Chrissy Lush

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 inven...

Master of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts, SUNY Purchase

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Revelations, Modfellows Art Gallery, Nashville, TN

SELECT 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, 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

2021 GCPL Photo Annual: Imagining the Unreal, Gwinnett County Public Library, Duluth, GA
Juried by Maria L. Kelly

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