Christine Forni is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting and sculpture, alternative photography, drawing, and installation. She has exhibited at venues such as Ueno Royal Japanese Art Museum, DeCordova Sculpture Museum, Piedmont’s Museo di Scienze Naturali to Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.

Forni, a midwestern artist, lives in Chicago. In 2015, she uprooted her life to study abroad in Paris. While overseas she exhibited at Academia Romana and was a guest speaker at the international physicists conference on Constructal Law in Bucharest. She had an artist residency at École du Breuil d’Horticulture where she researched Parisian gardener’s organization of native and non-native plants collected from around the world. Concurrently she had a residency at Muséum National d’Historie Naturelle there she documented and drew details of bones specimen similarities amassed by naturalist during the colonial exploration period. 

Born in Cleveland, Forni spent her younger years in the industrial cities of Pittsburgh and Detroit while living in an apartment complex next to a small forest preserve. Forni experienced the dichotomy of industrial backdrops along with time spent in nature — these layered alternate environments inform her practice today.