Bio
Christina Kingsbury is a queer artist, writer, educator and gender-justice worker. Her interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by histories of care and explores themes of place, ecology and inter-species relationships. Their work takes the form of performance, installation, craft, social practice and writing, and usually gardening. 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 and an MSW from Wilfrid Laurier University. Their solo and collaborative artwork often finds a home outside of traditional art world contexts and has also 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 Jumblies Theatre, if International Improvisation Festival, 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. Their thesis exploring arts-integrated gardening and ecological grief was nominated for an Academic Gold Medal.
Christina currently works in campus gender-justice work supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Photo: Dean Palmer