Chrissy Lush is an American visual artist working in photography. Her work explores the themes of trace, transformation, and connection, examining the reciprocal relationship between the body, its environment, and the emotional landscapes they shape. Through deliberate staging, she transforms familiar scenes—a glass beside a record player, a lone figure in a cemetery, a woman on a green sofa—into charged spaces where relational dynamics and transformation materialize in the everyday.
Lush investigates how physical and emotional interactions leave marks—both tangible and intangible—on the spaces we inhabit and the selves we construct. Using self-portraiture, she inhabits ambiguous characters to explore identity as a fluid and performative construct, shaped by these imprints. Her images navigate tensions between intimacy and distance, visibility and invisibility, and presence and absence, inviting viewers to reflect on how traces of connection and transformation shape perception and meaning.
Originally from New York, Chrissy Lush is now based in Nashville, TN, where she works as a visual artist. She holds a BFA in Photography from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design. Her self-published book, Hold Me Tight, released in Spring 2023, examines the social constructs of aging and the longing to reconcile with the passage of time. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, earning accolades such as being a Critical Mass 2022 Finalist, longlisted for the 2023 Aesthetica Art Prize, and shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibit 164. Her work resides in notable private collections and has been celebrated with awards, including the Passepartout Photo Prize Exhibition Prize, which led to an exhibition in Rome in September 2023.
SHOWS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Revelations
Modfellows Art Gallery, Artsy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Center Forward 2024
Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Just Women | ImageNation
Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
2023 Just Women | ImageNation
Collater.Al 2023
Fondazione Luciana Matalon gallery, Milan, Italy
Passepartout Photo Prize Exhibition
28 Piazza di Pietra Fine Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
Soho Photo Gallery National Competition
Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY
2022 3rd Barcelona Foto Biennale
FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Artdoc Magazine: Art Photography
Online Exhibition
2021 GCPL Photo Annual: Imagining the Unreal
Gwinnett County Public Library, Duluth, GA
Juried by Maria L. Kelly
Print Swap Exhibition NY
Foley Gallery, NY, NY
Print Swap Exhibition Greece
Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2015 I am a Forest Dark
Space Between Gallery, Woodstock, South Africa
Colour Burst
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014 AS | Artists Studios
33 Orchard Gallery, NY
Artists Alliance Inc Fourth Bi-Annual Works on Paper Benefit
Cuchifritos Gallery, NY
Artist in Residence Show
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
2013 Electron Salon
LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
The Rabbithole Silent Auction a recovery benefit
Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Uncanny: Surreal Photography Online Annex
PhotoPlace Gallery, VT
Juried by Russell Joslin
Professional Women Photographers 35th Anniversary
SohoPhoto Gallery, NY, NY
Juried by Elinor Carucci and Stephen Perloff
Spring Emerging Artist
Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Art of Photography Show
Lyceum Theatre Gallery, CA
Juried by Natasha Egan
2009 Untitled
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Curated by George Pitts
AWARDS
2023 Exhibition Prize Passepartout Photo Prize
2023 2nd Place, Soho Photo Gallery National Competition
2023 Longlisted Aesthetica Art Prize
2022 Shortlisted Royal Photographic Society IPE 164
2022 Critical Mass Finalist
2022 Honorable Mention 18th Pollux Awards
2022 Longlisted Women United Art Prize
2014 Residency, Arteles Creative Residency Program Haukijärvi, Finland
2010 Professional Women Photographers 35th Anniversary First place in Abstract Category
2010 W The Art Project Semi-finalist
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Border Crossings Issue No. 164
Appearances and Disappearances, Truths and Fictions by Barry Schwabsky
2023 Hold Me Tight
2023 PPP III Catalogue
2023 Future Now 2023 Anthology
2022 Frames Magazine 9th edition
2022 Barcelona Foto Biennale Catalog
2015 Colour Burst Exhibition Catalog
2011 Uncanny: Surreal Photography Show Catalog
2010 Imprints Magazine winter issue
2010 Art of Photography Show Catalog
2010 Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Show Catalog
CONTACT
Lush.Studio.Arts@gmail.com