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​Bio: CHRISTINA MCPHEE

"Collapsing and regenerating landscapes...blend technological precision with notions about place-making and interspecies community...the drawn line is always central, forming a connective tissue within and between works that join elements into cosmologies and vast interrelated systems." (Beth Venn).

 

Christina McPhee's landscape-based abstractions embody ways of knowing, and a poetics of space concerned with cosmology and crisis. Scientific visualizations and sonifications mesh with field notes and drawings, across layered time-based and still media, including painting, video, and photomontage. She collaborates with musicians/composers, including Julie Herndon, Pamela Z, Carolyn Yarnell, and Ashon Crawley,  and with data and field scientists, including Suzanne Fredericq and Laila Sakr. 

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Christina McPhee has presented solo exhibitions at KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck (Hudson Valley, New York); Left Field Gallery, Los Osos; Irenic Projects, Pasadena; Cerritos College Gallery, Norwalk (Los Angeles County); Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; American University Museum / Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden; Sara Tecchia, New York; among others. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions with the Art/Science Lab, University of California-Los Angeles as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide; Beta Epochs, Los Angeles; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman; Great Plains Art Museum at University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Bridge Projects, Los Angeles; Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín; Documenta 12, Kassel; Bucharest Biennial 3, Bucharest; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; among others. McPhee is the recipient of awards and grants including for Carbon Song Cycle (Pamela Z/Christina McPhee) from the National Endowment for the Arts via the Cinematic Arts Program Exploratorium, San Francisco (2023); Ucross Foundation Fellowship (2019); the MAP Fund for Carbon Song Cycle (2012); among others. Her work has been written about in publications including LUMart, Artspace Magazine, BOMB, Leonardo, Digicult, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, and Artillery.

 

Her work is held in the public collections of the International Center of Photography, New York; Whitney Museum of Art (Artport), New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Thresholds Artspace, Perth, Scotland; Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln; and Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont; among others. Her writing appears in essay collections published by Punctum, CTheory, and Intellect Books.

 

McPhee received an MFA from Boston University and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, both in painting. At Boston University, she was in the last cohort of graduate students to work with the late painter Philip Guston. Born in Los Angeles County, she grew up in Nebraska. Her early career was based in Kansas City. She lives and works today between Los Angeles and the central coast of California. 

www.christina-mcphee.com

 

CV January 2025 PDF

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