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

I see my work as akin to planting signals in a vast, shifting landscape, visual markers that trace a path through layers of emotion, memory, and thought. My process is one of layering and erasure, of letting forms and fragments emerge, and then obscuring them, much like our minds do with the details of lived experience. Each painting becomes a reminder to pause, to linger in the spaces between clarity and ambiguity.

My paintings are not meant to tell a single story but to evoke an inner journey, a navigation through colors, textures, and half-formed words that act as signposts to something both personal and collective. I aim to create spaces that reassure us we are part of something larger than ourselves; we are linked by our stories, our dreams, our fragments of memory. We are all here, together, layering and uncovering meaning as we go.