About

Chris Myhr is a media artist based in Hamilton, Ontario whose work deploys photography, video, sound, and media installation.

Myhr’s studio practice seeks intersections between art, science, and ecology. For the past decade he has developed an extensive body of work that investigates the complex interrelationships between humans, nonhumans, water, and land.

Projects have explored the floodplains of post-Touhoku Earthquake Tokyo; South Korea’s Nakdong and Han rivers; shipwreck sites off the coast of Nova Scotia; as well as hydrocarbon, methyl-mercury and plastic contamination in the Athabasca River (Alberta), the Great Lakes (Ontario), and the waters of the Canadian Arctic.

Myhr studied English literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver; Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Lethbridge; and completed graduate work at NSCAD University in Halifax. Myhr’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and in 2021 his photographic portfolio was awarded the inaugural Prefix Prize.