Bio

Christine Domingue Bagneris (b. 1975, New Orleans) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between painting, printmaking, photography, video, and mixed media. Her work examines identity, perception, and the psychological complexities of inhabiting multiple and sometimes conflicting selves.

Working primarily with acrylic and oil on wood panel and print media, Domingue Bagneris constructs figures as flattened, vivid silhouettes that inhabit atmospheric and often ambiguous spaces. These compositions create a visual tension between figure and ground, presence and absence, and the individual and the environments that shape their sense of self. Her use of photographic imagery alongside painted forms further complicates this relationship, juxtaposing recognizable fragments with flattened and abstracted bodies.

Central to her practice are questions of dual identity, otherness, fragmentation, displacement, and replacement. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, her work considers it as something continually negotiated through memory, perception, relationships, and the gaze of others. The resulting images evoke states of dislocation and introspection, inviting viewers to consider the distance between how we understand ourselves and how we are seen.

Domingue Bagneris earned a BA in Art from Xavier University of Louisiana and an MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Antenna Gallery, and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and was included in Prospect.1 New Orleans. Her recent exhibition history includes Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and exhibitions at Cave Gallery and Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans. She is also a visual arts educator in New Orleans and was selected as a 2025-2026 ARTEFFECT Ambassador through the Lowell Milken Family Foundation.