Biography

Originally from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), Christina holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Biology from the University of Alberta and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked within Toronto’s vibrant artist-run culture as an arts administrator, curator, and technical coordinator, and served as a volunteer as committee member, jury member, board member for various organizations including the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, The Images Festival, Gallery 44, and The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.  As an educator she has worked with students at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her film, video and installation works are often inspired by the role of non-official archives, our notions of evidence and explore themes of history and counter-memory, political mythology and environmental catastrophe. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council, her artworks have exhibited internationally in festivals and galleries including: The Images Festival (Toronto), The London Film Festival (London, England); The Toronto International Film Festival (wavelengths); the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal); The International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands); the Jihlava Documentary Festival (Czech Republic); the 2006 Whitney Biennial: “Day for Night” (New York); YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto); Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery (Halifax, NS); Espace Virtuel (Chicoutimi QC); White Box (New York); Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC), The Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke, QC); MCA Denver; the Aspen Art Museum; and the Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto).

View CV (PDF)

selected written things:

Christina Battle: Filing Memory - Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, from September 15 - December 10, 2010. With texts by: Vicky Chainey Gagnon, Shawn Malley, Andréa Picard

Electrified Air and Restless Skies - A review of dearfield, colorado's opening exhibition at MCA Denver in Art & Shadows - by Meredith Tromble, 2012

“Everything you Read and See Just Might be a Lie AKA Don’t Believe a Word I Say (A Series of Proofs),” (PDF) [a response to Erina Duganne's 'Family Folktales: Carrie Mae Weems, Allan Sekula, and the Critique of Documentary Photography'] English Language Notes 50.1 Spring/Summer 2012, The Shape of the I: A Double Issue edited by Julie Carr & John-Michael Rivera.

Recalling the International Experimental Media Congress of 2010 - INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, 2011

Filing Memory (2010) curatorial text by Vicky Chainey Gagnon (PDF)

Strategies of the Medium V, “Dreaming in 35mm” (link to PDF) – curatorial essay & publication accompanying Go Big or Go Home exhibition by Larissa Fan, LIFT 2010

Strategies of the Medium II, “The Transformative Potential of Optical
Printing” (link to PDF) - curatorial essay & publication accompanying Printed Light exhibition by Chris Gehman, LIFT 2009

“Strangers in a Strange Land: Christina Battle’s Pirates”, Jon Davies 2008 (PDF)

“Christina Battle’s Alchemy”, Janine Marchessault 2007 (PDF)
from CFMDC's Artist's Spotlight DVD series

some other things:
17 hours of darkness ( it approaches in the wind) - II for Counterpath Press
- November 2011

17 hours of darkness (reflections on this place I call home) - I for Light Industry - January 2009

The League (PDF) (with Sara MacLean, Julie Saragosa & Michele Stanley - 2000-2003)