Short biography

Christina McPhee works in intermedia arts including drawing, video and photomontage.Her work is concerned with psychogenerative landscapes and bioassemblage.

In media arts, she moves scientific visualization into alternative maps based around site specific observation. Her drawings involve linear, fugue-like structures that become topologic fields.

Born in Los Angeles, she studied with Philip Guston at Boston University for the MFA in painting. Solo museum exhibitions include American University Museum (Washington DC) 2007 and Bildmuseet (Sweden) 2005. She was a participating artist and writer at Documenta 12 (2007) and Bucharest Biennial 2008.

Recent press includes cover article for LEONARDO Journal MIT Press, April 2010 and Bomb Magazine 2009. Her video and multimedia work shows in international festivals including VIDEOFORMES 2009 and OpenSpace Art Cologne 2010. Museum and public collections of her work include Thresholds New Media Collection (Scotland); Experimental Television Center (NY); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City.

RECENT PRESS

LEONARDO Journal, MIT Press, vol. 43, number 2, April 2010. "The Spectacle of Seismicity: Making Art from Earthquakes," by Ella Mudie. with cover art, still from SALT, video 2004. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon.2010.43.2.133

BOMB Magazine has published a new interview by Melissa Potter (October 2009) http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=5307

British film scholar Sharon Lin Tay discusses McPhee's La Conchita mon amour in the new monograph "Women on the Edge : Twelve Political Film Practices", Palgrave/ Macmillan (2009)

http://us.macmillan.com/womenontheedgetwelvepoliticalfilmpractices

Longer biography

Christina McPhee works in drawing as a core practice, developing layered works that move from the paper into video and photomontage.Her work is concerned with psychogenerative landscapes and bioassemblage.

In media arts, she moves scientific visualization into alternative maps based around site specific observation. Her drawings involve linear, fugue-like structures that become topologic fields.

A native of Los Angeles, Christina attended Scripps College, Claremont and Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, painting and printmaking) Her MFA is in painting from Boston University School for the Arts, where she was a student of Philip Guston.

“Carrizo Parkfield Diaries” was the subject of a solo show at American University Museum in 2007, following exhibitions at Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden in 2005 and Cartes Center for Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland in 2006. The project premiered at Transport Gallery, a project space in Los Angeles, in 2005.

Recent group shows include “War as a Way of Life” at the 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; Bucharest Biennial 3: “Being There: Mapping the Contemporary”; "The Map: Navigating the Present," Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden) and "twice upon a time," at Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, 2008-9.

Video screening venues of her short abstract timebased works include Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand, Los Angeles Film Forum at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF Cinematheque), Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, and Itau Cultural Center Bela Horizonte (Brazil). Her installation video "Tesserae of Venus-Ghostdance" with music by Pauline Oliveros, was at Art Cologne OpenSpace in April 2010. Other recent video installations include a multiscreen video commission for Thresholds Artspace, Perth, Scotland, in 2008 and for ISEA Belfast in 2009. She was honored with American Scandinavian Foundation award (2006) for travel and exhibition of Carrizo Diaries in Finland.

Her online projects are featured on Turbulence.org, Drunkenboat, Soundtoys, Artfem.tv, Mark(s)zine, and the Whitney Museum Artport.

Museum and public collections include New Museum/Rhizome Artbase, Experimental Television Center, Spencer Museum of the University of Kansas, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery-University of Nebraska Lincoln, Taylor Museum of Southwestern Studies/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.