Christina Lucia Giuffrida is an Australian artist, now based New York City. Ideas on nostalgia, nationhood, the land and queer storytelling lie at the heart of her practice, which weaves through painting, sculpture and ceramics. A visual fantasia unfolds, capturing moments of romance, intimacy, and pure escapism playing out against the dramatic backdrop that is the Australian ‘Great Outdoors’. Reoccurring characters begin to surface again and again in a world that is both a nostalgic past and a predictive utopia or apocalyptic future.

Giuffrida earned her BVA in Sculpture from the University of Sydney and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She is the recipient of the ‘Art Start’ grant from the Australian Federal Government and the ‘Emerging Artist’ grant from the Ian Potter Foundation. Recently she has completed residencies in Italy, USA and the Dominican Republic. Her work has been featured in Frontrunner Magazine and the Harvard publication ‘Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image’ (Fall 2020). Selected exhibitions include Space Gallery St Barth (USA), The Art Vacancy (USA), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (USA), Sotheby’s (USA), ABC Stone (USA), M. Contemporary (AUS), Articulate Gallery (AUS), Verge Gallery (AUS) and Home Gallery (AUS). Her work is held in private collections in both the United States and Australia.

www.christinaluciagiuffrida.com