Chris
Cantley
Media:
Multi-Disciplinary

Studio Location:
34-01 38th Ave, 4th Floor, Long Island City, NY 11101
Room/Studio#
417
Website:
Artist Bio:
Chris Cantley is an artist, graphic designer, and music enthusiast. He lives and works in Long Island City, New York. Chris holds a BFA in expanded drawing and print media, from the University of the Arts along with a master’s degree in visual communication from Pratt Institute. He has created graphic identity systems, publications, brand guidelines, and comprehensive marketing collateral for top tier clients such as CBS, New York University, and Scholastic. A driving principal in his art as well as his design work combines technical proficiency with juxtaposing the unexpected.
Artist Statement:
My work emerges from a space where instinct, memory, and absurdity collide. I create tactile, mixed-media compositions that explore the fractured narratives of our interior and external worlds. Using paint, collage, found materials, and heavily textured surfaces, I construct visual environments that straddle figuration and abstraction, humor and critique, dream and debris.