Clea Christakos-Gee

Embracing the material elements of photography, Christakos-Gee makes intimate and diaristic images. The artist’s collages harvest fragments from vintage magazines creating visual metaphors and symbols of desire. Her collaborative and personal photographic projects capture relationships, such as the connections between women artists in her family across generations.

Ripe and unripe apples on a plaid cloth on grass
Pink dress with straps laid on textured stone surface, partially obscured by light leak.
Person in a pink tank top shielding eyes from the sun outdoors
Several photographs spread out on a white quilt, featuring various images including a person in a pink top, nature scenes, a cloth with small fruits, and abstract designs.
Silver heart-shaped pendant hanging from a tree branch with green leaves against a blue sky background.
Black and white photo of a person with short hair in profile view, smiling gently, with a blurred background.

  • Chrysalis, from Diary, 2020

    Chrysalis (with background), from Diary, 2020

    Devon at the Garage, 2021

    You’re the Spitting Image of My Woman Image, from In the Third, 2018

    Once a Body is a Mother, from In the Third, 2018

    From The Garden, from In the Third, 2018

    Process image, 2018

    Alicia Adjusting, 2022

    Locket Piece, from A Piece A seed A spread, 2020

    Ben Blinking, from A Piece A seed A spread, 2020

Clea Christakos-Gee (b.1997) is a visual artist holding a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her practice is grounded in analogue photography, portraiture and collage. Her lens-based work is often collaborative and styled, blurring the boundaries between staged and documentary. Inspired by loved ones and her local creative community she is drawn to capturing the dreamy, uncanny qualities of personal memory and relationships.

In 2019 her series In the Third was exhibited at the Alliance Français gallery as a part of the CONTACT Photography Festival and she was a recipient of the Magenta Flash Forward Award for Emerging Artists. In 2020 her solo show A piece A seed A spread was exhibited at The Image Centre.