Christine So

Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Ritz Carlton, Mayo Clinic, Jumaira Resort (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Evercore NY, Apollo Global Management, NY, Mazars Accounting NY, Limelight Mammoth Hotel & Residences, MD Anderson Hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital, Oakland International Airport.

Christine So is a painter, photographer and printmaker living across the San Francisco Bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her works are heavily inspired by the woods where she has lived and hiked for decades. She works in acrylic and in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes. She creates botanical and abstract prints without a camera lens, as well as hand-printed landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. Whether it’s painting, printmaking, or photography, her work is always nature-inspired and nearly always monochromatic.

She has worked in a dozen mediums, cycling back and forth from painting to printmaking to cyanotype, applying effects from one medium to the next. She bridges the mediums of photography, monoprinting and painting. Her favorite question when working in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes is “What would happen if…?” She has devised a range of atypic...

California College of the Arts,
Oakland, California

Facultad de Bellas Artes: Universidad La Complutense,
Madrid, Spain

San Francisco State University, California

Bachelor's in Spanish,

Master's in English

EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS

Oct 17, 2024- Jan 6, 2025
The Drawing Room
San Francisco, CA

March 9- April 30, 2024
Time Spent among Trees (solo show)
Firehouse Arts Center
Pleasanton, California

February- March, 2024
“Process”
ArtWorks Downtown Gallery
San Rafael, CA

Jan-March, 2024
"Dualities"
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts
Mill Valley, CA

Jan 25-June 4, 2024
"Nourish Your Roots"
The Katz Snyder Gallery
JCC of San Francisco

Jan - Feb, 2024
"Home"
The Drawing Room Annex gallery
San Francisco, CA

Nov 18 -Dec 16, 2023
"The Space Between"
Arc Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Nov 1-29, 2023
Abrams Claghorn Gallery
Albany, CA

Nov. 11-12, 2023
San Francisco Open Studios
Pier 2, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA

October 4-26, 2023
Root Division Gallery
San Francisco, California

August - September 2023
“Within Sight or From Imagination”
GearBox Gallery
Oakland, California

August- September, 2023
“Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art”
Light Art Space Gallery
Silver City, New Mexico

July-August, 2023
“California Dreaming”
Marin Society of Artists
San Rafael, CA

June 17- Aug 12, 2023
“Portals”
Arc Gallery
San Francisco, CA

April 2023
“Tending Gardens/ Fertile Grounds”
Root Division Gallery
San Francisco, CA

The Other Art Fa...