Christine DeFazio is an art educator and artist working in the Bronx focusing on Urban Arts. She has degrees in Art History and was the Director of Michael Hall Fine Arts, where she wrote several catalogs on 19th Century and Renaissance Sculpture. She is a licensed appraiser and has worked with Sotheby's. 

Her Pop Art 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. She just recently participated in a Conceptual Art performance based group exhibition at the School of Visual Arts, creating a series based on the theme of Black Hearts and Rotten Apples. 

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Exhibitions

Fire and Wind, Vanderplas Gallery, New York, NY, 2021

Art at the Vineyard, Absinthe Gallery, Pennington, NJ 2021

Urban Portraits, Brooklyn Art Cave, Brooklyn, NY, 2021

Alchemy of Emotions, Art Mansion, Montclair, NJ, 2021

Art Against Human Trafficking, Empty Set Gallery, New York, NY, 2021

NFiniTe Art Show, One Art Space, New York, NY 2022

Yonkers Artist Showcase, Yonkers, NY, 2022

Whose Body Do You Think It Is?, AIR Gallery, Exhibition and Benefit Auction, Brooklyn, NY 2022

Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ, 2022

Giving Light: An Arts for Social Justice Exhibit, BronxArtSpace, 2022

The Color of Nature, Stabile Gallery, Ridgefield Park, NJ, 2022

Femturistic, The Future of Women in Art, Blue Gallery, December, 2022

Beneath The Surface, curated by EyeAntic & MorbidGold, Studio 39, January 2023

Creatures of the Night, Curated by Marcus Glitteris, TNC, January 2023

The Box Gallery, Jersey City, March-May 2023

Soho Art Walks, March-April 2023

Yonkers Artist Showcase, Yonkers, NY, 2023

Solo with Friends, Curated by Marcus Glitteris, Theater for the New City, July 2023

New Artists Exhibition, Art Mora Gallery, Ridgefield Park, August-September 2023

NYC Graffiti Women’s Festival, Bronxlandia, Bronx, October 2023

Crash One Group Show, The New Gallery, Basilica Hudson, November 2023

School of Visual Arts, December 2023

The Myth, Curated by Marcus Glitteris, January 2024

Femme Fatale, Curated by Rachel Garcia, NY, NY, February 2024

Group Show, TNC, Curated by Marcus Glitteris, February 2024

TSK, 114 W74th Street Arts, February 2024

Street Art Show, The Buren, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by UP Magazine, March 2024

 

Public Art

Garden Shed Mural, Bogota NJ, Spring 2023

Public Art Project, aerosol murals, Ridgefield Park DPW, Summer 2023

NYC Graffiti Women’s Festival, Bronxlandia, Bronx, October 2023

Uptown Grand Central Mural Project, 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, Harlem, November 2023

 

Interviews

Yonkers Arts, 2022 https://youtu.be/VW85aA6FLfE

 

Performances

Black Hearts and Rotten Apples, SVA, 2021

Art Battle Live Painting, sponsored by Up Magazine, Sour Mouse, NY, 2022

 

Grants

NJ Artist Recovery Grant Recipient, 2022

Ridgewood Arts Association Grant Recipient, 2023

 

Awards

Creative Placemaking, Bogota, NJ, Sustainable Jersey 2023

Creative Placemaking, Creative Bergen, Sustainable Jersey 2023

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Curatorial Projects

Guest Curator of Street Art, IW Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Vox, Veritas, Vita (voice, truth, life): graffiti, street and pop artists to catch now, featuring and curated by Christine DeFazio, Stable Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, September 1-31, 2023

Guest Curator, Alementary Brewery, Hackensack, NJ, 2023-2024

Curator, 24 River Road, Bogota, NJ 2024-ongoing

ANNA! and Duster, a collaborative exhibition, IW Gallery, March 1-April 22, 2024

Curator, Watching Walls featuring Andre Trenier and LadyKFever, Bronx Art Space, October-November 2023

 

Publications

 

Tats Cru and the Birth of Street Art in the South Bronx, Live Places Publishing, Fall 2024

Bronxlandia: NYC Graffiti Women’s Festival organized by LadyKFever, UP Magazine, November 2023

Exploring the History of Hip-Hop and the Bronx with Tats Cru, UP Magazine, Issue 6, March 2024

The Adventures and Art of ANNA!, UP Magazine, Issue 6, March 2024

Uncutt, UP Magazine, Issue 7,  in progress 2024

Art 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, 2023

Avery,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, 1998

Jean-Antoine Houdon - An exhibition of sculpture from the collection of Michael Hall, Esq. Author: Catalog by Christine Defazio, Karl Fugelso, and Philip Mezzatesta, 1999, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and George Washington University, Saint Louis, MO