Christina May Carey is an artist working across moving image, photography, sound, sculpture and installation. Born in, and currently based in Naarm/Melbourne, Carey graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2021. She is interested in the ways spatial environments take on charge, and her practice has often sought to generate the conditions of interiority that respond to or co-produce an affective atmosphere, in the swaying threshold between body and world. Her work often takes the form of restrained assemblages of visual and sound components, framed by sculptural work that acts as a kind of psychological scaffolding. She is interested in how the rhythmic structures of discipline are brought to bear on our intersubjective, social, lives, and how the rituals of imagined control play out in the folds of the unrelenting experience of time.
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Education
2021
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
2018 — 2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art), Victorian College of the Arts
2015
Foundation Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, London
Solo exhibitions
2025
LAILA Gallery, Sydney/Gadigal Land (Forthcoming)
2022
Recalcitrance, Hyacinth, Naarm/Melbourne
2021
Hypnagogia, Kings ARI, Naarm/Melbourne
Group exhibitions
2025
Gemini, with Aaron Christopher Rees, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
Ramsay Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia
Spring1883 Art Fair 2025 with LAILA Gallery (Forthcoming)
2024
Hair Pieces, curated by Melissa Keys, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Naarm/Melbourne
I wanna be your anti-mirror, curated by Alicia Frankovich, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Victoria
2023
Making the Invisible Visible, curated by David Sequeira and Joon Youn, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
This Might Just Pass the Time, curated by Annabel Brown, Blindside, Naarm/Melbourne
Imprinted Time of Waiting, curated by Ekaterina Bazhenova Yamasaki, Iklectic Art Lab, London
2022
Time-Stretching Properties, curated by Ekaterina Bazhenova Yamasaki, Iklectic Art Lab, London
Unpredict: Imagining Future Ecologies, Ian Potter Museum of Art (online), curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Kyla McFarlane and Annika Aitken, Naarm/Melbourne
2021
Annual Fundraiser, Kings ARI, Naarm/Melbourne
Annual Fundraiser, Caves Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition, Naarm/Melbourne
2020
Buxton Contemporary Screen Space, Buxton Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne
Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition, Naarm/Melbourne
Gaze, Interrupted, George Paton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
On Photography, VCA Art Space online, Naarm/Melbourne
2019
Can I Please Have a Minute? VCA Art Space, Naarm/Melbourne
Let Me Sit in the Corner, I’ve Just Turned Zero, curated by NWeb, VCA Art Space, Naarm/Melbourne
Undoing (Or Collegially Suggested Obstructions), George Paton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
Awards, Grants, Prizes and Collections
2025
Ramsay Art Prize - Finalist
2024
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant
2021
Ian Potter Museum of Art, VCA Honours Student Mentoring Program
2020
Majlis Travelling Scholarship
2019
University of Melbourne 757 Art Project Collection