Christy Speakman is visual artist who grew up in New Orleans and recently moved back home after 15 years of practicing art in NYC. Her work is currently on view at the Odgen Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana Art Contemporary 2023 through February 2024, and was part of a three-person exhibition at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans in 2021. She has exhibited in a diverse range of spaces and contexts in New York including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Longwood Arts Gallery and the Bronx River Art Center, as well as Cuchifritos Art Gallery in the Essex Street Market, Chelsea Car Wash during Art in Odd Places SIGN 2009, Chashama, Equity Gallery and LABspace. Large scale works are currently on view in the permanent collections of the James Hotel in Manhattan and the NRG headquarters in Princeton, NJ. Speakman earned a Bachelor of Art from the University of New Orleans in 2002 and an M.F.A from Ohio University in 2005, and early in her career participated in artist residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Oregon College of Arts and Craft and A Studio in the Woods. She is a two-time recipient of the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) grant and a founding member of the +1+1 Artist Collective in NYC.
