Kristofor Giordano was born in Newton, New Jersey in 1985, and grew up in the post-industrial town of Franklin, New Jersey. His grandfather, a second generation Italian immigrant, built a home in an area known — geologically — as the New Jersey Highlands. The property became a boneyard of raw materials, mechanical relics, and acquisitions from his bricklaying trade. This immersion in the “backstage” of labor was an early creative laboratory that would shape Giordano's practice and thinking.
After graduating with a BFA from School of Visual Arts in 2007, Giordano held a studio at P.S.122 in New York City. He worked as a nightshift porter while developing his studio practice, studying critical theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and comparative religions and psychology at Hunter
College. Between 2015-2017, he dismantled and reconstructed his Brooklyn apartment to accommodate a studio practice and a developing plan to host and curate shows, performances, events, and inertactions. In 2018, he co-founded the event series Talk Show Screenings in his live/work space.
Giordano’s interdisciplinary art-working approach orbits various fields of thought and action—geology, drawing, religion, sculpture, critical theory, video, psychology, performance, philosophy, writing, politics, photography, pedagogy—and attempts to draw new points of contact between them. He has participated in and organized group shows, film screenings, and interdisciplinary classes nationally, internationally, and virtually. Giordano received his MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts in 2022.
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