Raised near Detroit, Christine Hughes currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley, after relocating from New York City where she lived and exhibited for 30 some years. She received her BFA from Wayne State University. Hughes was first influenced by the Cass Corridor Movement artists whose work grew out of crumbling, post-industrial Detroit. She is known for her work with compost and fragments from nature. From these random materials she creates compositions which hold an energy and structure which then inform her drawings and paintings. Hughes paints with a combination of oil and enamels and using a limited palette she abstracts these forms creating a complex tangle of imagery structured with movement, balance, intersection and overlap. She has shown prolifically in New York City, Upstate, New York, and Detroit. Her work is in numerous collections. She received the Pollock–Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022 and a Rauschenberg Grant in 2024.