Christopher Sperandio

(Nort american– Kingwood, Virginia, 1964)

Christopher Sperandio’s works have been the subjects of exhibitions in museums and art centers in the United States, Germany, Northern Ireland, Denmark, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, and France. Commissioning institutions include: MoMA/PS1, the Public Art Fund, Creative Time, London's Institute of Contemporary Art, Project Row Houses, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Wired Magazine and DC Comics. A pioneer of Social Practice, Sperandio and his collaborative partner, Simon Grennan, participated in two landmark social practice exhibitions: Culture in Action, curated by Mary Jane Jacob, and Nicolas Bourriaud’s Traffic. Grennan and Sperandio were represented by Colin De Land at American Fine Arts, until De Land’s death in 2002.

Essays about Sperandio’s collaborative work appear in numerous art survey books especially concerning relational, social and collaborative art. Articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Art In America, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, The New Yorker, ArtReview, Art Papers, Soap Opera Weekly and others.

Sperandio is an Associate Professor of Art at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, where he established the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop in 2015, a hybrid teaching, research and Risograph production space. His Instagram account, @Pinko_Joe, was recently recognized with a 2023 Citizen Design Award from PRINT Magazine. Citizen Design is a special category open to designers who have created print and online campaigns designed to protect voting freedom.