Photo Credit: Lisa Adams
Statement:
Christina Massey is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural work challenges the boundaries between beauty and unease in an era of ecological instability. Combining repurposed materials, such as aluminum from craft beer cans, with handwoven and blown glass elements, her practice blurs the lines between the industrial and the organic, the disposable and the precious.
Rooted in textile traditions and feminist critique, Massey's work reclaims “feminized” craft techniques and interrogates consumerism’s impact on climate change. Her sculptures, paintings, and installations evoke abstracted landscapes, alien flora, and psychic totems—suggesting a future ecology shaped as much by waste as by wonder.
Using materials salvaged from everyday consumption, she creates delicate, almost ceremonial objects that ask viewers to reconsider not just what we throw away, but what we overlook. Her work becomes a tactile record of transformation — emotional, environmental, and cultural — engaging the tension between survival and ornamentation in an increasingly unpredictable world.
Artist Bio:
Christina Massey is an award-winning artist recognized for her innovative use of repurposed materials, particularly aluminum cans, in creating vibrant botanical abstractions. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, and installation, exploring themes of environmental sustainability, consumer waste, and material transformation.
Massey has received numerous accolades, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and multiple Brooklyn Arts Fund Grants. She has exhibited widely, with recent solo projects at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in NYC, UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, and Montefiore Einstein’s Gallery for ARTFul Medicine in the Bronx. She has held residencies at Art Cake in Brooklyn and Governors Island, among others. Additional awards include the FST StudioProject Fund Grant, a SIP Fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Janet Turner Museum, Art Bank Collection in Washington, D.C., Bank of America Collection in Miami, and UBS.
Massey studied painting and theater set design at California State University, Chico. In addition to her artistic practice, she is an independent curator and the founder of WoArt, dedicated to promoting contemporary female-identifying artists.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: (last 5 years)
2025 Adler Gallery, The Undulating Unknown, Port Washington, NY
2023 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Uncharted Growth, curated by Etty Yaniv, NY, NY
2023 The Gallery of ARTFul Medicine, Montefiore Einstein, Regenerative Nature, curated by Jodi Moise, Bronx, NY
2023 Court Tree Collective, Christina Massey, 750 7th Ave Lobby installation, curated by Stephen Lipuma, New York, NY
2022 UrbanGlass, Changing the Course of Time, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Hudson Guild Gallery II, FIRE & WATER, curated by Carol Salmanson, 2-person show with Etty Yaniv, New York, NY
2020 Equity Gallery, Christina Massey: Invasive Species, New York, NY (online exclusive)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITS: (last 5 years)
2025 Flinn Gallery, Biophilia, curated by Ellen Hawley, Greenwich, CT
2025 Norte Maar | CounterPointe12, Tipping Pointe, collaboration with Juliette Rafael, Brooklyn, NY
2024 MOCA-LI, Eclectic Abstraction, curated by John Cino, Patchogue, NY
2024 Galerie Lucida, Botanica, curated by Michael Paris Mazzio, Red Bank, NJ
2024 M. David & Co, All Tomorrow’s Parties, curated by Michael David, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Westbeth, There is a crack in everything, curated by Valérie Hallier, New York, NY
2024 MAPSpace, Ephemeral Bloom, curated by Ellen Hawsley, Port Cester, NY
2023 Westbeth Gallery, Unnatural Processes, curated by Valérie Halier, New York, NY
2022 Court Tree Collective, The Tactiles, curated by Stephen Lipuma, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Old Stone House Gallery, Brooklyn Utopias, curated by Katherine Gressel, Brooklyn, NY
2021 URSA Gallery, SHIM eco, The Coral Principle, curated by Sarah Olson, Bridgeport, CT
2021 Collar Works, Out of Office, curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Troy, NY
2021 Annemarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, The Kay Daugherty Gallery, ON PAPER, curated by Joan Boudreau, Solomons, MD
2021 Latela Curatorial, Garden Party, curated by Marta Staudinger, Washington DC (online exclusive)
2020 Equity Gallery, Il Paradiso: Imagining the Eternal, curated by Peter Gynd, Margaret Krug, Peter and Jimmy Wright, New York, NY
2020 Monica King Contemporary, Spring into Action, New York, NY (online exclusive)
AWARDS: (last 5 years)
2023 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant Recipient
2022 4Heads Governors Island Summer Artists Residency, New York
2019 FST StudioProject Award
2019 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant Recipient
