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Mixed Media Artist
Sensory Archives | Contemporary Collage | International Exhibitor
Crissy Renée is a Czech-American mixed-media artist whose work reconstructs place, memory, and emotional architecture through neurodivergent sensory experience. Working with layered collage, paper-mâché, and salvaged materials, she creates tactile “sensory archives” inspired by her travels through Jordan, Jerusalem, Greece, Turkey, and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been shown internationally, including Rome International Art Fair, Art Expo NYC, and World Art Dubai, with representation through MvVo Art New York.
Renée’s work transforms travel, memory, and sensory overload into layered emotional maps. Her practice is rooted in neurodivergent perception — the way her mind processes place through texture, rhythm, fragments, and intensity. She constructs each piece from paper-mâché, salvaged paper, textile fragments, mineral pigments and archival materials, embedding tactile history directly into the surface of the work.
Renée’s flagship body of work, Sensory Archives, reconstructs the landscapes of Jordan, Jerusalem, Greece, Turkey, and the Pacific Northwest. These pieces do not illustrate geography; they capture how environments imprint themselves on the nervous system — through color pulses, architectural echoes, atmospheric weight, and emotional residue. Her collages become sensory cartographies where memory, place, and the body converge.
Her travels play a central role in her creative vocabulary, from the bougainvillea-draped walls of Amman to the subterranean tunnels beneath Giza, the confectionary markets of Istanbul, and the rain-soaked quiet of Seattle. Each location offers a different sensory code: brightness, stillness, scent, movement, heat, or humidity — all reorganized into layered compositions that blur the line between internal and external landscape.
Renée’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Rome International Art Fair, World Art Dubai at the World Trade Center, Art Expo NYC, and the Ad Art Show at Westfield World Trade Center in New York. She has been represented through MvVo Art New York and her work has been curated by Laura Skoler (New Museum, NYC), Eric Shiner (former director, The Andy Warhol Museum), and Florence & Daniel Guerlain of The Drawing Foundation in Paris.
She lives and works between Seattle, New York, and Europe, continuing to expand the Sensory Archives series across new geographies and emotional terrains.
Artist Statement
I create mixed-media collages that serve as sensory archives of place and emotional experience. My work is shaped by the way my neurodivergent mind processes the world: through tactile input, fragmented detail, and deep emotional resonance. Inspired by travels through Jordan, Jerusalem, Greece, and Turkey, I reconstruct cities and memories as layered surfaces built from paper, salvaged material, pigment, and sculptural texture. These works are not literal depictions — they are reconstructions of how environments feel, sound, and imprint themselves on the nervous system.
Drawing from my Czech-American heritage and a personal history marked by displacement and sensitivity to sensory stimuli, I gravitate toward places of cultural density, architecture, and contradiction. Each piece becomes a map of emotional architecture — a way of giving shape to overstimulation, memory, beauty, and grief.