Background
Growing up in rural Ohio, Gast’s family worked in agriculture and her mother was a seamstress.
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Christy Gast
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Gast received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) and a Bachelor of Arts (Women's Studies) from The Ohio State University in 1994.
Career
She works in sculpture, video, photography and performance. Upon completing her undergraduate studies, Gast moved to Florida to tour with Cloud Seeding Circus of the Performative Object. In 2004 she received an Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, where she worked with Coco Fusco, Mark Dion and Allan McCollum.
Achievements
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2014 Global Positioning Systems, Perez Art Museum of Miami Beyond the End, Kadist Foundation, Paris Inholdings, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida 2013 Self Portrait as the Barefoot Mailman, Unscripted Art Projects, Bal Harbour, Florida Lost and Foundation, Hal Brom Gallery, New York, New York 2012 Out of Place. Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida Practices Remain. Regina Rex, Brooklyn, New York In Residence. Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 2011 The Wilderness. Miami Art Museum, Miami, Fl Liquid Matter. The Fabric shop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Louisiana Otra. Louisiana Otra, Bogota, Colombia 2010 Herbert Hoover Dyke. de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida Hace Tanto Quebec Number Te Veo. Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile Batty Cave. Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida.
