EDUCATION
2012
University of California San Diego, MFA in Visual Arts
2005
Carnegie Mellon University, BFA in Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Dynamics of an Asteroid, Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA
2014
Heart Buttons, Sidewall, Pittsburgh, PA
2012
Mundus Subterraneus, VAF Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Atom Style Variations, Culver Road Armory, Rochester, NY
2009
From Out of This Planet Earth, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
PHILALALIA, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair, Signal, Brooklyn, NY
Sidewall, The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA
Felt Book, Recess, New York, NY
Select Art Fair, Center 548, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Book Fair, The Annex, Philadelphia, PA
Pulp Atlas, The Reanimation Library, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Pulp Atlas, Needles & Pens, San Francisco, CA; Free Public Library, Philadelphia, PA
The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
Zine Plug In, TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland
At Sixes and Sevens, Pieter, Los Angeles, CA
Project LALO, Studio 1.1, London, UK
The LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
The Exhibitionists, South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA
Subterranea, SME Gallery, La Jolla, CA
The LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Doing Pennants, Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Heterotopia, UCSD University Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
More Real Than Life, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2011
Double Breaks, Double Break, San Diego, CA
Vantage Point, Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, CA
Jay Howell with Christopher Kardambikis, Double Break, San Diego, CA
2011
Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Adrift, A Raft, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2010
Recent Works, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
The Forbidden Zone, NTBA, Los Angeles, CA
Art of Zines, Anno Domini, San Jose, CA
2009
We Live Inside, VAF Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Surface Matter/Printed Matter, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2008
Anonymous Drawings/Selection, Otterndorf, Germany
Out of This Furnace, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA
In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Artist Made Books Exhibition, The Tom Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Good on Paper, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Three Rivers Arts Festival: Pittsburgh’s Best 2007, PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA
Make/Do, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2006
Three Rivers Arts Festival: Pittsburgh’s Best 2006, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Numinous Drawings, The Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014
Ruth Katzman Scholarship
2011
Russell Grant
2009
Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowship
2006
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship
Sprout Seed Award
RESIDENCIES
2015
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2014
The Art Student’s League Residency at Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY
2009
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Virginia Center for the Arts, Amherst, VA
2008
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
2006
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PUBLICATION
2015
Felt Book, The Institute for New Feeling.
2014
Quarterly West, Issue 83. eds. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Laura Bylenok.
2012
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities,
eds. Christopher Kardambikis, Jasdeep Khaira, and Suzie Silver
2011
Box of Books, Volume IV, ed. Darin Klein
2010
Fawlt Magazine: One, ed. Veronica Kavass and Ryan Joe
2009
TAV Issue 2, eds. Luke Meeken and Andrew Negry, TAV.
2008
In The Making: 250 Artists, 250 Years, ed Jill Larson, Fe Gallery.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Johnson, Paddy and Michael Anthony Farley “Select: Trying To Do Too Much” Art F City. May, 2015.
2014
Mallonnee, Laura C. “A Talk with Christopher Kardambikis, Artist’s Book Enthusiast” Hyperallergic. Sept, 2014.
Maliszewski, Lynn. “Among the Zines at the NY Art Book Fair” Hyperallergic. Sept, 2014.
2013
Songco, Jeff. “Fantastic Voyage: An Interview with Christopher Kardambikis” Bad At Sports. May, 2013.
2012
Karnig, Maximillian. “Feature: Do Anything @ San Diego Space 4 Art” Juxtapoz. July, 2012.
Shihab, Dania. “Christopher Kardambikis” One Day You Will Fine Me. July, 2012.
2009
Riegelnegg, Curt. “Christopher Kardambikis Offers a Brand New Creation Myth (With Plenty of Room for
Interpretation)” Pittsburgh City Paper. May, 2009.
PUBLICATION PROJECTS
Gravity and Trajectory, San Diego, CA
Co-Editor and Publisher
2012
Tagged: Variations on a Theme, by Kevin Killian. Ed. Darin Klein.
2011
Stopover in a Quiet Town by Scott Lyne
2010
Ramble on the Upslope, Ramble on the Downslope by Micki Davis
Plus One by Sadie Barnette
Encyclopedia Destructica, Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLISHER
2012
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities,
eds. Christopher Kardambikis, Jasdeep Khaira, and Suzie Silver
2010
Public Record, ed. Justin Hopper
The Flying Destructicate: Secret Pockets, ed. Mary Tremonte
2009
Hi-Tec: Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, ed. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Open Thread Tri-State Chapbooks, eds. Claire Donato, Tyler Meier, and Isaac Pressnell
Coatlicue 2, eds. Jerome Crooks
Sheila Klein Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Sheila Klein
2008
The Flying Destructicate: Make Your Own Truth, ed. Jonathan Brodsky
Coatlicue 1, eds. Josh Atlas and Matteo Orsini
Pittsburgh Biennial Catalogue, eds. Christopher Kardambikis and Jasdeep Khaira
Medieval Carnival, eds. Bum Lee, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
2007
Bumba, the Fourth, eds. Matt Wellins, Ryan Coon, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
The Flying Destructicate: New Visual Language, ed. Josh Tonies
2006
Wolfman’s Got Nards, eds. Curt Gettman, Mike Woodfill, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
Bumba, the Third, eds. Ian Kanski, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
Bumba, the Second, eds. John Thomas Menesini
Bumba, the First, eds. Christopher Kardambikis and Jasdeep Khaira
Numinous Drawings, eds. Christopher Kardambikis, Matteo Orsini, Jairan Sadeghi
2005
Atum, the Fourth, eds. Matteo Orsini and Jasdeep Khaira
Atum: Addendum, ed Christopher Kardambikis
Atum, the Third, ed. Erin Pischke
Atum, the Second, eds. Christopher Kardambikis and Tom Weinrich
Atum, the First, eds, Christopher Kardambikis, Tom Weinrich
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015
Paper Cuts, Clocktower Radio. Ongoing podcast series (http://clocktower.org/series/paper-cuts)
2014 - 2015
Pulp Atlas: The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA; Needles & Pens, San Francisco, CA; San Jose Public Library, San
Jose, CA; Library at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland; The Reanimation Library, Brooklyn, NY; Thunder-Sky, Inc,
Cincinnati, OH.
2012
Do Anything, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA.
2009
Recto/Verso, Co-curator with Jasdeep Khaira, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
COLLECTIONS
Special Collections, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Art and Architecture Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Hunt Library Special Collections, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
MIF Art Book Library, Fukushima, Japan
The Smile Face Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2012
University of California San Diego, MFA in Visual Arts
2005
Carnegie Mellon University, BFA in Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Dynamics of an Asteroid, Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA
2014
Heart Buttons, Sidewall, Pittsburgh, PA
2012
Mundus Subterraneus, VAF Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Atom Style Variations, Culver Road Armory, Rochester, NY
2009
From Out of This Planet Earth, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
PHILALALIA, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair, Signal, Brooklyn, NY
Sidewall, The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA
Felt Book, Recess, New York, NY
Select Art Fair, Center 548, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Book Fair, The Annex, Philadelphia, PA
Pulp Atlas, The Reanimation Library, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Pulp Atlas, Needles & Pens, San Francisco, CA; Free Public Library, Philadelphia, PA
The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
Zine Plug In, TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland
At Sixes and Sevens, Pieter, Los Angeles, CA
Project LALO, Studio 1.1, London, UK
The LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
The Exhibitionists, South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA
Subterranea, SME Gallery, La Jolla, CA
The LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Doing Pennants, Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Heterotopia, UCSD University Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
More Real Than Life, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2011
Double Breaks, Double Break, San Diego, CA
Vantage Point, Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, CA
Jay Howell with Christopher Kardambikis, Double Break, San Diego, CA
2011
Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Adrift, A Raft, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2010
Recent Works, Agitprop, San Diego, CA
The Forbidden Zone, NTBA, Los Angeles, CA
Art of Zines, Anno Domini, San Jose, CA
2009
We Live Inside, VAF Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Surface Matter/Printed Matter, Marwen, Chicago, IL
2008
Anonymous Drawings/Selection, Otterndorf, Germany
Out of This Furnace, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA
In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Artist Made Books Exhibition, The Tom Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Good on Paper, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Three Rivers Arts Festival: Pittsburgh’s Best 2007, PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA
Make/Do, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2006
Three Rivers Arts Festival: Pittsburgh’s Best 2006, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Numinous Drawings, The Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014
Ruth Katzman Scholarship
2011
Russell Grant
2009
Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowship
2006
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship
Sprout Seed Award
RESIDENCIES
2015
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2014
The Art Student’s League Residency at Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY
2009
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Virginia Center for the Arts, Amherst, VA
2008
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
2006
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PUBLICATION
2015
Felt Book, The Institute for New Feeling.
2014
Quarterly West, Issue 83. eds. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Laura Bylenok.
2012
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities,
eds. Christopher Kardambikis, Jasdeep Khaira, and Suzie Silver
2011
Box of Books, Volume IV, ed. Darin Klein
2010
Fawlt Magazine: One, ed. Veronica Kavass and Ryan Joe
2009
TAV Issue 2, eds. Luke Meeken and Andrew Negry, TAV.
2008
In The Making: 250 Artists, 250 Years, ed Jill Larson, Fe Gallery.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Johnson, Paddy and Michael Anthony Farley “Select: Trying To Do Too Much” Art F City. May, 2015.
2014
Mallonnee, Laura C. “A Talk with Christopher Kardambikis, Artist’s Book Enthusiast” Hyperallergic. Sept, 2014.
Maliszewski, Lynn. “Among the Zines at the NY Art Book Fair” Hyperallergic. Sept, 2014.
2013
Songco, Jeff. “Fantastic Voyage: An Interview with Christopher Kardambikis” Bad At Sports. May, 2013.
2012
Karnig, Maximillian. “Feature: Do Anything @ San Diego Space 4 Art” Juxtapoz. July, 2012.
Shihab, Dania. “Christopher Kardambikis” One Day You Will Fine Me. July, 2012.
2009
Riegelnegg, Curt. “Christopher Kardambikis Offers a Brand New Creation Myth (With Plenty of Room for
Interpretation)” Pittsburgh City Paper. May, 2009.
PUBLICATION PROJECTS
Gravity and Trajectory, San Diego, CA
Co-Editor and Publisher
2012
Tagged: Variations on a Theme, by Kevin Killian. Ed. Darin Klein.
2011
Stopover in a Quiet Town by Scott Lyne
2010
Ramble on the Upslope, Ramble on the Downslope by Micki Davis
Plus One by Sadie Barnette
Encyclopedia Destructica, Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLISHER
2012
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities,
eds. Christopher Kardambikis, Jasdeep Khaira, and Suzie Silver
2010
Public Record, ed. Justin Hopper
The Flying Destructicate: Secret Pockets, ed. Mary Tremonte
2009
Hi-Tec: Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, ed. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Open Thread Tri-State Chapbooks, eds. Claire Donato, Tyler Meier, and Isaac Pressnell
Coatlicue 2, eds. Jerome Crooks
Sheila Klein Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Sheila Klein
2008
The Flying Destructicate: Make Your Own Truth, ed. Jonathan Brodsky
Coatlicue 1, eds. Josh Atlas and Matteo Orsini
Pittsburgh Biennial Catalogue, eds. Christopher Kardambikis and Jasdeep Khaira
Medieval Carnival, eds. Bum Lee, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
2007
Bumba, the Fourth, eds. Matt Wellins, Ryan Coon, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
The Flying Destructicate: New Visual Language, ed. Josh Tonies
2006
Wolfman’s Got Nards, eds. Curt Gettman, Mike Woodfill, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
Bumba, the Third, eds. Ian Kanski, Christopher Kardambikis, and Jasdeep Khaira
Bumba, the Second, eds. John Thomas Menesini
Bumba, the First, eds. Christopher Kardambikis and Jasdeep Khaira
Numinous Drawings, eds. Christopher Kardambikis, Matteo Orsini, Jairan Sadeghi
2005
Atum, the Fourth, eds. Matteo Orsini and Jasdeep Khaira
Atum: Addendum, ed Christopher Kardambikis
Atum, the Third, ed. Erin Pischke
Atum, the Second, eds. Christopher Kardambikis and Tom Weinrich
Atum, the First, eds, Christopher Kardambikis, Tom Weinrich
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015
Paper Cuts, Clocktower Radio. Ongoing podcast series (http://clocktower.org/series/paper-cuts)
2014 - 2015
Pulp Atlas: The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA; Needles & Pens, San Francisco, CA; San Jose Public Library, San
Jose, CA; Library at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland; The Reanimation Library, Brooklyn, NY; Thunder-Sky, Inc,
Cincinnati, OH.
2012
Do Anything, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA.
2009
Recto/Verso, Co-curator with Jasdeep Khaira, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
COLLECTIONS
Special Collections, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Art and Architecture Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Hunt Library Special Collections, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
MIF Art Book Library, Fukushima, Japan
The Smile Face Museum, Brooklyn, NY