artist bios

Michelle Arcila

Michelle Arcila was born in New York in 1980. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2002 with a BFA in photography. She is currently living and working in NYC. Arcila has exhibited in Poland, Australia, Belgium, Norway and New York. Her work has been published in Vogue Korea, Time Out NY, Metro Pop, Les Inrockuptibles and Downbeat. She's photographed and served as art director for numerous record covers. Her work also appears in a number of private collections.

 

Christian Chaize

Christian Chaize, a self-taught artist, lives and works in Lyon, France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix European Panorama de Kodak for Young European Photographer in Arles, France. In addition to his artistic achievements, he has procured a successful career as a commercial photographer.

In 2004, Chaize became obsessed with a small stretch of coastline in southern Portugal, which gave new life to his ongoing personal work. Since then, his commitment to the series Praia Piquinia (where he now photographs several times a year) has garnered Chaize two museum shows in Portugal (Sines and Lisbon), in addition to gallery representation and exhibitions in New York and Berlin. To Praia Grande and Paradis are additional series in progress; in the Fall of 2011, the former debuted in Berlin, the latter in New York.