Bio

Chris Chrysler is a Canadian multi-media artist whose practice spans painting, assemblage, and sculpture. For nearly two decades, she has developed a distinctive visual language rooted in cycles of place, memory, and resilience. Guided by a feminist perspective, Chrysler’s work interrogates the evolving definition of home and identity, transforming both found and traditional materials into forms that invite reflection on belonging, adaptation, and survival.

Her work moves fluidly between intimate, luminous abstractions on canvas and large-scale sculptural installations in the landscape, linking domestic memory to collective experience. This breadth has established Chrysler as a versatile and ambitious voice in contemporary art.

Chrysler is a full-time professor of fine art and former curator. She lives and works on a 37-acre flower and alpaca farm in Eastern Ontario, where her practice is deeply connected to both rural and urban influences. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States, and is included in private collections across North America, Europe, and Australia.

Statement

I am a mixed-media artist whose work investigates the shifting relationship between home, identity, and place. My practice examines how our perceptions of home shape belonging and selfhood, and how these perceptions are in turn shaped by societal structures, family histories, and collective experiences of displacement. I am particularly drawn to contemplating the politics of space.

Through painting, assemblage, and sculpture, I draw on personal and cultural histories to explore the tensions between fragility and resilience. Found objects, bird nests, textiles, reclaimed domestic fragments, become material metaphors, carrying traces of lived experience and memory. By recontextualizing these objects, I integrate feminist perspectives, reframing domestic labor and care as acts of agency and endurance.

At once intimate and expansive, my work transforms private histories into shared spaces of reflection. In times of crisis and upheaval, it speaks to the resilience required to create belonging amid instability. Ultimately, my practice invites viewers to consider their own relationships to home: how we carry it, lose it, rebuild it, and redefine it in the landscapes of both memory and the present.

Current projects include expanding sculptural practice into large-scale outdoor installations, opening the farm as a site for community engagement, and building a portfolio for future residencies and grants.