Christian Maychack was born in upstate New York and lives and works in Queens, NY. He obtained his MFA in Studio Arts from San Francisco State University (2002). Christian has had multiple solo shows at Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY. Notable group exhibitions include the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich, Germany. His residencies include two full fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2003 & 2013); La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France, (2013); Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY, (2011); the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (2007); and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008). In 2012 Maychack received a fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation of the Arts and in 2014 was awarded a free studio in the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, New York.