This isn’t just a practice, it’s how I survived. Everything else came later.

Christopher Ender Coryat (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in New York. His practice confronts systems of control through deeply personal, material-based investigations. Drawing on his lived experience with epilepsy and disability, Ender creates sculptural installations, performances, and pigment-based paintings that center the body as a site of vulnerability, resistance, and transformation.

Often working with pharmaceutical pigments ground-down medications once prescribed to him, he explores spaces like bathrooms, hospitals, and other liminal zones as sites of solitude and survival. His work challenges the boundaries between the private and the public, the sacred and the clinical, using form, texture, and sonic experimentation to guide viewers through layered, embodied narratives.

As a curator, Ender builds artist-centered platforms rooted in care, intention, and connection, because artists are the only ones who truly know what other artists need. His curatorial initiatives, such as the interdisciplinary retreat Alchemy of the Arrow, the international open call Fragmentation of Identity with Revolú Gallery, and a public art takeover in Chelsea with Hot Water Cool Art, combine intentional, artist-led approaches with professional presentation and public engagement. Whether in galleries, online, or unconventional spaces, Ender’s curatorial work centers connection, visibility, and care.

His work has appeared across New York City and internationally, from community bar takeovers to major upcoming programs in Mexico City during Zona Maco 2026.