About

Christie Serpentine is an interdisciplinary artist and landworker whose practice is driven by the tensions that exist between our inner and outer worlds. She creates sculptures, installations, and sensory experiences at the edge of where our existential light and shadow collide.

Serpentine’s history unfolds between urban streets and wild landscapes. Born and raised in the inner city of Philadelphia, to later working on Ecological projects across North America, Serpentine channels this duality through a material language of labor, care, and symbolism. From building trails in the Grand Canyon, to moving boulders in Alaska, and growing gardens in the high desert of New Mexico, her work is influenced by the physical and emotional labor of constructing belonging where none was provided. She approaches her connection to land as a collaborative effort, finding guidance from the more-than-human realms as a source of attunement in an otherwise dystopian system. This practice is also a rewriting of personal mythologies, substituting a missing ancestral lineage for a direct participation with the earth.

Serpentine builds and conceptualizes worlds that both celebrate and grapple with womanhood and the endless complexities of being human. She moves beyond the narrative of vulnerability to reclaim the authority of being both the architect and magician. Her work proves that portals and sanctuaries can be cultivated from the silence and decay of the dirt.