He received his Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts in Art History from Concordia University, Montreal, and has written about the intersection of biopolitics, medicalization, and artistic experience from the eighteenth to early twenty-first centuries.
He has a Bachelor from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Additionally, the artist has been active in the Grass Roots Art and Community Efforts (GRACE) in Hardwick, Vermont. He has organized numerous exhibitions including "Insider Art," (GRACE traveling exhibition, 1990), and Our Yard in the Future: The Art of Gayleen Aiken (Horton Gallery, 2007). He has contributed criticism to Art in America and Art New England, among others The artist is represented by Zieher Smith and Horton Gallery in New York, and Anthony Reynolds Gallery in London, United Kingdom.Gallo"s works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and are included in notable collections of contemporary art
Gallo draws from a wide variety of sources – art historical, political, and literary, and often incorporates poetic, philosophical and found texts in his mixed-media paintings.
Nautical imagery derived from historical sources such as the "ship of fools," and the "ship of state," are among his signature subjects. His paintings often incorporate unconventional materials, including buttons, toothpicks, newspaper clippings, found photographs, string, typed texts, dental floss and chicken bones.
His “improvisatory” style has been compared to that of Ree Morton, Joy Division and Forrest Bess. Critic Jonathon Goodman writes that in current art trends this kind of “ad hoc creativity often serves to mask poor skills, but in Gallo’s case, the rawness is a genuine part of his aesthetic, whose ungainliness keeps us thinking.“
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
"Take Back Vermont", Zieher Smith and Horton Gallery, New York, New York
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London United Kingdom
Fool"s House, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
Update, White Columns, New York, New York
Sequence and Consequence, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, New York
White Columns (White Room), New York, New York
Troubling Customs, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Master of Arts.
