Cristina Burns is an Italian-American artist who constructs immersive worlds defined as "sugar-coated nightmares." Fusing advertising-inflected palettes with narratives of consumption and psychological decay, she has developed a distinctive form of Contemporary Neosurrealism. Through photography and sculptural installation, Burns creates a "Toxic Paradise", a kaleidoscopic landscape of plastic food, neon candies, and childhood icons repurposed as unsettling totems of nostalgia and artifice.

These vibrant, seemingly playful surfaces function as modern cabinets of curiosities, meticulously layered with hidden messages and unsettling details that reveal themselves only upon closer inspection. By transforming inanimate objects into silent witnesses, Burns challenges the viewer to interrogate the consequences of hyper-consumerism. Her imagery serves as a diagnostic tool for reading history and desire on the surface of things, precisely where the neon artifice ends and the visceral truth begins.

The Lost Venus (2019–Present): An ongoing collaboration with SICPRE against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This visual manifesto for human rights has been presented at the Italian Senate (Rome), UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Federico II University), the University of Padua, and Palermo.

Upcoming: Special Presentation at the Italian Embassy, London (2026).

Candy Girl: Official image for Regione Lombardia’s campaign for the Memorial Day of Women Victims of the Mafia, presented as a large-scale institutional communication campaign at Palazzo Pirelli, Milan.