Chris Myhr is a media artist based in Hamilton, Ontario whose studio practice engages with photography, the moving image, sound, and media installation.
His most recent projects seek intersections between art, science, philosophy, and ecology. He is particularly invested in current discourses around materiality and the entangled relationship between the human and non-human realms (i.e. objects, matter, and things).
Since 2012, Myhr has been developing an extensive body of work titled “Point-Line-Intersection” that examines our complex interconnections with the Earth’s hydrosphere. The works in “Point-Line-Intersection” revolve around themes of complex interconnectivity, and explore the paradoxical tension between water as life, vitality and industry, as well as a source of immense and unpredictable destructive power.
The projects in “Point-Line-Intersection” have explored the river/floodplain systems of post-Touhoku Earthquake Tokyo; shipwreck sites off the coast of Nova Scotia; toxic blue-green algae blooms and hydrocarbon sediment in the Great Lakes; contaminants in snowfall along the Athabasca River in Alberta’s oil sands region; and - most recently - the waters of the Nakdong River and Han River in South Korea.
Myhr’s photographic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally: most recently at Decode Gallery (Tuscon, Arizona); Sebastopol Center for the Arts (Sebastopol, California), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario), and the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto, Ontario).
Recent audio/video works have been featured in numerous international festivals including the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (New York), the Psychedelic Film and Music Festival (New York), Dumbo Film Festival (New York), the Blow-Up International Arthouse Filmfest (Chicago); Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Bilbao, Spain); Photophobia (Hamilton, Ontario); the Toronto Independent Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario); and the Changwon Sculpture Biennale (Changwon, South Korea).
Myhr’s work was awarded the inaugural Prefix Prize in Photography for 2021
