Cristine Brache
(b. 1984, Miami, FL)
MFA — Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
BFA — Florida State University
Solo & Two-person Exhibitions
2024 Dumb Slate (with Michael Thompson), Pangee gallery, Montreal
2023 Dorothy’s Dream, NADA (with anonymous gallery), Miami
2022 Bermuda Triangle, anonymous gallery, New York
2020 Commit Me, Commit to Me (Cázame; Cásame), Fierman gallery, New York
2019 Cristine’s Secret Garden, Locust Projects, Miami
— Epithalamium (with Brad Phillips), Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
— Safe Words (with Penny Goring), Elene Abasidze, Tbilisi
2018 Fucking Attention, MECA, Fierman gallery, San Juan
— Material Art Fair (solo presentation), Fierman gallery, Mexico City
2017 I love me, I love me not, Fierman gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2025 Single Channel, Efraín Lopéz, New York
2024 Beautiful Fish in a Man-Made Pond, AMITY, Los Angeles
— thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, Pangee, Montreal
— thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, Margot Samel, New York
— Unrequited, Spy Projects, New York
— CONDO CDMX, anonymous gallery and Fitzpatrick gallery, Mexico City
2021-22 ICA Miami Digital Commissions 2020–21: …what endures…, ICA Miami, Miami
— Garden of Eden, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
— Traces on the Surfaces of the World, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 ICA Miami Digital Video Commission, ICA Miami, Miami
– documento, Embajada, San Juan
– Hello? God is the Space Between Us, Anonymous, New York
2019 All Dressed Up, Mana Contemporary, Miami
— It will never be quite familiar to you, Oolite Arts, Miami
— Wanderers, Tile Blush, Miami
— Do you know this feeling?, Firstdraft, Sydney
— 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Paris
— All Dressed Up, Mana Contemporary, Miami
2018 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual & Media Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton
– Eye to eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
— 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City
- The little baby show, 315 Gallery, New York
– In her eye you see another small eye, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland
– NUT II, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
– Condo, Emalin, London
2017 my fossil, my echo / my excess, my scrap, MX Gallery, New York
2016 [In Confidence], As it Stands, Los Angeles
— No Soy Sincero, Orgy Park, New York
— Givens at AALA, Los Angeles
— Intersectionality, MOCA, Miami
— Golden Eggs, TEAM Gallery, New York
— Tell me what you have and I will tell you who you are, Dissect Journal, Melboune
2015 The Christmas Show, Guccivuitton, Miami
— S, Arcadia Missa, London
— Issue #21 Optimized Textures (Team Titanic), Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover
— Guccivuitton Opening Night, ICA Miami, Miami
— Hi girls sleep outside + IRL Panties, 5everdankly.florist
— .dream without loneliness, 57cell.com
2014 Video on Individual Demand, embarrassmentparty.biz
— LIKE, Gallery Q, Copenhagen, Denmark
— All at Once, All of the Time, RMIT Design Hub for the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne
— Images from 'tender", Poetry will be made by all, Zürich
— Issue #16 Vital Functions: Preparing Future Sustainable Products & Services, Berlin
2013 How Many Feminists…, Antena Gallery, Chicago
— I'm open to the idea, The Nightclub Series, Miami
2012 Miracles: 7 Reboots, Dumbo Art Center, New York
Live Performance
2024 Goodnight Sweet Thing, 3hd Festival, Berlin
— Goodnight Sweet Thing, 42n, New York
Film Screenings
2023 Exports, Roxy Cinema, New York
— Miami Film Festival, Miami
— Florida Film Festival, Orlando, Florida
— New/Next Film Festival, Baltimore
2021 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City
— Florida Film Festival, Orlando, Florida
— Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, Maryland
— Third Horizon Film Festival
2017 Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow
— Borscht 10, Olympia Theater, Miami
2016 Outpost Open Call (Selected by Ed Atkins), A.M. London, London
— Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London
— Outpost Open Call (Selected by Ed Atkins), Norwich
— Accessing Economies: Engagement & Withdrawal (hosted by AQNB & Video in Common), Club Pro LA, Los Angeles
— Blindspots, Xspace, Toronto
2015 Dry Deal , Cantina Social, Athens
— Screening: Cristine Brache, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
2014 Nekama, The Multiverse/The Borscht Film Festival, Miami,
— Greeting cards from reality at the Post Colonial Flagship Store, Quartier21, Vienna
— The Collectif Jeune Cinema Presents a Collection of Short Works, thePICTUREshow, New York
— The HTMlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture, Studio XX, Montreal
— 16th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris
— Off Screen, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
— We the Enemy Too, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck
— Collectif Jeuene Cinéma Carte Blanche, Apordoc, Lisboa
— The 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DLX], Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin
— Big Eyes, Small Mouth (cur. Beth Heinly), Aux Performance Space, Philadelphia
2013 Tele Visions, Sydney
— The 8th Edition of The Streaming Festival, the Netherlands
— Flesh and Structure: The Biopolitical Commons, The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale
— WPA's Experimental Media (cur. Jason Eppink), The Museum of the Moving Image, New York [touring to
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, College of Art + Design, Washington D.C., and The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.]
— 15th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris
— Equals, Exploring Feminism Through Art & Conversation, Blank Media Collective, Manchester
2012 New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York
2011 Women Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Fairs
2023 NADA, Miami
2022 NADA, Miami
2021 NADA, Miami
2018 MECA, San Juan
2018 Material Art Fair, México City
2016 NADA, Miami Beach
Selected Poetry Readings
2025 Election Day Reading, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2024 Goodnight Sweet Thing, Amant, Brooklyn
2022 Rene Ricard, God With Revolver, Mastbooks
— O, Miami Poetry Festival
2021 Montez Press Radio, New York
— KGB Bar, New York
2020 Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment for Paul McCarthy, New York
2018 Reader as Voyeur, Hauser & Wirth, New York
— Megan Boyle, Brad Phillips, Cristine Brache, & Jordan Castro, murmrr, New York
– POEMS (book launch), Codex, New York
– Alignment, American Medium, New York
2017 Holons, _Codette, New York
— The Diamond Stingily Show, MoMA PS1, New York
— Blood No Memory, Fieman, New York
2015 Trace Bodies, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
— Feinde Exhibition/The Enemies Project, Hardy Tree Gallery, London
— Re-materialising Feminism Book Launch, Penarth Centre, London
— Fictional Symposium/Cyborg Girl Identification/The Chance Event II, The Showroom, London
2014 Holly Childs' Danklands Launch, Arcadia_Missa, London
— Then Nothing Ever Happens Because Nothing Ever Does, Zabludowicz Collection, London
— Camaradefest II, Rich Mix Art Centre, London
Residencies
2018 The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Artists Alliance, & Embajada
2013 Loft345, Guangzhou
Awards
2024 Foundation for Contemporary Art Award
2023 Knight MIA Made in Dade Short Film Award
2021 Canada Council for the Arts
— The Ellies Awards, Oolite Arts
2020 OAC Visual Arts Award
— TAC Visual Arts Award
— Indigenous Screen Office Development Grant
2019 The Ellies Awards, Oolite Arts
2018 South Florida Cultural Consortium
— Borscht Short Film Commission Grant
2017 OAC Emerging Artist Award
2014 Borscht Short Film Commission Grant
Publications
Goodnight Sweet Thing, June 2024
SOFTEE ZINE, June 2022
Dreams, Innen Books, 2020
POEMS, November 2018
NUT II, March 2018
Editorial Magazine, December 2016
Miami 1999, Paperwork NYC, Fall 2016
Dissect Journal Issue 3, Fall 2016
Codette #1, Fall 2015
Intercourse Issue 4, Pioneer Works, December 2015
How to Sleep Faster #6: Sex, Arcadia Missa, August 2015
i'd love you, you'd tell everyone, Enemies, Penned in the Margins, October 2013
Blah, The Frozen Chainletter, Joanie 4 Jackie (Miranda July's Joanie 4 Jackie), 2004
Online Publications
3 Poems, Heavy Traffic, February 24, 2021
3 Poems, New York Tyrant, February 6, 2017
China Video Diary, New York Tyrant, November 15, 2017
3 Poems, Tagvverk, September 25, 2017
Your Title, Fanzine, September 2015
Two Poems, Apogee, August 2015
Sample Video for V.O.I.D. (Beta Test), Fanzine, July 2015
Hi girls sleep outside, Gemstone Readings, April 2015
Finding Her Way, Two Serious Ladies, February 2014
www.passion-dyeing.com, Tender Two, October 2013
Two Poems, E Ratio Postmodern Poetry Journal Issue #16, Fall 2013
Block of Tongue, Everyday Genius, April 24, 2012
Bibliography
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Rowbottom, Allie, We Thought You’d Died,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, July 12, 2024
Zeiba, Drew, “Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary,” Document Journal, June 24, 2024
Brache, Cristine, “Wet Paint in the Wild: Cristine Brache Hosts a Late-Night Jell-O Wrestling Performance
The artist takes us through a week in her life.” artnet, June 3, 2024
Lee, Vivien, “Goodnight Sweet Thing,” Office Magazine, June 3, 2023
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artnet editors, “During Frieze Los Angeles, Artnet’s Wet Paint and Cultural Counsel Teamed Up to Toast an Action-Packed Art Week,” artnet, March 24, 2024
Sandstrom, Emily, “Łukasz Stokłosa and Cristine Brache on Playboy Bunnies and Demonic Nuns,” Interview Magazine, March 7, 2024
Cassady, Daniel, “Best Booths at NADA Miami’s 21st Edition: A Handful of Galleries Make Leaving the Beach Worthwhile,” ARTnews, December 7, 2023
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Kay, Jean, “Printing the Internet,” AQNB, January 12, 2017
Poney, Human, “Selling out or buying in?,” AQNB, January 24, 2017
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