BIO

Christina Habibi is from Tehran, Iran, and creates her work from her studio in Athens, GA. With over 30 years of artistic practice, Habibi’s work has been exhibited across galleries in the U.S., cameoed in the acclaimed film Dear White People, and featured in the Twin Cities PBS Series, Minnesota Original.

Statement

My work is about tension between chaos and control, beauty and grit, presence and absence.

I work in layers, led more by instinct than by plan. Each mark is a response to the last. Sometimes it's bold, sometimes it's quiet, but always it’s moving toward something I can’t name yet. What stays behind is what needed to stay.

Color drives everything. It’s emotional before it’s logical. The palette shifts with what’s in my head, grief, memory, rhythm, restlessness. I don’t aim to tell stories, but they sneak in through gesture, through texture, through silence.

This isn’t art you solve. It’s art you sit with.