Bio.
Web: www.christinesciulli.net
SOLO EXHIBITIONS + SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023 HYPERsculptures, Center for International Light Art, FERMENT, curated by John Jaspers, Unna, Germany
2023 Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands (co-created with Holly Li) 2016-2023
2022 And All Things Hushed, Real Artways, Hartford CT, visual artist for Peter Kyle's multimedia dance piece
2021 Chase The Erase, voter activism festival co-created with Nora Breen, funded with a grant by C4AA across PA
2019 Solo Show, Phosphene Dreams: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
2019 Solo Show, SUBSUME: Herron Gallery at Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis
2016 ROIL, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Push/Pull Passage, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2014 Quiet Riot at Duck Creek , Duck Creek Farm, East Hampton, NY
2013 Expanding Circles, Central Park Great Lawn, Global Citizen Festival special light installation, NYC
2013 The Expansive Field, South Fork Museum of Natural History, Bridgehampton, NY
2012 Bonfire on the Hudson, part of Peekskill Project V, December 2012, Peekskill, NY
2012 Roebling Tango, Ascenzi Square Brooklyn
2011 Christine
Sciulli: I'm After Me, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
2011 Christine
Sciulli: Tangle , Causey Contemporary,
Brooklyn, NY
2009 planeSPACE, AC Institute [Direct Chapel], New York, NY
2008 Intercepting
Planes X, Duane Park, New York, NY
2008 Intercepting Planes, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York,
NY
2008 Coplanar, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Fugue State of The Honey Bee,
Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Power + Scatter, Pocketbook Factory (project space), curated by
Carrie Haddad, Hudson, NY
2005 Cover,
Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Dino Loves Rosie, Hudson and Franklin Street intervention/installation, New York,
NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Brixen/Bressanone Water Light Lab, curated by Bettina Pelz, Italy
2023 The Heckscher Museum of Arts Exhibition VIEWFINDERS: PHOTOGRAPHERS FRAME NATURE Curated by Susan Van Scoy
2022 Garden of Friends, Leiber Museum, THE GLIMMERING, Springs, NY
2022 Guild Hall Offsite: Swept Away, SIGNAL TO SEA, curated by Warren Neidich and Christina Strassfield
2022 Techspressionism, Southampton Arts Center, INTERCEPTING PLANES T, Southampton NY
2021 Curator Petite Nuit Blanche II for Leiber Museum with THE RAINS ARE CHANGING FAST , Springs, NY
2021 East End Collected, Southampton Arts Center, PULLED, curated by Paton Miller Southampton NY
2021 Projekt 105 "Artists In Residence" curated by Martin Scholler, Manhattan, NY
2020 Drive By Art, SUSPENSION, curated by Warren Neidich, SouthFork, Long Island
2020 Garden of Friends, Leiber Museum, Fountain, and Curator Petite Nuit Blanche for Leiber Museum, Springs, NY
2019 Responsive, Light Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2019 Handoff: Weaving in Space, co-organized with Bastienne Schmidt, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
2019 On The Grid, VSOP Projects, LEVEL ONE, Curated by Scott Bluedorn, Greenport, NY
2018 Collumina, March 22 to 24, Museum fŸr Angewandte Kunst, Kšln, Germany
2018 EVI LICHTUNGEN, January 25 to 28, Hildesheim, Germany
2017 Text/ure, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
2017 Alt/Ego, Crush Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
2016 Isidro Blasco's Interventions number 3, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Electrique, Hollows Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Territory, Crush Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
2015 Luminary, Temporary Storage at Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
2015 The Big Show 9, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2014 Outsider In, curated by Ross Watts, Sara Nightengale Gallery, Watermill, NY
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2013 Artists Choose Artists, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, New York
2013 Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY, New York
2013 Fjellerup i Bund + Grund, Curated by Anna Lise Jensen, ThomsenÕs Ishus, Fjellerup, Denmark
2013 Holiday Salon, ILLE ARTS, Amagansett, NY
2012 Audio-Vision, Neoterric, Amagansett, NY
2010 Constructed Place, Annmarie Garden, curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel, Solomons, MD
2009 44 Berry, (Installation: Power) 44 Berry Street, curated by Melissa Sage, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Treemendous, (Installation: Intercepting Planes B),
Islip Art Museum, curated by Karen Shaw, Islip, New York
2008 Plugged-In, (Installation: EverythingÕs
Rosie), curated by Melissa Stafford, Hudson, NY
2007 Art Works, (Four
Installations: Four Works for Piano),
Church Street School of Music and Art, New York, NY
2007 Six
Degrees of Separation, (Video: Small World) Chi Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn,
NY
2006 Project Creo: Ephemera, (Installation: Scatter), curated by M. Christiano, The Arts Center, St.
Petersburg, FL
2001 Conceptual Installation of Light,
(Installation: Drip Machine), A Gathering
of the Tribes, New York, NY
2001 American
Sandwich, Star 67
Gallery, curated by Peter Dudek, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Christine Sciulli, Andrew
Nofsinger, Fritz Chesnut, 31
Grand, Brooklyn, NY
1998 MFA Thesis Show,
(Installation: Consumption), Hunter Times Square
Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES, TALKS
2021 Center for Artistic Activism Funding Grant for Chase The Erase (with Nora Breen)
2020 Guild Hall Museum, Phosphene Dreams Gallery Talk
2016 Lumen Award for Temporary Art Installation, NYC Illuminating Engineering Society (ROIL)
2016 Lighting Award, Light Art Project of the Year, Revo Media, London (ROIL)
2015 Children's Museum of Art, Artist Honoree, Fall 2015 Gala, 4 November 2015
2015 Watermill Center, Arts and Education Panel Discussion, July 2015
2015 Parrish Art Museum, Pecha Kucha Hamptons Volume 11
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
2013 Southfork Museum of Natural History, Artist in Residence
2013 Finalist for Ridge Flats, a 2013 Philadelphia Percent for Art commission.
2012 ISF Artist in Residence, Imagine Science Films
2010 Mass MOCA theater residency with Phantom Limb
2009 Dartmouth CollegeÕs Hopkins Center Residency, August 2009 with Phantom Limb
2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF Grant for Intercepting Planes X
2007 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Residency at White Oak with Mabou Mines
2000 International Association of Lighting Designers: Award of Merit, Rodin Museum Pavilion, Seoul Korea, with Thomas Thompson
1998 The Esther Fish Perry Award, Hunter College, New York City
1995 Leutz/Reidel Grant for study in Netherlands, Hunter College
1987-1990 Besal Full Tuition Scholarship for Illumination Engineering, Penn State University
MFA, Combined Media
and Installation, 1998, Hunter College, NYC
BFA,
Sculpture and Installation, 1995, Hunter College, New York, NY
BAE,
Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, 1990, Penn State University, University
Park, PA.
Arte : Twist (in German) (feature on FERMENT at minute 13:52) ( French on Arte https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/105616-011-A/twist/ Anke Rebbert, 25.11.2022 )
Zentrum fŸr Internationale Lichtkunst HYPERsculptures Catalog by Bettina Pelz , January 2023
On FERMENT by Christine Sciulli, Bettina Pelz, Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art, May 2023
Brixen/Bressanone Water Light Festival Catalog, May 2023
HYPERsculptures Press release, Zentrum fŸr Internationale Lichtkunst e.V.
NPR affilliate WLIW Radio Interview with Gianna Volpe on Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands
Trailer, Kultur.Kino.Ruhr Die Architektur von Licht , Peter Ortmann, 13. Februar 2023
Die Architektur von Licht, Trailer, Kulture, Kino, Ruhr Peter Ortmann, 13. Februar 2023
HYPERsculptures 4.11.2022 Ð 30.4.2023, Arttourist.com Gesamterlebnis Kultur im Netz Brand of ART CITIES IN EUROPE
Neue Lichtkunst in Unna by Marion Heller, 13. April 2023, Westfalium.de iLcht.de
Prospect NEWS DAS PORTAL F†R B†HNE & TECHNIK, HYPERsculptures Ð Zentrum fŸr Internationale Lichtkunst , Mittwoch, 08. MŠrz 2023
iMagazin Nachrichten aus der licht ,Hypersculptures
FERMENT photograph workshop registration https://kultur-in-unna.de/veranstaltung/kunststoff/
Da Erste Lichtkunst trotz Energiekrise Die Ausstellung Hypersculptures in Unna,06.11.2022 16:52 Uhr
Bring on the Night: Christine SciulliÕs Petit Nuit Blanche at the Leiber Museum in Springs, NY, ÊJames Solomon, White Hot Magazine, September 2020
Back to the Garden, Kelcey Edwards, Portray Magazine, August 2020
All Female Bands Take the Stage for a Good Cause, 27 East, Michelle Trauring, Jan 2020
Christine Sciulli's Illuminating Exhibit Opens, Guild Hall Welcomes New Season, Nicole Teitler, The Independent, April 16, 2019
Christine Sciulli's Light Themed Art Comes to Guild Hall in Phosphene Dreams, Annette Hinkle, East Hampton and Southampton Press, April 8, 2019
Christine Sciulli's Illuminating Exhibit Opens, Guild Hall Welcomes New Season, Nicole Teitler, The Independent, April 16, 2019
Christine Sciulli's Light Themed Art Comes to Guild Hall in Phosphene Dreams, Annette Hinkle, East Hampton and Southampton Press, April 8, 2019
Lighting Up the East End to Get Out the Vote , Jennifer Landes, East Hampton Star , November 1, 2020
The Year in Pictures, Remembering The Stories of 2020, East Hampton Star, December 29, 2020
Christine Sciulli: Meandering Light, Bettina Pelz, Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art, 13 January 2018
Instead of Canvas: Dust, Fabric, Curvatures, Bettina Pelz, Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art, 2018
Spotlight, Well Roiled Machine, issu Mondo Arc, issue 90, April/May 2016
Citation for Temporary Art Installation, Lumen 2016, Awards Publication, Illuminating Engineering Society, New York City Section.
Lighting, Volume 48, Design File, Lighting Design Awards 2016, London, UK, March 2016.
Lighting Awards 2016, Light Art Project of the Year, Revo Media, May 2016
Enter a Cavern of Concentric Circles in ROIL, Vice, The Creators Project, DJ Pangburn, 22 January 2016
Christine Sciulli and her Monumental Installation at Smack Mellon, Art Report, December Projects, 31 January 2016
With ROIL Christine Sciulli mesmerizes, intimidates and provides the perfect selfie setting, Brooklyn Based, Regina Mogilevskaya, 11 February 2016
ROIL Video Projection Installation by Christine Sciulli, Illumni, Tariq Qayoom, 22 January 2016
Hyperallergic: Jam Packed Spring Break Art Show Pulls Into Moynihan Station, Allison Meier, March 4, 2015
Clowns, Pin-Ups, Packing Peanuts: 9 Must-Sees at SPRING/BREAK 2015, Blouin Art Info, Anneliese Cooper, March 4, 2015
Poor and Loving It at the Spring Break Art Fair, Alex Greenberger, Art News, March 7, 2015
Checking Out That Spring Break Art Show Vibe, Ginger, HaHaMag.com, March 10, 2010
Eclectic Transactions at Spring/Break Part 1,Etty Yaniv, Arts In Bushwick, March 10, 2010
A Brief Look at NY Art Fairs: Spring/Break and Scope, Steven P Harrington and Jaime Rojo, Brooklyn Street Art, March 16, 2015
Sink Into Christine Sciulli's Video Projections, ArtLog, May 2, 2014, Kate Havles
Gallery Chronicle, The New Criterion, April 2014, James Panero.
When One Artist Singles Out Another ÔArtists Choose ArtistsÕ at the Parrish Art Museum, The New York Times, December 19, 2013, Karin Lipson.
2013 In Review: History & Location Combine in Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Hamptons Art Hub, December 31, 2013 by Pat Rogers
Artists Choose Artists: A Visual Dialogue of the East End Ð Part 1, Hamptons Art Hub, December 16, 2013 by Gabrielle Selz.
Christine Sciulli and the Geometry of Light, Hufffpost Arts & Culture, 11 Sept 2013. Gabrielle Selz.
From Natural to Supernatural: Christine Sciulli's Expansive Field, Hamptons Art Hub, 31 May 2013. Sandra Hale Schulman.
Christine Sciulli's Environment at SoFo, The East Hampton STAR, 16 April 2013. Jennifer Landes.
Heart of Darkness,The East Hampton STAR, 31 March 2011, Jennifer Landes.
Christina Sciulli Tangle at Causey Contemporary, James Kalm Rough Cut, video interview, 24 March 2011, James Kalm.
Christine Sciulli: An Artist of the Floating World, planeSPACE and Practical Geometry, May 2009, Paul D.Miller/ DJ Spooky.
From a forthcoming essay regarding planeSPACE, May 2009, Kamy Wicoff
Notes from the Treetop, Islip Art Museum, Review 12 , Janet Goleas, December 2009.
New Media Takes to the Street, The Independent, 23 May 2008, French Clements.
City 'Plugged In' to the Art Scene, Register Star, 19 May 2008, Andrew Amelinckxs.
2008 Plugged In, Exhibition Catalog, Melissa Stafford.
Art and Technology Will Meet in Citiwide Exhibit, Register Star,12 May 2008, John Mason
Portable Theatre,(Just Go With the Flow), New York Times, 31 August 2007, Melena Ryzik.
Not a Dry Eye in the House, Time Out New York, Issue 623, 6-12 September 2007, Gwen Orel.
Voice Choices, Shortlist, Village Voice, December 7, 2005, RC Baker.
Mysterious Visages Light Tribeca Night, Tribeca Trib, July-August 2005, Barry Owens
American Sandwich, Catalog, Peter Dudek, Star 67 Gallery, 2001.
Artburgher, WaterfrontWeek October 19, 2000. Susan Hamburger.
Der Kunstabwart, Nummer4/December 1999 stills, pp.58,59. Ul Binder, published by Edition Howeg, ZŸrich, Switzerland.
XVII, Hunter College MFA Catalog, 1998-99.
OTHER INSTALLATIONS + ART FAIRS + COLLABORATIONS + THEATER PROJECTS
2017
"A True Stretch" by Christine Sciulli, Jaanika Peerna and Qian Yi, Triskelion Arts, part of the What For/Why Not festival curated by Peter Kyle
Projection Design: "The Aeneid" by Kay Matschallat and Duncan Sheik at Duke University
2016
Projection Design: "Hit the Body Alarm" by Winsome Brown and Brad Rouse, music by John Zorn, Performing Garage
2015
Projection Design: "Lighthouse 40¡ N, 73¡ W" by Christina Campanella and Jim Dawson: Here Arts Center
Spring/Break Art Show, curated by Tracy Causey Jeffrey: Propulsion Field 4022
Guest Artist, Children's Museum of Art Family Gala
2014
Gala Installation Artist, ART IN GENERAL
Guest Artist, Children's Museum of Art Family Gala
2007
"Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting,Ó light + video artist, Mabou Mines production, NYC
2001
ÒCara LuciaÓ, Collage Self illuminated prop for Mabou Mines, Here Art Arts Center, NYC
"ATOMIC TANGO", created in 2001: with composer Doug Geers SELECT FESTIVALS+SCREENINGS of Atomic Tango: 2013 Naturalia á Soldiers of Life, Curated by Macu Moran,VIDEOAKT International Videoart Biennial 2013, Barcelona. Spain 2005 SEAMUS National Conference, Ball State University 2004 International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, Brooklyn College, 2002 International Computer Music Festival, Gšteborg, Sweden, 2002 MIX.02, DIEM, Computer music/video festival, curated by Hans Sydow, Arhus, DK 2001 Listening in the Sound Kitchen, Electroacoustic music festival, Princeton Univ.
1995
Video installation for performance collaboration with composer Will Holshauser, Knitting Factory Alterknit Theatre
Video for multimedia dance piece with composer Doug Geers HERE Arts Center
Video collaboration with composer Renee Favand, HERE Arts Center
New Video at the Orchard Bar, Curated by Jillian McDonald, NYC
Christine Sciulli, founder, has designed lighting for high-end residences, theaters, spas, museum shows, galleries, among many other project types. Her design principle is to allow architecture and form to be revealed through minimal, organized, architecturally collaborative interventions of light. Sciulli designed light for numerous award winning lighting projects for architecture and fine art. She has worked closely with Desai Chia as the lighting designer of over 20 of their residential, retail and corporate projects. Sciulli holds a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, BFA and Master of Fine Art degrees from Penn State and Hunter College with additional studies in England and the Netherlands.
CV 2023
ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING DESIGN
EMPLOYMENT
Christine Sciulli Light + Design, 1993 to Present
Adjunct Faculty Parsons The New School of Design MFA Lighting Design 2006-2008
Thomas Thompson Lighting Design 1996-1998
Susan Brady Lighting Design 1994-1996
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Exhibition Lighting Designer, 1992-1994
Howard Brandston Lighting Design 1990-1992
SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING PROJECTS
INSTITUTIONAL
Columbia University, E-Sports Room, NYC, Desai Chia
Amherst College Dorm Lighting Study, Desai Chia, Amherst, MA
Frances Chia Memorial Garden, Tunghai University, Taiwan, Desai Chia,
Hunter College Atrium Café, Ohlhausen DuBois Architects
University Computer Center (New School), Ohlhousen DuBois Architects
New York Law School, Ohlhousen DuBois Architects
Olney School, Philadephia School District, Holland-Jones Architects
CORPORATE/RETAIL/SHOWROOM
Spark Capital Wooster Street, Desai Chia
Supreme Design Studio, Desai Chia
AF Showroom, Desai Chia
Quartz Media, Desai Chia
Indigo Showroom, Desai Chia
Betaworks, Desai Chia
Spark Capital, Desai Chia
Keffi Group, Desai Chia
Nauta Dutihl, Ashkar + Paul Architects
Terrestrial Network, Madeine Sanchez Architect
TOYOTA national prototype/showroom, Smith/Marin Architects
Straightline International, NYC, David Graham Architects
RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING DESIGN
Greenwich Village Residence, Desai Chia, NYC (Product Design+Lighting Design)
Garcia Residence, Desai Chia , NYC
Guajardo Residence, Desai Chia NYC
Morales Morris Residence, Desai Chia CT
56 Leonard Street Penthouse, Desai Chia, NYC
Machado Vargas Residence, Desai Chia, NY
Marine Boulevard, Amagansett, MB Architecture, NY
Yellen Residence, Montauk, Desai Chia, NY
Michigan Lake House, Desai Chia, MI
Watermill House, Desai Chia, NY
LM Guest House, Desai Chia, Dutchess County, NY
Photographer’s Loft, Desai Chia, NYC
Rizzo Loft, Union Square, Desai Chia, NYC
Light Box Loft, Broadway, Desai Chia,, NYC
Schwarz Loft NYC, Christine Restaino Architect, NYC
47 Bond Street Duplex, 1100 Architects, NY
62 Cooper Square Loft, Desai Chia, NYC
House of Light (Klein Residence), Ohlhausen DuBois Architects
Townhouse Garden, Joanna Pertz Landscape Architect, NYC
Beroza, Smith Maran Architects, Weehauken, NJ
Horwitz Residence, Johathan Hunter Design, NYC
Schmertz Residence, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, Guilford, CT
Del Mastro Residence, Christine Restaino, Architect
Schuster II Residence, Paul Baird, Architect, NYC
Gorter Residence, Lake Forest, Illinois, Duncan Reid Architect
Schuster Loft, Paul Baird, Architect, NYC
Tuxedo Park Residence, James Harb Architects
Burwell Residence and Recording Studio, Desai/Chia Architects/Walters Storyk Associates,NYC
45 Greene St Penthouse, Roberto Brambilla Associates, NYC
Hariton Triplex, Eicher Architecture, NYC
Bigalow Fessel Residence, Eicher Architecture, NYC
Crossen Gleick Residence, Eicher Architecture, NYC
Krause Residence, Bolingbrook, Ohio/Christine Restaino Architect
MUSEUM/GALLERY ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING DESIGN
Sandra Gering Gallery, Dana Cupkova (Studio D-C)
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
CRG GALLERY (Chelsea, NYC), Eicher Architecture
Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, Ohlhausen DuBois Architects
Theresa Bernstein Foundation, Sugarland, Texas