Teresa Christiansen was born and raised in New York City and lives in Portland, OR where she is Chair of the Photography Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Teresa received her MFA in photographic studies from ICP-Bard and worked as an Assistant Photographer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine years. She has exhibited her work nationally, including New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Portland. She has shown work at Aperture Gallery and chashama in NYC, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, and the Portland Art Museum. She was a 2007 winner of PDN Photo Annual, a 2013 Regional Arts & Culture Council grant recipient, and a summer 2014 Wassaic Artist Resident. Her work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum.

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