Christine McDonald (Brooklyn, NY) is a research-based open format artist who considers the fates of everyday ultra-specific materials and locations. Working across a wide variety of sculptural and digital mediums, Christine interprets collective histories and her own temporality by investigating human, industrial, and environmental systems. Artworks are installed or digitally published as individual project vignettes that sometimes self-destruct. Her website acts as an archive and further reading. The vinyl cast of her vehicle is an exercise in decay-endurence; the cast-material is designed to remain as a protective skin, much like a car can be a protective shell for a human. However, Christine collaborates with the material’s instability by meticulously removing the car, leaving only a skin-like shell that is inflated until it ruptures and caves in. 

 

Previously a 2025 Artist-in-Residence at Stove Works [Chattanooga, TN] and 2021 recipient of the John Hartell Award for Art, Christine’s work has been exhibited by: Ortega y Gasset Projects [Brooklyn, NY], Atlantic Gallery [New York, NY],  AUTOMAT Collective [Philadelphia, PA], The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art & Olive Tjaden Gallery [Cornell University; Ithaca, NY], Moore College of Art and Design [Philadelphia, PA], Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery [Philadelphia, PA].