Cristine Brache is a New York-based artist, writer, and filmmaker. She received her MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Brache predominantly works in encaustic painting, sculpture, and film, often using obsolete media, acrylic, readymades,  and textiles. Her work circulates around constructs of the female body and psyche, broken histories, masking, and the inevitable power dynamics accompanying these themes. The artist is also interested in mortality, nostalgia, and solitude.

Select solo exhibitions include those held at anonymous gallery (New York); Locust Projects (Miami); and Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles). She has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions like Berlinische Galerie, Perez Art Museum Miami, and ICA Miami. Her films have screened in festivals like the Florida Film Festival (Orlando); Miami Film Festival (Miami); and Slamdance (Park City). Her work has been critically reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.

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EDUCATION 

N.D.     BFA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.

N.D.     MFA, Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, London, U.K.

SOLO/TWO-PERSON  EXHIBITIONS  

2024     Dumb Slate (with Michael Thompson), Pangee, Montreal

2023     Dorothy’s Dream, NADA (with anonymous gallery), Miami

2022     Bermuda Triangle, anonymous gallery, New York, NY, U.S.

2020     Commit Me, Commit to Me (Cázame; Cásame), Fierman Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.

2019     Cristine’s Secret Garden, Locust Projects, Miami, FL, U.S.

2019     Epithalamium (with Brad Phillips), Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.

2019     Safe Words (with Penny Goring), Elene Abasidze, Tbilisi, Georgia 

2017     I love me, I love me not, Fierman Gallery, New York, N.Y, U.S.

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 On Education, Amant, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)

2025 Persona, Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY

2025 Single Channel, Efrain Lopez, New York, NY

2024     Beautiful Fish in a Man-Made Pond, AMITY, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.

2024 thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, Pangee, Montreal

2024 thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, Margot Samel, New York

2024 Unrequited, Spy Projects, New York

2024 CONDO CDMX, anonymous gallery and Fitzpatrick gallery, Mexico City

2021     ICA Miami Digital Commissions 2020–21: …what endures…, ICA Miami, Miami

2021     Garden of Eden, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

2021     Traces on the Surfaces of the World, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.

2020     ICA Miami Digital Video Commission, ICA Miami, Miami, FL, U.S.

2020     documento, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2020     Hello? God is the Space Between Us, Anonymous Gallery, New York

2019     100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Paris, France

2018     Eye to eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York

2018     Condo, Emalin, London, U.K.

2016     Intersectionality, MOCA, Miami, FL, U.S.

2016     Golden Eggs, TEAM Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.

2015     S, Arcadia Missa, London, U.K.

SCREENINGS

2023 EXPORTS, Mezzanine Film, Roxy Cinema Tribeca, New York, NY, U.S. 

2023     Miami Film Festival, Miami, FL, U.S.

2023     Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL, U.S.

2021     Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT, U.S.

2021     Florida Film Festival, Orlando, Florida, U.S.

2021     Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, U.S.

2021     Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami FL, U.S.

2017     Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

2017     Borscht 10, Olympia Theater, Miami, FL, U.S.

2016     Outpost Open Call (Selected by Ed Atkins), A.M. London, London, U.K.

2016     Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, U.K.

2016     Outpost Open Call (Selected by Ed Atkins), Norwich, U.K. 

2016     Accessing Economies: Engagement & Withdrawal (hosted by AQNB & Video in Common), Club Pro LA, Los Angeles

2016     Blindspots, Xspace, Toronto, Canada

2015     Dry Deal, Cantina Social, Athens, Greece

2015     Screening: Cristine Brache, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.

2014     Nekama, The Multiverse/The Borscht Film Festival, Miami, FL, U.S.

2014     Greeting cards from reality at the Post Colonial Flagship Store, Quartier21, Vienna, Austria

2014     The Collectif Jeune Cinema Presents a Collection of Short Works, thePICTUREshow, New York, NY, U.S.

2014     The HTMlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture, Studio XX, Montreal, Canada

2014     16th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris, France

2014     Off Screen, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, U.S.

2014     We the Enemy Too, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany

2014     Collectif Jeuene Cinéma Carte Blanche, Apordoc, Lisboa, Portugal

2014     The 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DLX], Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, Germany

2014     Big Eyes, Small Mouth (cur. Beth Heinly), Aux Performance Space, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.

2013     Tele Visions, Sydney, Australia

2013     The 8th Edition of The Streaming Festival, the Netherlands

2013     Flesh and Structure: The Biopolitical Commons, The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Alicante, Spain

2013     WPA's Experimental Media (cur. Jason Eppink), The Museum of the Moving Image, New York [touring to The Corcoran Gallery of Art, College of Art + Design, Washington D.C., and The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.]

2013     15th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris, France

2013     Equals, Exploring Feminism Through Art & Conversation, Blank Media Collective, Manchester, U.K.

2012     New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, U.S. 

2011     Women Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, U.S.

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POETRY READINGS & PERFORMANCE

2024 Goodnight Sweet Thing, 3hd Festival, Berlin, Germany.

2024 Goodnight Sweet Thing, Amant, New York, NY, U.S.

2024 Goodnight Sweet Thing, Performance directed by Sigrid Lauren and Cristien Brache, 42n, New York, NY, U.S.

2022     Rene Ricard, God With Revolver, Mastbooks, New York, NY, U.S.

2022     O, Miami Poetry Festival, Florida, U.S.

2021     Montez Press Radio, New York, U.S.

2021     KGB Bar, New York, U.S.

2020     Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment for Paul McCarthy, New York, NY, U.S.

2018     Reader as Voyeur, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, U.S.

2017     The Diamond Stingily Show, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, U.S.

2017     Blood No Memory, Fieman, New York, NY, U.S.

2014     Holly Childs' Danklands Launch, Arcadia_Missa, London, U.K.

2014     Then Nothing Ever Happens Because Nothing Ever Does, Zabludowicz Collection, London, U.K.

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RESIDENCIES

2018     The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Artists Alliance, & Embajada, New York, NY, U.S.

2013     Loft345, Guangzhou, China

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AWARDS

2023     Knight MIA Made in Dade Short Film Award

2021     The Ellies Awards, Oolite Arts

2021     Canada Council for the Arts

2020     OAC Visual Arts Award

2020     TAC Visual Arts Award

2020     Indigenous Screen Office Development Grant

2019     The Ellies Awards, Oolite Arts

2018     South Florida Cultural Consortium

2018     Borscht Short Film Commission Grant

2017     OAC Emerging Artist Award

2014     Borscht Short Film Commission Grant

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