BIOGRAPHY
Christina Legere is a mixed-media artist whose work explores the intimate rituals, cultural symbols, and everyday objects that shape identity. Raised overseas, Legere grew up between Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Los Angeles, and eventually New York City. Her experience as a Third Culture Kid deeply informs her practice as she draws on overlapping cultural references, dislocated belonging, and the hybrid spaces where personal and collective narratives meet.
Legere’s work has been exhibited in galleries throughout New York City, London, and Miami. Her multidisciplinary approach continues to evolve through an engagement with found materials, pop cultural iconography, and devotional imagery. She lives and works in New York City, where she continues to examine the intersections of memory, coping, and cultural inheritance through her art.
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I grew up as a third-culture kid, moving between Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Los Angeles, and eventually New York. Each place left its own imprint- pop idols from one country, toys from another, the rituals, icons, and aesthetics shifting with every move. I never learned to belong to a single culture; instead, I learned to assemble myself from fragments. That layered identity is the foundation of my work. My art lives in the space where these worlds overlap.
Cute Core is an extension of that patchwork history. This work reflects on the places where I found refuge and excitement growing up. Music, nightlife, celebrity culture, and the neon promise of escape. As a former rave DJ in LA, I spent years immersed in spaces that were both euphoric and exhausting. Many of the materials I use such as found objects, collected toys, and recycled photographs from those nights are all artifacts of my life. By reworking them into mixed-media pieces, I’m not just documenting the past, I’m reframing it. Turning personal memories into shared emotional landscapes.
For me, this work explores how we soothe ourselves, how we perform, and what we reach for when the world feels too heavy. The glitter and the shadows, the sweetness and the strain. I want the work to feel like a soft shield, a reminder that even in chaos we can create beauty, connection, and new versions of ourselves.
