selected solo exhibitions/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• Seen/Unseen, with Tara Bogart, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI 2025

• Liminal Forms, with Galina Kurlat, 91 Dikeman Street, Red Hook, NYC 2025

• Christa Blackwood, The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH 2020

• The Photographic Nude, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon 2018

• Boys Boys Boys, RECSPEC Gallery, Austin, TX 2017

• Prix West, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans February 2017-March 2017

• Prix West, Capsule Gallery, Houston October 2016-January 2017

• Naked Lady: A Dot Red, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK 2016

• Prix West, Photo Methode Gallery, Austin, TX 2016

• The Ballad of Irrelevant Histories, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas 2016

• a dot red, Gallery 291, Mills Valley, CA 2015

• a dot red, SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2015

• a dot red, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2014

• a dot red, wall space gallery , Santa Barbara, CA 2014

• a dot red, Candela Books and Gallery, Richmond, VA 2014

• Silver and Ink, Christa Blackwood, Photo Methode Gallery, Austin, TX 2014

• Naked Lady: A Dot Red, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2013

• laute & hasslich, poster drops, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany 2012

• bam bam cha, poster drops, ISA, Wilfredo Lam Center, La Cabana Fortress, Havana Biennale 2012

• Mannequin Piss , poster drop, Untitled, Nada, Pulse, Miami Convention Center, Basel Miami, 2012

• girls girls girls girls, Dop Dop Salon, New York City, NY 2005

• Genetically Gifted, Gallery 1313, Austin, TX 2002

• Made you Look, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2000

• Whackxing Poetic, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX 1998

• Disappeared, The Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL 1996

• Butcherknives, Poster Installation, Printed Matter, New York City, NY 1994

• L'Ultima Toiletta, Art In General, New York City, NY 1994-1995

• ritualistic deviance and social order, 10 on 8, New York City, NY 1993

• Rancho Notorious, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York City, NY 1992

• draw blood for proof, street poster installation, New York City, NY 1992

• Semi-Automatic, PS 122 , New York City, NY 1992

• Whackxing Poetic, The Henry Street Settlement, New York City, NY 1992

• Work in Progress, Scoula Grande de Carmini, Venice, Italy 1991

• Butcherknives, street poster installation, Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, New York City, NY 1991

• Imitation of Life, Kampo Cultural Center, New York City, 1991

selected group exhibitions

• Postcards From the Edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, NYC 2025

• Contemporary Photography, jurors Zora Muff and Rana Young, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 2025

• Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction Exhibition, Anderson Ranch, CO 2025

• Krappy Camera Exhibition, curated by Ann Jastrab, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC 2025

• Southland, The Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 2024

• Center Annual 41, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas 2024

• APA NYC, juried by Michael Foley, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC  2024

• The Alternative Process Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC 2024

• Aline Smithson Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA 2024

• Gallery Photographer’s Exhibition, Photo Gallery SMA, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 2024

• The International, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA 2024

• Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction Exhibition, Anderson Ranch, CO 2024

• The Curated Fridge Summer Show, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA 2024

• Mapping Perspectives, juried by Samantha Johnston, Foto Fest exhibition, Throughline Collective, Houston, TX 2024

• Postcards From the Edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, NYC 2024

• APA NYC, Juried by Brian Clamp, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC 2023

• Moving Images, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX 2023

• Coco Conroy Selects 2023, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA 2023

• Knowing Who We Are: The Contemporary Dialogue, The Ogden Museum’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, New Orleans, LA 2023

• Anderson Ranch Annual Auction and Exhibition, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO 2023

• The Photogravure: Examples from 1897-2023, Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2023

• The Houston Center for Photography’s Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2023

• The Land and That which Live On It, Fotofocus Cincinnati Biennale, Cincinnati, OH 2023

• Highlights from Photo Nola, Photographic Gallery SMA, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 2023

• The Houston Center for Photography Annual Print Auction Exhibition, Houston, Texas 2022

• Crit Group Reunion, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX 2021-2022

• The Living Image: Alternative Photography, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA 2021-2022

• American Dreams or Imagined Landscapes, The Booth Museum, Cartersville, GA 2020-2021

• Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthe’s Unseen Photograph, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2020-2021

• Reimagined Landscapes, The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA 2020

• The Right to Herself, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2020

• Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Foto Nostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain 2020

• Helsinki Photo Festival, Winner Open Call, Customs House Exhibition Hall, Helsinki, Finland 2019

• Center Annual, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2019

• The NUDE Show, RECSPEC Gallery at The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX 2019

• Westward, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2018/2019

• Portfolio Showcase and Publication 12, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2019

• New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA 2018

• Royal Reversal, Colorado Photographic Art Center, Denver, CO 2018

• 18+, RECSPEC Gallery, Austin, TX 2018

• 20th Annual Postcards From the Edge, Gallery 524, New York City, NY 2018

• Candela Gallery at AIPAD, New York City, NY 2017

• The Eyes Have It, RECSPEC Gallery, Austin, TX 2017

• Her Feet Firmly Planted on the Ground, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2017

• Currents, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA 2016-2017

• Fotofilmic 16, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Vancouver 2016-2017

• Center Forward, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2017

• Art of the Nude, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK 2017

• Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2016

• UnBound5! Candela Gallery and Books, Richmond, VA 2016

• Postcards From The Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY 2016

• You are Here, Texas Respond to the Texas Landscape, Fotofest, Houston 2016/The University of Texas, College Station, TX 2016

• Inherent Nature, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX 2016

• Agave Print at EAST, EAST Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX 2016

• FotoFilmic 15, New York City, Vancouver, Seoul, Grand Prize Winner 2015/2016

• Candela Gallery Presents, Candela Artists exhibition with Chris McCaw, Linda Conner, Holly Roberts and Alyssa Soloman, Richmond, VA September/October 2015

• Postcards From The Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY 2015

• Artist in Resident Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO 2015

• Deux, Photo Methode Gallery Photographers, Austin, TX 2015

• Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at William and Mary College, curated by Elliot Dudik, VA 2014

• Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, New York 2014

• The Enigmatic Object, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL 2014

• Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2014

• The Griffin Museum of Photography's 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Boston, MA 2014

• Center Forward, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2014

• Portraits in Contemporary Photography, Drift Gallery, Portsmouth, NH 2014

• Rayko's 7th Annual International Plastic Camera Show, San Francisco, CA 2014

• 5x7 exhibition, The Contemporary, Austin, TX 2014

• Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA 2013

• Unbound2! Candela Books and Gallery, curated by Gordon Stettinius, Richmond, VA 2013

• Fringe Festival Projection Exhibition, Architects Alley, New Orleans, LA 2013

• Geographica, Fototropia Center for Contemporary Photography, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2013

• RMFA Biennial, curated by A.B. Minor of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts 2013

• Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York City, NY 2013

• Krappy Kamera XV International Juried Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, NY 2013

• Rayko's 6th Annual International Plastic Camera Show, curated by Ann Jastrab, San Francisco, CA 2013

• Postcards from the Edge, Cheim and Read, New York City, NY 2012

• NYU Venice, 80 Washington Street Gallery, New York City, NY 2012

• Holga Out of the Box International Holga Competition, juror Michael Kenna, TCC Gallery, Longview, TX 2012

• Modern Vintage, FotoDC Festival 2012

• Filter/Unfiltered, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL 2012

• Photofest 2012, curated by Julie Maguire, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK 2012

• Plastic Fantastic III, curated by Susan Burnstein, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Portland, OR 2012

• Rayko's 5th International Plastic Camera Show, juried by Ann Jastrab, San Francisco, CA 2012

• 5x7 Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, TX 2011

• Arthouse, 5x7 Exhibition, Austin, Dallas and Houston, TX 2010

• Alternative Photography, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009

• Arthouse 5x7 Exhibition, Austin, Dallas and Houston, TX 2008

• Alternative Photography, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007

• Arthouse 5x7 Exhibition, Austin, Dallas and Houston, TX 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

• Alternative Photography, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006

• Black/White/Schotz, Gallery 1313 Satellite Exhibition Space (now Marfa Ballroom), Marfa, TX 2002

• Shake, PS 122 Gallery, New York City, NY 1998`

• AIM Benefit Exhibition and Auction, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 1996

• Arresting Images, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL 1995

• American Standard, Here, New York City, NY 1995

• Fagosites, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL 1995

• Untitled IV and V, Book Arts Exhibition, Gallery 450, New York City, NY 1994-1995

• Oh, Me Oh My/Politically Correct Poster Installation, Exit Art, New York City, NY 1995

• Issues of Violence, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA 1994

• Institute of Fine Arts Faculty and Staff Exhibition, IFA, New York City, NY 1994

• Ecstasy, Dooley Le Cappeleine Gallery, New York City, NY 1994

• Photowork 93, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY 1993

• The Gift, Dooley Le Cappeleine Gallery, New York City, NY 1993

• Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 1992

• Dreaming, Rosenberg Gallery, New York City, NY 1992

selected publications

• Lenscratch, Christa Blackwood: Boy Play, February 17, 2022

• England, Odette, editor. Keeper of the Hearth / Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, page 277, 2020

• Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, The Female Gaze, Sightlines, June 7, 2019

• Melissa Smith, Capturing the Complexities of the Modern South, In Pictures, The New York Times November 21, 2018

• PDN Editorial, Three Women Photographers Challenge Long-held Ideas of Beauty and Gender, PDN, March 23, 2018 PDN Editorial, PDN Photo of the Day, Christa Blackwood March 23, 2018

• The Eye of Photography, Role Reversal: women photographers depicting male subjects, March 2018

• Melany Jean, 18+ at RECSPEC Gallery, The Austin Chronicle, March 2, 2018

• Roger Thompson, Photos Across the Country, Don't Take Pictures, January 24 2018

• Tara Cronin, Tara Cronin interviews Christa Blackwood, Lenscratch, December 6, 2017

• Melany Jean, RECSPEC'S The Eye's Have It, September 22, 2017

• Ashley Kaushinger, Process Alternative: Christa Blackwood, Light Leaked, Spring 2017

• Editorial Staff, Nature Revisited, Aesthetica Magazine, March 9 2017

• Aline Smithson, Her Feet Firmly Planted on the Ground, Lenscratch, March 6, 2017

• Zora J Murph, Strange Fire Collective, Ain't Bad Magazine, May 16, 2016

• Awst Press, Chap Book Series, curated by Owen Egerton, cover images for 4 books, February 2016

• Aline Smithson, Christa Blackwood: Prix West, Lenscratch, January 12, 2016

• Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Critics Notebook, Christa Blackwood's Prix West, Austin American Statesman, January 28, 2016

• Hamidah Glasgow, Q & A: Christa Blackwood, Strange Fire, December 31, 2015

• Editorial Staff, Print Austin 2015, cover image, Austin American Statesman, January 2015

• Michael Kirchoff, Wide: Christa Blackwood, Blur Magazine issue 39, October 2014

• Megan Kelly, Collodion Rebellion, Richmond Arts Review, October 1, 2014

• Amelia Heymann, A Dot Red at Candela Books and Gallery, INK, October 5, 2014

• Editorial Staff, The Roads We Travel, Style Weekly, September 9 2014

• Jeff Moorfoot, Christa Blackwood: a dot red/the boys of collodion, BETA, issue 10, July 2014

• Abby Kurin, In Theory, Art Desk Magazine feature, issue 2, 2014

• John Paul Ricco, The Boys of Collodion, Unbecoming Community, July 23, 2014

• Eliot Dudik, Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William and Mary, published by the College of William and Mary, 2014

• W. Tanner Young, Naked Lady: A Dot Red, Filter Photo, March 3, 2014

• Houston Center for Photography, Print Auction Catalogue, Houston, TX 2014

• Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Mining the Meaning of Photographic Genres, Austin American Statesman, February 7, 2014

• Melissa Bryan, Art Lovers Brave Snocapolypse to see Christa Blackwood, Culturemap Austin, January 26, 2014

• Le Journal de la Photographie, Naked Lady: A Dot Red, June 26, 2013

• Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, Photolucida: Christa Blackwood, Naked Lady: A Dot Red, June 5, 2013

• Crista Dix, wall space gallery: Christa Blackwood/Photolucida , May 27, 2013

• Editor, NYU Venice, catalogue, cover image, 2012

• Robert Faires, Articulations, Austin Chronicle, April 25, 2003

• Borderlands, Fall/Winter, issue 17 2001

• Editorial Staff, Best Bets, Austin American Statesman, May 23, 2000

• Kate Messer, Public Notice, September 17, 1998

• Bill Stamets, AIDS Artwork Shuns Sentimentality, Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 28 1996

• Stephen Longmire, The Living and the Disappeared, Windy City Times, December 19, 1996

• Jennifer A. Footlik, Disappeared: Scene Unseen at Randolph Street Gallery, City Art December

• Play Issue, White Walls, a journal of language and art, number 38 1996

• Editorial Staff, Surfacing Art, New York Times, March 6, 1994

• Jake Tilson, Artists Alphabet, Atlas Magazine, Issue 4, 1994

• Butcherknives Poster, Printed Mater Catalogue, 1994

• Connie Butler, Artist in the Marketplace catalogue, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1992

• Vivian Raynor, Show Serves as Cosmopolitan Clearinghouse for New Talent, New York Times, July 26, 1992

• Kim Levin, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, December 6, 1992

• Editorial Staff, two page spread of Butcherknives Poster, NYQ Magazine, Issue no.4 1991

selected awards and residencies

• Krappy Camera Award, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, 2025

• Finalist, Critical Mass 2024

• The Crit Group, The Contemporary, Austin, TX 2019

• Finalist, Critical Mass 2019

• Open Call Winner, Helsinki Photo Festival 2019

• Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Colorado College, 2019

• Analogue Forever Top Ten Favorites from Critical Mass 2019

• Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The University of Colorado, Denver 2018

• Finalist, Critical Mass 2017

• Austin Critics Table Award, 5 Best Solo Exhibitions, Prix West, for 2015-2016

• Third Prize Winner, PhotoNola 2016

• Center Forward Award, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2016

• Artist in Residence, Anderson Ranch, Fall 2015

• First Place, FotoFilmic 15, 2015

• Finalist, Critical Mass 2014

• Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University 2014

• 5 Best Solo Gallery Exhibitions for Silver and Ink, Austin Critics Table Awards, 2013-2014

• Honorable Mention, Center Forward, the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Co 2014

• Finalist, Critical Mass, 2013

• 3rd Place, Krappy Kamera XV International Juried Competition, juror, Christy Karpinsky 2013

• Honorable Mention, DC Photo Festival 2012

• Best in Show, Holga Out of the Box International Photography Competition 2012

• Third Place Prize, Alternative Photography, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009

• Best in Show, Alternative Photography, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006

• Artist in Residence, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2001

• Artist in Residence, Mexic-Arte, Museum, Austin, TX 1999 and 2002

• Visiting Artist, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1996

• Best in Show, Photowork 93, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1993

• Artist in Residence, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: Artist in the Marketplace 1992

• Best in Show, Venice Press Award, Work in Progress, Scoula Grande de Carmini, Venice, Italy, 1991

selected collections

• The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

• Soho House

• The Booth Museum of Western Art, Cartersville, GA

• The Candela Collection, Richmond, VA

• Xavier University, New Orleans, LA

• Geoff Dyer and Rebecca Wilson Collection

• Brian Paul Clamp Collection

• Terry Etherton Collection

• The Nowlin Collection, Austin Texas

• The Royal Collection, Richmond, VA

• The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

• Katie Ford Collection, CEO, Ford Modeling Agency