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Bio

Christina Kingsbury’s interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by histories of care and explores themes of place, ecology and inter-species relationships. Her work takes the form of performance, installation, social practice and occasionally text based work. Christina collaborates regularly with poets, ecologists, artists, choreographers and the public - including ecological public - to create relational works that offer a quiet and radical challenge to the commodification of life. Christina’s work is rooted (often literally) in the ecology of the Grand River Watershed and the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit and part of her practice works through relationships to land as a settler person.

Christina received a BFA in Visual Art with a minor in Environmental Studies from York University. Her solo and collaborative work has been shown as public interventions, in curated exhibitions including Embassy Cultural House, Cambridge Galleries, the Gladstone Grow Op, the Art Gallery of Guelph and at events including Kazoo Fest and ALT/Futures: Eco_Hack (New York and Taiwan). She has been granted awards for her work through the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Guelph Community Foundation. 

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Photo: Dean Palmer