b. 1970  Fort Meade, Maryland. United States

Christine Corday, an internationally-awarded multidisciplinary artist, is known for her monumental concepts and installations, which have made a significant impact as an invited keynote speaker at the United Nations (2024). Her recent project, Sans Titre, led to Art becoming the thirty-sixth nation and the final global contributor to the material build of a star on Earth, ITER [Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France], with ongoing works in solo museum exhibitions and public works in civic collections worldwide.

As sculptor, Corday engages a material-based practice in the evolving human-scale of perception and fundamental forces. She works in temperature, pressure and material states of atomic elements in close collaboration with Nobel laureate astrophysicists and EarthShot finalist chemists; National Academy of Engineering-awarded engineers; and a broad range of material sciences, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology. The subject and scale of materials  are informed from her astrophysics internship at NASA/SETI (1991) as well as classical training at the piano. In the late 90s, Corday devoted full-time to Art and traveled to paint and live in various art historical and cultural contexts, including Tokyo, Japan (1999–2000), Seville, Spain (2000 –2004), and Brooklyn, New York (2005-2008). In Spain, Corday created Foundation Civilization for Art-led multidisciplinary works including Instrument for the Ocean to Play, 2001 (Tidal Energy); Sans Titre, 2019 (Fusion Energy); The Sun Is The Way, 2022 (Agriculture); Project Diagon, 2022 (Carbon Capture and Sequestration); and Project Troposphere, 2022 (New Carbon-Sequestered Materials).  Corday's first solo exhibition in the United States was sited at the New York High Line (2008), followed by Director-commissioned solo museum exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014) and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2019), and was selected by Architect Michael Arad to create the color and surface for The National September 11 Memorial, Ground Zero (2011).

Corday was nominated for United States Artist Fellow (2016) with projects awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (2019); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2019); Brian Wall Foundation (2019); Robert Lehman Foundation (2019); and Lannan Foundation (2015). Her work was invited to participate in two shows within Venice Architecture Biennale (2021). Corday lives in Hudson Valley, New York with her husband and work partner Christopher Powers and dog Rook. 

FILM

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Discovery Channel Documentary, Spielberg Productions
2011

Making of the 9/11 Memorial
History Channel Documentary, Parrot Productions
2011

PUBLICATION

Christine Corday: Works

Publisher: Radius Books

Hardcover / 10.25 x 12.25 inches
184 pages / 120 images. 2023
ISBN: 9781942185512

Christine Corday: RELATIVE POINTS

Publisher:  Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis

Paperback / 8 x 10 inches
86 pages. 2019
ISBN: 9780997736410