About
Contact: phyllis@phyllischristopher.com
For print sales please contact me at the above email.
'Dark Room, San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003', has been shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Award!
EXHIBITIONS:
'The Ignorant Art School | Sit-in 4 | Outside the Circle', Dundee, through the 1st of February 2025
'Radical Perverts: Ecstacy and Activism in Queer Public Space, 1975-2000', Museum of Sex, NYC, through April 2024
'Unlimited Intimacy', Vane Gallery, Gateshead, group show, 2023
'Still Moving', Workplace Gallery, Newcastle, group show, 2023
‘Contacts’, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022
'Heads and Tails’, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2022
'Passionate Acts in Virulent Times', Celine Gallery, July 2019
'Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance', Nottingham Contemporary & De La Warr Pavilion, April 2019
'Women Artists of the North East Library Group Show', Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, June 2018
'Into The Light: Women Photograph Women', group show, Daniel Cooney Gallery, NYC, June 2018
Radclyffe Hall presents: 'Deep Down Body Thirst', group show, Glasgow, April 2018
'On Our Backs: An Archive', The Newbridge Project Gallery, featured photographic prints, Newcastle, 2017
Frozen Light, featured photographer, Newcastle University, 2014
Retrospective Show, solo show, Good Vibrations, San Francisco, 2011
Pretending To Be Free Of Time, solo show, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, 2012
'Magazine Work', solo show, Berkeley Library, Berkeley, CA, July 2006
ProudWords: Queertoon – A photographic documentation of the lgbt community in northern England in words and pictures, Newcastle Playhouse, Newcastle, England, January 2004
Artists & Other Animals, solo show, Alison Austin Offices, San Francisco, April 2003
Sacred Profanities, group show, Sacred Profanities Gallery, March 2003, Berkeley, Ca.
Queer Photo Salon – Slide Presentation, Harvey Milk Institute Gay and Lesbian Community Center, November 2002, San Francisco, Ca.
P Show – photographs, Globe Gallery, North Sheilds, England, March 2002
P Show - photographs, Good Vibrations, San Francisco, CA, October 1999
The Burnt Show, photographs, Exposed Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July 1997
Film, Podcasts:
'Darkroom' by Kate Sweeney for kickstarter
'Street Beats' with Ria Burman, 2024
Rainbow Conversations Podcast with host Richard Dunbar
Periodicals:
Autostraddle, That Was the Era: Photographer Phyllis Christopher on Her Book “Dark Room” by Ro White
Huck Magazine, California Dreaming by Eva Clifford
The Guradian: My Best Shot: Joy and nakedness at San Francisco’s Dyke March, by Edward Siddons, January 2022
Studio International: Interview by Anna McNay, Oct 2021
ID Magazine: Interview by Emma Russell
AnOther Magazine 2021: Lesbian Sex and Protest in 1990s San Francisco by Alex Peters
FRIEZE, Phyllis Christopher Shares Joyous Moments of Queer Survival by Emily Scarrott
Art Monthly, Feature Article by Chris McCormack, Illustration, February 2019 (click to download)
'Sex Wars Revisited', by Laura Guy, Winter 2016 issue of Aperture magazine.