Christopher Myers is a multimedia artist, author, and playwright from New York City born in 1974. He earned his BA in art-semiotics and American civilization with a focus on race and culture from Brown University in 1995 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program in 1996. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at venues including MoMA PS1; Art Institute of Chicago; The Mistake Room, Guadalajara, Mexico; Akron Art Museum; Contrast Gallery, Shanghai; Goethe-Institut, Accra, Ghana; Kigali Genocide Memorial, Rwanda; Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Studio Museum in Harlem.

His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Lucas Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and Studio Museum in Harlem. Christopher’s work across disciplines is rooted in storytelling. He delves into the past to build narratives that speak to the slippages between history and mythology. His diverse practice spans textiles, performance, film, and sculptural objects, often created in collaboration with artisans from around the globe. He has worked with traditional shadow-puppet makers in Jogjakarta, silversmiths in Khartoum, conceptual video artists in Ho Chi Minh City, young musicians in New Orleans, woodcarvers in Accra, weavers in Luxor, metal workers in Kenya, and textile printers in Copenhagen. These collaborations are driven by his interest in understanding how globalization is intimately intertwined with notions of self and community.

Christopher won a Caldecott Honor in 1998 for his illustrations in the book Harlem: A Poem, and a Coretta Scott King Award in 2016 for illustrating Firebird by Misty Copeland.