A woman with light skin, straight light brown hair, and blue eyes, wearing gold earrings and a red and black plaid shirt, in front of a bookshelf filled with books.

Christine Holtz is a Pittsburgh-based artist and educator whose work explores memory, landscape, and the traces of human activity through photography, cyanotype, textiles, and installation. Rooted in research and material experimentation, her practice considers how places are shaped, altered, preserved, and remembered.

Working with photographs, botanical materials, historic decorative patterns, and industrial imagery, Holtz creates layered compositions that connect natural and built environments. She extends cyanotype, one of photography’s earliest processes, through collage and work on paper, fabric, and wood. Cutting, rearranging, and reassembling images allows her to explore relationships among surface, structure, and place, while sunlight and hand processing introduce variation into each work.

Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Selected exhibition venues include the Carnegie Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Houston Center for Photography, Photographic Resource Center, and Silver Eye Center for Photography.

Holtz earned her BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a University Professor of Media Arts at Robert Morris University, where her teaching connects photographic history, contemporary practice, and creative exploration. She also shares her cyanotype practice through hands-on workshops for arts and community organizations.

Professional affiliations:

  • American Society for Media Photographers

  • Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

  • Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh

  • Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media

  • Silver Eye Center for Photography

  • Society for Photographic Education

For available work, commissions, and workshop inquiries, please get in touch.