Christina DiStefano’s interdisciplinary practice explores the body, memory, and imagination, giving form to the resilience and tenderness of being alive.
SELECTED ARTWORK
PAINTINGS
WORKS ON PAPER
DIGITAL COLLAGE
CURRENT STUDIO WORIK
Curriculum Vitae
Credits prior to 2023 appear under the name Christina Medina.
Exhibitions
2023
Beneath It All, online group exhibition, Visionary Art Collective; curated by Marina Granger of The Artist Advisory
2009
Anti-Oxidant BK Video Salon, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Food the Vital Stuff, Bushwick Beta Spaces, Deep in the Woods Studio, Brooklyn, NY
At Home, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
Anti-Oxidant BK Video Salon, Brooklyn, NY
It’s Not Easy, Exit Underground at Exit Art, New York, NY
2007
Chicano Experience, Mattie Rhodes Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006
Dusk, Dawn, Day, Dot Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2005
University of Missouri–Kansas City Spring Exhibition, Kansas City, MO — Juried First Place
Collections
2024
Extell Development Company, 50 West 66th Street, New York, NY — Five works acquired through Saatchi Art
Projects
2026–present
365, ongoing interdisciplinary research project incorporating video, writing, photography, and installation
Curatorial
2012
Anti-Oxidant: Promantic, group exhibition, co-curated with Jason La Blond, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Anti-Oxidant + Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2007–2008
Anti-Oxidant BK, ongoing curatorial residency, Northeast Kingdom Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY
Grants and Awards
2005 | First Place, Juried Spring Exhibition, University of Missouri–Kansas City
2004–2005 | SEARCH Grant, University of Missouri–Kansas City
Education
2005 | Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, University of Missouri–Kansas City
Christina DiStefano is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, digital collage, and instruction-based art. Informed by her experience growing up biracial in the suburban Midwest, her practice explores resilience, embodied memory, and imagination as a means of transformation.
Through an intuitive, physical process of pressing, folding, layering, and removing, she creates surfaces that evoke bodily and geological traces. Her work considers “future memory”—the ache of missing something while it is still here—and imagines what the remnants of our world might reveal about the tenderness of being alive.