​​Kristi Arnold is an interdisciplinary artist living in Queens, New York. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of Kansas and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Connecticut. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in visual arts and theory from the University of Sydney, Sydney College of Art in Australia. Arnold is also a recipient of a 2005 Fulbright Fellowship in Krakow, Poland, to study printmaking at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.  

​Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad including California, New York, and Illinois and countries such as Belgium, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Bulgaria, Poland, and Austria. In 2013, she was invited to create a site-specific project for the Central Business District in Brisbane, Australia, by the Vibrant Laneways Program, The Past in the Present. Most recently, Arnold had a solo show at the International Center for Graphics Arts in Krakow, Poland. Likewise, in 2018, she was awarded a residency at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory: Mokuhanga Artist-in-Residence at Lake Kawaguchi in Japan and at Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming. She has also been the Artist-in-Residence at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, ARTSPACE in Australia, the University of Georgia in Atlanta, the Lawrence Art Center in Kansas, and the Hashinger Hall Post-MFA Artist in-Residence at the University of Kansas. Kristi Arnold teaches Painting, Drawing, Design, and Printmaking at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where she has been a faculty member since 2014. 

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EDUCATION
2015              PhD, Visual Arts & Theory, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, Australia
2005                MFA, Painting/Printmaking, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2001                BFA, Painting, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018            Mergings & Mingings, The North Museum of Nature and Science, Lancaster, Pennsylvania            
                    Mergings & Mingings, The Narrenkastl, Frohnleiten, Austria
2017             Mergings & Mingings, International Center for Graphic Arts, Krakow, Poland
2016                Mergings & Mingings, Loveland Artspace, Loveland, Colorado
2015             Prints & Drawings, Hess Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
2014             Grotesqueries, Fenetre Gallery, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2013              Grotesque Series, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney, Australia
                           The Past in the Present, Hutton Lane, Vibrant Laneways Program, CBD, Brisbane, Australia (invitational site specific project)
                           Somewhat Symmetrical, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
2012                 Grotesque Series, Peloton Gallery, Sydney, Australia
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS* two person show **three/four person show
2019            Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, The Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum, Yoshinogawa City,
​                         Japan           
                        2019-2021 Southern Graphics Traveling Exhibition: Southern Graphics International Texchange Conference, Dallas, Texas
                       Oh Tulsa!, 2019, Living Arts Center of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
                        Mokuhanga, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Graphics Department, Krakow, Poland** (invitational)
                         Degree of Un-recognition, Jagiellonian University, CEP, Krakow, Poland** 
                         57th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 

  2018              Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons, Rockaway, New York
                        The Land of Milk and Honey, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia 
                        The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York                              
                        Mokuhanga, CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

2017           Gritty in Pink, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, Florida
                        Transformed, Borderline Arts Collective, San Francisco, California
                        **Rhythms of Distortion, Free Form Art Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2016           To Be the Void, International Cultural Center of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
                        Contemporary Perspectives: Drawing on Big Ideas, Lewis Art Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
                        Fresh Ink, Wonderfair Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
                        Mid Atlantic New Painting 2016, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, Virginia

2015            Landscape Show, Susquehanna Center for the Creative Arts, Columbia, Pennsylvania
                        Spatial Intuitions, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont **        
                        Abstract Preferences, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, California
                        Light Industrial Ecosystem, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, New York
            
 2014             Bushwick Open Studio, Gallery 594, Brooklyn, New York
                        Material Disruption, Art Factory, Patterson, New Jersey
                        Structure, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, New Jersey
                        Material Disruption, Gallery 594, Brooklyn, New York
 
2013            4 Decades/4 Generations, York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania **
                        Tobeus, Vacant, Tokyo, Japan
                        A Time in Arcadia, Curious Matter Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
                        Object: Resemblance and Diversion, The Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
                        4 Decades/4 Generations, Jorgenson Performing Arts Center, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut**
                        Print Show, Sinclair Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2012           Dwelling, Beggar’s Table Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
                        B +W, Tejas Art Center, Dayton, Ohio
                        In the Background, 2012 Southern Graphics International Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
                        Beyond Printmaking III, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, Texas
                        YesNoMaybe: Collaborative Works by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad & Yoonmi Nam, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas **
 
2011              ** YesNoMaybe: Collaborative Works by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad & Yoonmi Nam, Naked City Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
                          Naming the Animal, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York
                          2009-2012 Southern Graphics Traveling Exhibition: Merwin & Wakeley Gallery, Bloomington, Illinois; Ames School of Art, State
                    College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida; Indiana State University Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana; The University of North Carolina,
                    Chapel Hill, North Carolina; South Eastern Contemporary Art Gallery, South Eastern Louisiana University, Winston-        Salem, North Carolina
     
 2010               Headgear, Mils Gallery, Sydney, Australia
                          Plans Not Included – A Study on Things To Make and Do, University of Minnesota Regis Center for the Arts, Mid American Print
                          Council Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota  
                          Creatures Great and Small, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky   
                          Creatures Great and Small, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky
                          2009-2012 Southern Graphics Traveling Exhibition: Ringling College of Art & Design Gallery, Sarasota, Florida; MillikanArt Gallery,
                          Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina; Brookehaven College Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas; University of Rio Grande Art
                     Gallery, Rio Grande, Ohio; Mikhail Zakin Art Gallery, Mamarest, New Jersey
         
2009               Creatures Great and Small, Eagle Gallery, Murray, Kentucky
                           2009-2012 Southern Graphics Traveling Exhibition: Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Bowling Green, Ohio;  
                     C33 Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois; Clark College Art Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa; University of Tennessee Art Gallery  
                     Knoxville, Tennessee. Juried Show, Juror: Warrington Colescott
                           **Divining Nature, Antelope Valley College Gallery, Lancaster, California 
                           Common Ground, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas
                            Black Flag on the Moon, Fine Art Gallery SCF, Bradenton, Florida
                            WIDKC, Arts Incubator, Kansas City, Missouri
 
2008              * Reversion, Red Door Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
                             The International Exchange Exhibition of Prints, Museum of Contemporary Art at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea 
                             Circus Show, Verge Gallery, Sacramento, California
                              Spring 2008 Show, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
 
2007               The Mini Show, Abacot Gallery, Los Angeles, California 
                              * DK, Sugar Gallery, Los Angeles, California
                              Cultural Identity, The Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, Groton, Connecticut
                               The Exquisite Bicycle, Berdhouse Gallery, Los Angeles, California
                               Inexterior, Abacot Gallery, Los Angeles, California
                               Cultural Identity, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
 
2007               National Juried Competition: Works of Art on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Gallery, Loveladies,
                              New Jersey
                              Juried Show, Juror: Starr Figura, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
                              Prints and Drawings, Unitard Gallery, Los Angeles, California
                              * Free Bird, Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, California (Daniel Gibson)
                              Paths to the Press, Dicere Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
          
2006               Phantasmagoricalia, Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, California      
                              International Print Triennial, International Print Triennial, Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland/Austria, Vienna
 
2005               Grafika Roku, Galeria Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland
                              **Selected Works from Beast Series, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
                              Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut
                              The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2018            Junior Leave, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania (Spring semester)
                         Faculty Research Grant, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania 
                    Fellowship, Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming 

2017                Presidential Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado                               
                         Summer Scholarship Creative Arts and Research Projects, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
                         Faculty Starter Research Grant, Mergings & Minglings, International Center for Graphic Arts, Krakow, Elizabethtown College,
                         Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
                         Faculty Recognition Award, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
 
2016-17         Collaborative Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program Grant, “Generating STEAM at Elizabethtown College: A Collaborative Project
                           to Turn Algae into Art”, Project Director: David Bowne, Co-Project Director: Kristi Arnold, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown,  
​                           Pennsylvania
           
2015-16           PPA Project Stream Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
 
2016                Emergent Scholar Mentor, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
 
2010-13           International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
 
                        International Postgraduate Award, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
 
2010-12           Postgraduate Research Scholarship, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
 
2005-06           J. William Fulbright Grant, Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland
           
2005                Grafika Roku Award, Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland
                        Top Graduate Award, University of Connecticut/SMTG, Cracow, Poland
                        Boston Jury Commendation Award, The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial, Boston, Massachusetts

2003-05           Full Assistantship & Tuition Waiver, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
 
ARTIST RESIDENCIES & VISITING ARTIST
2018                Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, Residency, Japan (April & May)
                              The Jentel Artist Residency Program, Residency,Banner, Wyoming (February-March)

2017                Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Visiting Artist, Krakow, Poland (March)
 
2015                The University of Vermont, Visiting Artist, Burlington, Vermont (February)
                              Harrisburg Area Community College, Visiting Artist, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (April)
 
2014                Chambersburg Area Council for the Arts, Visiting Artist, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (April)
 
2013               ARTSPACE, Residency, Sydney, Australia (May-July)
 
                             Vibrant Laneways Program, Visiting Artist, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Australia (June)
           
                              Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Visiting Artist, Print Department, Athens, Georgia (Spring semester)
 
2012                Lawrence Art Center, Residency, Lawrence, Kansas (January)
 
2011                Frans Masereel Centrum, Residency, Kasterlee, Belgium (January)
 
2008-10         Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence, Residency, Lawrence, Kansas

COMMISSIONS & INVITATIONAL PROJECTS
2018                BIG INK, Contemporary Center for Printmaking, large-scale woodblock print, Norwalk, Connecticut 

2017               The Land of Milk and Honey, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, print portfolio exchange, The University of  
                        Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada   
        
2013               The Past in the Present, Public Arts Commission, Brisbane City Council, Vibrant Laneways Program, CBD Hutton Lane, Brisbane,
                        Australia (March-August) 8 Large-scale light boxes created for the side of a building in the Central Business District 

2012                In the Background, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, print portfolio exchange,  New Orleans, Louisiana 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas
London College of Art, School of Printing and Publishing, London, United Kingdom
Mokuhanga Innovation Lab, Tokyo, Japan
Mid America Print Council, New Orleans, Louisiana
Polish Fulbright Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Southern Graphics Council International Archives, The Chicago, Illinois
Southern Graphics Council International Archives, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia and The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Nevada
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019-present           Associate Professor of Art, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

2014-present           Assistant Professor of Art, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
 
2013-14                     Adjunct Faculty, HACC, Harrisburg/York/Lancaster campuses,  Pennsylvania
 
2012                           Adjunct Faculty (Winter and Spring sessions), The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
 
2008-10                     Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence Faculty & Ad Hoc Faculty, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
 
2009                           Adjunct Faculty, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
 
GENERAL WORK EXPERIENCE
2017                         Guest Curator, This & That, NIAD Art Center, Kristi Arnold, May 2017 online-show-107  niadart.org 
 
2015-2016                Contributing Art Critic, On Verge, New York City, New York
                                          Reviews and writes about selected art shows in NYC, New York
                                           Matthew Kirk: How the Rest Was Won, Kristi Arnold, January 25th, 2016
                                           http://www.on-verge.org/reviews/matthew-kirk-how-the-rest-was-won/
                                           Metamodernism, Kristi Arnold, August 19th, 2015
                                           http://www.on-verge.org/essays/metamodernism/
 
2010-14                     Gallery Assistant & Preparator, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW,  Australia         
 
2008-10                     Gallery Director, The Red Door Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
                                             Public relations, advertising, supervision of the installation/removal of exhibitions, and juror of exhibition proposals
 
2006-08                     Artist Assistant, Valerie Mitchell Studio, Los Angeles, California
                         
2005                           Assembly Staff, The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Central Park, New York, New York