Christine So

BIOGRAPHY

Native San Franciscan Christine So is a photographer, printmaker and painter. She is best known for her cyanotypes of forests shrouded in fog at dawn. These contemplative landscapes taken on solitary walks are her most personal works and the subject she has focused on since her husband’s death in 2022.


Hers is a lifelong love affair with trees. Living in the woods across the bay in Oakland for 28 years, she has hiked the same trails so many times she knows every tree. She prints her landscapes using the antique cyanotype process and giant negatives outdoors in sunlight. She attended California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, la Facultad de Bellas Artes of La Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and San Francisco State University.


Christine So’s cyanotypes are in private collections in 15 countries and in dozens of hotels and hospitals across the United States. Shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition 167 in the UK, she is represented by more than one gallery in the U.S. with an upcoming 2027 solo exhibition in Alameda, California and publication in All About Photo magazine Volume 60: Nature.


ARTIST STATEMENT

I became a widow quite suddenly at an age when no on...

EDUCATION

1999 MA English, San Francisco State University
1995 BA Spanish, San Francisco State University
1990 Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad La Complutense, Madrid, Spain
1988 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Carrie Coleman Fine Art, Norfolk, VA
Illumine Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA

MEMBER

SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts
SF ArtSpan, San Francisco, California

2027
Frame1A Gallery, “And the Sun Will Rise”, Alameda, CA (*solo show)

2026 EXHIBITIONS

Crocker Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum’s 2026 Auction & Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
Root Division, “Flourish”, San Francisco, CA
Cabrillo Gallery, “Turning Points”, Aptos, CA
Bioneers Conference, “Earth Takes the Lead”, Berkeley, CA
CPA, “2026 Center for Photographic Arts Members’ Juried Exhibition”, Carmel, CA
Kaleid Gallery, Alt Process Photography, San Jose, CA
Art/Space 114 Gallery, “The Magic of Light”, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Beelden an Zee, Postcard Art Exhibit 2026, The Hague, Netherlands
Bedford Gallery, “CALeidescope”, Walnut Creek, CA
The Drawing Room, “SuperHyperLocal”, San Francisco, CA
Griffin Museum of Photography, “32nd Members’ Juried Exhibition”, Winchester MA
SF Camerawork, Fall Members Show, San Francisco, CA
Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco CA
The Drawing Room, “Wonderland”, San Francisco, CA

2025 EXHIBITIONS

Thomas Deans Fine Art, "Summer Pleasures", Atlanta, GA
The Drawing Room, “Consumed”, San Francisco, CA
Griffin Museum of Photography, “The 226th Anna Atkins Birthday Exhibition”, Winchester, MA
The Drawing Room, "SuperHyperLocal", San Francisco, CA
Sausalito Center for the Arts,...