ABOUT
Christina was born in the morning in Kyiv, Ukraine, swaddled in bright blue plastic and handwritten leather tags. The same day the Hale-Bopp comet lit up the sky, Swiss authorities released 2,000 dormant bank accounts belonging to Holocaust survivors, an earthquake shook Porta Villa and Papua New Guinea, and the moon glowed in a Waning Gibbous phase. She was brought up between families and suburban material cultures, continually observing people close to her immigrate to the United States to start a new life again. She has often thought about how to build a home within oneself by way of material poetics, walking among billion-year-old earth systems, and tapping deep into cultural stories of love and resilience. But this isn’t quite right. Somewhere along the way, she grew a desire to understand where her body ends and the outside world begins. She is continually questioning: if we are the bacteria, electricity, stardust, and waves that shape us, then what else can we be at the end of the day?
Christina Sadovnikov is an installation artist and exhibition organizer living on the land of the Council of Three Fires (Chicago, IL). She graduated with a BFA in Craft and Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been a resident at Mass MoCA for the Assets for Artists Residency Program and at Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland. She received the Merit Scholarship from Ox-bow School of Art and was recently published on Comfort Station’s 2024 Artists to Watch list. Her work has been shown in various places such as Flux Factory (NY), Constellation (IL), The Plan (IL), Bird Show (IL), the James River Park System (VA), and Fried Fruit Gallery (NC).
Currently, Christina is teaching craft classes to teens, curating pop-up exhibitions, creating sound-activated sculptures for musicians, and fermenting things in the studio. Feel free to reach out if you have any good book recommendations or wish to collaborate.
contact: christinasadovnikov@gmail.com
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