BIOGRAPHY
"Christina McPhee makes collapsing and regenerating landscapes that blend technological precision with notions about place-making, spirituality, and more-than-human community." (Beth Venn, 2022.)
Recent solo exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art-MCASB, Santa Barbara, CA, 2026; Performing Arts Center, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2024-25; KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck, New York, 2022; and Irenic Projects, Pasadena, CA, 2020. Recent group shows include include Grief Work at Material, Salt Lake City, 2026; Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art, at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, and Atmospheres of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption, at UCLA's Sci-Art Lab with the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, 2024; Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections, at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, 2023-24; Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, 2021; among others.
Carbon Song Cycle, a collaboration with Pamela Z for voice, electronics and expanded cinema, most recently was staged at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, in 2023.
Her work is held in the public collections of the International Center of Photography, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Thresholds Artspace, Perth, Scotland; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Great Plains Art Collection and Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; among others.
Born in Pomona, California, she lives as an uninvited guest on unceded lands of the Northern Chumash and Salinan communities in central coast California.
ARTIST RESUME: 2011-2026 3 PAGE SUMMARY