Christine Schiavo
www.chrisschiavo.com
participant in
VideoChannel – memory & identity
Video Art from USA – curated by Alysse Stepanian (USA)
Currently residing in US City/ State: Staten Island, New York
Christine Schiavo is a multi-media artist born and based in New York City. She works in Film, Photography, Installation art, Drawing and Sound, often incorporating all mediums simultaneously to create experimental films, theater and performance art. She is a founding member and the Visual
Director of the Collective Opera Company based in NYC http://collectiveopera.com/). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art/ NY, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ NY,
and is shown in galleries and film festivals around the world. She is currently working on a silent cinematic fable called ” RIVETGIRL “, which premiered its first two chapters at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC in May of 2007.
AWARDS: New York Foundation of the Arts for Architecture and Environmental Installation; New York State Council of the Arts for Experimental Film; BCAT award for multi-media art.
RESIDENCIES: MacDowell Artist Colony, Yaddo Corporation, Saltonstall Foundation, Millay Colony, VCCA, UCross Foundation, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation