Christian is a multidisciplinary artist and writer who is thinking about media, power, and technology. His work has been included in group shows and performances internationally. He received his MFA from Hunter College and attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art. He studied at the UdK in Berlin with Hito Steyerl as a participant in the Research Center for Proxy Politics. Currently he co-hosts the show Mutamur on Montez Press Radio, and is the Integrated Media Director at Fenton, a progressive media agency.

Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances

Alternate Endings/Activist Risings – Visual AIDS. SVA Theater New York, NY. 2018
Understood, Rockelmann & Partner. Berlin, DE. 2018
Ceiling Unlimited, Thomas Hunter Projects. New York, NY. 2018
Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons Garage. Queens, NY. 2018
BYOP (Bring Your Own Photo), Bushwick Community Darkroom. 2018
“Confluence: Uncertain Archives” (MFA Thesis) 205 Hudson. 2017
“Stupid and Vicious” (with Audra Wist) 56 Henry Gallery. NYC. 2017
“Pink Is Not A Color” (Performance) UdK Rundgang. Berlin, Germany. 2017
“Occupy Shadowtime” (Reading) The Owl Factory. Brooklyn, NY. 2017
“Connections” Video Revival. Brooklyn, NY. 2017
“Southern Icons: A to Z” Whiskey Bonding Barn. Molena, GA. 2016
“Dis/Exists” Downtown Photoroom. Los Angeles, CA. 2016
“New Directions In Contemporary Photography” Ann Arbor Arts Center. Ann Arbor, MI. 2016
“Abreaction” Flux Factory. Queens, NY. 2015
“Seeking Space” The Active Space. Brooklyn, NY. 2014
“Homegroan” 1305 Gallery. Cincinnati, OH. 2013
“All Visual Boston” Aviary Gallery. Boston, MA. 2013
“Picture This” Pittsburgh Center For The Arts. 2013
“Northwest of Nowhere” Union Gallery. Bowling Green, OH. 2012
“4 Art” Toledo Museum Of Art. Toledo, OH. 2012
“Works On Paper” Art Barn. Norfolk, CT. 2011

CURATORIAL & PROGRAMMING

theirs/ours/yours: queer art & film festival, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY. 2017
Reel Conspiracies, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY. 2017
Film & New Media Lecture Series, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY. 2017
Uncategorized Factoids: New Work From The Students of Hito Steyerl, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY. 2017
“The Alt-Oscars” (Co-Producer/Curator with Tessa Skara) Video Revival. Brooklyn, NY. 2017

WRITING

Occupy Shadowtime – Lookie-Lookie Arts Journal. 2017.
Martial Law Arts – Lookie-Lookie Arts Journal. 2016.
Review: ‘Relative Material’ at NurtureArt – The Huffington Post. 2017.
Whose Queer?: A Review of ‘the 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment’ – The Huffington Post. 2016.

PUBLIC SPEAKING

“Graphic Design & Activism” (Panel Discussion) – ArtSpace, New Haven, CT. 2018
“Can Philosophy Be Visualized? Brooklyn Product Design, Fuzz Productions, Brooklyn, NY. 2018
Montez Press Radio,  (“Thinking Like a Computer”), Mathew Gallery. New York City. 2018

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

International Studies Scholarship – Hunter College, 2016.
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship – Yale University, 2011.
Undergraduate Research Grant – Bowling Green State University, 2012.
Best Documentary – Bowling Green Film Festival, 2010.

 

EDUCATION

Hunter College
MFA. 2017.
Studio Art
New York, NY

Universität der Künste
International Studies Program
Research Center For Proxy Politics
Berlin, Germany. 2016-17.
Professor: Hito Steyerl

Bowling Green State University
BFA. 2012. Magna Cum Laude.
Photography
Bowling Green, OH

Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
2011.
Norfolk, CT