Christina Seely

Christina Seely is a visual artist and educator whose photographic practice stretches into the fields of science, design, installation, and sound. Often bearing first-hand witness alongside scientists in the field as the climate crisis has evolved, the arc of her research-based practice over more than a decade maps our increasingly tenuous relationship to the natural world.

Seely has a broad national and international exhibition record and is featured in many public and private collections. She was the recipient of a 2014 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, her first monograph Lux, was co-published in 2015 by Radius Books and the Museum of Contemporary Photography and she was a 2017 recipient of the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship. Her exhibition Next of Kin: Seeing Extinction Through An Artist’s Lens opened at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in 2017 which led to related research to a 2020 Environmental Humanities Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her solo exhibition Dissonance and Disturbance opened at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska in 2021.

She is an Associate Professor in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH and is currently working towards a self-designed Master’s in Theological Studies (’23) at Harvard Divinity School considering contemporary art as a space of spiritual holding in conversation with science as a way to build more effective climate crisis communication.