Christina McPhee

Born in Los Angeles, Christina McPhee studied literature and art history at Scripps  college, Claremont; and painting at Kansas City Art Institute (BFA) and Boston  university (MFA), as a student of Philip Guston. In new media and installation, her work involves time and memory within technological landscapes where painterly, architectural and technological mesh within an atmosphere of chiarascuro and baroque complexity.

Christina McPhee (US) is  a multimedia artist working with landscapes of scientific  visualization and cinematic image through a performance based use of  video, installation, digital photography, data base net art  and  drawing.  Based in California, she is currently working at the  margins of cities investigating the seismic landscape, and the  aftermath of debris flow, in the wake of global warming. Upcoming  exhibitions in 2006 will include a solo installation, "La Conchita  mon amour,' at Sara Tecchia New York in October; and, at Cartes  Centre for Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland, a five year  retrospective of her work will be on from May to September. In 2005,  a solo exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, followed participation  in Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration and Contemporary Art at  Carnegie Mellon University, Regina Goucher Gallery, and two  exhibitions in San Francisco and LA.. She has worked in the Residency Program at the Experimental Television Center. Her perfomances and net art  have been part of many new media festivals since 2001 including  Cybersonica at the ICA London (2002), FILE 2002 Sao Paulo, Digital  Arts and Culture Melbourne (2003), and is online in the Whitney  Museum of American Art artport, ctheorymultimedia at Cornell  University Electronic Media Archives, and chairetmetal (Montreal).   

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