BIO/CONTACT/NEWS
BIO
Christine Carr grew up in Virginia and received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and her AAS from the Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center. She uses digital and film photography to explore the human existence in and impact on the environment. Her work is rooted in issues of pollution and climate change with a focus on the ephemeral nature of airborne particles and the evocative nature of light.
Carr is a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Grant at Iowa State University. Her work is included in the 5th edition of Exploring Color Photography, the 3rd edition of Photographic Possibilities and the 2nd edition of Light and Lens, all by Robert Hirsch. She has exhibited in solo shows in Michigan, Virginia, Texas, California, Washington, DC, and in numerous group shows throughout the United States and internationally. In 2017 she participated in the Jentel artist residency in Wyoming to photograph and edit In the Air. In summer 2019, she participated in a two-month artist residency at North Street Collective in Willits, California where she began development of her Encased in a Timberbox project. She has taught photography as an Assistant Professor at both Iowa State University and Hollins University and has worked as the Membership and Program Manager at the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran.
More recently, she was an artist-in-residence at Albion College through March 30, 2020, and is a recent recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant. From 2022-23 she collaborated with Roanoke Stormwater Utility as an Artist-in-Residence and is currently collaborating on a music/video project with The Andrews.
Christine Carr grew up in Virginia and received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and her AAS from the Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center. She uses digital and film photography to explore the human existence in and impact on the environment. Her work is rooted in issues of pollution and climate change with a focus on the ephemeral nature of airborne particles and the evocative nature of light.
Carr is a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Grant at Iowa State University. Her work is included in the 5th edition of Exploring Color Photography, the 3rd edition of Photographic Possibilities and the 2nd edition of Light and Lens, all by Robert Hirsch. She has exhibited in solo shows in Michigan, Virginia, Texas, California, Washington, DC, and in numerous group shows throughout the United States and internationally. In 2017 she participated in the Jentel artist residency in Wyoming to photograph and edit In the Air. In summer 2019, she participated in a two-month artist residency at North Street Collective in Willits, California where she began development of her Encased in a Timberbox project. She has taught photography as an Assistant Professor at both Iowa State University and Hollins University and has worked as the Membership and Program Manager at the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran.
More recently, she was an artist-in-residence at Albion College through March 30, 2020, and is a recent recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant. From 2022-23 she collaborated with Roanoke Stormwater Utility as an Artist-in-Residence and is currently collaborating on a music/video project with The Andrews.
News from 2023
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Thank you to Anja Claus and the Center for Humans and Nature for featuring my project Encased in a Timberbox: Wildfire Perimeter Maps! https://humansandnature.org/encased-in-a-timberbox-wildfire-perimeters/ 
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I held a photogram station at the Taubman Museum for Roanoke Arts Pop. Visitors could make a photogram on the spot using items from nature, their hands, or drawings on transparency material. It was so fun to see their excitement when the images showed up on the paper! |
News from 2022
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I am very excited to announce that I'll be working with Roanoke Stormwater Utility as an Artist in Residence from 2022-23! **Supported by the City of Roanoke and the National Endowment for the Arts as part of Roanoke's 2022-23 Year of the Artist** |
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I was delighted to exhibit Encased in a Timberbox alongside Bill Davis and Mille Guldbeck in Nurture Nature at the College of the Sequoias! Thank you to Amie Rangel for your hard work on this exhibition. |
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Thank you to Robin Paris, Christine Rogers, and Tom Williams for including my Roots images in this spectacular exhibition!
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News from 2021
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I was invited to be part of the exhibition Compelling Ground: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of Iowa. The exhibition is at the Brunnier Art Museum in Ames, Iowa from January 25-July 23, 2021. For this show I created new work based on my concern about topsoil erosion, and my fascination with the length of prairie grass roots. I'm happy to be a part of this project and thank everyone involved! |
News from 2020
I am delighted and honored to receive a Puffin Foundation Grant in support of my work. Thank you! |
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I was very grateful to be the Philip C. Curtis Artist-in-Residence at Albion College from January 27-March 30. During that time I mounted a solo show of my In the Air project and explored new ideas and approaches. Thank you to the Philip C. Curtis program, the Albion Art and Art History Department, and Albion College for this opportunity and for believing in me and my work!
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News from 2019
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Thank you to Murze Magazine for featuring my work and an interview for their issue on portraiture, reality and change. https://www.murze.org/single-post/2019/10/15/Christine-Carr-Issue-Eight-Interview |
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From July-August I was an Artist in Residence at North Street Collective in Willits, CA!
I'm extremely grateful and happy for this time to focus on my work and ideas.
For work in progress: @christinecarrstudio
I'm extremely grateful and happy for this time to focus on my work and ideas.
For work in progress: @christinecarrstudio
Thrilled to participate in Ardesia Projects' Alarum show as part of the Soft Power Platform: European Artist Convention in Berlin. 
In the Air is featured in Musee Magazine! |
Very excited to be a part of The Big Reveal: CENTER’s Summer Slides Program at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico!
Delighted to show my work as part of the (in)visibility exhibit at LATITUDE in Chicago! What a place-shows, residencies, a production space, and arts programming: https://www.latitudechicago.org/about-us 
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One of my images from the Monolith series is part of the Power and Beauty: Women Artists from the Collection exhibition at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum from January 22 - February 10, 2019. |
News from 2018
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I'm delighted to announce the first solo exhibition from my In the Air project is at the Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography at The University of La Verne in La Verne, California from August 27 - October 21, 2018. Artist Talk: October 4, 4:00 pm in the Abraham Campus Center Ballroom Reception: October 4, 5:30-6:30 pm, Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography. |
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Five images from my Monolith project will be included in State of the Art 2018:
Photography Invitational at Giertz Gallery at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois.
This exhibition is being guest curated by Christopher Schneberger and will be on exhibit at the Giertz Gallery from Monday, November 2, 2018 through Saturday, February 2, 2019.
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Four of my images from the In the Air project are in the Photo Sensitive group show at Olson-Larsen Galleries from July 27-September 22, 2018. http://www.olsonlarsen.com/ |
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In September images from my In the Air project will be part of the 1st Camel Bell on Silk Road International Photo Festival in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China.
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From August 20-September 9, 2018 I had three works from a new component of my In the Air project on display at Design on Main, 203 Main Street, Ames, Iowa. The work was created to mimic images from the 1971-77 Documerica Project and is in response to recent moves by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delay or roll back regulations created to protect our health. |
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Earlier this year one of my In the Air images made it into the Allegany National Photographic Competition and Exhibition, juried by Karen Irvine, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago and won 2nd place in the color category!
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I finally decided to dabble with Instagram. Right now I'm thinking about it more as a gallery space than as a posting of current events. Feel free to stop by at christinecarrstudio |
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In May I spent two amazing weeks in an artist residency at Iowa Lakeside Lab in Milford, IA. While there I took an Acoustic Ecology class to learn how to make high quality audio recordings. I also did some video and still photography of a couple of prescribed burns, experimented with time lapses and created my first podcast! http://lakesidelabair.org/about/ |
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In April, Bloomberg Businessweek contacted me to photograph a farm for a story. It was a long winter this year, so nothing was growing yet. However, I got to experience a ride in a giant tractor! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-27/trump-s-tariffs-could-weaken-the-gop-s-grip-on-congress |
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Earlier this year I participated in Common Channel: Responses to Ledges State Park in which faculty from Iowa State made work for a group exhibition in response to Ledges State Park near Boone, IA. The exhibition was held at the Boone Historical Society and an artist talk was held on April 20. For this project I was thinking about the park at night when the sounds of humans recede and the sounds of the park become more prominent. I created four images that were photographed at night to highlight the park in repose, not inhabited by humans nor lit by the sun. In the next couple of years, we are partnering with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to respond to state parks all over Iowa in order to raise awareness about the parks system and to help celebrate their 100 year anniversary. Stay tuned... |
News from 2017
Critical Mass 2017 Finalist!
I participated in an artist residency at Jentel in Wyoming where I photographed and edited my In the Air project. It was a wonderful experience and I thank everyone involved!
2017 Exhibitions:
- Photography as Response, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
- Kimmel Harding Nelson Center Residents, University of Nebraska at Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, NE
- Positive/Negative 32, East Tennessee State University Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
- The Hand Print Workshop: Twenty Years of Partnership in Print, Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
- Passing Through the Plains: Selected Works from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Prairie Arts Center, North Platte, NE
News from 2016
2016 Exhibitions:
- Inspired By…Faculty Responses to the Permanent Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA
- Swept Away: Clouds and Waves, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
- Impermanent Constructions (two-person show), Liminal Gallery, Roanoke, VA
- Monolith (solo show), SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
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Honored to be included in the August 2016 issue of Harper's Magazine with poetry by John Ashbery! |
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Beata Szechy curated CURB into Environmental Project, which will be exhibited in Budapest, Hungary at Gallery 12. Opening August 24, 2016 |
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An image from my Vapor project was included in the Manifest International Photography Annual 3. |
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Received a Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Grant to
pursue a new photography project!
pursue a new photography project!
News from 2015
One of my images from the Vapor series was selected for the 2015 Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibit, juried by April Watson, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Thank you!
A big thank you to Margaret Adams for curating my work into an exhibition on fototazo!
Wanderlust was selected for Bits, Pixels and Practice - Oh My! A New Media Juried Show
by Jordan Weber of Fluxx Collective and was projected in the front window during the opening.
News from 2014
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One of my images was included in the FlakPhoto Midwest Print Show, curated by Andy Adams. |
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I was offered a position teaching photography at Iowa State University! |
A big thank you to Freddy Martinez for including me on his PhotoWhoa blog and for his incredibly thoughtful questions.
This year for the Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, Virginia, I created a project about cigarette debris called CURB.
Wanderlust was included in the Time Together show at the Brown Center in Baltimore, Maryland during the Society for Photographic Education Conference.
Thirteen images from the Nothing But project were included in the Home Sweet Home exhibition at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
The full length version of Wanderlust was screened in a programming event during the Home Sweet Home exhibition at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
News from 2013
Delighted to be invited to be part of Photo Eye's Art Photo Index!!
My Wanderlust video will be screened with Roelof Bakker's London version of Wanderlust at the Meantime Project Space in Cheltenham, England!
October 17, 2013
Delighted to be a part of this exhibition at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, Virginia!
October 12-November 30, 2013
I'm honored to be included in this exhibition at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 4-26, 2013
"Disaster/Resilience marks Harwood Art Center’s 4th annual exhibition dedicated to the artistic exploration of contemporary social justice issues. This year’s program features fifteen international artists selected through a competitive jury process; their works offer rich and diverse reflections upon identity, place, politics, relationships and transformation."
Jason Eppink, the Associate Curator of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York juried my short version of the Wanderlust film into the Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Video Screening Series. It was a pleasure to meet Jason and the attending artists at the screening!
September 23, 2013
September 23, 2013
This image from my Nothing But series was included in the Online Gallery Annex for the City Streets/Country Roads exhibition juried by Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb.
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
This image was one of two included in the On-Line Annex Exhibition called Field Notes: Landscape and Architecture.
Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
News from 2012
My image in the Looking at the Land exhibition was one of twenty selected to be included in the FotoWeek DC exhibition of Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views.
On Friday, September 28, one of my images was featured on Flak Photo as part of its ongoing Collection series.
I am honored and very excited to be included in the Flak Photo project Looking at the Land - 21st Century Views, a collaboration with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
The Looking at the Land exhibition was featured on the TIME LightBox blog,
and included my image in the article.
and included my image in the article.
The PHOTO/arts Magazine, PetaPixel and ALTFoto blogs included my image as part of their articles about the Looking at the Land exhibition.
I am absolutely delighted that one of my images was included in the most recent edition of Light and Lens by Robert Hirsch!! If you find yourself flipping through the book, please stop by page 145 for a visit.
One of my Monolith images was exhibited at The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia as part of the Between Dusk and Dawn exhibit that ran from May 8-June 2.
Two of my images from the Nothing But series were accepted into Focal Point at the Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis, Maryland. The exhibition ran from May 25-June 17.
I'm thrilled to be accepted into a residency at the
Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, Illinois!
I was invited to be the moderator for the Saturday, February 11 Conversations series at the Taubman Museum of Art, featuring Alan Cohen and Wendel White.
I am shooting video every day for the Southwest Virginia counterpart to Roelof Bakker's Wanderlust, created in London during 2011.
A couple of my images from the Nothing But series are included in the
Eclectica exhibit at the Walker Fine Art Gallery in Martinsville, VA from January 17-February 23.
News from 2011
One of my images was included in Exploring Color Photography:
From Film to Pixels, 5th edition, by Robert Hirsch!!
Was accepted into the From These Hills Biennial Exhibition at the
William King Museum in Abingdon, VA.
Gave a lecture with Amy Moorefield at Piedmont Arts in Martinsville, VA for The Fleeting Glimpse exhibition.
Co-organized PROject proJECT, a one night outdoor event of light and projection based art in Roanoke, VA. It included over 20 artists and attracted over 500 visitors.
Co-curator with Amy Moorefield, Director of the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, of The Fleeting Glimpse: Selections in Modern and Contemporary Photography from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
The show began at the Wilson Museum at Hollins and is being exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. The dates there are January 15, 2011-April 03, 2011.
Three small versions of images from my Monolith project were included in the show Mailin' It In, curated by Jason Chakravarty and exhibited at The Nicole Villeneuve Gallery in Chicago from February 11-28, 2011.
My Gas Station Chronicles project for the Marginal Arts Festival opened in Roanoke, VA
at the beginning of March, 2011.
Highlights from 2010
The word on the street is that some of the images I sold last December will be hanging at The Lombardy hotel in NYC, so if you have a chance to see how they look, let me know!
Awarded an honorable mention in the Black and White show at the Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, juror George Slade.
Invited to exhibit in Shoot'n Southern: Women Photographers Past and Present at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama.
Invited to exhibit in a show called Abstract By Design at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
Had a solo exhibition of the Portal project at the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia.
Was awarded a Grants for Artists Program Award from The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge. Thank you!!
Last, but not least, I was awarded a two week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It was a wonderful experience and I thank everyone involved.
Invited to exhibit in Shoot'n Southern: Women Photographers Past and Present at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama.
Invited to exhibit in a show called Abstract By Design at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
Had a solo exhibition of the Portal project at the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia.
Was awarded a Grants for Artists Program Award from The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge. Thank you!!
Last, but not least, I was awarded a two week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It was a wonderful experience and I thank everyone involved.