Peter Christenson
Peter Christenson is a conceptual interventionist who works across media, platforms, and environments. As a social worker and former psychotherapist, Christenson often uses the moniker PSYCHOLOGARTIST to highlight the interdisciplinary, socially-engaged, and interventionist nature of his practice, regularly classifying projects with a specific diagnostic code from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," a widely accepted instrument for psychiatric diagnosis.
Christenson is the recipient of a number of awards including a US-UK Fulbright Scholar Award in Art & Design and the Governor's Arts & Heritage Young Arts Leader Award for the state of Washington. He has received recent funding from the Collective Power Fund (via Northwest Film Forum / Andy Warhol Foundation), Humanities WA, Common Field Network Los Angeles, Shunpike, the Washington State Arts Commission, The Jack Straw Cultural Center, the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and the Do Good Fund PEI. Christenson is co-founder of Left of Centre, a guerrilla-marketing firm and artist collective. His art can be found in several private and public collections including the abcD of the Visual Research Centre at the University of Dundee, the City of Burien and the City of SeaTac Public Art commissions, and at the Franklin Furnace Archive at the Pratt Institute. Christenson is a curator for the state of WA Art in Public Places program and an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University.
https://psychologartist.com/
Christenson is the recipient of a number of awards including a US-UK Fulbright Scholar Award in Art & Design and the Governor's Arts & Heritage Young Arts Leader Award for the state of Washington. He has received recent funding from the Collective Power Fund (via Northwest Film Forum / Andy Warhol Foundation), Humanities WA, Common Field Network Los Angeles, Shunpike, the Washington State Arts Commission, The Jack Straw Cultural Center, the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and the Do Good Fund PEI. Christenson is co-founder of Left of Centre, a guerrilla-marketing firm and artist collective. His art can be found in several private and public collections including the abcD of the Visual Research Centre at the University of Dundee, the City of Burien and the City of SeaTac Public Art commissions, and at the Franklin Furnace Archive at the Pratt Institute. Christenson is a curator for the state of WA Art in Public Places program and an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University.
https://psychologartist.com/