Christin Paige Minnotte Christin Paige Minnotte is an artist working in photography, video, installation and performance. Her work is centered around mankind’s relationship to nature. She has a BA from Bard College (2001) and a BFA (2010) from the San Francisco Art Institute.. Christin was invited to perform her conceptual work Disposable Ethic during the 2015 Havana Biennial in Cuba. She has exhibited her work in galleries in south Florida, New York City, Texas, Colorado, New Orleans, Havana, CUBA and Art Basel including Cheryl Hazan Gallery, Fabrica de Arte, Cancio Contemporary, Bakehouse Art Complex, & Gallery, Whitespace Collection, Placeholder and BaCA. Her short dance films have won awards at Screendance Miami, have been shown at the Fringe Festival in Scotland and been chosen for screening at Perez Art Museum Miami. She was awarded the competitive Voices of the Wilderness residency in Alaska to continue her conceptual work. Christin currently lives and works in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
Artist Statement
All of my work is centered around mankind’s relationship to nature; I consider nature to be a glorious and infinite incarnation of the soul of our world. From a child, I was educated in metaphysics and have thus always been drawn toward the essential principles of things, their fundamental nature, often qualitative and beyond mere physical form. Thus it seems appropriate to me that light, of the more ephemeral ‘materials’ an artist could use, is an active and predominant element both formally and conceptually in my practice. I employ light as photograph and projection or moving light, but also via transparency, reflection, and now also as atmospheric or environmental. I am currently most interested formally, in the use of light to bring my work to life and so elevate or enlighten the viewer’s contemplation to something revelatory and lovelier than mere form, to articulate the idea of the greatest symbol of transcendent life-giving ephemera, light as dawn of idea, as life-giving. I attempt to further articulate the essence of nature’s grandeur as greater than distinct forms by layering a distillation of natural forms via the concurrence of macro and micro patterning in the natural world, using photography, video and mirror to animate these patterns with light. My work is made from light and aims to bring light, to illuminate the deepest abstract and core considerations of our world - our relationship to the natural world, which gives form and meaning to everything we are and do.
Recent shows include:
- Sense of Place, Mother Earth NOW, Tenth Street Gallery, Sarasota, FL, 2022
- Miami New Media Festival with DORCAM, Miami, FL 2019
Collabo 6 All In, 141 E Flagler (disused Payless), Miami, FL 2019
- Writing On The Walls, Blink Group Projects, Marina Blue Building, Miami, FL 2019
- Portfolio Review, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL 2019
- Museum of Sustainability curated by LAS Projects + Nomad Tribe, The Citadel, Miami, FL 2019
- The New Normal curated by Erin Parish, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL 2019
- Sen5es curated by Liliana Salazar, Art Basel, Miami, FL 2019
- RCS: Rocking Chair Sessions vol 1 - 50, Audrey Love Gallery, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL 2018
- RAW Pop-UP, The Moore Building, Design District, Miami, FL 2018
- Outside The Box 4 at Whitespace: The Mordes Collection curated by Lisa Rockford, West Palm Beach, FL 2018
- Cancio Contemporary at AQUA, Art Basel, Miami, FL 2017
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, 2017
- 305 & Havana International Improv Fest, Fabrica de Arte, Havana, CUBA, 2017
- Above Below, FAR Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL, 2017
- Wilderness: the delicate and the fierce, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL 2017
- Color Cycle, Rubio Gallery, San Antonio, TX, 2017
- Superfine, Art Basel, Miami, 2016
- MAC Fine Art at Red Dot, Art Basel, 2016
- Mise-en-scene, Hazan Projects, TriBeCa, NYC, 2016
- Swimming with Narcissus, BaCA : Bailey Contemporary Arts, curated by Lisa Rockford, Pompano, FL, 2016
- Feel The Heat, Hall Barnett Gallery co curated by Maggie Knox and Holly Barnett, New Orleans, LA 2016
- Junior League Miami showhouse at The Kampong Pavilion curated by Rochi Llaneza, Coconut Grove, FL 2016
- Outside The Box 3 at Whitespace: The Mordes Collection curated by Lisa Rockford, West Palm Beach, FL 2016
- The Nerve, Fat Village Projects, Ft Lauderdale, FL 2016
- Art Wynwood, Laundromat Art Space booth, Disposable Ethic performance, Miami, FL 2016
- Cancio Contemporary at AQUA, Art Basel, Miami, FL 2015
- Art For Equality, White Porch Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL 2015
- 100 Degrees In The Shade curated by Jane Hart, Art Basel, Miami, FL 2015
- Second Chances curated by Rochi Llaneza, MAC Fine Art, Ft Lauderdale, FL 2015
- Negative to Positive, Laundromat Art Space, Little Haiti, Miami, FL, 2015
- Place Art Here, Placeholder Gallery, Miami, FL, 2015
- Collabo 5, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, 2015
- So Fresh So Clean, Laundromat Art Space, Little Haiti, Miami, FL, 2015
- Disposable Ethic, solo show, & Gallery, Miami, FL, 2015
- Para Lucir Hay Que Sufrir, Disposable Ethic performance at Bustamante Studio, 12th Havana Biennial, CUBA, 2015
- Disposable Ethic, BaCA : Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano, FL, 2015
- AIA Women in Architecture “Creating A Scholar” benefit, MCAD (Miami Center for Architecture + Design, 2015
- Disposable Ethic : performance at North of Modern curated by Joshua Kingston, Art Basel, Miami, FL, 2014
- Disposable Ethic : presentation at Oxenberg Fine Art, Wynwood, Miami, FL, 2014
- LEAK : A Fashion Art Exhibition curated by Trip Hope Studio Gallery at Miami Ironside with Lisu Vega, 2014
- 100 Years in the Underground, Peanut Underground Art Projects, NYC, 2013
- Conventional Codes Of, Lambert Fine Arts, NYC, curated by Catinca Tabacaru, 2013
- The Liquidity Project benefit auction curated by Erin Parish, hosted by Paddle8.com, Soho House, Miami Beach, FL, 2013
- STYLCTZN : Fashion Photography by Christin Paige Minnotte, 2012
- Cynergi Collection, curated by Ada Balcacer, Art Basel, 2012
- ArtHeart curated by Katya Neptune at The Greenroom, Ft Lauderdale, FL, 2012
- The Big Picture, Illiterate Gallery: Denver, Colorado, 2011
RESIDENCIES / AWARDS
- Voice of the Wilderness, Tongass National Forest, USDA, 2016
- Screendance Miami 2016 People’s Choice Award for “Release”
FILMS
- Release, screendance with Alma Dance Theater, Miami, FL 2016
- Black Carriage White Heart, screendance with Alma Dance Theater, Miami, FL 2015
- Disposable Ethic, 2015
EDUCATION
- San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Photography, May 2010
- Bard College, BA, Languages and Literature May 2001
- Fashion Institute of Technology, 2005-2008 Fashion & Jewelry Design
- La Coste School of the Arts, France Summer 2000: Sculpture, Drawing, Photography