Christina Seely is an international artist whose visionary practice lies at the intersection of art, ecology, and science. Recognized globally by work that explores humanity’s increasingly precarious relationship to the non-human living world, Seely’s projects draw on nearly two decades of immersive, field-based collaboration with climate scientists in some of the planet’s most remote and ecologically vulnerable regions. Her work challenges the perceptual limits of photographic and time-based media—using these constraints as a metaphor for our own—to reframe how we sense ourselves within the accelerating realities of climate collapse.

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By creating deeply affective, often immersive experiences that seek to (re)bridge the human and non-human realms, Seely’s practice foregrounds the necessity of metabolizing the complex emotional terrain of ecological loss. Her work is widely celebrated for its capacity to inspire new forms of presence and resilience in the face of planetary fragility, situating her as a critical voice in the global dialogue on environmental futures.

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Major exhibitions include Next of Kin: Seeing Extinction Through an Artist’s Lens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (2017), and Dissonance and Disturbance, which debuted at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska in 2021.

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Seely’s impact is reflected in prestigious awards including a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2024–25 US/UK Fulbright Scholarship, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and an Environmental Humanities Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, KunstHausWien, and the Helsinki Photography Biennial. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, and she has participated in notable fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, Light Work, the Arctic Circle Program and Dora Maar House.​

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Seely holds a BA from Carleton College, an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a self-designed Master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School (2023), where she explored the role of contemporary art as a site of existential and spiritual inquiry in the context of climate crisis communication. She is currently based in Scotland (ancestral lands) and Northern California (home lands.) 

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