BIO
Christalena Hughmanick’s practice engages with human relationships between craft and labor, and the scaled production systems that have generated these histories. She takes a theoretical approach related to cultural anthropological studies, which is enacted through fieldwork that captures vernacular knowledge production systems that may disappear. Recent work has been reviewed by Lori Waxman for the Quarantine Times and Hall W. Rockefeller for Less Than Half. Her paper "Freedom Quilt: Collective Patchwork in Post-Communist Hungary” has been presented at The Textile Society of America’s 17th Annual Symposium and will be published in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles in 2023. She has exhibited internationally and been an artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome, SÍM Reykjavík, the Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem Budapest, Wedge Projects in Chicago. Her work has been supported by Fulbright Foundation, US State Department, the Lenore Tawney Foundation Scholarship among others. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
EDUCATION
2012 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Masters in Fine Arts in Fiber & Material Studies
2004 Maryland Institute College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber, cum laude
RESIDENCY
2024 Gjutars Artist Residency, Finland
2020 Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna (SÍM), Reykjavík Iceland
American Academy in Rome, Italy
2019 Visiting Artist, Gölcük Belediyesi Sanat Galerisi (City Municipality Office), Gölcük, Turkey
2018 Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
Thinking / Doing Residency at Wedge Projects, Chicago, IL
2017 Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest
2004 Charcot Library of Pitié Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 string figures for(e)casting, Galleria Gjutars, Helsinki Finland
2023 The women who plant trees, Liget Galéria, Budapest Hungary, curated by Veronika Molnár
2022 The Women Who Plant Trees, French Alliance of Reykjavik
2021 a consideration at Kjarnaskógur Forest, Skógræktarfélag Íslands (performance)
2020 some thing grand, HOME Gallery, New York, NY
Freedom Quilt Hungary, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Freedom Quilt Hungary book release, Közben, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Rope A Necklace To My Tongue, PANEL Contemporary/Faur Zsófi, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Veronika Molnar
2018 Truth Guide for the Beginner’s Mind, Lawrence & Clark, Chicago, IL (performance)
2016 The Fish Don’t Talk About the Water, Fernwey, Chicago, IL
2011 Heirloom Commodity, SITE Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 everyone deserves a portal, A! Performance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
50 ára afmæli, Textílfélagið, Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023 The leftovers, Nýlistasafnið / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik Iceland
Canvas International Art Fair, Venice Italy
Untitled, HOME Gallery, New York NY, curated by Nick Cueva
Forms of Forage, Epal Galleri, Reykjavík
sam(t)vinna, Textile Association Exhibition, Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavík
Skynróf with D Rosen, Gallery Kannski, Reykjavík, Iceland
What cannot be said will be wept, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, curated Dove Hornbuckle
2022 The Water Beneath / Undirheimar Vatnsins, The Old Herring Factory in Djúpavík Iceland
Torg Listamessa í Reykjavík
Design March / HönnunarMars 2022, Reykjavík
2021 „Svona eru jólin“, Ásmundarsalur Gallery, Reykjavík
Face to our Liberty, Art in Odd Places Performance Festival, New York, NY
Golden Dip, Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Field Recordings, Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna, Reykjavík, Iceland
Absolutorium, Syningarsalur Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland
TEHOM, Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2020 some thing grand, Bill’s Auto Repair, Chicago IL
some thing grand, TUSK, Chicago, IL
Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
New Art Dealers Alliance, MPSTN, Chicago, IL
Four Flags Chicago, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL
artWork From Home, Art Gym Denver, CO
Utopia/Dystopia Sound Landscapes, Radio Stream at mariannevilliere.net
History is making itself into a pancake, MPSTN, Chicago, IL, curated by Seth Hunter
2019 At A Distance #3, Wedge Projects, Chicago, IL, curated by A.P. Vague
Collect Your Thoughts, BrodyLand Studios, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Ophélie Paris
2018 Falling for You, Triumph Chicago, IL, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier
DECIDE. COMMIT. THRIVE., Triumph, Chicago, IL, curated by Ryan Coffey
There’s Nothing Natural About This (with Anne Yafi), Wedge Projects, Chicago, IL
Ltd. Wear3, LVL 3, Chicago, IL
The Last One, Fernwey, Chicago, IL
Season Opening Gala, Jacobs Pillow, Lee, MA
Monument Quilt, Neiman Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1,500,000,000,000, Triumph Chicago, IL, curated by Ryan Coffey
2017 Summer Residents, Gorbe Bogre Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Celebrate 85, Jacob’s Pillow, Lee, MA
Dangerous Professors, Triumph Chicago, IL, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier
Dinner Party, TUSK, Chicago, IL, curated by Kate Sierzputowski & Mary Eleanor Wallace
5th Annual Art Exhibition, Bridgeport Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2016 Group Show, Show + Tell Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Object Puzzles, TUSK, Chicago, IL, curated by Mary Eleanor Wallace
Book Release for 1-6, TUSK Chicago, IL
New Capital at Starcom Mediavest, Chicago, IL, curated by Chelsea Culprit & Ben Foch 2014
2014 Form Without a Room, Document Gallery, Chicago, IL
Starwalker Gala, Threewalls Benefit Exhibition, Chicago, IL
It is a Door and a Window that Make a Room Useful, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 2013
2013 Faculty Show, HF Johnson Gallery at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Otherwise, Beige, Memphis, TN, curated by Joel Parsons 2012
2012 Line of Site, Western Exhibitions, curated Alicia Chester, Karolina Gnatowski, Kate Ruggeri
Garden Party, Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Karolina Gnatowski
Group Work, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, curated by Joanna Szupinska & Julian Myers
2011 New Wave Ladies Night, Carousel Space Project, Chicago, IL 2011
Retracing (with Hope Esser), Murdertown, Chicago, IL, curated by Jane Jerardi
New Blood V Performance Festival, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Roger's Grocery, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL, curated by Josh Dihle
Residency Exhibition, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
6th Annual Juried Art Show, Kinsey Institute SoFA Gallery at IU, Bloomington, IN 2010
2010 Threadbare, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
Text Off the Page, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Sensational Remix, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
Connective Thread, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, New York, NY
LECTURES
2023 Artist Lecture, Parsons College of Art Textile Department
Reflections on Making, Chemistry & Art course at Oregon State University
2022 Immersive Global Artmaking: Fulbright Grants for Artists panelist, Annual College Art Association Conference
2020 Unfinished Construction Mitchell Lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Freedom Quilt Hungary: Patchwork In Post-Communist Hungary, Textile Society of America Annual Symposium
Freedom Quilt Project gallery talk, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Freedom Quilt Hungary, Hungarian Patchwork Guild Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary
Reading Textiles for a Universal Purpose: The Shared Language of Banners, Flags & Quilts, National University of Public Service Foreign Language Program, Budapest, Hungary
Artist Lecture, Magyar Honvédség Altiszti Akadémia, Budapest, Hungary
2018 Tracing Patterns Artist Lecture, Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
North America Days, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
2017 History of Hungarian Embroidery, Diana Guerrero-Macia’s Fiber & Material Studies Graduate Seminar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artist Lecture for Dana Carter Stitch II course Fiber & Material Studies Dept, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Form Without A Room Artist Lecture, Document Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 MFA Thesis Lecture, Fiber & Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2011 Visiting Artist Lecture, CORE Program Studio Practice Course, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Fiber & Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 Threadbare Exhibition Lecture, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Grant, Goethe Institute
Muggur Travel Grant (Reykjavík Cultural Affairs, SÍM & Myndstef)
2023 Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission Alumni Award
Halldór Heimisson Project Sponsorship Grant
2021 Travel Grant, Skógræktarfélag Íslands (Icelandic Forestry Association)
2019 Individual Federal Assistance Award, U.S. Department of State
2018 Fulbright Open Study/Research Award, Hungarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange
2010 Lenore Tawney Foundation Scholarship
2009 Northampton Arts Council Grant
2004 Grainger Marburg Traveling Scholarship
Francis B. Harvey Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna (SIM), member (since 2022)
Textílfélagið / Icelandic Textile Association, member (since 2021)
Textile Association of America, member (since 2020)