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EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Intermediary & Digital Art, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1994 BFA, Painting & Printmaking, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
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EMPLOYMENT
2024 – Present Comedian, Artist, Freelance Video & Podcast Producer
2020 – 2023 Creator & Producer of The Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network
2010 – 2019 Video Producer, New Media Studio, UMBC
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES:
Present Featured Performer @ Comedy Festivals
2023 The Moth Storytelling, Lincoln Hall & Fitzgeralds, Chicago, IL
2023 Tea Leaves Book Party & Variety Show, Color Club, Chicago, IL
2023 Starbux Diary, The Book Cellar, Chicago, IL
2023 Diverse AF Festival, The Onion Headquarters, Chicago, IL
2022 Uncanny Valley, The Lincoln Lodge, Chicago, IL
2022 Cats, Criminals & Comedians, United Solo Festival @ Theatre Row, NYC
2021 The Shy Vaudevillian Tour, Mid-Atlantic, USA
2021 Commodity Form, Paintings, Gallery Sabine, Chicago, IL
2020 There Is No Time, What Remains @ ARC Performance Space, Chicago, IL
2020 Awkward Pauzez the Digital Comic, iO Theatre, Chicago, IL
2019 Cats, Criminals & Comedians, Rhizome, Washington DC
2019 Cats, Criminals & Comedians, Vital Joint, NYC
2019 Sondheim Prize Semi-finalist Exhibition @ 10 Charles Center, Baltimore, MD
2019 Cats, Criminals & Comedians, The Mercury Theater, Baltimore, MD
2018 Sondheim Prize Semi-finalist Exhibition @ Artscape, Decker & Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2018 Baker Artist Award Finalist Showcase, Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD
2018 Starbux Diary, Social Ingredients @ Current Space, Baltimore, MD
2018 Cats, Criminals & Comedians, New Works @ The Red Room, Baltimore, MD
2017 Wham City Comedy Tour, USA (The Middle Part)
2016 600 Names for the Big Bang, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2016 Stellar Cellar, Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
2016 Cave of the Winds, LabBodies Performance Festival, Space Camp, Baltimore, MD
2016 Starbux Diary, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, SOLO
2015 Starbux Diary, Book Release & Performance, The Crown, Baltimore, MD
2015 Amateur Night, A/V Club, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Awkward Pauzez the Digital Comic, Chucklestorm, Baltimore, MD
2014 Stellar Cellar, Charm City Fringe Festival, Baltimore, MD
2014 Between You & Me, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Amsterdam, NL, SOLO
2014 Awkward Pauzez The Digital Comic, Fields Festival, Westminster, MD
2013 Audiophile, The Crown, Baltimore, MD
2013 Stellar Cellar, 14 Karat Cabaret, Baltimore, MD
2013 Between You & Me, VisArts Center, Rockville, MD, SOLO
2012 Google Art Video, Johns Hopkins Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
2012 Google Art Video, Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Google Art Video, Itinerant Performance Festival, Bronx, NY
2012 Amateur Night, Videopolis, Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011 Google Art Video, Transmodern Performance Festival, Baltimore, MD
2011 Starbux Diary, Artisphere, Washington D.C.
2011 Starbux Diary, Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 Google Art Video, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
2009 Starbux Diary, Live Storytelling, The Stoop at Centerstage, Baltimore, MD
2008 Making Friends Not Money, Transmodern Performance Festival, Baltimore, MD
2006 Good Girl, Empire Gallery, Richmond, VA, SOLO
2005 New Girl, Jody Monroe Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 Urban Light Works, Collaboration with Galleri 9, Kristensen, Norway
2003 Fully Integrated, Dega Gallery, McLean, VA
2002 Personal Ads, Chopsuey Gallery, Richmond, VA, SOLO
1999 Tummyache, Canada World Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, SOLO
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AWARDS
2024 St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Relief Grant for Experimental Artists
2019 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant
2019 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-finalist
2018 GBCA Baker Artist Award Finalist, Performing Arts
2018 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-finalist
2015 Starbux Diary: My 10-year Journey to Caffeinated Enlightenment, Top Ten Baltimore Books of 2015, Baltimore City Paper
2013 MSAC Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council
2009 RTKL Fellowship Award for Innovation in Art, UMBC
2009 & 2010 Graduate Student Association Grant, UMBC
2007 Sanskriti Foundation Artist Residency, New Delhi, India
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PUBLICATIONS
2019 With "Cats, Criminals & Comedians," Christine Ferrera Says Goodbye to Baltimore, Bmore Art, Summer
2019 How To Be Funny with Christine Ferrera, UMBC Magazine, Spring
2016 Blurring the Line Between Life & Art: Christine Ferrera, Bmore Art, Winter
2015 Starbux Diary: My Ten-year Journey to Caffeinated Enlightenment, Special 10th Anniversary Artist’s Edition, Self-published
2014 One Picture/One Paragraph, Saint Lucy Magazine, Spring
2010 Lattes & Letters: Starbux Diary, UMBC Magazine, Fall
2009 Essay on filmmaker Xavier Leplae, Mary L. Nohl Art Foundation
2008 Poster Design, 5th Annual Transmodern Performance Festival
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ART REVIEWS:
2019 Cats, Criminals & Comedians, Reviewed by Mary Ann Johnson for Maryland Theatre Guide
2018 Stand-up Comedy, Reviewed by Tim Paggi for The Bad Oracle
2015 Starbux Diary: My Ten-year Journey to Caffeinated Enlightenment, Reviewed by Charlotte Benedetto for Baltimore City Paper
2014 Stellar Cellar, Reviewed by Juliana Biondo for Bmore Art
2014 Between You & Me, Reviewed by Richard Stamp for Fringe Guru
2010 Google Performance Art Video, Reviewed by Doreen Bolger for Charm City Current’s Art-full Life
2003 Fully Integrated, Washington Post
2003 Personal Ads, Reviewed by Gadi Dechter for Baltimore’s City Paper
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BROADCASTS:
2018 Christine Ferrera Interviewed by Mike Moran & Kayla Shelton for The Confessional
2018 Christine Ferrera Interviewed by J. Tyler Menz for Eating It
2017 Christine Ferrera Interviewed by Ryan Chani for Learn To Take A Joke
2015 Christine Ferrera Interviewed by Aaron Henkin for WYPR’s The Signal
2014 Christine Ferrera Interviewed by Brandon Wetherbee for You/Me/Them/Everybody
2010 Christine Ferrera Interview by Dick Gordon for NPR’s The Story
2009 Starbux Diary at The Stoop Storytelling Series for WYPR’s The Signal
2009 Producer, Found-Sound Artist Patrick Rife for WYPR’s The Signal
2009 Producer, Experimental Musician Peter Blasser for WYPR’s The Signal
2008 Producer, National Great Blacks In Wax Museum for WYPR’s The Signal
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GUEST LECTURES
2017 Artist Lecture, Course: Art & Comedy, MICA
2016 Visiting Artist, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2016 Artist Lecture, Course: Sustainability & Social Practice, MICA
2015 Artist Lecture, Course: Introduction to Film & Video, MICA
2014 Funny Art Women: Artist Lecture, Maryland Art Place
2013 Artist Lecture, Course: Aesthetics & Practices, MIAD
2010 Artist Lecture, Course: Visual Thinking, MICA
2010 Funny Art Women: Artist Lecture, Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture, UMBC
2009 Artist Lecture, Course: Socially Engaged Art, VCU