Christopher Kardambikis received a BFA in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005.  Since graduating, he has acted as the co-director of Pittsburgh-based Encyclopedia Destructica, a self-published and hand-made book operation that presents new and unfinished work from artists and writers.  He has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, and the Pittsburgh Center of the Arts.  Kardambikis is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of California, San Diego and exploring an absurd mythology of the future through drawings, paintings, and books.