Realist painter and draftsman Christopher Gallego has taught since 1992–at the United Nations Fine Arts Society, New York, later at the Woodstock School of Art, and currently at the Art Students League of New York. He leads drawing and painting workshops throughout the US, and teaches privately as well.

He studied at the School of Visual Arts, the National Academy School of Fine Arts, and the Art Student’s League, all in New York.

Gallego has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Rathbone Family of Art Historians.

Notable exhibitions include OK Harris, Hirschl & Adler, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, and the Rockefeller Fund.

His work has been acclaimed by The New York Times, Art in America, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Sun. Gallego’s blog posts are read and shared by tens of thousands of artists and non-artists worldwide.

He lives and works in New York.