BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Sims was born in Michigan and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He has an undergraduate degree in history from Duke University, a master’s degree in visual communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a M.F.A. in studio art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He worked as a photo archivist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and in communications for a number of non-profit organizations. He is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy and in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, both at Duke University. At Duke he also teaches in the Duke-in-Berlin summer program and in the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts graduate program.

His recent exhibitions include shows at SF Camerawork, Cambridge University, the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. His project on Guantanamo Bay was featured in The Washington Post, the BBC World Service, Roll Call, and Flavorwire. He was selected as the recipient of the Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers in 2010, chosen as one of the "new Superstars of Southern Art" by the Oxford American magazine in 2012, awarded the Arte Laguna Prize in Photographic Art in 2015, and named an Archie Green Fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress in 2017.


CURRICULUM VITAE
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WORKS AVAILABLE

Ann Stewart Fine Art
501 E. Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919.967.8817

Civilian Art Projects
4718 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20011
202.607.3804

Clark Gallery
145 Lincoln Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
781.259.8303