Kristina King

I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in Washington, D.C., United States. I utilize handmade paper, large-scale drawings, installations, animation, and interventions in order to explore themes of decay, fragility, turbulence and the ephemeral. When COVID-19 hit the US in March 2020, I pivoted my practice to make cloth masks for hospitals and first responders. The process of making thousands of masks left me with bags full of cotton fabric scraps. Using these fabric scraps as source material, I turned them into paper and fabric collages.

ARTIST BIO

Kristina King creates site-responsive installations and work in handmade paper. Her work refers to place, process, community, turbulence, fragility, decay, and the ephemeral. She was awarded a residency at Vermont Studio Center (2020) and a Studio Workshop Residency at Women’s Studio Workshop (2019). She received the 2019 Individual Artist Award (Visual Arts - Works on Paper) from the Maryland State Arts Council. She earned her BFA from Denison University in 2014. Her work has been reviewed in BmoreArt and The Washington Post. Her work has been exhibited at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Allegany Arts Council, Willow Street Gallery, Via Umbria Galleria (solo show), Takoma Park Community Center, among others. kristina@kristinaking.com

Pre-pandemic, my work was characterized by a high-contrast, textural, and monochromatic

palette. Now that I am working with fabric, color has reentered my work.