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Biography

Christina P. Day’s art practice recontextualizes roles related to material lifespan: designer, fabricator, owner, maintainer. Her improvisational building language stems from textile design strategy and is focused on the conversation of material as content. Her work takes form in architectural installation, surfacing methods, textile pattern logic and physical match finding. Day is a full-time faculty member of the Fiber Department at Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), where her teachings focus on cloth production methods and experimental fashion. Recent exhibitions and research on material history have been completed at Catskill Art Space (Livingston Manor, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (Arlington, VA), Commonweal (Philadelphia, PA), Winterthur (Wilmington, DE), Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE) and Kirkcaldy Museum (Kirkcaldy, Scotland). She maintains her home and studio in Philadelphia, PA.  

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EXHIBITIONS

*solo

2024

*Christina P. Day, Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY

2023

Secondary Context, AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA

*Depth Cue, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA

Labor's Lust, Commonweal, Philadelphia, PA

81st Woodmere Annual, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2022 

InLiquid Benefit, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2215/610 CONTEMPORARY, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA

Functional Misrepresentations, Park Towne Place/InLiquid, Philadelphia, PA

*Wind Challenge Exhibition 2022, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2021

Affective Histories, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
 

2019

Middle of Nowhere, Whitesbog Village, Whitesbog, NJ
Your Plus One, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

2018      

Trash Bash, Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA

Rail Park Exhibit Benefit, Arts & Crafts Holdings, Philadelphia, PA

2017      

Call and Response, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

RAIR:  Filthy Rich, Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2016      

*Stills and Composites, Cue Art Foundation, NY, NY

UArts at 140, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA

2016 Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

THEY!, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

What/If/Then:  Beth Campbell and Christina P. Day, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

Reconstruction:  Christina P. Day/Travis Lee Grant/Luke Leyden, 990 Spring Garden Ave., Philadelphia, PA

Re-Reclaimed, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

*Dead Ringers, RAIR/Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA

Lost In Transit, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA

Aim At What You See, COOP Collective, Nashville, TN

2015      

Temporary Shelter, Artist-Run at Satellite, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL

Altitude, Hongik Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

NAPOLEON at Traction Company, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

International Fiber Art Fair, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Other Selections, Center for Art and Wood, Philadelphia, PA

This Into That, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA

We Got Spirit, Yes We Do, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA

2014      

Good Neighbors, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

*Fifth Wall, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Force Field, Former Jomar site at 3525 I. St., Philadelphia, PA

Woodmere Annual, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

School of Art Faculty Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2013      

As first as exactly, NAPOLEON at Traction Company, CITYWIDE: A Collective Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2013 Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

20/92, Film screening, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Lovey Town:  The joy of the task was its own reward, online exhibition:  www.loveytown.org, Madison, WI

Altered Realities, Gallery 224, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

72nd Annual Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Home:  Interpreting the Familiar, Goggleworks, Reading, PA

*Solid State, Solo Exhibition, NAPOLEON, Philadelphia, PA

NAPOLEON Poster Show, PSU Abington, Abington, PA

2012      

Here and Elsewhere, Reisman Hall Gallery, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY

Make it, Break it, Rebuild it, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Oxford Mills, Philadelphia, PA

RSVP, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE

Pleased to Meet You, NAPOLEON gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Proportional Scale, Butter Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

Faculty Art Invitational Exhibition:  2012 Perspectives on Drawing, UMUC Art Program Gallery, Adelphi, MD

2011      

Other Possible Titles, Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Artifacts, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

2010      

Inside Twelve, Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea

Chores:  A Contemporary Discourse on Domesticity, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA

Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marlboro Gallery, PGCC, Marlboro, MD

Brenna K. Murphy & Christina Day, Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, Philadelphia, PA

2009            

Habitat Fracture:  Sandra Clark Burns & Christina Day, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

2008      

Tiny Works of Art, Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ

Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY

Juried Sculpture Exhibit, Marlboro Gallery, PGCC, Marlboro, MD

HotHouse:  Redefining Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007, Traveling Exhibition, Reading Public Art Museum, Reading, PA

2007      

Eye Tricks, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

HotHouse:  Redefining Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 

Imprint of Place, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

2006      

Information Systems, MIA, Pontiac, MI

Cranbrook in Berlin (Juried Exhibition, One of Ten Finalists), DaimlerChrysler Headquarters, Berlin, Germany

Summer Degree Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Neither Fish Nor Fowl, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2005      

Smoke and Mirrors, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Reformed, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

High in Fiber, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2002      

Hobby Lobby, Curated by Andrea Demers, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

Material Explorations, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY

2001      

No Frills Six (May, 2001), Experimental Costume Design Runway Event/AIDS Benefit, Buffalo, NY

EDUCATION

MFA Fiber/Elective:  Photography, Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2004-2006

BFA Crafts/Fiber Concentration, University of the Arts, College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1999

Drew University, Drew in West Africa 1999:  Cote d’Ivoire, July- August 1999

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION

Full time Faculty, Fiber Department, Spring 2018- Present, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Chair, Fiber Department, August 2021- 2022, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Special Contract Full Time, Fall 2016- Spring 2018, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Faculty, Low Residency MFA Program, Fall 2017-Summer 2018, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2009- Fall 2016, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Master Lecturer, Fibers Program, Crafts Department, 2003-2004, 2006-2017, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/RECOGNITION

2023, Maker Creator Fellowship, Winterthur, Wilmington, DE

2023, Marcella Brenner Grant Awardee, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2023, MASS MoCA Studio Residency, North Adams, MA

2022, Marcelle Brenner Grant Awardee, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2022, Hagley Museum and Library Exploratory Research Grant, Wilmington, DE

2021, MASS MoCA Studio Residency Program, North Adams, MA

2020, Marcella Brenner Grant Recipient, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2019, Teaching Excellence Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2018, Provost’s Award, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2018, CUE Art Foundation, Open Call Reviewer, New York, NY

2017, RAIR Residency Juror, RAIR, Philadelphia, PA

2017, Finalist, Dave Bown Projects, 14th annual Competition, online

2016, Open Call Finalist, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY

2015, RAIR Artist Residency, Revolution Recovery, Philadelphia, PA

2013, Resident Artist, Summer Open Studio Residency 2013, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME

2013, Knight Arts Challenge Finalist with the CITYWIDE:  A Collective Exhibition project, organizing committee

2012-Present, Member, NAPOLEON artist collective gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011 (June), Full Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2011, Professional Development Grant Recipient for Pre-College Faculty, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2010, Professional Development Travel Grant Recipient, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008, Professional Development Grant Recipient for Part-Time Faculty, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008, Professional Development Grant Recipient for Pre-College Faculty, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008 (Jan-Feb), Artist-In-Residence, (funded by the National Endowment for the Arts), Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

PUBLICATIONS

Reviews and responses

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Exhibit radiates with force, color and drama”, The Washington Post, August 11, 2023 

Mir, Stan, "Like Long-Held Echoes: On Two Projects Made Possible by the Waste Stream," Hyperallergic, March 11, 2017 

Alemani, Cecilia, exhibition catalog forward, Cue Art Foundation, October, 2016 

Cheng, Mimi, essay "Testament to Long Loves", Cue Art Foundation exhibition catalog, October, 2016 

Lieberman, Michael, “Turning trash into art- RAIR at the Galleries at Moore”, Artblog, February 13, 2017  

Schwartz, Chip, “Chrissy P. Day invokes memory as a means for reinvention through Recycled Artist in Residency, “ Knight Blog, April 13, 2016

O’Rourke, Chris, “Kitchen Table Gallery Talks:  Christina P. Day”, podcast/interview, Spring 2016

Schwartz, Chip, “Christina Day at Philadelphia Art Alliance upends the everyday,” Knight Blog, November 6, 2014

Crimmins, Peter, "Collective Citywide exhibit celebrates Philly's contemporary art scene," http://www.newsworks.org and accompanying WHYY radio clip, November 12, 2013

Savich, Zach, ”Resembly:  NAPOLEON’s As first as exactly”, NAPOLEON Exhibition Essay Series, November 2013

Schwartz, Chip, “Christina Day’s objects aren’t all they seem to be,” Knight Arts blog, May 9, 2013

Mandryk, Courtney, "Folding Space to Bring You Back:  The Supplication by Renovation in the work of Christina P. Day; Three Poems by Courtney Mandryk”, NAPOLEON Exhibition Essay Series, May 2013.

Rochester, Katherine, “Pleased To Meet You:  An Introduction to the Familiar,” Philadelphia Weekly, August 29, 2012

Schwartz, Chip, “Three New Additions at NAPOLEON, “ Knight Arts Blog, August 21, 2012

Greenberg, Alyssa, “Nutini, Day and Ziemke are Pleased to Meet You at NAPOLEON,” The Art Blog, August 21, 2012

Creative Writing, authored

Online essay, “A journey through material archives with Christina P. Day”, Inspiration Explorer, Production Designers Collective, August 2023 

Essay writer, Jaime Alvarez: Foreign, Glen Foerd, 2021, Philadelphia, PA

Grant writer, Dinita Clark, 2019 Individual Fellowship Pew Grant Finalist, Philadelphia, PA

Grant writer and Project Consultant, Kyle "Just Sole" Clark, Just Sole Street Dance Theater, 2017 Pew Grant Finalist, Philadelphia, PA

Lost and Found, Essay contributor, Grid Magazine, March Edition 2016

Editor and Coordinator, Visiting Writer Essay Series, 2012-2016, NAPOLEON gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 “KEEPING ON:  Rowland Ricketts III”, Gallery guide, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

“If This, Then That”, (Review) Warren Seelig:  Textile per se exhibition, December 4- March 14, 2010, MICA, Baltimore, MD

for Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture, Berg Publishers, Summer 2011 edition

Anne Schaefer:  In Step, Exhibition Essay, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, April 2-30th, 2010

Selected Participant, Essay and Cover, “…to look at nothing with longing”, Architecture & Ideas 2008, Carleton

University, Canada

Selected Participant (Poetry), Listen Up Literary Journal 2006, Cranbrook Academy of Art, guest edited by Brian Evenson

Student Advisor and selected participant (Poetry), Listen Up Literary Journal 2005, Cranbrook Academy

of Art, guest edited by Rebecca Brown