A warm congratulations to Fine Arts alum Christine Howard Sandoval on the Hammer Museum’s acquisition of “Stretcher- For The Transportation of Water” ✨✨
Christine Howard Sandoval (b. 1975, Anaheim, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Vancouver, BC. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Oregon Contemporary (Portland, OR), The Museum of Capitalism (Oakland, CA), Designtransfer, Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin, Germany), El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY), parrasch heijnen (Los Angeles, CA), and Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, NY). Her first solo museum exhibition debuted at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO) in May 2019, during which time she was the Mellon Artist in Residence at Colorado College. Howard Sandoval has also been awarded residencies at UBC Okanagan, Indigenous Art Intensive program (Kelowna, BC), ICA San Diego (Encinitas, CA), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM), Triangle Arts Association (New York, NY), and The Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute (NY) and an MFA from Parsons The New School for Design (NY). She is currently Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University (Vancouver, BC). Howard Sandoval is a member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield, CA.
ABOVE: CHRISTINE HOWARD SANDOVAL, Stretcher- For The Transportation of Water, 2021, adobe mud, tape, steel, wood, wire, 54 x 56 x 27-1/4 inches