christine corday

Christine Corday engages a material-based practice that interrogates the evolving human scale of perception and fundamental forces.

Working with temperature, tangible states, and elemental metals as well as self-invented media, Corday often collaborates with international scientists and engineering organizations to develop her distinctive forms. Corday’s compositions are materially informed and informing, heightening awareness of perceptual bias as well as broadening sensory engagement with touch and the indexical register of memory on their material surfaces. Other sculptural works explore the intimacy of shared public surfaces in a broad range of scales, and draw from studies in astronomy, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology.

Corday has been involved in collaborations with international scientists and science organizations including NASA, SETI [US], ITER [FR], ORNL [US], Enbio [IE],  ZYBECK [US], UCLA  Galactic  Center  Group [US] and KBNNO [FI]. Her solo museum exhibitions include  Protoist Series: Selected Forms, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, US (2015); Relative Points, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, US (2019); UNE, High Line, New York, NY (2008); as well as group exhibitions Something Fierce and (INFRA)Structure, Lannan Foundation Santa Fe, NM (2016, 2018); and Spacewalker / 43F 14.7p, Projects + Gallery, Saint Louis, MO, US (2018). Public commissions include National September 11 Memorial, permanent installation Ground Zero, organized by architect Michael Arad, National September 11 Memorial Committee. Color and hand-patination of North and South Pool Bronze Name Parapets, Ground Zero, New York (2011); CHOREOLITH, Permanent Installation. Collection and Commission of New York University, NY (2016); FJORWARD, Permanent Installation. Collection and Commission of Hudson River, City of Peekskill, NY (2015); GENESES, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (2019); Suns Lost Twin, UCLA /Keck Observatory, US (2020). With her affinity for architects and architecture, her painting PROME was acquired by the collection of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP’s San Francisco office as painting THAHLES acquired by the Richard Meier Collection for 165 Charles Street, New York City. Corday was nominated for the United States Artist Fellow (2016). She was awarded 2019 recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors with solo museum exhibitions supported by National Endowment for the Arts (2019), Robert Lehman Foundation (2019) and Lannan Foundation (2015), Short Story Prize, Francis Ford Coppola’s fiction magazine Zoetrope (2000), and the Edison Ingenuity Prize, Montreal, Canada (1996). Films include Making of 9/11 Memorial (2011), History Channel Documentary, Parrot Productions and Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero (2011) Discovery Channel Documentary, Spielberg Productions.