Christina Seely is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary photographic practice stretches into the fields of science, design, installation, and sound, and culminates in a range of visual and collaborative translations.

For over a decade, Christina Seely has led a life centered around bearing firsthand witness to the impacts of the climate crisis as an artist and scholar working alongside scientists in the Arctic and tropic. Based on a conversation with both science and the spiritual, her work is concerned with our entanglement with planetary systems and use of the experiential and the photographic as potential creative tools to address our ecological crises. Inherently in dialogue with the Anthropocene, her work is designed not to use media to document or convince, but instead to employ its inherent veracity to help the viewer comprehend their place within complex planetary systems. As a set of portals, her work is designed to acknowledge and accept the facts of the climate crisis we are all facing while suggesting incremental but tangible ways of sensing the self inside the realities of our contemporary relationship to the planet.

Seely is working towards an MA in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School considering art as a space of spiritual holding in conversation with science as a way to build more effective climate crisis communication. 

She has shown her work nationally and internationally and has been featured in numerous books. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2023. 

Seely was born in Berkeley, California, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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