Christina Mcphee

Place: Los Angeles

Born: 1954

Biography:

Christina McPhee is a media and visual artist living and working on the unceded traditional lands of the Chumash and Salinan communities in southern California. Her works are new constructions of landscape and site, in drawing, painting, video, and new media. She attended Scripps College in Claremont, California and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in painting and printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) in painting from Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she was a student of Philip Guston. She has had solo museum exhibitions at the American University Museum located in the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C. in 2007, the Bildmuseet in Umea, Sweden in 2005, and the Cartes Center for Art and Technology in Espoo, Finland in 2006. She was a participating artist and writer at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany in 2007, and at the Bucharest Biennale in 2008. Her video and multimedia work has been shown at international festivals including VIDEOFORMES in Clermont-Ferrand, France in 2009, and Open Space.