Kristy Gordon is a Canadian-born artist based in New York City. Her paintings have been described by Galleries West as “contradictory and enigmatic scenes (that) unravel centuries of power relations and imagine a new future.” Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Uris Center in New York City; the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona and the National Academy Museum in New York City.
Gordon earned her BFA from OCAD University (2011) and MFA from the New York Academy of Art (2013), where she now teaches as an adjunct professor. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and her paintings have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. Residencies have taken her to the Vermont Studio Center, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Shanghai University, and Florence, Italy, and she has apprenticed with Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum.
Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Vogue, and Fine Art Connoisseur, among others. Gordon has lectured and demonstrated at institutions including Sotheby’s in New York City and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Her paintings are held in over 600 private and public collections worldwide, including the Government of Ontario Art Collection, The Clearing House (New York City), and the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History.
She is represented by Garvey|Simon (New York City), Blumka Contemporary (New York City) and Grenning Gallery (Sag Harbor, NY).
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EDUCATION
2013 – New York Academy of Art, MFA, Painting
2011 – OCAD University, BFA, Drawing and Painting
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Garvey|Simon Gallery with DFN Projects, Map of the Universe, New York, NY
2024 – Studio Sixty Six Gallery, Alchemical, Ottawa, ON
2024 – The Gallery at Greenly Center, Portals, Bloomsburg University, PA
2022 – Cube Gallery Projects / Fritzi Gallery, Strangled Planet, Ottawa, ON
2021 – Langham Cultural Centre, Planetary, Kaslo, BC
2017 – LIC Arts Open Gallery, Journey of Dreams, Long Island City, NY
2016 – Cube Gallery, Redux, Ottawa, ON
2014 – Cube Gallery, Flux, Ottawa, ON
2013 – Cube Gallery, Beautiful and Dangerous, Ottawa, ON
2012 – Cube Gallery, Rise, Ottawa, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 – Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
2025 – Untitled Space, Uprise 2025: The Art of Resistance, New York, NY
2024 – FORMah, The Feminine Divine, curated by Marina Granger, New York, NY
2023 – Grenning Gallery, Prophets, Sag Harbor, NY
2023 – Metropolitan Museum of Art, Uris Center for Education, New York, NY
2022 – Grenning Gallery, Down The Rabbit Hole (Two-Person Show with Hunt Slonem), Sag Harbor, NY
2020 – New York Academy of Art, Artists for Artists, New York, NY
2020 – Garvey|Simon Gallery, Select 5, New York, NY
2019 – Metropolitan Museum of Art, Uris Center for Education, New York, NY
2018 – MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art, Mod Portrait, Barcelona, Spain
2018 – IAACC Pablo Serrano Museum, Mod Portrait, Zaragoza, Spain
2018, 2016 – Flowers Gallery, Summer Exhibition, New York, NY
2017 – National Academy Museum, Creative Mischief, New York, NY
2015 – Grenning Gallery, Gems, Sag Harbor, NY
2014 – Grenning Gallery, Art Market Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2013, 2016, 2022 – Sotheby’s, Take Home a Nude, New York, NY
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2023 – Vermont Studio Center, Residency, Vermont, USA
2012 – New York Academy of Art, China Residency (Shanghai & Beijing)
2011 – Odd Nerdrum Studio, Apprenticeship, Norway and France
TEACHING & LECTURES
2014–Present – New York Academy of Art, Adjunct Professor, New York, NY
2017–2018 – New York School of the Arts, Faculty, New York, NY
2015–2017 – National Academy Museum and School, Faculty, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 – VOGUE, “Brooke Shields, Naomi Watts Honor Artist Amy Sherald at the New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball,” April 5, 2023
2022 – Hyperallergic, “A View From the Easel,” March 14, 2022
2021 – Galleries West, “A High Horizon,” by Deborah Thompson, April 23, 2021
2017 – Fine Art Connoisseur, “More Than Just Faces,” by Andrew Webster, May 9, 2017
PUBLIC PAINTING DEMONSTRATIONS
2024 – Sotheby’s, Take Home a Nude, New York, NY
2023 – New York Academy of Art, Tribeca Ball, New York, NY
2022 – Sotheby’s, Artists for Artists, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Doritos Canada, Toronto, ON
China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Government of Ontario Art Collection, Toronto, ON
Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, Nelson, BC