Chantal Calato

Chantal Calato (b. 1982) is an American artist raised in Niagara Falls, New York near the infamously toxic Love Canal. Much of her art has been rooted in personal experience and research. Niagara Falls has become her muse, with a focus on exploring its underbelly, the long covered up parts of the city.

Calato’s multi-disciplinary practice is informed by a background in photography which she studied at the University at Buffalo, and an M.F.A. in Stage Design that she received at Northwestern University. She has lived in Brazil, Chicago, and London. And now lives and works in NYC with a satellite studio in Niagara Falls. Calato has created her own mini universe working as a painter, sculptor, photographer, and installation artist. Her work has been shown in venues including Trimania, Buffalo Museum of Science, Artpark and the Grain Silos for City of Night in Buffalo. She designed massive warehouse parties and outdoor spectacles for Chicago’s Redmond Theatre in the parks on Michigan Lake and she hand-engineered and built costumes that were worn at a White House Halloween Party in D.C. “Unseen” will be her first solo museum show at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York.