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Leona Christie’s drawings, animations, and prints have been exhibited at the Drawing Center; Pierogi; Boston University’s Sherman Art Gallery; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, G-Module (Paris); jennjoy gallery (San Francisco); the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, and Incident Report (Hudson, New York), and have been reviewed or reproduced in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Village Voice, New Art Examiner, Modern Painters, and Art-Land (Copenhagen), among other publications. Christie has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Frans Masereel Center for Graphic Arts (Belgium), and she received a Fellowship at the Kala Printmaking Institute in Berkeley, California. In 2011 and 2005, she received New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Grants, and in 2000, she received the Bay Area Visual Artist Award from New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Christie's work may be found in the public collection of the New York Public Library and the Achenbach Collection of Graphic Arts in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Christie is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking, Drawing, and Digital Media at SUNY-Albany, where she heads the Printmaking area. Her work is included in the Drawing Center Artist Registry Viewing Program.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011   (May) Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
          (June) Thaddeus Kwiat, Saugerties, NY
2009    Parts and Labor, Coleman Burke gallery, New York, NY
2008    Incident Report #17, Incident Report, Hudson, New York
2007    Recent Work,, Rotunda Gallery, SUNY-Rockland, Suffern, New York
2000    Ataraxy, jennjoy gallery, San Francisco, California
1999    Dilations, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
           Swell,
Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
1998    False Engravings, Sixth at Prince Fine Art, New York, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Printmaking and the Mundane group portfolio exhibit,
Washington University, Sam Fox School of Art, St Louis, Missouri

2010
Courier,
University Art Museum, Albany, New York, curated by Corinna Ripps Schaming, Associate Director/Curator
Secret Drawings, Palo Alto Art Center, California
Non-Traditional Edition-able, Group portfolio at the University of the Arts,
Philadelphia

2009
Canvas, Paper, Wood, TactileBosch Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Music for Silent Film, Saratoga Art Center, Saratoga Springs, New York
Washington Project for the Arts Auction Artwork, Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington D.C. / Work curated by Daniel Kunitz

2008
The Exquisite Line, Boston University Gallery, Massachusetts
Aggregate, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York

2007
In Residence at Kala, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, California

2006
Dreams in Bursts, Loop Sanctuary,
The C++Center at RPI, Troy, New York (animation screened)

2000-2005
Pierogi Flat Files Touring Exhibition,
University at Albany Art Museum; POST Gallery,
Los Angeles; Block Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri

2004
Drawing II Selected, G-Module gallery, Paris, France
Synaethesiologists, New York Video Festival,
Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York

2002
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition,
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Small Works, Kentler International Drawing Space,
Brooklyn, NY
Retrofuturism, New Langton Arts,
San Francisco

2001
Three Decades of Bay Area Drawing,
Palo Alto Art Center, California
Brooklyn College Faculty Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Autour de Frans Masereel, La Ville du Locle, Switzerland

2000
Bay Area Award Show, New Langton Arts,
San Francisco
Graphiques d'Artistes Contemporaines, Espace des Arts, Provence, France

1999
Phenotypology, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
The Secret Language of Girls, The Lab, San Francisco
Childhood Accident, jennjoy gallery, San Francisco
Room with a View, Sixth at Prince Fine Art, New York, NY
Artists' Book Exchange Show, Gusto House, Kyoto, Japan

1998
Selections Spring ‘98, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
The Shape of Her Thoughts, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley


AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2011, 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA),
Special Opportunity Stipend Grant

2009, 1996
MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire

2000
Bay Area Visual Artist Award,
New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Semi-Finalist, SECA Award,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York

1998
Frans Masereel Center for Graphic Arts, Residency Award, Kasterlee, Belgium

1995
Kala Printmaking Fellowship, Kala Printmaking Institute, Berkeley


REVIEWS / PUBLISHED REPRODUCTIONS

Daniel Kunitz, "Best in Show: Dorothy Iannone at the New Museum; Cheim & Reid's 'The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women'Plus Leona Christie's 'Parts and Labor' at Redflagg", The Village Voice, August 18, 2009

"Art Review: Leona Christie at Redflagg Gallery, NYC", Lucid Culture blog, July 21, 2009

Max Goldfarb and Matt Bua, Visionary Drawing Building, funded in part by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2009

Cate McQuaid, "The Exquisite Line"
Boston Globe, October 8, 2008

Alison Bing, “Retrofuturist”
SFGate.com, April 25, 2002

Lindsey Westbrook, “Retrofuturist” San Francisco Bay Guardian.com, June 21, 2002

Terri Cohn, “Retrofuturist Review: Back to the Future", www.Stretcher.org

Kenneth Baker, “Backing into the Future”, San Francisco Chronicle online, March 31, 2002


Berin Golonu, “Ataraxy”
Artpapers, May 2001

Megan Wilson, "Ataraxy", San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct 18, 2000


Glen Helfand, "The Bay Area Award Show"
San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 19, 2000

Apollinaire Scherr, "Bay Area Award Show" www.SFgate.com, July 9, 2000

"Winner's Circle,"
San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
July 9, 2000

Berin Golunu, "Award Show Winners"
Artweek, September 2000

Colin Berry, "The Secret Language of Girls"
ArtPapers, May 1999

ART-LAND magazine, pictorial essay
Winter issue: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999

Mark Van Proyen, "Childhood Accident"
New Art Examiner, July 1999

Tripwire, pictorial essay, Summer 1999

Kristianna Bertelson, "Capacitor"
East Bay Express, Oct 21, 1999

"Veil, Mark, Mirror"
Journal of the Print World, Vol. 22
Fall 1999

"Group Show - The Drawing Center," Talk of the Town
The New Yorker, March 23, 1998

Harry Roche, "The Shape of Her Thoughts" Artweek, June 1998

The Paris Review, artwork reproduced
Volume 139: New York, 1997

Harry Roche, "Works on Paper"
San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 27, 1997

Concave Etiquette
Intaglio and letterpress artist book, 1997

La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine et des Invites des USA, Catalogue, Paris, France, 1995


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Achenbach Collection of Graphic Arts in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
The New York Public Library Print Collection


PROJECTS / COLLABORATIVE

2010-2011
Dark Woods, Light Woods, letter-press print installation, and book project, in collaboration with Gavin Christie (brother)

2005-2009
The Molecularium

Drew and designed characters for a National Science Foundation-funded animation, projected on planetariums nationally and internationally.

1999
Future Species
Created and projected multi-media visuals for a dance/circus performance by Capacitor, at the Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, California.

1998
Veil, Mark, Mirror, Collaborative Intaglio Portfolio,
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010-present
Associate Professor of Printmaking, Drawing, and Digital Media
SUNY University at Albany, New York

2003-2009
Assistant Professor of Printmaking, Drawing, and Digital Media
SUNY University at Albany, New York

2002-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art Middlebury College, Vermont

2001-2002
Adjunct Faculty (Drawing), Art Department
Brooklyn College, New York

2000–2001
Adjunct Instructor (Drawing), California College of the Arts (CCA) Extended Education, Oakland

1997-1999
Adjunct Faculty in Studio Art
City College of San Francisco, California

1995-98
Etching Instructor, Kala Printmaking Institute Berkeley, California

1996
Assistant to Letterpress Printer on poetry projects
Peter Koch Studio, Berkeley, California

1993-1994
Assistant to Master Printer
Beta Press Intaglio Workshop, Seattle, Washington Master Printer: Marcia Bartholme, formerly of Crown Point Press, San Francisco


EDUCATION

MFA in Studio Art
University of Washington, Seattle

BA in Studio Art and South Asian Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison

University of Wisconsin, Madison College
Year Study Abroad Program, Varanasi, India