Christopher Myers (b. 1974, Queens, New York, US) lives in Brooklyn, New York, US. Myers earned his B.A. in Art-Semiotics and American Civilization with a focus on race and culture from Brown University (1995 )and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program (1996).
Myers is an artist and writer whose work across disciplines is rooted in storytelling. Myers delves into the past to build narratives that speak to the slippages between history and mythology. His diverse practice spans textiles, performance, film, and sculptural objects, often created in collaboration with artisans from around the globe. He has worked with traditional shadow puppet makers in Jogjakarta, silversmiths in Khartoum, conceptual video artists in Ho Chi Minh City, young musicians in New Orleans, woodcarvers in Accra, weavers in Luxor, metal workers in Kenya, and textile printers in Copenhagen. These collaborations are driven by his interest in understanding how globalisation is intimately intertwined with notions of self and community.
His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at venues including MoMA PS1, New York, US; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US; The Mistake Room, Guadalajara, Mexico; Akron Art Museum; Contrast Gallery, Shanghai, China; Goethe-Institut, Accra, Ghana; Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, Rwanda; San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Myers is currently working on a Percent for Art Commission at the Brooklyn Brownsville Public Library, expected to be completed in 2022.
His work is included in the permanent collections of institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Brooklyn Museum, New York;Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Lucas Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Myers won a Caldecott Honor in 1998 for his illustrations in the book Harlem and a Coretta Scott King Award in 2016 for illustratingFirebird with Misty Copeland. Myers currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Exhibitions
Servane Mary, Barry X Ball, David Adamo, Yuji Agematsu, Ryan Foerster, Jason Fox, Tillman Kaiser, Arnold J. Kemp, L, Justin Matherly, John Miller, Christopher Myers, Nikholis Planck, Nicolas Roggy, Sally Ross, Davina Semo, TARWUK, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Frederick Weston, Servane Mary, Huma Bhabha, Kathleen Ryan
Strange Attractors The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 3: Lost In Space
