About
Bio
Christina Cornier makes narrative paintings that center around her family and her experience in motherhood. She comes from a family of creatives and decided at a young age that she wanted to be an artist. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught in their continuing studies program after graduation. She has exhibited her work internationally in spaces including Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Art Medellin in Medellin Colombia, Susan Mains Gallery in Grenada, West Indies and Angelica Kauffman Gallery at the Oak Park Arts League. She currently works out of her studio at the Greenleaf Art Center in Chicago and lives with her husband and daughter in Evanston IL.
Statement
Through intimate portraits of myself, my family and captured moments from everyday life, I make narrative paintings that explore ideas around identity and gender within the realm of caregiving, domesticity and familial roles. I'm interested in how we negotiate the tug and pull between joy and overwhelm while parenting without losing our sense of self. I source from my experience in motherhood, childhood memories and old photographs. My art is both personal documentation and political statement. The work of caregiving continues to be overlooked and undervalued, yet is universal and important.