I make work to cultivate a friendly relationship with change and my own mortality. I use sculpture and photography to feel geological and botanical time by using my body as a medium for entanglement with plants, rocks, water and weather.
I live in my short bus in public land throughout the western US.
You can read more of my wanderings at my newsletter:
MATTER AT HAND
and in my
FIELD NOTES
Christina Mesiti is an artist working throughout the mountain west. A Fulbright scholar to Mexico, she has shown in places including UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, Locust Projects, Tyler Park Presents and the Brand Library. She has taught at Deep Springs College, Pitzer College, Pomona college, and Pepperdine University. She has attended residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation, Township 10, Art Farm, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2021, she co-founded the Emplacement Society, an artist-run publication platform and itinerant outdoor gathering dedicated to embedded, collaborative explorations between bodies the natural world. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University.