b. Ridgewood, NJ
lives and works in Philadelphia, PA / Baltimore, MD
Selected Exhibitions (*solo)
2024
*Christina P. Day, Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY
2023
Secondary Context, AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
81st Woodmere Annual, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Labor’s Luster, Commonweal, Philadelphia, PA
*Depth Cue, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
2022
InLiquid Benefit, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
215/610 Contemporary, DCCC, Media, PA
Functional Misrepresentations, InLiquid + Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
*Fleisher Art Challenge, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2021
Affective Histories, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2019
Middle of Nowhere, Whitesbog Village, Whitesbog, NJ
Your Plus One: 10 Year anniversary, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Trash Bash, Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA
Rail Park Benefit, 990 Spring Garden, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Call and Response, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
RAIR: Filthy Rich, Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016
*Stills and Composites, Solo exhibition, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
UArts at 140, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA
2016 MICA Faculty Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
THEY!, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
What/If/Then: Beth Campbell and Christina P. Day, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Reconstructed: Christina P. Day, Travis Lee, Luke Leyden, 990 Spring Garden, Philadelphia, PA
Re-Reclaimed, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
*Dead Ringers, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
Crafts and Material Studies Faculty exhibition, UArts, Philadelphia, PA
Lost In Transit, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Aim At What You See, COOP Collective, Nashville, TN
2015
Temporary Shelter, Artist-Run at Satellite, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
Altitude, Hongik Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
NAPOLEON at Traction Company, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
International Fiber Art Fair, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Other Selections, Center for Art and Wood, Philadelphia, PA
This Into That, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA
We Got Spirit, Yes We Do, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA
2014
Good Neighbors, Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA
*Fifth Wall, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Force Field, Former Jomar site at 3525 I. St., Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Annual, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
School of Art Faculty Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2013
As first as exactly, CITYWIDE, Traction Company, Philadelphia, PA
Lovey Town: The joy of the task was its own reward, Madison, WI
2013 Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD,
20/92, Juried video screening, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Altered Realities, Gallery 224, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Home: Interpreting the Familiar, Goggleworks, Reading, PA
*Solid State, NAPOLEON, Philadelphia, PA
NAPOLEON poster show, PSU, Abington, PA
2012
Bigs and Littles, NAPOLEON, Philadelphia, PA
Here and Elsewhere, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
RSVP, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
Make it, Break it, Rebuild it, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Pleased to Meet You: Christina P. Day, Alexis Nutini, Matt Ziemke, NAPOLEON gallery, Philadephia, PA
2012 Perspectives on Drawing, UMUC Arts Program Gallery, Adelphi, MD
Proportional Scale, Butter Projects, Royal Oak, MI
2011
Other Possible Titles, Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Artifacts, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2010
Faculty Show, Meyerhoff and Pinkard Galleries, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Inside Twelve, Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea
Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD
Chores, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Home: Reflections and Projections, Mount Airy Contemporary, Mount Airy, PA
2009
Habitat Fracture, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
UArts @ 50: Faculty Show, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Little Works of Art, Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ
15th Annual Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
Juried Sculpture Exhibit, Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD
Hot House : Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970-2007, Invitational, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
2007
Eye Tricks, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Hot House : Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970-2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Imprint of Place, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006
Information Systems, MIA, Pontiac, MI
Cranbrook in Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Germany
Summer Degree Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Counter Cross, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Neither Fish Nor Fowl, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2005
Smoke and Mirrors, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Summer, Kingswood Lower Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Reformed, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
High in Fiber, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Create Hamtramck 2005, Hamtramck Beautification Commission, Hamtramck, MI
Design Show 2005, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2003
Diverse Inspirations, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Work After Work, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Hobby Lobby, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Art of the Handbag, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Material Explorations, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
2001
Work After Work, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
No Frills Six (May, 2001), Buffalo, NY
2000
No Frills Five (December, 2000), Rochester, NY
No Frills Four (April, 2000), Buffalo, NY
Education
2006 MFA Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art
1999 BFA Crafts/Fibers, The University of the Arts
1999 Drew in West Africa: Cote d’Ivoire
Academic Affiliation
Fiber Department, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Sabbatical, 2022-2023
Chair, Fiber Department, 2021-2022
Full Time Professor, Fiber Department, 2018-Present
Special Contract Faculty, Fiber Department, 2016-2018
Adjunct Professor, Fiber Department, 2008- 2016
Fiber Program/Crafts Department, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Master Lecturer, 2006-2017
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2012
Continuing Studies, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Instructor, Arts and Exploration Summer Institute, 2004, 2006-2016
Instructor, Professional Institute of Educators Conference, 2009-2015
Cranbrook Summer Art Institute, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Instructor, 2005/2006
BIBLIOGRAPHY (reviews and responses)
Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Exhibit radiates with force, color and drama”, The Washington Post, August 11, 2023
Mir, Stan, “Like Long-Held Echoes: On Two Projects Made Possible by the Waste Stream,” Hyperallergic, March 11, 2017
Alemani, Cecilia, exhibition catalog forward, Cue Art Foundation, October, 2016
Cheng, Mimi, essay “Testament to Long Loves”, Cue Art Foundation exhibition catalog, October, 2016
Lieberman, Michael, “Turning trash into art- RAIR at the Galleries at Moore”, Artblog, February 13, 2017
Schwartz, Chip, “Chrissy P. Day invokes memory as a means for reinvention through Recycled Artist in Residency, “ Knight Blog, April 13, 2016
O’Rourke, Chris, “Kitchen Table Gallery Talks: Christina P. Day”, Two part podcast/interview, Spring 2016
Newhall, Edith, “Galleries, It’s all art, root and branch”, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 24, 2015
Schwartz, Chip, “Christina Day at the Philadelphia Art Alliance upends the everyday,” Knight Arts Blog, November 6, 2014
Crimmins, Peter, “Collective Citywide exhibit celebrates Philly’s contemporary art scene,” www.newsworks.org and accompanying WHYY radio clip, November 12, 2013
Savich, Zach, “Resembly: NAPOLEON’s As first as exactly”, NAPOLEON Exhibition Essay Series, November 2013
Schwartz, Chip, “Christina Day’s objects aren’t all they seem,” Knight Arts Blog, May 9, 2013
Mandryk, Courtney, “Folding Space to Bring You Back: The Supplication by Renovation in the work of Christina P. Day; Three Poems by Courtney Mandryk, NAPOLEON Exhibition Essay Series, May 2013
Rochester, Katherine, “Pleased To Meet You: An Introduction to the Familiar,” Philadelphia Weekly, August 29, 2012
Schwartz, Chip, “Three New Additions at NAPOLEON, “ Knight Arts Blog, August 21, 2012
Greenberg, Alyssa, “Nutini, Day and Ziemke are Pleased to Meet You at NAPOLEON,” The Art Blog, August 21, 2012
Kratzer, Emily, “Size Doesn’t Limit Their Scope,” The Journal News, September 27, 2008
Bien, Laura “Imprint of Place”, www.annarborweb.com, March 2007
Sousanis, Nick, “The Cranbrook Experience : The MFA Thesis Show”, www.thedetroiter.com, May 10, 2006
Featured in Art Matters magazine as a young emerging artist in Philadelphia, Spring/Summer 2000 publication
Creative Writing (Author)
Online essay, “A journey through material archives with Christina P. Day”, Inspiration Explorer, Production Designers Collective, August 2023
Exhibition Essay, Jaime Alvarez: Foreign at Glen Foerd, Philadelphia, PA
Grant Editor and Project Consultant, Just Sole! Dance Theater, 2017 Pew Foundation Grant Finalist: Kyle “Just Sole” Clark and 2019 Individual Fellowship Finalist: Dinita Clark, Philadelphia, PA
Essay contributor, Lost and Found, Grid Magazine, March Edition 2016
Editor, Coordinator and Writer, NAPOLEON Exhibition Essay Series, 2012- 2016
Writer, Gallery Guide,, “Rowland Ricketts: Keeping On”, Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Writer, “Anne Schaefer: In Step”, Review, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Writer, “If This, Then That”, Review of the Warren Seelig: Textile per se Exhibition at MICA, Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture (Summer edition, 2011)
Selected Participant, Essay, “… to look at nothing with longing”
Architecture and Ideas 2007, Carleton University, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
Selected Participant (poetry), Listen Up writing journal, 2006
Cranbrook Academy of Art, guest edited by Brian Evenson
Selected Participant (poetry), Listen Up writing journal, 2005
Cranbrook Academy of Art, guest edited by Rebecca Brown
Residencies, Affiliations, Lectures and Grants
Maker Creator Fellowship, 2023, Winterthur, Wilmington, DE
The History, Art and Design of Linoleum, lecture, 2023, General Society for Mechanics and Tradesmen, New York, NY
Brenner Grant awardee, 2023, MICA, Baltimore, MD
The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, 2023, North Adams, MA
Linoleum history talk, 2022, Philadelphia Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, PA
Hagley Exploratory Grant Fellowship, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
Brenner Grant awardee, 2022, MICA, Baltimore, MD
The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, 2021, North Adams, MA
Brenner Grant awardee, 2020, MICA, Baltimore, MD
White Columns Curated Artist Registry, 2019-ongoing, online www.whitecolumns.org
Poetry inclusion in #allcitiesarebeautiful forthcoming publication, 2019, Berlin, Germany
Teaching Excellence Fellowship, 2019, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Provost’s Award, 2018, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Award of Excellence (Unrestricted monetary award), 2017, Dave Bown Projects – 14th Semiannual Competition
Grant Recipient, 2016, Solo exhibition, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
RAIR Resident 2015, Revolution Recovery, Philadelphia, PA
Grant Recipient, 2014, Solo exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Resident Artist, Haystack Open Studio Residency 2013, Deer Isle, ME
Recipient, 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Grant (CITYWIDE collaboration)
Member, NAPOLEON artist collective, 2012- 2016
Full Fellowship, June 2011, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Professional Development Grant, 2011, University of the Arts
Professional Development Travel Grant, 2010: UArts in Korea, The University of the Arts
Professional Development Grant Recipient, 2008, University of the Arts
Resident, Sculpture Space, January-February 2008, Utica, NY