Christy Walsh

Christy Walsh began her artistic life on the stage with her grandmother’s musical theater company, and this theatricality is evident in all of her work. She uses a variety of disciplines including: dance, video, and photography, to tell stories. She creates imaginary worlds where characters and settings are rooted in the familiar, but are removed from reality. Her creations are made up of dense layers of images and media that explore such disparate things as physics, philosophy, and history in a dramatic fashion.

Christy Walsh started her performance career as a child, singing, acting and dancing in her grandmother’s musical theater company, Norfolk Musical Theater. Walsh went on to study at the Tidewater Ballet in her hometown of Norfolk, Virginia, where she also graduated from the Governor’s Magnet School. This led to a long career dancing for regional ballet companies and independent choreographers, concurrently studying photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Communication Arts and Design. It was in Richmond that Walsh first started choreographing independently and making her first dance films. While she would continue to dance in other choreographers’ work, her focus shifted to making her own art.

After university, Walsh participated in a “Dance for Camera” residency at MASS Moca, the CUNY Dance Initiative, and a number of other artist residencies in New York, Virginia and Texas.
Her performance based works for the theater include evening length pieces: “Stories of the Sun God”, at Green Space in Queens; “Luminitza” at multiple venues in San Antonio, TX; Για σε το Ροδο, Ροδο μου in Chios, Greece. She has also produced site-specific works like “As Much As ...

RSI Bank's "State of Being” (June 2014) Rahway, NJ. Photograph included in group exhibition.

Art Links Exhibition (September 2014) Photographs included in an international exhibit in Athens.

Victory! (April - June 2012) exhibition of photographs at Novo, Jackson Heights, NY.

The Nature of Perfect Freedom (2011) Movement-based video. AIVFF FESTIVAL, Cannes, France (May 2012), Movies By Movers, Winston-Salem, NC (December 2012).

Nurture Art Benefit Gala: (October 2011) Donated still photograph to the exhibit.

Greenpoint Gallery Spring Show (2011) Brooklyn, New York. Photos included in a group show.

Human Emotions Project (2008 - 2009) Contributed videos “Isolation” and “The Future Is A White Sky” for exhibition in Australia, Spain, China, Italy and Iran.

MISC Video and Performance (December 2008) New York. Contributed video “Isolation” to group show at New York Studio Gallery.


Buy Your Demise (2003) finished (2002) Narrative in the style of a music-video infomercial. The movement-based videos have been shown in numerous festivals. The dance for finished performed in NYC and San Antonio, Texas.