Christopher McNamara is a video, sound and photo-based artist who lives in Ann Arbor Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. He has exhibited and performed his work extensively in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In the fall of 2004 his work was included in Shrinking Cities at Kunst Werke in Berlin and most recently he presented a solo exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, ON and at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, ON. He is the recipient of numerous grants, awards and fellowships including the OAC Media Arts Grant (2008, 2010, 2012) and the Joan Chalmers Fellowship (2015). His video, Establishing Shots premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007 and screened at numerous other festivals. His latest film, “Immaterial Los Angeles” premiered at The Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2020. In 2023 he presented “Vivid Against the Little, Soft Cities”, a solo exhibition at Museum London. In that same year he presented “It Don’t Exist: Imagining the City Within and Beyond the Archive” at Art Windsor Essex.

His festival appearances as a musician and multi-media artist include Mutek in Montreal, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and Spark Festival of New Electronic Music at the University of Minnesota. In 2019 he released an LP entitled Shorelights on Barcelona label Subwax.

McNamara is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media at the University of Michigan, where he teaches video, animation, sound design and digital media.

Artist Code: 898