BFA, Studio Art
Bob Jones University
Greenville, SC
2015
Selected Exhibitions and Awards
2024
Third Place at the 20th Artisphere Artists of the Upstate Juried Exhibition, Greenville, SC
Women in Paper, Mooresville Center for the Arts, Mooresville, NC
2023
Merit Award at the 48th Anderson Arts Center Annual Show, Anderson, SC
No Detail Too Small, Greenville Creative Center for the Arts, Greenville, SC
All Things New: A Local Response, First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, SC
everything is coming up roses, Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit virtual exhibition
10th Annual Juried Exhibition, Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC
Indie Craft Parade, Travelers Rest, SC
2022
Artist in Residence SC State Parks, South Carolina
Anderson Soirée, Anderson, SC
2022 South Carolina Festival of Flowers, Arts Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC
A+D Alumni Show, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC
2021
Merit Award at the 46th Anderson Arts Center Annual Show, Anderson, SC
Selah (Solo Show), Leaf Institute, Greenville, SC
Indie Craft Parade, Travelers Rest, SC
Makers Market, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC
GCA Fall Festival, Simpsonville, SC
Indie Craft Parade: Mini Market, Greenville, SC
2015-2020
First Place at the Third Annual Collegiate Art Competition, Spartanburg, SC (2015)
Second Place at the Rediscovery Exhibition, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO (2020)
Merit Award at the 44th Anderson Arts Center Annual Show, Anderson, SC (2020)
The Wham Smith Merit Award at the 40th Anderson Arts Center Annual Show, Anderson, SC (2015)
Labor of Love, Greenville Contemporary Collective, Greenville, SC (2020)
NO SHOW, Sanctuary Studios Online Exhibition (2020)
Springfest, North Augusta, SC (2018 & 2019)
2019 South Carolina Festival of Flowers, Arts Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC
37th South Carolina Juried Arts Show, Pickens, SC (2019)
Edinburgh Collage Collective Vinylism, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2018)
Artfields, Lake City, SC (2016)
Small Works Show, Artist Guild Gallery, Greenville, SC (2016)
White Noise, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC (2015)
Fourth Invitational Small International Print Show, Egypt (2015)
First Edition, Riverworks Gallery, Greenville, SC (2015)
Press and Publications
2024
TWIRL: a decade of artist interviews - Year 5
101 Art Books: Floral Edition
2023
TWIRL: a decade of artist interviews - Year 4
I Like Your Work Summer Catalog
2022
GVL Today SC State Parks Artist in Residency - May 2022
SC State Parks 2022 Artists In Residency
TWIRL: a decade of artist interviews - Year 3
South Carolina Voyager Interview
2020
TWIRL: a decade of artist interviews - Year 2
2019
TWIRL: a decade of artist interviews - Year 1
2018
TAPAS Magazine - March 2018
"Art not suitable for diabetics"
Young American artist KC Christmas, who lives and works in South Carolina, combines the art of the old masters with mouth-watering images of sticky sweets in her paintings and collages. The desire to explore the role of food as an essential foundation for building relationships pulsates through her work. “Food, like art,” she explains, “is about experience and serves to bring people together. It’s over a good meal or dessert that great minds talk and debate, where friendships are forged, where family is celebrated.” In the series of collages “Pious Pies,” shown on these pages, KC Christmas transforms figs into printed doublets and bodices, and turns meringues and cakes into the gorgets worn in proud Baroque and Neoclassical portraits. For her, the ridiculous result of combining these elements makes us think about the human need for ostentation and showing off. In another series, “Cake Walk Collages,” tiny characters interact with gargantuan foods.
2017