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Christine DeFazio is an art educator and artist working in the Bronx. This spring she will give a scholarly paper in London on Tats Cru and Street Art of the Bronx. She created curriculum for The Met’s Astor Fellowship and Lincoln Center’s Arts in the Middle. She has degrees in Art History from StonyBrook and Hunter. As Director of Michael Hall Fine Art, she curated exhibitions and wrote publications on Renaissance and Nineteenth Century Sculpture. She worked with Sotheby's appraisal department. She was assistant to the editor of Donald Kuspit’s Art Criticism and has worked at the New Museum and Franklin Furnace. She is the secretary for Creative Bergen and will be organizing several events and shows. She has exhibited her own art extensively in New York. Her artwork focuses on capturing the psyche of her sitters, often caught in a dilemma expressed through allegory or myth with a touch of Surrealism. She aims to convey stories of love, longing and despair, through her imagery of the female form. You can hear about her work in her recent Interview with Yonkers Arts. (https://youtu.be/VW85aA6FLfE)

Biography

Christine DeFazioBorn Niagara Falls, NY 1970, lives in Bogota, NJ, Visual Art Teacher in the South Bronx

Resume / CV

Christine DeFazioBorn Niagara Falls, NY 1970, lives in Bogota, NJ, Visual Art Teacher in the South Bronx@christine_defazio_arts on Instagramhttps://christinedefazioar.wixsite.com/websitechristinedefazioarts@gmail.comExhibitionsFire and Wind, Vanderplas Gallery, New York, NY, 2021Art at the Vineyard, Absinthe Gallery, Pennington, NJ 2021Urban Portraits, Brooklyn Art Cave, Brooklyn, NY, 2021Alchemy of Emotions, Art Mansion, Montclair, NJ, 2021Art Against Human Trafficking, Empty Set Gallery, New York, NY, 2021NFiniTe Art Show, One Art Space, New York, NY 2022Yonkers Artist Showcase, Yonkers, NY, 2022Whose Body Do You Think It Is?, AIR Gallery, Exhibition and Benefit Auction, Brooklyn, NY 2022Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ, 2022Giving Light: An Arts for Social Justice Exhibit, BronxArtSpace, 2022The Color of Nature, Stabile Gallery, Ridgefield Park, NJ, 2022Femturistic, The Future of Women in Art, Blue Gallery, December, 2022Beneath The Surface, curated by EyeAntic & MorbidGold, Studio 39, January 2023Creatures of the Night, Curated by Marcus Glitteris, TNC, January 2023The Box Gallery, Jersey City, March-May 2023Kate Spade, Soho Art Walks, March-April 2023
Public ArtGarden Shed Mural, Bogota NJ, Spring 2023
InterviewsYonkers Arts, 2022 https://youtu.be/VW85aA6FLfE
PerformancesBlack Hearts and Rotten Apples, SVA, 2021Art Battle Live Painting, sponsored by Up Magazine, Sour Mouse, NY, 2022
EducationMS Arts Education, CUNY, 2004MA Hunter College, 1999 BA SUNY Stony Brook, 1992Publications
Tats Cru, Up Magazine, September 2023Art and Activism in the Bronx: Gentrification and the Commercialization of Street Art, Heading Uptown: Art and Activism in the Bronx, Association for Art History, Annual Conference, University College London, 2023Avery,Charles. Giambologna; Sculpture by the Master and His Followers From the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., research assistant, New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries & Amsterdam, 1998Jean-Antoine Houdon - An exhibition of sculpture from the collection of Michael Hall, Esq. Author: Catalogue by Christine Defazio, Karl Fugelso, and Philip Mezzatesta, 1999, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and George Washington University, Saint Louis, MOGallery Education and Related ExperienceVisual Arts Teacher, New York City, 2001-presentAppraisal Coordinator, Sotheby’s, 1999-2001Director, Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc., 1992-1999Arts in the Middle Program, Lincoln Center Education, 2015-2018Astor Educators Program, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016-2017Secretary, Creative Bergen, 2022-presentAppointed Member, Bogota Creative Arts Team, 2023-presentAssistant to the Editor, Richard Leslie, Donald Kuspit’s magazine Art Criticism, SUNY Stonybrook, 1990-1992Internship, The New Museum, Education Department, 1990Internship, Franklin Furnace, NY, 1989