Krista Steinke

Krista Leigh Steinke is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist working in moving image, experimental photography, collage, and installation. Her creative practice fluctuates between the photographic and the abstract to present poetic reflections on time, place, perception, and the interconnection between human experience and the natural world. She regularly exhibits and screens her work in museums, galleries, and film festivals across the country and internationally. Her work has received support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a Fellowship from the Howard Foundation. She has been invited to be a visiting artist at numerous colleges and universities and has participated in several art and media festivals as an exhibiting artist, speaker, and curator. Steinke holds an MFA in Photography and Digital imaging from The Maryland Institute, College of Art, a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art and the Humanities from Valparaiso University.

photography, video and film, experimental animation, installation art, contemporary art, art and photographic history, art and science collaboration, issues revolving around landscape and the environment, ecomaterialism