| |
Biography:
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 |
 |