Cynthia Corbett Gallery returns to EXPO CHICAGO 2026 with an international group presentation
Navy Pier, Chicago | 1–4 April 2026 | Booth 203
Cynthia Corbett Gallery returns to EXPO CHICAGO 2026 with a distinctly international presentation that brings together six artists whose practices are shaped by different geographies, cultural histories and material languages. Led by Italian-American, London-based gallerist Cynthia Valianti Corbett, the stand forms a cross-continental conversation between Europe, the United States, and Australia, united by a shared fascination with how ideas become form, and how structure, surface, and process carry design history into the present.
The presentation features Andy Burgess (British, US-based), whose bold geometric paintings and collaged constructions reimagine modernist and mid-century architecture with dream-like colour and theatrical light. Margo Selby (UK) brings handwoven works guided by her “Art Into Industry” ethos; her Shuttle Series draws on technological circuitry and the story of the women weavers behind the Apollo 11 mission, translating space-age narrative into precise graphic pattern and radiant colour gradients.
Marking her Chicago debut, Ebony Russell (Australian) presents new hand-piped porcelain sculptures where ornament becomes architecture, celebrating labour, excess, delight, and the politics of decorative form. Klari Reis (American, San Francisco-based) contributes vivid works made in her invented epoxy polymer medium, forming hypnotic cellular colour-fields shaped by a science-led, experimental approach that sits between painting and object.
Alastair Gordon (Scottish) presents meticulously illusionistic landscapes shaped by en plein air expeditions in the Scottish Highlands and Lake District, where hyperreal wilderness meets the studio’s marks and residue, reframing landscape as both artifact and “painting about painting.” Cristina Schek (Transylvanian surrealist, London-based) makes her EXPO CHICAGO debut with works from Diving Upwards alongside new Glamarine pieces, where weightless swimmers break gravity’s spell and surge toward light, suspended between water and sky in a vivid celebration of optimism and levity.
Together, this fully international range of practices links material intelligence with design heritage, mapping how contemporary artists remake tradition into new visual systems across media.
About Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Cynthia Corbett Gallery, a London-based Contemporary art gallery, was established by American former economist, art historian and curator Cynthia Valianti Corbett in 2004. The Gallery is an international nomadic art gallery representing emerging and established contemporary artists, and has a broad annual exhibition programme including international art fairs and collaborative projects worldwide. The Gallery’s represented and guest artists come from British, American and international backgrounds, whose works have been published and acquired by major museums, institutions, and private collections. Since its inception, the gallery has championed the work of women artists, queer artists and artists of colour working across a wide range of media encompassing practices at the intersection of fine art and craft.
The gallery has a remarkable track record of nurturing artists by placing their work in prestigious public collections, notably the V&A, National Museums of Scotland, 21c Museum Hotels, and private collections including Omer Koc and Jorge Perez.
In 2009, Cynthia Corbett launched the Young Masters Art Prize, a unique, not-for-profit curatorial platform supporting emerging international artists. The Prize celebrates artistic skill and innovation, with awareness of the Old Masters and art of the past. An independent judging panel that includes renowned art historians, collectors, curators and art professionals, selects the winners. In 2014 the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramic Prize was added to focus more attention on the growing interest in the collection of contemporary craft and 2017 saw the launch of the inaugural Young Masters Emerging Women Award, and the fifth edition and 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Prize took place in October 2019. In 2021 a curatorial platfom, Focus on the Female, was developed as an artistic and philanthropic antidote to the disproportionate impact of the COVID pandemic on women. The 6th edition of the Young Masters Art Prize took place in London to coincide with Frieze London at 67 York Street, Marylebone. To mark its 16th anniversary, Young Masters presented Sweet 16: Young Masters Retrospective, a landmark exhibition at 67 York Street Gallery during Frieze Week, a celebration of over a decade and a half of artistic innovation rooted in the traditions of art history, featuring past finalists and new talents. This year, Young Masters presents Line of Beauty, a not-for-profit initiative celebrating the 2025 People’s Choice Award winners Cristina Schek and Alexandra Baraitser, on view 15 Jan –April 2026 at The Exhibitionist Hotel, South Kensington.
