1997-8
University of Brighton, Brighton, England Critical Fine Art Practices
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012
Out of Place, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
2010
Herbert Hoover Dyke. De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
Batty Cave. Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
Hace Tanto Que No Te Veo. Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
2008
Moab Video Project. Year-long video installation in Moab, UT
2006
Lady Presidential Candidate Commemorative Plates. City Reliquary Museum, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
In Residence. Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Practices Remain. Norwegian Wood Building, Miami, FL
2011
The Wilderness curated by Rene Morales. Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Liquid Matter. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
La Otra. La Otra, Bogota, Colombia
Improvising Architectures. Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL (curated by Gean Moreno)
2010
A Baker’s Dozen for the Goose Tower. TUMULT, Vordingsborg, Denmark (organized by Mark Dion)
Weird Miami. Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL
2009
Night Shift. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL (curated by Jérôme Sans)
The Yard. Casa Lin, Miami, FL
Wearing it on Your Sleeve: Sympathizers, Empathizers, Provocateurs. Ruth
Chandler Willilamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalogue)
VoS. Smartspaces, New York, NY
Showings. New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2008
Faculty Show. University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola, FL
2007
The Line of Time, the Plane of Now. Harris-Lieberman, New York, NY
L.I.C. NYC. (With Flux Factory) Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
The Bees. Brooklyn Fireproof, New York, NY
700. LeRoy Nieman Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Studio Visit. Exit Art, New York, NY
Rotavido. Galeria h10, Valparaíso, Chile
Daily Noises. (With Fabienne Lasserre) LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
Legion, NYC. NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2005
Day Labor. Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Die Dada Baroness. Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Log Cabin. Curated by Jeffrey Usilp, Artists Space, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Muster. A project by Allison Smith, Governor’s Island, NY (catalogue)
JS05. Contemporary Artists’ Center, North Adams, MA
The Thing That Separates Man from the Animals. SCOPE Art Fair, New York, NY
Altered States. Analogue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
The Presidency. Exit Art, New York, NY
Strange Animal. (With Fabienne Lasserre) L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
High Desert Test Sites #4. Curated by Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree, CA
Columbia University MFA Show. Curated by Ali Subotnik, Studebaker Building, New York, NY
Art in the Office. Global Consulting Group, New York, NY
2003
High Desert Test Sites #2. (With Fabienne Lasserre) Curated by Andrea Zittel. Joshua Tree, CA
One Enemy vs. 25 Millions of Friends. Group Show. Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
First Year Show. Wallach Gallery, New York, NY
Faking Real. Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
Sideshow. (With Cloud Seeding Circus) Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
PERFORMANCES
2010
Ripe Riparian Tour. Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL
2009
The Earth We Inhabit. Casa Lin, Miami, FL
The Earth We Inhabit. Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2008
Canario (With Nick Lobo and Psychic Youth) Abandoned Grow House, Dade County, FL
2007
Contemplating a Stream. PerformaTV, Performa 07 Biennial of Visual Art
Performance. New York, NY
2006
Women Who Ran For President. WBAI Radio
2005
Free Radio High Desert Test Sites (With Fabienne Lasserre) Performa Radio, Performa
07 Biennial of Visual Art Performance. Curated by RoseLee Goldberg. New York,
NY (catalogue)
Free Radio High Desert Test Sites. Rebroadcast of interview & program, Art in General,
New York, NY
2004
Female Soldier Ballads. Freedom of Expression National Monument, Organized by Creative Time, New York, NY
Left Mitten. High Desert Test Sites #4, Curated by Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree, CA
Left Mitten. Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
2003
Left Mitten. The Outlaw Series, Minetta St., New York, NY
Monster Tree. (With Fabienne Lasserre) High Desert Test Sites #3, Joshua Tree, CA
2002
Nutrients. (With Eunice Blavascunas) Scheinbar Variete, Berlin, Germany
2001
Cloud Seeding Circus of the Performative Object: Go West Circus Monkey Tour. (With Cloud
Seeding Circus) Selected venues: University of California, San Diego, CA; McKinney
Art Center, Dallas, TX; Jay Etkins Gallery, Memphis, TN; Ruby Green Gallery,
Nashville, TN; Blue Theater, Austin, TX; Plan B, Santa Fe, NM
2000
Cloud Seeding Circus of the Performative Object: Bizarro Supremo Tour. (With Cloud Seeding
Circus) Selected venues: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Rhode Island
Film Festival, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Ohio University, Athens, OH;
Good/Bad Artists Collective, Brooklyn, NY; Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI; Cloud Seeding Studios, Gainesville, FL
How Bears Understand Boundaries: Thursdays and Basic Engineering. (With Cloud Seeding
Circus) Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
FILM/VIDEO SCREENINGS
2011
Time Is Love: International Video Art Exhibition.Espace ApART, Guanghzou, China; Kulter Gallery, Amsterdam, NL; Sint-Lukas Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Hexagon Space, Baltimore, MD
2010
FAST FORWARD: A Screening of Contemporary American Video Art. Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
The Company Presents. Sagamore Hotel, Miami, FL
2009
The Niche. University of Virginia Fine Arts Library, Charlottesville, VA
2006
Wayward 16. Wayward Canon, London, England
2004
One Minute Film Festival. Beach Lake, PA
2003
First Annual Vilnius Queer Film Festival. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
One Minute Film Festival. Beach Lake, PA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006
MetLife Foundation School Art Program
2003
Joan Sovern Sculpture Award, Columbia University
1999
Edith Fergus Gilmore Award, The Ohio State University
1997
Inducted into Golden Key National Honors Society
Purchase Award, The Ohio State University
1996
Edith Fergus Gilmore Award, The Ohio State University
Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Award
Summa Award in Recognition of Superior Scholarship, The Ohio State University
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009
Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions
2006
Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Nominee
2004
Hayward Prize, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst
2003
Graduate Fellowship. Columbia University Visual Art Division
2002
Graduate Fellowship. Columbia University Visual Art Division
2000
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art with Cloud Seeding Circus
1998
Senior Honors Research Grant. The Ohio State University
RESIDENCIES
2011
Essay No. 1. Karukinka Natural Park, Tierra del Fuego, CL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2009
Moab Video Project Redux. Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2004
Free Radio HDTS. Collaboration with Fabienne Lasserre. High Desert Test Sites #4. Joshua Tree, CA; Performa 05, New York, NY; KZMU Community Radio, Moab,
UT; Daily Noises, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY.
PUBLIC LECTURES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND SEMINARS
Spotlight: Ensayos, a Residency at the End of the World. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL(2012)
MAM Artist Talk with David Brooks, Christy Gast and Allan McCollum. Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (2011)
Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment. Panelist. York, University, Toronto, Canada (2011)
Essays N1. Seminar. Karukinka Natural Park, Tierra del Fuego, Chile (2011)
City as Medium. Panelist. Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL (2011)
Spotlight: The Necessity of Narrative. Panelist. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (2010)
The Role of Narrative in Contemporary Video Practice. Panelist. Gallery Diet, Miami, FL (2010)
Creative Ways to Make a Living. Panelist. LegalArt, Miami, FL (2010)
Conversation with the Artists. Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2009)
Retail 21C. Visiting Artist. Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA (2008)
PUBLICATIONS
Source. [NAME] Publications, 2012
Christy Gast: Your Here. Gallery Diet Press, 2011
A Baker’s Dozen for the Goose Tower. Mark Dion, Tumult Press, 2011, pp. 50-53
Performa: New Visual Art Performance. RoseLee Goldberg, 2006, pp. 97-98
More Songs About Buildings and Food: Recipes For Downtown. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 2006
Analogue Press Portfolio Series. Volume 1, Issue 2. March, 2005
“Introduction,” Stefanie Trojan, Performances und Aktionen, Galerie der Künstler des BBK
München, Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, 2004, Schirmer, Ulm
“Portrait of M as a Tumbleweed.” LTTR Issue 3 (Practice More Failure). July, 2004
“Baroness Re-Makes.” Ha Midrasha Journal Issue 6 (War). Journal of the School of the Arts.
Beit Berel College. 2003, pp. 136-137
Case History and Documentation of an Escapologist. Artist’s Book. Signed and numbered edition of 50.
Printed Matter, the Wexner Center Bookstore, and Brighton Media Center, Gray Matters Journal. 1998
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Domenick Amerratti, “The Outlaw Series,” ArtUS, April-May 2004: 40-1
Holland Cotter, “Log Cabin,” The New York Times, 28 Jan 2005: E41
Roger Clark, “Brooklyn’s City Reliquary Showcases Big Apple Artifacts,” New York 1 TV
News, 24 Feb, 2006
J. Dee Hill, Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus Art, Soft Skull Press,
Brooklyn, NY: 71-88
Thomas Hollingworth, “Canario: A Light Show at a Former Marijuana Grow House”
Artlurker (Web) 28 Dec 2008 <http://www.artlurker.com/2008/12/canario-a-light-show-ata-
former-marijuana-grow-house/>
Thomas Hollingworth, “Christy Gast’s Mounted Horse Men via open-Player” Artlurker
(Web) 17 Aug 2009
Nik Kovac, “Curtains Drop on New Exhibits, New Home,” Greenpoint Star (Brooklyn, NY)
2 Mar 2006: 21
Arty Nelson, “Birth of a Notion,” LA Weekly (Los Angeles, CA) May 23-29 2003
Tim Lockette, “Unusual Circus Begins Tour in Gainesville,” Gainesville Sun (Gainesville, FL)
30 July 2000: A1
Roberta Smith, “Day Labor,” The New York Times, 11 Nov 2005
Shannon Sutlief, “Circus of the Bizarre,” Dallas Observer (Dallas, TX) 7-13 Jun 2001: 45
Liz Tracy, “The Earth We Inhabit,” NBC Miami (Web) 7 Jun 2009
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Amy Zimmer, “One man’s junk is a Williamsburg man’s city artifact,” New York Metro, 27
Feb 06: 2
Andrea Zittel, “Announcing: The Moab Video Project by Christy Gast” High Desert Test Sites
(Web) 1 Mar 2008 <http://www.highdeserttestsites.com/>
Andrea Zittel, High Desert Test Sites 2 Catalog, May 2003: 9