All disciplines share the same atomic clay. As a sculptor, this medium is an access point, a push and pull of all disciplines into a shared form and singular focus.
— Excerpt from Christine Corday: 2002-2022 Radius Books Publication 2023
INFORMATION
Christine Corday
b. 1970 Fort Meade, Maryland. United States
Corday, an internationally awarded multidisciplinary artist, is known for her monumental concepts and installations, which have made a significant impact as a recent keynote speaker at the United Nations (2024). Her recent project, Sans Titre, led to Art becoming the thirty-sixth nation and the final global contributor to the material build of a star on Earth, ITER [Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France], with ongoing works in solo museum exhibitions and public works in civic collections worldwide.
As sculptor, Corday engages a material-based practice in the evolving human-scale of perception and fundamental forces. She works in temperature, pressure and material states of atomic elements in close collaboration with Nobel laureate astrophysicists and EarthShot finalist chemists; National Academy of Engineering-awarded engineers; and a broad range of material sciences, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology. The subject and scale of materials are informed from her astrophysics internship at NASA/SETI (1991) as well as classical training at the piano. In the late 90s, Corday devoted full-time to Art and traveled to paint and live in various art historical and cultural contexts, including Tokyo, Japan (1999–2000), Seville, Spain (2000 –2004), and Greenpoint Brooklyn, New York (2005-2008). In Spain, Corday created Foundation Civilization for Art-led multidisciplinary works including Instrument for the Ocean to Play, 2001 (Tidal Energy); Sans Titre, 2019 (Fusion Energy); The Sun Is The Way, 2022 (Agriculture); Project Diagon, 2022 (Carbon Capture and Sequestration); and Project Troposphere, 2022 (New Carbon-Sequestered Materials). Corday's first solo exhibition in the United States was sited at the New York High Line (2008), followed by Director-commissioned solo museum exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014) and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2019), and was selected by Architect Michael Arad to create the color and surface for The National September 11 Memorial, Ground Zero (2011).
Corday, was nominated for United States Artist Fellow (2016) with projects awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (2019); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2019); Brian Wall Foundation (2019); Robert Lehman Foundation (2019); and Lannan Foundation (2015). Her work was invited to participate in two shows within Venice Architecture Biennale (2021). Corday lives in Hudson Valley, New York with her husband and work partner Christopher Powers and dog Rook.
In art as well as her writing, Corday was also known as Corday G (1999-2006) and was selected for Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Short Story Prize (2000) as well as awarded Modern Fence Poet finalist (2015).
From 1992–1999, Corday worked in graphic and structural design for advertising companies, such as Wieden+Kennedy (Tokyo), Bartle Bogle Hegarty (UK), and SKUzzio Design (US). During this time, her work was recognized by an Edison Ingenuity Prize (CA), numerous Addys (US) and international packaging awards and patent.
For more on Corday’s multidisciplinary work series, please visit Foundation Civilization.
Foundation Civilization is an evolved single practice of humanity founded by Corday – a bold Art-led dynamic of disciplines creating visionary PublicWorks for the rapid advancement of civilization.
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Publisher: Radius Books, 2023
Essays: Taney Roniger, Leah Ollman
Hardcover / 10.25 x 12.25 inches 184 pages / 120 images.
ISBN: 9781942185512
Christine Corday: RELATIVE POINTS
Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, 2019
Essays: Michael Govan, Lisa LeFeuvre, and Lisa Melandri
Paperback / 8 x 10 inches 86 pages.
ISBN: 9780997736410
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United Nations Headquarters
Keynote Address
2024 Flagship Conference: Carbon-Free Cities, Decarbonizing the Built Environment.
28 OCT 2024
Sponsored by CSU, UN Habitat, Uruguay Delegation, AIA New York, Grimshaw, Desimone.
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Seeds of Change
Penny Pennington, Managing Partner of Edward Jones, Panelist
29 OCT 2024
Danforth Plant Science Center, AT&T Auditorium. St. Louis.
Panel Moderator: Penny Pennington.
Panelists: Allison Miller (PI. Danforth Plant Science Center); Meredith Malone (Kemper Art Museum)'; Christine Corday (Artist).
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Pioneers of Practice | Frankenthaler, Corday, Glass
Soak-stain : A Material Conversation
08 JUN 2024 10am SITE Santa Fe
With American art historian, Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University.
Co-organized by Radius Books, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
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Pioneers of Practice | Frankenthaler, Corday, Glass
Composition: A Material Continuation
08 JUN 2024 2pm SITE Santa Fe
Live performance: A Madrigal Opera. Philip Glass. Guest Violin Karina Wilson
Co-organized by Radius Books, Special Thanks: Richard Guerin, Orange Mountain Music.
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Christine Corday | Women's Initiative with SOM Architects
29 MAR 2022 SOM Architects, International Offices
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Thingly Affinities | Rethinking Aesthetic Form for a Posthumanist Future
4 DEC 2020 Online Symposium. Organized and Moderated by Taney Roniger
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MATERIAL PHASES OF SUNS
NY LASER/ LEONARDO/ ISAST TALK SERIES 15 DEC 2019. Feature presentations by Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, Christine Corday, and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. LevyArts NYC
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RELATIVE POINTS, Artist Conversation with Director Lisa Melandri
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM SAINT LOUIS 19 JAN 2019. Artist's Conversation with Lisa Melandri, CAMstl Executive Director
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Sustained Moment of Art and Science
ITER, Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, FR 3 JUL 2018. Artist's Conversation withLaban Coblentz, ITER Headquarters Communication Director.
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Temperature Pressure Object
Webster University 17 NOV 2017. with Jeffrey Hughes, Ph.D., Professor of Art History and Criticism Director, Graduate Studies in Art Department of Art, Design, and Art History, Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, Webster University
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Journey from Paint to Plasma
Neuehouse 11 JUL 2015. with Rebecca Pietri, Hommepourfemme and Beverly Allan.
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Protoist Series, Artist Conversation with Director Michael Govan
LACMA 20 JAN 2015. Artist's Conversation with Michael Govan LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director BPGE and Resnick Pavilion, LACMA
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Materials and Techniques, UCLA/ LACMA Mellon Initiative Talk Series
LACMA 10 NOV 2014. with Dr. David Scott, Professor in Art History and Archaeology, UCLA Dr. Miwon Kwon, Art History Department Chair, UCLA, Michael Govan, Director, LACMA
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Matter and Memory: The Perceptive Edge, SOM Architects
SOM Architects, San Francisco 10 MAY 2014. SOM Architects, San Francisco Office with Craig W. Hartman, Partner.
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An immersive simulation that rotates at the speed of the sun 2021 Venice Biennale
June 2021. Domus. Clara Rodorigo
The Art Hidden in the World's Largest Nuclear Reactor
25 FEB 2020. Forbes. Eva Amsen
On the equinox, this sun is our sun
16 MAR 2020. Gazette. George Ball
The St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum Hosts its Biennial Dada Ball & Bash
8 MAR 2019. Vogue. Chris Bauer
On Point: Christine Corday at CAM
6 FEB 2019. Times Newspapers. Dickson Beall
A 'constellation' contained in CAM: Art exhibition shows compressed shapes as 'Relative Points'
17 JAN 2019. St. Louis Post Dispatch Jane Henderson
HEAT SEEKER: Artist Christine Corday
16 JAN 2019. Barrett Barrera Projects. Kea Wilson
Christine Corday wants you to touch every one of her 10,000 pound sculptures at CAM
15 JAN 2019. St. Louis Magazine. Amanda Woytus
Christine Corday : Relative Points
15 JAN 2019. The Riverfront Tiimes. Paul Friswold
Art Only the Universe Can Make: Christine Corday’s ‘Relative Points’ Opens at CAM
10 JAN 2019. Alive Magazine. Kea Wilson
$551 million Moscone Center expansion a bid to win big tech conferences
3 JAN 2019. San Francisco Chronicle. Roland Li
$1.45 million, 8 ton sculpture ready for Moscone Center
3 JAN 2019. San Francisco Chronicle. Sam Whiting
A curving line of steel in the sky to mark Moscone Center expansion
31 DEC 2018. San Francisco Chronicle. Sam Whiting
Something Fierce
1 SEP 2017. The Magazine. Diane Armatage
Creative: Something Fierce at Lannan Foundation
1 SEP 2017. Shifter. Daniel Milnor
Empowerment Through Art: "Something Fierce"
4 AUG 2017. Santa Fe New Mexican / Pasatiempo. Michael Abatemarco
Christine Corday
OCT 2015. NEAR EAST/Istanbul, Issue 3: New World. Heather Harmon
Christine Corday and Christopher Powers: Artist and Fabricator
31 MAR 2015. LACMA, UN FRAMED. Linda Theung, Editor.
Intensifying the Mark: Christine Corday Turns Up the Heat on "Painting"
11 MAR 2015. LACMA, UN FRAMED. Vanessa Wilson
Memory Recorded: Christine Corday's Protoist Series at LACMA
24 FEB 2015. LACMA, UN FRAMED. Vanessa Wilson
Christine Corday: Protoist Series, Selected Forms
15 JAN 2015. Art in America. LA editors
Christine Corday: Protoist Series, Selected Forms
2 DEC 2014. Modern Painters. Thea Ballard
10 Years After Sept 11: A Day That Stands Alone
11 SEP 2011. New York Times. Robert D. McFadden
Reflecting Absence: Previewing the 9/11 Memorial
10 SEP 2011. CITYpass. Deston S Nokes
The world observes the 10-year anniversary of Sept. 11
10 SEP 2011. LA Times. Kenneth N. Zinkat [Picture 28/61]
FIT
6 OCT 2010. Brooklyn Art Guide. Enrico Gomez
Leaving Tomorrow On A Flatbed Truck
11 DEC 2008. Interview Magazine. David Coggins
CORDAY's UNE Sculpture on View Under The High Line
14 NOV 2008. High Line
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Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero Discovery Channel Documentary, Spielberg Productions 2011
Making of the 9/11 Memorial History Channel Documentary, Parrot Productions 2011
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PLAYLIST
Pioneers of Practice Series:SOAK-STAIN A Material Conversation on the works of Christine Corday and Helen Frankenthaler with American art critic Alexander Nemerov. Presented by SITE SANTA FE and Radius Books
Pioneers of Practice Series: Shorts: SOAK-STAIN A Material Conversation on the works of Christine Corday and Helen Frankenthaler with American art critic Alexander Nemerov. Presented by SITE SANTA FE and Radius Books
Pioneers of Practice Series: Shorts: SOAK-STAIN A Material Conversation on the works of Christine Corday and Helen Frankenthaler with American art critic Alexander Nemerov. Presented by SITE SANTA FE and Radius Books
Pioneers of Practice Series:COMPOSITION: A Material Continuation with the Works of Christine Corday and Philip Glass, Special Guest Violin Karina Wilson. Presented by SITE SANTA FE and Radius Books
Pioneers of Practice Series: Shorts: COMPOSITION: A Material Continuation with the Works of Christine Corday and Philip Glass, Special Guest Violin Karina Wilson. Presented by SITE SANTA FE and Radius Books
SENSORY SHORTS
#4 | CORDAY Sensory Short | material composition joins us
#1 | CORDAY Sensory Short | human and evolution of material universe
#2 | CORDAY Sensory Short | you are evolving the human body
#3 | CORDAY Sensory Short | how to feel the whole earth
#5 | CORDAY Sensory Short | the material universe sees though your eyes
#6 | CORDAY Sensory Short | are we star stuff?
#7 | CORDAY Sensory Short | Touch is your largest sense
#8 | CORDAY Sensory Short | Suspend Definition
#9 | CORDAY Sensory Short | Be Fearless