Christalena Hughmanick

About

American,   —   Christalena Hughmanick b. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an artist and educator. Her 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 the field of cultural anthropological studies, which is enacted through fieldwork that attempts to capture knowledge production systems that may disappear. She has exhibited internationally and been an artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome, SÍM Reykjavík, the Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem in Budapest and Wedge Projects in Chicago. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, US Department of State, Grainger and the Lenore Tawney Foundation Scholarship among others. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.