CHRIS BOGIA


Bio

Chris Bogia received an MFA from Yale University and his BFA from New York University. He was a recipient of the Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation Grant; a Queens Council for the Arts, New Works Grant; a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the Tiffany Foundation Grant. He was also an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program from 2017 - 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include a public project with Art-in-Buildings, New York and two presentations at Mrs., Maspeth, NY, in 2019 and 2022. Group exhibitions include Hesse Flatow, The Public Art Fund and The New Museum, New York, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Primary, Miami, FL; RUSCHMAN, Chicago, IL; Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI; and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA. The artist has also participated in NADA Miami, 2018 and 2020 as well as the Felix Art Fair, 2022 with Mrs., Maspeth, NY. Bogia is the co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the world’s first LGBTQ artist residency and was FIAR’s acting director between 2011- 2020. He is currently an instructor of sculpture at New York University.  The artist has been represented by Mrs. since 2020.

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Special Projects

Flowers, 2023
Hermès Rodeo Drive
Los Angeles, CA

Candle, 2022
Lighthouse Works
Fishers Island, NY