Christopher Michael DeLoach 

Christopher DeLoach is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the collision of language, commerce, memory, and cultural consumption. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, graphic design, merchandise, and editioned objects, he appropriates the visual systems of advertising, retail, institutional branding, and popular culture - often with an irreverence that treats seriousness itself as something worth destabilizing.

DeLoach is interested in the point at which an image becomes a product, a slogan becomes ideology, and a joke becomes a commodity. His work often circulates through the same commercial systems it critiques, collapsing distinctions between artwork, merchandise, souvenir, advertisement, and cultural artifact. Humor, provocation, and familiarity operate as entry points, but the work is ultimately concerned with authorship, value, desire, and the afterlife of images once they enter public circulation.

<sup>Born, Brooklyn NY
Living/Working, Los Angeles CA


Solo

09/2024       No One Rides Free            Cruise Control Gallery, Cambria CA


Group

2026           Homecoming                        SCHOOL, Los Angeles, CA
2026           “Last Call for America”       MOHILEF, Los Angeles CA
2025           “Rocks”                                 MARTA , LA CA
2024           NPU Art Show 3                   non-Plus-Ultra, LA CA
2023           NPU Art Show 2                   non-Plus-Ultra, LA CA
2020.          GROUP SHOW                     Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2019           Anniversary                           Moisturizer Gallery, Gainesville FL
2019           GROUP SHOW                     IDIO Gallery,  Queens, NY
2019           SKAST 8.                               Omni Commons, Oakland CA
2018           “Plant Life”                            Wrigley Building,  Santa Cruz, CA
2017           “ Proud Flowers”                  Lupulo, Santa Cruz, CA
2016           Spring Show                         Studio 217 , Santa Cruz, CA
2015.          “Portraits”                             Studio 217 , Santa Cruz, CA
2010          “Grand Opening”                  Trinity Project, NY
2010           24 Hour Performance          Robert Goff Gallery, NY

RESIDENCE

2010          Preserved Instincts, Brooklyn</sup> 

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CHRISTOPHER DELOACH
_{CREATIVE DIRECTOR / ART DIRECTOR / COPYWRITER}

^{Los Angeles}

Concept, campaigns, identity, merch, experiential + culture.

LACMA 2025/26
Concept / Creative Direction / Copy / Merch

Developed a campaign and merchandise system for LACMA that translated institutional messaging into public-facing graphics, collectible objects, and retail concepts. The work included large-format billboard creative, limited stickers distributed to museum trustees, and a proposed gift-shop merchandise collection. This work is ongoing with new iterations continuining to develop across retail, campaign and instiutional applications. 

CAMPAIGN
Billboards / large-scale public graphics (Still in development)








TRUSTEE EDITION
Limited stickers distributed internally to LACMA trustees.




RETAIL CONCEPTS
Proposed apparel and merchandise developed for the museum shop; not yet released.

SUPREME 2024
Concept / Creative Direction / Design

Commissioned to develop a series of graphic concepts for Supreme, initially intended for bumper stickers with potential extensions into apparel and skate decks. The work was completed and purchased by the brand, but ultimately not released.

MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION / JOHN GIORNO “SLEEP” 2025
Creative Direction / Design / Production

Created a series of design applications for the Marciano Art Foundation around John Giorno’s “Sleep,” extending the work into printed and physical formats while preserving the directness and visual economy of Giorno’s language.

links
https://marcianoartfoundation.org/event/sleep/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVMEW3rAcud/?hl=vi

ALICE COLTRANE / INDEPENDENT PROJECT 2020
Concept / Copy / Design / Cultural Product

Independently conceived and released a bumper sticker referencing Alice Coltrane’s Universal Consciousness. The work went viral and became part of a broader resurgence of music-focused bumper stickers and artist merchandise. Its success eventually led to direct conversations with the Coltrane estate, which subsequently incorporated the format into its official merchandise program.

FUTUREWISE 2022
Concept / Copy / Brand IP

Developed the phrase “Living, Laughing, Slugging” as a brand idea for Futurewise. The company acquired the IP and expanded the line across multiple brand and marketing touchpoints, using it as a repeatable piece of campaign language rather than a single execution. The project demonstrates how a simple cultural phrase can function as both copy and brand architecture — distinctive enough to be owned, flexible enough to travel.