ABOUT
Kristofor Giordano is a visual artist, researcher, and educator from New Jersey, USA, working across sculpture, drawing, video, performance, and writing. Rooted in research and material investigation, his practice examines how capitalist structures, institutions, and language shape the visible and invisible dimensions of everyday life. Engaging personal, cultural, and scientific archives through techniques of impersonation, feedback, inversion, encryption, and translation, Giordano explores the libidinal forces underlying technological and spiritual transcendence, while tracing how dominant narratives reorganize time, space, and political possibility. He received his MFA from CalArts in 2022 and is currently based in New York City. In Spring 2024, he participated in The Arctic Circle Art and Science Expedition, and presented written research through The School of Materialist Research’s program The Political and Its Limits in July 2026. His current research examines masculinity, violence, and political agency through Romanticism, psychoanalysis, music, comedy, and science fiction.
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b. 1985, Newton, New Jersey
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
BFA Fine Art, School of Visual Arts | 2007
MFA in Art , California Institute of the Arts | 2022
SELECTED SHOWS
2026
Fuzzy Taxonomy, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2024
Little Spitfires, Room 111, The Hollywood Roosevelt, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Postgrad CalArts MFA Show, Helen J Gallery, Hollywood, CA
High As The Sky, Great Hall/Long Hall, Plummer Park, West Hollywood, CA. Organized by The New Arts Foundation
The Modern Horror Project, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2021
Crossed Wires, CalArts, Valencia, CA
OPaf 2021 (Other Places Art Fair), San Pedro, CA
2017
SSB Away, Chama River Residency Project, Abiquiu, NM
2015
Pagina, Antica Libreria Cascianelli, Rome, Italy
2012
Chosen, ArtGate Gallery, New York, NY. Organized by John L. Moore. Artists selected by Luca Buvoli, Cai Guo Qiang, Zarina Hashmi, Joan Jonas, Michael Joo, Donald Sultan, Kara Walker, and Nari Ward
2010
Need Not Apply, Live with Animals, Brooklyn, NY
2009
International Noise Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2008
New Projects by Kristofor Giordano and Sarah Grass, P.S.122, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2024
The Arctic Circle: Art & Science Expedition 2024
2019
Hamtramck Disneyland, Hamtramck, MI
2018
Hamtramck Disneyland, Hamtramck, MI
2017
Some Serious Business, Abiquiu, NM
PUBLICATIONS & ENGAGEMENTS
Artist Presenter: The Political And Its Limits, The School of Materialist Research | 2026
Teaching Artist Presenter: CSSSA ‘22 California Institute of the Arts | 2022
Contributor: The Game of the Real: Art and the Knowledge Project, Published by CalArts: School of Critical Studies | 2021
Guest Visiting Artist Lecturer: School of Visual Arts | 2014
Collaborator: The When McGruff was King, International Noise Conference ‘08, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2008
COLLECTIONS
“high as the sky” zine, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Los Angeles, CA
Queens, The When McGruff Was King, Lewis Music Library, Cambridge, MA
ORGANIZATIONS
GOES TO OCEAN, Co-founder, founded 2023
CalArts Car Club, founded 2020
Talk Show Screenings, Co-founder, founded 2019