Christina Lucia Giuffrida was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1990. She received a BVA from The Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, in 2014 and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, in 2018.
Giuffrida has most recently exhibited with Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island (Forthcoming), Plato Gallery (NYC), Rhodes Contemporary (UK), SoHo Revue (UK), Taymour Grahne (UK), Eve Leibe Gallery (Germany), Steven Zevitas Gallery (USA) and Collar Works (USA).
In 2026 Giuffrida’s work was featured in New American Paintings (North East), Issue #182, whose work was selected to be featured by American patron and art collector Beth DeWoody. Her work as has also been featured in Create Magazine, TOH Magazine and Peripheries Journal of the Harvard Divinity School.
She is a recipient of the Art Start Grant from the Australia Council and Emerging Artist Grant from the Ian Potter Foundation and has participated in residencies in Italy, USA and the Dominican Republic. Giuffrida works are held in the MACAAL Collection (Marrakesh, Morocco), the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection (USA) and the X Museum Collection (Beijing, China).
The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her wife Sophia and their dog Vito
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Education and Training
2016-2018 - Masters of Fine Arts (Sculpture), The New York Academy of Art
2011- 2014 – Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours (Class I ), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
Solo Exhibitions & Dual Exhibitions
2023 - Dark Pastoral , Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2021 - Diesel & Dust, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (Online)
Group Exhibitions
2025 - Blood as Thick as Water, Plato Gallery, NYC, USA
2024 - Uplands, Rhodes Contemporary, London, UK
2024 - Reverence , Purslane, London, UK (Online)
2024 - Inside/Out, Soho Revue, London, UK
2022 - Touch Wood , Prior Art Space/ Eve Leibe Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 - Intimacy, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2021 - Shift, Living Gallery, New York, USA
2021 - Animal Instinct, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, USA
2021 - Collective Health, Collar Work, New York, USA
2020 - Young Blood, Space Gallery St Barth, New York, USA
2019 - Origins, The Art Vacancy, New York, USA
2019 - Phantasmagoria, The New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2018 - Take Home A Nude, Sotheby's Auction House, New York, USA
2018 - Emerging, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA
2018 - Wavy Baby, New Liberty Distillery, Philadelphia, USA
2018 - The Unveiling, ABC Stone, New York, USA
2016 - Hidden Gesture, Articulate Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 - Annual Winter Group Show, M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2015 – Mythologies of My Land, M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2014 – Dani, Home@735 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 – Queering The Body, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 – Performance Evening (Sydney Underground Festival Special Event), Paper Planes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Publications
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TOH Magazine - 2022, https://toh-magazine.com/2022/08/christina-lucia-giuffrida-e-le-sue-fantasie-romantiche-nella-natura/
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Peripheries – Published by Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions 2020 - (Fall Edition)
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Create Magazine – 2020, Issue 23, pp. 56 - 57
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FrontRunner Magazine , 2020 https://frontrunnermagazine.com/posts/profile-of-the-week-christina-giuffrida/
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New American Paintings (Instagram – Editors Pick of The Day) - 2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CAehMdcJzKJ/
Grants
2018 - Pat & Scott Moger Alumni Grant
2018 - Tuscany Study Carrara Scholarship
2017 - Sculpture Merit Scholarship, New York Academy of Art
2016 - Sculpture Merit Scholarship, New York Academy of Art
2015 - Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2015 - ArtStart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Residencies
2018 - Altos De Chevon Residency, La Romana, Dominican Republic
2017 - ABC Stone Carrara Marble Residency, Carrara, Italy
2015-2016 – Sculpture Space NYC, New York City, USA
Selected Performances
2010 – 2012 - Queer Central, The Sly Fox, Sydney, Australia
2010 – 2011 – The Pussycat Club, The Oxford, Sydney, Australia
2011 – Enchanted Lips: Mardi Gras, The Vanguard, Sydney, Australia
2011 – The Sydney Underground Film Festival, The Factory Theatre, Sydney, Australia
2012 – The Sequinned Menace, The Imperial, Sydney, Australia
Curatorial Positions
2024 - They Can't Hide The Sun, Spring Break Art Show, New York City, USA
2012 – The Sydney Underground Film Festival (Closing night Host and Performance Curator), The Factory Theatre, Sydney