Christina Contaldi

Christina Contaldi is an American artist, based in New Jersey. Born to an artist mother and lawyer father, she was gifted with a healthy balance of right-brained creativity and left-brain logic. However, it took her half of a lifetime to get these seemingly opposing parts to work harmoniously together, instead of wrestling against each other. 

Christina majored in Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and graduated in 2003. From there she began a career in Graphic Design, where she worked as a Senior Designer for a leading global law firm at their NYC headquarters, for nearly a decade. Deciding the corporate world was not for her, she slowly transitioned out, taking a job as an Art Director at a small tech start-up, until she left altogether to to pursue her own creative dreams. 

Christina describes herself as multi-passionate, which is reflected in her work. She is inspired by both the simplicity and complexity of nature, and layers in parallel nuances from the human experience. Themes like environment, internal worlds, memories, emotions, and spirituality are integrated into her art. She has met many iterations of herself, and is always evolving, as is her explorative creative expression.