Christy Gast (b. 1976, Ohio) is a New York-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, performance, video, and textiles. Her work is rooted in field research and collaborative practices, as well as complex textile constructions. Gast was a founding member of the research collective Ensayos, through which she spent 15 years working on issues of ecological storytelling in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos.
Gast has exhibited internationally, both solo and with Ensayos, in New York at the New Museum, MoMA/P.S.1, Performa, Artists Space and the River Valley Arts Collective; in Miami at Pérez Art Museum Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Nina Johnson Gallery, Locust Projects; and at American University Museum (DC), Galería Patricia Ready (Santiago), Kadist (Paris), MABA and Le19 (France), the University of Queensland Art Museum (Australia), Estonian Contemporary Art Museum, and the Chilean Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale (with Ensayos), among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, the Ohio State University, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. She has received support from NYSCA, the Art Matters Foundation, Tigertail, South Florida Cultural Consortium, and the American Austrian Foundation. She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and dual BFA/BA degrees in Sculpture and Women’s Studies from The Ohio State University. She also studied with Valie Export at the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg and at the University of Brighton in Critical Fine Art Practices.