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 such as bathrooms, hospitals, and other liminal zones as sites of solitude and survival. His work examines how identity is shaped, fractured, and renegotiated within these environments, challenging boundaries between the private and the public, the sacred and the clinical. Through material tension, texture, and sonic experimentation, Ender constructs layered, embodied narratives rooted in lived experience.

As a curator, Ender builds artist-centered platforms grounded in care, intention, and connection, guided by the belief that artists are best equipped to understand and support one another. His curatorial initiatives include the interdisciplinary retreat Alchemy of the Arrow, a public art takeover in Chelsea with Hot Water Cool Art, and most recently Fragmentation of Identity with Revolú Gallery, an international exhibition examining fractured selfhood, survival, and reassembly across disciplines and geographies. These projects combine intentional, artist-led frameworks with rigorous professional presentation and public engagement.

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