Since 1998, Christine Osinski’s New York City Archipelago project has taken her to New York’s thirty-eight small islands and island communities. The islands of the Bronx include City, Hart, The Twins, Hunter, East Nonations, South Nonations, The Blauzes, Cuban Ledge, High, Hog, Middle Reef, Rat, Chimney Sweep and Goose. Her photographs celebrate both the persistence of nature as exemplified by the ancient boulders deposited during the last ice age, and the life that takes place in the midst of a natural setting. In total the project reopens a view to the city as an archipelago, or collection of islands, that was the early sailors’ first impression of the region. By exploring the activities on each island the project also describes how these outlying areas have become warehouses for the sick, cemeteries, and dumping ground for toxic waste.

Christine Osinski’s photographs have been exhibited at Silo, New York, NY; The Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; and Schumaker/Westover Gallery Middlebury, CT. She is the recipient of a Light Work Residency and Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, among others. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and her MFA from Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT. She teaches at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.