Christopher Sperandio
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Christopher Sperandio (born 1964) is an American artist known for his collaborative work with British artist Simon Grennan. Sperandio was born in Kingwood, West Virginia and attended West Virginia University, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1987. He pursued graduate coursework at the University of Illinois at Chicago receiving a Master of Fine Arts in painting in 1991. Both Grennan and Sperandio were classmates of Tom Friedman.
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The "We got it!" bar was the result of the artists collaboration with the unionized workforce of a suburban Chicago chocolate factory for Sculpture Chicago's Culture in Action exhibition.
Grennan and Sperandio were commissioned to make new work for the Traffic exhibition curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, and are often exhibited with other "Relational Aesthetics" artists such as Rikrit Tiravanija and Maurizio Cattelan
Grennan and Sperandio have produced 18 comic books for museums with Fantagraphics Books, DC Comics and under their own imprint Kartoon Kings. Typical of these is the "Invisible City" project for the Public Art Fund and "Modern Masters" produced for PS1/MoMA.
Sperandio is credited as Creator and Executive Producer of Artstar, an eight-part unscripted television series set in the New York art world of Deitch Projects airing on American television (Voom) in 2006.
