“We all have a life, we all die, and in between these we share the infinite variation of our experiences.” -Christina Piña

Born in Southern California and raised in Colorado in a single parent home, at an early age Piña had discovered ways to create a buffer from the stress of poverty and a broken family life. At times building architecture with books, creating plays for neighborhood friends, and making random artwork from found objects was a coping mechanism and a way to channel difficult experiences into something meaningful.

Piña studied Fine Art at Metropolitan State University, a racially and economically diverse university located in the heart of Denver, Colorado. The experience at MSU art department was steeped in conceptual ideas and thought. This is where she was exposed to and formally shaped by figurative art, Abstract-expressionism, Neo-expressionism, and Asian painting. 

Piña’s work has developed from a continued reference to the human body, internally and externally. In earlier works she has used a human’s internal organs to depict the essential nature of human experience. We all have a life, we all die, and in between these we share the infinite variations of our experiences. As she works closer to this notion, she has moved deeper than the body allows, into the abstract realm of the spirit.