Chrissy Lush is an American visual artist whose staged photographic works explore psychological rupture, emotional distance, and the subtleties of power within domestic and constructed space. Through carefully composed tableaus, often featuring herself, Lush captures characters suspended in emotionally charged limbo. A crouch behind a car, scissors tucked in a back pocket, a cassette passed through a window are some of the recurring motifs. These are not narratives but atmospheric disruptions, moments of resistance, withdrawal, and bracing silence.
Her work draws from cinematic language, feminist psychology, and the aesthetics of suburban life to interrogate vulnerability, control, and what remains unsaid. With an instinct for emotional architecture, Lush creates visual worlds where the familiar turns uncanny and gesture becomes residue.
Originally from New York and now based in Nashville, Lush holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design and a BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Future Fair in New York, and has been recognized by institutions such as the Royal Photographic Society and Aesthetica. Her self-published monograph Hold Me Tight (2022) was praised for its inventive exploration of memory and identity, portraying a nuanced dialogue between her younger and present selves with emotional complexity and subtle poignancy. She is a Critical Mass finalist and a recipient of the Passepartout Photo Prize Exhibition Award. Her work is included in prominent private collections.
SHOWS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Revelations
Modfellows Art Gallery, Artsy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Future Fair
LAS Contemporary, NY, NY
2024 Center Forward 2024
Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Just Women | ImageNation
Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
2023 Just Women | ImageNation
Collater.Al 2023
Fondazione Luciana Matalon gallery, Milan, Italy
Passepartout Photo Prize Exhibition
28 Piazza di Pietra Fine Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
Soho Photo Gallery National Competition
Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY
2022 3rd Barcelona Foto Biennale
FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Artdoc Magazine: Art Photography
Online Exhibition
2021 GCPL Photo Annual: Imagining the Unreal
Gwinnett County Public Library, Duluth, GA
Juried by Maria L. Kelly
Print Swap Exhibition NY
Foley Gallery, NY, NY
Print Swap Exhibition Greece
Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2015 I am a Forest Dark
Space Between Gallery, Woodstock, South Africa
Colour Burst
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014 AS | Artists Studios
33 Orchard Gallery, NY
Artists Alliance Inc Fourth Bi-Annual Works on Paper Benefit
Cuchifritos Gallery, NY
Artist in Residence Show
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
2013 Electron Salon
LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
The Rabbithole Silent Auction a recovery benefit
Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Uncanny: Surreal Photography Online Annex
PhotoPlace Gallery, VT
Juried by Russell Joslin
Professional Women Photographers 35th Anniversary
SohoPhoto Gallery, NY, NY
Juried by Elinor Carucci and Stephen Perloff
Spring Emerging Artist
Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Art of Photography Show
Lyceum Theatre Gallery, CA
Juried by Natasha Egan
2009 Untitled
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Curated by George Pitts
AWARDS
2025 Longlisted Aesthetica Art Prize
2023 Exhibition Prize Passepartout Photo Prize
2023 2nd Place, Soho Photo Gallery National Competition
2023 Longlisted Aesthetica Art Prize
2022 Shortlisted Royal Photographic Society IPE 164
2022 Critical Mass Finalist
2022 Honorable Mention 18th Pollux Awards
2022 Longlisted Women United Art Prize
2014 Residency, Arteles Creative Residency Program Haukijärvi, Finland
2010 Professional Women Photographers 35th Anniversary First place in Abstract Category
2010 W The Art Project Semi-finalist
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Border Crossings Issue No. 164
Appearances and Disappearances, Truths and Fictions by Barry Schwabsky
2023 Hold Me Tight
2023 PPP III Catalogue
2023 Future Now 2023 Anthology
2022 Frames Magazine 9th edition
2022 Barcelona Foto Biennale Catalog
2015 Colour Burst Exhibition Catalog
2011 Uncanny: Surreal Photography Show Catalog
2010 Imprints Magazine winter issue
2010 Art of Photography Show Catalog
2010 Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Show Catalog
CONTACT
Lush.Studio.Arts@gmail.com