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About Christopher Myers
Christopher Myers (born 1974) is an American interdisciplinary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, and playwright. His wide-ranging practice—including tapestries, sculpture, stained glass lightboxes, theater and writing—is rooted in storytelling and artmaking as modes of transformation and cultural exchange. He explores contemporary hybrid cultures and identities resulting from histories of migration (chosen and forced), globalization and colonization. Critics have noted his work's fluid movement between disciplines, image and language, sociopolitical research and mythology, and diverse materials. Shana Nys Dambrot of LA Weekly wrote, "Ideas about authorship, collaboration, cross-cultural pollination, intergenerational storytelling, mythology, literature and the oral histories of displaced communities all converge in his literal and metaphorical patchwork tableaux … [his] sharp, emotional and sometimes dark parables express it all in bright, jubilant patterns and saturated colors."
Myers's artwork belongs to the public collections of the National Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others. His work has been presented at venues including MoMA PS1, Kennedy Center, the Art Institute of Chicago and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. He has received a BRIC Arts Media prize and the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustration. Myers is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Myers's artwork belongs to the public collections of the National Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others. His work has been presented at venues including MoMA PS1, Kennedy Center, the Art Institute of Chicago and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. He has received a BRIC Arts Media prize and the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustration. Myers is based in Brooklyn, New York.