Christian Oldham

About Christian

(updated 6/2016) Christian Alborz Oldham was born to his Iranian mother and Iowan father in Woodland Hills, California during the Rodney King riots.  In May 2015, Christian graduated with a joint degree – a B.A. in Art History and an M.B.A. with an entrepreneurship focus – from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.  A multidisciplinary artist, Christian incorporates temporary and permanent sculpture and installation, writing, publishing, video, still images and music in his artistic practice.  Video and still image works have included commissions for popular groups Oneohtrix Point Never, Dirty Projectors, and Death Grips.  In 2013 Christian received a Carson Grant to exhibit in the Hatfield Library’s Private Collection Room at Willamette University.  He has served as creative consultant to Yale Union, a contemporary art center in Portland, Oregon since its founding in 2008.  His work has been featured in art and technology publications including  Rhizome ,  Wired , and  Massage .  He has also produced a series of covers for de Appel’s arts and culture journal,  F.R. David , and continues to serve as web designer for Aaron Flint Jamison’s  Veneer magazine.  While in  Japan , apprenticing under legendary  ikebana master Kosen Ohtsubo , Christian was awarded fourth place in the year’s largest ikebana competition, the Ikebana Grand Prix. He is now an accredited third-level Ryusei school master. Upon returning from his placement in Japan, he will attend the University of Washington’s M.F.A. program in photomedia, having received a full-ride and designation as the program’s merit-based top scholar. Most recently, Christian, with Will Holder, a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award winner, designer and typographer, has begun preparatory work on a publication chronicling the work of Kosen Ohtsubo and that of the avant-garde ikebana.