Profile
Christine Sciulli is a visual artist working with projected light and geometry. “Her work consists of intersections of the geometry and an intuitive sense of how to use everyday materials to give a sense of “spatialisation” – she plays with how we perceive the world around us in a way that leaves you with a kind of eerie sense of timelessness."(Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky)
Sciulli's projection installations have been included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts and shown in numerous museums and light festivals including the International Center for Light Art, Cologne's MAKK, Guild Hall Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Heckscher Museum, Islip Art Museum, South Fork Museum of Natural History, Edward Hopper House Art Center and Smithsonian Affiliate Annmarie Gardens. Her installation ROIL was shown at Brooklyn’s Smack Mellon Gallery in 2016 and was awarded both a Lighting Award (UK) and Lumen Citation from the Illuminating Engineering Society. She was the recipient of a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant for her public art project Intercepting Planes X and commissioned by the Global Poverty Project to create, Expanding Circles, projected onto 2,500 people, for the first Global Citizen Festival.
Sciulli has also produced collaborative installations and community activism works. Her ongoing project with Holly Li, Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands, has brought musicianship to non-musicians and raised over $35,000 for education programs. She and partner Nora Breen were awarded a $10,000 grant by The Center for Artistic Activism to fund their street theater action "Chase The Erase" in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Sciulli also orchestrated a 60 artist projection action for the 2020 election cycle, "Project Project Vote". Her production of work surrounding Jeff Colvin's novel Africaville took place over three venues on the Southfork of Long Island in the summer of 2020. She has been a Gala installation artist for benefits including Art in General and Childrens Museum of Art.
Sciulli’s theatrical credits include light-video artist for the Mabou Mines Gantry Plaza State Park waterfront production of, “Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting”, directed by Ruth Maleczech (“...a distinctly urban feel, magnified by a glittering lighting design by Christine Sciulli, a video installation artist.” Melana Ryzik, New York Times) and participated in their Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Residency. She has worked with Phantom Limb in residence at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center and Mass MoCA. Her collaborations with composer Doug Geers have been shown widely at European and American festivals.
In addition exhibiting her immersive art works she has designed lighting for high-end residences, theaters, spas, museum shows and galleries, including Columbia University's recent E-Gaming Lounge with Desai Chia. Her architectural lighting design principle is to allow architecture and form to be revealed through minimal, organized, architecturally collaborative interventions of light. Sciulli designed light for numerous award winning lighting projects for architecture.
Degrees Held
Master of Fine Art, Hunter College of the City of New York
Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, Penn State University
Bachelor of Fine Art, Hunter College of the City of New York
Additional study at Leeds University, Academie Minerva and Art Students League
Currently pursuing Master of Social Work at NYU
Professional Affiliation
International Association of Lighting Design
Recent Publications
Space-Sight-Line, 2024. https://www.27east.com/arts/space-sight-line-presents-collaboration-and-conversation-at-the-church-2236778/
Arte : Twist (in German) (feature on FERMENT at minute 13:52) ( French on Arte https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/105616-011-A/twist/ Anke Rebbert, 25.11.2022 )
Martina Stella: How Many Different Things Can a Screen Be,Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art May 2023,
Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst HYPERsculptures Catalog by Bettina Pelz , January 2023
On FERMENT by Christine Sciulli, Bettina Pelz, Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art, May 2023
Brixen/Bressanone Water Light Festival Catalog, May 2023
HYPERsculptures Press release, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst e.V.
NPR affilliate WLIW Radio Interview with Gianna Volpe on Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands
Trailer, Kultur.Kino.Ruhr Die Architektur von Licht , Peter Ortmann, 13. Februar 2023
Die Architektur von Licht, Trailer, Kulture, Kino, Ruhr Peter Ortmann, 13. Februar 2023
Ausstellungen, November 2022, Hypersculptures, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna, 18 November 2023
HYPERsculptures 4.11.2022 – 30.4.2023, Arttourist.com Gesamterlebnis Kultur im Netz Brand of ART CITIES IN EUROPE
Neue Lichtkunst in Unna by Marion Heller, 13. April 2023, Westfalium.de iLcht.de
Prospect NEWS DAS PORTAL FÜR BÜHNE & TECHNIK, HYPERsculptures – Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst , Mittwoch, 08. März 2023
iMagazin Nachrichten aus der licht ,Hypersculptures
FERMENT photograph workshop registration https://kultur-in-unna.de/veranstaltung/kunststoff/
Da Erste Lichtkunst trotz Energiekrise Die Ausstellung Hypersculptures in Unna,06.11.2022 16:52 Uhr
Sweet Dreams are Made of This, East Hampton Star, Judy D'Mello, 2022 (Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands)
Bring on the Night: Christine Sciulli’s Petit Nuit Blanche at the Leiber Museum in Springs, NY, James Solomon, White Hot Magazine, September 2020
QUARANTINE CHRONICLES: DRIVE-BY-ART AND THE ROLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Warren Neidich, Musee Magazine, May 2020
Back to the Garden, Kelcey Edwards, Portray Magazine, August 2020
All Female Bands Take the Stage for a Good Cause, 27 East, Michelle Trauring, Jan 2020
Christine Sciulli's Illuminating Exhibit Opens, Guild Hall Welcomes New Season, Nicole Teitler, The Independent, April 16, 2019
Christine Sciulli's Light Themed Art Comes to Guild Hall in Phosphene Dreams, Annette Hinkle, East Hampton and Southampton Press, April 8, 2019
Christine Sciulli's Illuminating Exhibit Opens, Guild Hall Welcomes New Season, Nicole Teitler, The Independent, April 16, 2019
Christine Sciulli's Light Themed Art Comes to Guild Hall in Phosphene Dreams, Annette Hinkle, East Hampton and Southampton Press, April 8, 2019
Handoff: Weaving In Space Celebrates Completion of Site-Specific Installation , Pat Rodgers, Hamptons Art Hub, March 21, 2019
Lighting Up the East End to Get Out the Vote , Jennifer Landes, East Hampton Star , November 1, 2020
The Year in Pictures, Remembering The Stories of 2020, East Hampton Star, December 29, 2020
Christine Sciulli: Meandering Light, Bettina Pelz, Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art, 13 January 2018
Instead of Canvas: Dust, Fabric, Curvatures, Bettina Pelz, Ars Photonica, Texts on Light in Fine Art, 2018
Spotlight, Well Roiled Machine, issu Mondo Arc, issue 90, April/May 2016
Citation for Temporary Art Installation, Lumen 2016, Awards Publication, Illuminating Engineering Society, New York City Section.
Lighting, Volume 48, Design File, Lighting Design Awards 2016, London, UK, March 2016.
Lighting Awards 2016, Light Art Project of the Year, Revo Media, May 2016
Enter a Cavern of Concentric Circles in ROIL, Vice, The Creators Project, DJ Pangburn, 22 January 2016
Christine Sciulli and her Monumental Installation at Smack Mellon, Art Report, December Projects, 31 January 2016
With ROIL Christine Sciulli mesmerizes, intimidates and provides the perfect selfie setting, Brooklyn Based, Regina Mogilevskaya, 11 February 2016
ROIL Video Projection Installation by Christine Sciulli, Illumni, Tariq Qayoom, 22 January 2016
Hyperallergic: Jam Packed Spring Break Art Show Pulls Into Moynihan Station, Allison Meier, March 4, 2015
Clowns, Pin-Ups, Packing Peanuts: 9 Must-Sees at SPRING/BREAK 2015, Blouin Art Info, Anneliese Cooper, March 4, 2015
Poor and Loving It at the Spring Break Art Fair, Alex Greenberger, Art News, March 7, 2015
Checking Out That Spring Break Art Show Vibe, Ginger, HaHaMag.com, March 10, 2010
Eclectic Transactions at Spring/Break Part 1,Etty Yaniv, Arts In Bushwick, March 10, 2010
A Brief Look at NY Art Fairs: Spring/Break and Scope, Steven P Harrington and Jaime Rojo, Brooklyn Street Art, March 16, 2015
Sink Into Christine Sciulli's Video Projections, ArtLog, May 2, 2014, Kate Havles
Performances and Appearances
Producer: Present Tense: Black Lives Matter(ed) Staged reading, Sound Installation and Panel centered on Jeff Colvin's novel Africaville at Guild Hall Museum, Arts Center Duck Creek and The Church.
Light and Video artist for the Mabou Mines Gantry Plaza State Park waterfront production of, “Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting”, directed by Ruth Maleczech
2020 Guild Hall Museum, Phosphene Dreams Gallery Talk
2015 Watermill Center, Arts and Education Panel Discussion, July 2015
2015 Parrish Art Museum, Pecha Kucha Hamptons Volume 11
Research Interests
Light, Voting Rights, Social Justice
Awards And Honors
2000- 23 Collaborated as Lighting Designer with Desai Chia Architecture on many award winning projects
2021 Center for Artistic Activism Funding Grant for Chase The Erase (with Nora Breen)
2016 Lumen Award for Temporary Art Installation, NYC Illuminating Engineering Society (ROIL)
2016 Lighting Award, Light Art Project of the Year, Revo Media, London (ROIL)
2015 Children's Museum of Art, Artist Honoree, Fall 2015 Gala, 4 November 2015
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
2013 Southfork Museum of Natural History, Artist in Residence
2013 Finalist for Ridge Flats, a 2013 Philadelphia Percent for Art commission.
2012 ISF Artist in Residence, Imagine Science Films
2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF Grant for Intercepting Planes X
2007 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Residency at White Oak with Mabou Mines
2000 International Association of Lighting Designers: Award of Merit, Rodin Museum Pavilion, Seoul Korea, with Thomas Thompson
1998 The Esther Fish Perry Award, Hunter College, New York City
1995 Leutz/Reidel Grant for study in Netherlands, Hunter College
1987-1990 Besal Full Tuition Scholarship for Illumination Engineering, Penn State University
Portfolio
Breath of The Sea
Ferment at International Center for Light Art (Starts 13:51)
Chase the Erase, funded by Center for Artistic Activism
Selected Light Work
Columbia E-Gaming Center (SHiFT)