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Ally Christmas is a visual artist currently living and working out of Shepherdstown, WV. Much of her work revolves around notions of selfhood, virtuality, and lived experience, and her hybrid practice involves a number of forms including digital video, still photography, tintypes, palladium prints, bookmaking, gifs, cinemagraphs, and installation. Her work has been shown at a wide variety of venues, including bitforms gallery in New York City; aCinema’s aDifferent Festival in Milwaukee; ATHICA in Athens, GA; Soho Photo Gallery in NYC; Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA; the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO; and the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto. In 2018, Christmas received her MFA in Photo & Video from the University of Georgia, after which she spent two years teaching video art and photography courses at Grinnell College as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Video and New Media. She is currently teaching lens-based media as an Assistant Professor of Art and serving as the coordinator of the BFA Photo program at Shepherd University.

Other fun facts: She loves taking long walks with her dogs Dresden & Murphy, Twin Peaks, and reading every book she can get her hands on. 

EMAIL: allybeephoto [at] gmail.com