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Christina Seely (b. 1976; Berkeley, California) has exhibited nationally and internationally and is featured in many public and private collections, including New York Public Library, The Harvard Natural History Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The West Collection, and The Walker Art Center.

She has been an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Lightwork, a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, a participant on the Arctic Circle Program, and a recipient of a year-long Public Arts Commission from the City of San Francisco. She received a 2014 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 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 with related research to a 2020 Environmental Humanities Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her solo exhibition Dissonance and Disturbance debuted at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska and she is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.

Seely received a BA from Carleton College, an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design, and completed a self-designed Master’s in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 2023. The degree centered around the potential of contemporary art as a space of spiritual and existential holding in conversation with (Western) science as a way to build more effective climate crisis communication.

As a scholar and educator she taught in the Photography and Graduate Programs at California College of the Arts (San Francisco CA) from 2007-2014, was an Associate Professor in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) between 2014-2023, and is now an independent practitioner/scholar.