Krista Steinke

Krista Leigh Steinke is a lens-based artist and filmmaker, known for her experimental approach to photo media. 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. Notable venues include The Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (CA); Currents New Media Festival (NM), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NY), among others. Her work has received support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Houston Endowment, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a Fellowship in Photography 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.

experimental photography, video and film;  analog film materiality;  merging analog and digital processes;  experimental animation;  installation and projection;  art and science collaboration;  contemporary art;  film and media studies;  art and photographic history;  the post-photographic;  landscape, ecology, climate change, and the environment;  eco-materialism