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Kristofor Giordano is a visual artist whose work spans objects, videos, drawings, and performances. Grounded in fieldwork and critical research, his practice explores modernity’s extractive rituals, capitalism’s erotic hold on reality, and the systematic commodification of nature. Using techniques like impersonation, feedback, inversion, encryption, and translation, his art highlights the libidinal forces shaping technological pursuits that extend beyond human temporality, dimensions, and scale. Drawing on Black, decolonial, Marxist, posthuman, and "subterranean" thought, Giordano reconfigures personal, cultural, and scientific archives to explore how time and space are manipulated to serve the West’s self-mythologization.
Giordano received his MFA from CalArts in 2022 and is currently based in Los Angeles. This past Spring 2024, he was a resident on The Arctic Circle Art and Science Expedition. His current research examines themes of masculinity and dispossession through Romanticism, psychoanalysis, horror, and science fiction. Using the figure of the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Giordano seeks to trace socio-environmental collapse to the production of the non-human Other.
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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
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
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