CHRISTOPHER N. FERRERIA is a San Diego-based artist and educator who works in photography, installation, collaborative public interventions, and design. His art practice is rooted in understanding the tensions between the public and private dimensions of identity formation, performance, and perception in society — exploring how individual and community identities sublimate themselves through material, spatial, interpersonal, and symbolic engagement and representation.
Ferreria’s solo and collaborative works have been shown nationally and internationally, including inSite_05: Art Practices in the Public Domain, Busan International Photo Fair, Schwules Museum, Instituto Cultural de Baja California, Bishopsgate Institute, Honolulu Museum of Art, Asian Arts Initiative, Deep River, California Center for the Arts, Oceanside Museum of Art, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, and Huntington Beach Art Center.
His photographic and design work have also appeared in The Advocate and published in Corpus for AIDS Project Los Angeles, Oafanthology 2 and WANC: Hell on Ice in collaboration with artist Ed Luce (Goteblüd Press), and Fur: The Love of Hair (Bruno Gmünder).
During his tenure as Visual Arts Director for VozAlta Project, he co-organized and curated several exhibitions including solo shows for Ruben Ochoa, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Aya Seko, and Patrick ‘Pato’ Hebert.
Ferreria received his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine. He currently teaches at Southwestern College, San Diego Mesa College, and MiraCosta College.
cnferreria@hotmail.com