Christopher Duffy
Mostly known for mixed media sculpture often involving glass, Christopher Duffy is
part dedicated craftsman and part cultural dilettante. He was born in California in
1980, raised in Illinois. He moved to Cleveland Ohio on his eighteenth birthday to
attend the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 2003 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Glass. In 2006 he New York City and currently lives in Queens New York. He was
instrumental in the formation of the No-profit experimental music, performance,
and art space Paris London West Nile in Brooklyn. He has worked with and
fabricated glass objects for artists Michiko Sakano, Thaddeus Wolfe, Jeff
Zimmerman, and Linsey Adelman, among others. For several years he worked and
toured the world with Musician Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis as a “hype man” fabricating
and operating onstage visual elements and props. He was the assistant art director
on the short lived cult classic Independent Film Channel television series Foodparty,
created by Thu Tran. He currently is the studio manager for Josiah McEllheny’s
studio in Brooklyn NY. In 2014 He began collaborating with the music duo Eaters
(Jonathan Schenke and Bob Jones), and continues to make memorable visual
effects and elements for their live shows, as well as making collaborative sound
sculptures and installations together under the Easters creative umbrella. He has
been awarded fellowships by The Creative glass Center of America and Starworks,
and recently taught at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Christopher
continues to make glass and mixed media artworks and has exhibited throughout
the United States, and Europe, most recent at The Knockdown Center in Queens
NY, Glazenhuis in Lommel Belgium, and The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk VA.
