Artist Bio
Christine Cassano is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is informed by research in science
and metaphysics and made accessible to audiences through objects, sound, and environments.
She holds a fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion
University. She is a recipient of the 2018 Artist Research Grant from the Arizona Commission
on the Arts, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2016, she was awarded a
Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum, supported in part by the
Nathan Cummings Foundation Endowment. In 2015, she was awarded a residency at the
University of West Georgia which included an interactive, community-based installation project
that is now part of the college’s permanent collection. That year she was also a recipient of the
Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art Grant, resulting in a published artist catalog of her work.
Recent solo exhibitions include Artspace in 2021, Gebert Contemporary in 2018, Mesa
Contemporary Arts Museum in 2017 and Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art in 2016. Other
exhibitions include Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Durden & Ray in Los Angeles, Tempe Center
for the Arts, University of Arizona, and Desert Botanical Gardens. Her works are in various
private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad including Cousins
Properties, Wexford Technologies, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Old Dominion University,
SmithGroup Architects, Marriot Companies and Banner Health.