Christian Padron

christian padron is a director, photographer, and producer based in harlem, new york, working across narrative film, documentary, and multi-channel installation. his practice moves between analog and digital, still and moving image.

his two-channel installation real talk was commissioned by moma in 2026, and his film process earned the audience award at blackstar film festival before exhibiting at the brooklyn museum in 2024 in a show curated by jeffrey gibson, vik muniz, mickalene thomas, and fred tomaselli. his work for carnegie hall, grief, helped produce an album named one of the nyt's top ten best jazz albums of 2022.

his commercial clients include spotify, google, the nba, and dell, with the reckoning named an ad age editor's pick. padron is a recipient of the aperture × campaign for black male achievement award and holds an mfa from parsons school of design, where he was a photographic scholar.