About
Christine Lorenz uses the tools of macro photography to create spaces for reflection on the common materials of our lived environment. She earned her MFA at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and BA at The Ohio State University. Her photographs have been seen at photo-eye gallery in Santa Fe; at Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, unconventional Pittsburgh spaces, and elsewhere across the United States and Europe. Online, her photographs have been featured by Der Greif, Lenscratch, Vice, Fraction Magazine, Rogue Agent Journal, Magenta Foundation and Humble Arts Foundation. Her article “Halophilic” was published in Refract Journal, a peer-reviewed journal from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2022. She was a selected photographer for Review Santa Fe in 2021 and was a finalist for Photolucida Critical Mass in 2023. In addition to her self-published photobooks, she has served as publication editor and designer for The Earth Of workshops of Arts Letters and Numbers. She lives with her family in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches art writing and the history of photography at Duquesne University and Point Park University.
email lorenzc@comcast.net
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Education
MFA, Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997
BA, Photography and Cinema, With Honors in the Liberal Arts, With Distinction in English, Ohio State University, 1995
Exhibitions
And Also Wide: Artist Mother Lines, Flock Artist Collective. Brew House Arts, 2024
Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, 2024
Selections from the Tomayko Collection, Tomayko Foundation, 2023
Plastics, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, 2023
Commence, Tomayko Foundation, 2023
Picture a Free World, Concept Art Gallery (Let’s Get Free), 2023
The Grandeur of Power, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery (Eric Shiner), 2023
Tethered In, Ketchup City Creative, 2023
The Countless Laughter of the Ocean, Les Idées Gallery, Duquesne University, 2023 (solo)
SPE 11th Annual Joint Caucus Exhibition, Rocky Mountain College of Design, Denver, 2023
Featured Artist Exhibition, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, 2023
Balanced Response, Robert Morris University Media Arts Gallery, 2023
The World at Our Feet, BoxHeart Gallery, 2022
Silver Eye Center for Photography Benefit Auction Preview Exhibition, 2022
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Other, Blank Space, 2022 (three person with Travis Mitzel and Lauren Braun)
SPE 10th Annual Joint Caucus Exhibition, virtual, 2022
Holding Space, Ketchup City Creative, 2022
The Most Possible Kind, Les Idées Gallery, Duquesne University, 2022
Transience, Praxis Gallery (Aline Smithson), Minneapolis, 2022
111x111, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 2021
Empathy is the Seed, Brew House (Let's Get Free), 2021
Drawn Together, Good News Arts, High Springs, FL, 2021
Pittsburgh Artist Showcase, Vestige Concept Gallery, 2021
Instability and Precariousness, Loosen Art/Millepiani, Rome, 2021
Six Feet, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, 2020
Life Cycles Toward Freedom, Let’s Get Free/Boom Concepts, 2020
Transverse: Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition (Dan Leers), 2020/2021
Fractured. photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, 2020
______ , Space (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust/Brett Yasko), 2019
Photography Faculty Exhibition, Point Park University, 2018
Just Say'n, The Bottle Works (Jill Larson), 2017
Pittsburgh Society of Artists 52nd Annual Exhibition, The Artsmiths (Casey Droege) 2017 (Jurors Prize)
Salt, Paper. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2017 (solo)
Vagabond Unblurred. Vagabond Galleries, 2016
Society for Photographic Education Joint Guild Exhibition. Living Arts of Tulsa-Myers Gallery, 2016
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, 2016
Salt, Tula Pittsburgh, 2015 (solo)
Intr(au)spective, Pittsburgh Society of Artists (Freyda Spira), 2015 (Jury award)
Temporary States. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust/Magenta Foundation, 2015 (two person exhibition with Lori Hepner)
Online Features
Der Greif, Guest Room: Varun Gupta and Arkan Mukerjee, 2023
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Featured Artist, July 2022
Fraction Magazine, Issue 154, February 2022
Lethologica Press, Perth (Perdita Phillips): Tectonics: Bringing Together Artistic Practices United by Lithic Thinking Beyond Human Scales, November 2021
Review Santa Fe, October 2021
Rogue Agent Journal, Issue 66, Sept. 2020
Vice: 50 Stellar Photos of Outer Space, July 2019
Space Jamz, Humble Arts Foundation, December 2015
Press and Publications
“On Being (or Not Being) a Professional Artist.” Give and Take: Motherhood and Creative Practice. Tara Carpenter Estrada et al, eds. Demeter Press, 2024
Halophilic 2: On a Molecular Level. Critica: A Journal of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Fall 2023
Halophilic. Christine Lorenz, Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal, vol 5: Sensing Place, Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz, 2022
Christine Lorenz: Dissolution. Daniel George, Lenscratch, Jan. 21 2022
Breaking the Mold: Fractured, photo-eye’s First Juried Show. Michael Abatemarco, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb. 28 2020
Salt Gardening: The Science Behind the Salt Photography of Christine Lorenz. Emma Shirey, Duquesne Quark, December 13 2019
Artistic Views of Five Women Converge at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Kurt Shaw, TribLive, Sept 16 2017
Finding the Cosmos in a Grain of… Salt? Pete Brook, Vantage, January 29 2015.
Residencies, Grants and Awards
Photolucida Critical Mass, finalist, 2023
Arts Letters & Numbers, Processus Residency, 2023
Artist/Mother Community Virtual Residency, 2022
Review Santa Fe, 2021
Arts Letters & Numbers, Pilot Light Residency, January 2021
Duquesne University Faculty Development Travel Grant, 2019
Duquesne University Part-time Faculty Mission Grant, 2014
Teaching
Duquesne University, Department of History, Programs in Art and Art History. Autumn 2002-present. Adjunct Faculty. Courses in photography, art history, history of photography and visual culture.
Point Park University, Pittsburgh. School of Communication, Department of Photography. Intermittent 2012-present. Adjunct faculty. Photography major courses, including art writing and two-semester course in history of photography.
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