Christy Karll is a multidisciplinary artist born in Santa Monica, California. She lived in Dallas and Mexico City before attending University of Texas at Austin earning her BFA at University of Houston.
Recent exhibitions include Diminuto Film Festival, Mexico City, Pearls (2024), Art on Paper New York, Journey Through the Trees and Beyond, Jung Center Houston, I Will Become a Mountain Again, Lalit Kala Akademi, The National Academy of Art, New Dehli, India (2015); and As I Become Who I am Soon To Be, exhibited at SCOPE Art Basel Miami Beach. Karll is a former board member of DiverseWorks and Houston Advisory Council for the Jane Goodall Institute. Her work is in numerous private collections.
Karll's current work is about the fragility of nature while working across a variety of media, embracing complex and often contradictory layers of meaning. Her lens-based work is a method to explore and look closer at the natural world photographing the landscape motif of forests that have informed her work executed in a variety of materials underscoring the different aspects of the artist's multidisciplinary practice. Her conceptual works investigate the structure and form of nature, and look beyond nature to the energy flow and the vital forces running through the landscape. There is a constant reminder of the link between nature and the human condition.
An avid supporter of animal rights, Karll was profoundly impacted by meetings with Jane Goodall. Dr. Goodalls' pioneering research of the relationship between humans and animals informs both the artists' work and life.