Kristina Estell www.kristinaestell.com

EDUCATION 2004 M.F.A., Sculpture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2000 Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME 2000 B.F.A. with Distinction, Sculpture, Herron School of Art, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN

EXHIBITIONS ( * indicates solo exhibitions) 2018 A Primary Preoccupation..., London Art Fair, London, UK *Feeling the Distance, Bolivar Art Gallery, University of Kentucky, KY TBD, Montserrat College of Art, MA TBD, Galveston Artist Residency, TX 2017 Blue in the Face, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL Eight Artists, space 369, St. Paul, MN 2016 Imagining the Future, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA _space, Westminster New Media Gallery, Vancouver BC Current Location, The Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN To Be the Void:Sublimity and Contemporaneity, International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland actor setting figure ground, Darger HQ, Omaha, NE 2015 The Writing on the Wall, The Painting Center, New York, NY *The Plastic: studies in love, Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN Voyager One, Seed Space, Nashville, TN This From There, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Surface, Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art/Design, Boston, MA Future Scenarios with an Open End, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Addendum or The Things That Must Be Added, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL 2014 MN Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI Devised Province, Darger HQ Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2013 *Posture is Everything, MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN *Natural Selections, Portals on Western, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN ,,,(comma comma comma), Minnesota Biennial, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN P.A.C.2 Landscape.Environment.Creativity., Villa Nappi, Polverigi, Italy Luminaries, Prove Gallery, Duluth, MN Natural Interference, Silverwood Park gallery, St. Anthony, MN 2012 Minutia Militia, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY *Vignette, Christensen Center Art Gallery, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN *Throw, Steinhilber Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI In the Background, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, New Orleans, LA Playground, Prove Gallery, Duluth, MN Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN 2011 Green, The Textile Musuem, Washington, D.C. *Treatment, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany *Generalizing from Rare Examples, John A. Day Gallery, University of South Dakota, SD Cessation is a Respite, Dessauer Studios, Berlin, Germany 1 : x – the invisible part of the iceberg, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany VOX VII, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA INDA 6, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2010 Materiality, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL Creative Adaptation, Kreft Center for the Arts, Ann Arbor, MI *Mobile Estimation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany International Artist Residents Exhibition, Duna Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2009 *Corresponding Plots, Ridgewater College, Willmar, MN Happy Tree Friends or Standing: tree as agent, index, object of desire, La Esquina, Kansas City, MO Flow of Ideas, Alice Tweed Tuohy Gallery, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2008 *Kind, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary ARThouse, New London, MN 2007 *Cover, Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Minnesota Biennial 3D II, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN locate-point-place, Vergette Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL HMC, Erdesz Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary 2006 Contained Art, Galerie Sei-un-do, Zurich, Switzerland Kadyn ve Sanat, Cekirdek Art Atelier, Istanbul, Turkey Surface, Space & Light, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT From/About, Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary *Graft, Fine Arts Gallery, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN Csopak 06, Congress Center, Balatonfurad, Hungary Do Not Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art, Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD Getting Around: the Art of Transportation, George Morrison Gallery, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

AWARDS/HONORS 2018 Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Project grant 2015 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Arts A fellowship funded by a generous grant from The McKnight Foundation and administered by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. 2012 ARAC Career Development Grant Fiscal year 2012 recipient of a career development grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council which is made possible through an appropriation from the McKnight Foundation. 2011 The James Hotel Artist Studio Winner of the James Hotel Chicago Artist Studio purchase prize for the permanent collection. 2011 ARAC/McKnight/Arts and Cultural Heritage Individual Artist Fellowship Grant Fiscal year 2011 recipient of a fellowship grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council which is made possible through an appropriation from the McKnight Foundation.

RESIDENCIES 2017 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX Accepted into this long term 11- month residency on Galveston Island, Texas. 2015 Visiting Artist in Residence, Illinois State University, Normal IL Invited to conduct a 3 week special topic seminar while working as a visiting studio artist. Hinge Arts, Springboard for the Arts, Fergus Falls, MN Selected artist in inaugural year of the program for a 4 week residency and community workshop. 2010 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Awarded a visual arts fellowship residency beginning spring of 2010. 2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont Accepted into and awarded an artist's grant to attend one month residency spring of 2007. 2006 International Artist Residency, Csopak, Hungary Selected to participate in an intensive international artist's residency in the summer of 2006. 1999 Takihata Art Walking Project, Kawachinagano, Japan One of two Indiana students selected to participate in a residency, living and working with Japanese and American artists producing works for the Takihata Art project.

PUBLICATIONS & PRESS 2018 Interview & feature, Friend of the Artist, Winter 2018 2017 Exhibition review, Art Papers, Fall 2017 2015 Interview, Made in Mind Magazine, Issue 05, Autumn 2015. 2015 The State of Art: Site Specific and Installation #2, Bare Hill Publishing, Summer 2015. 2015 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 29, Open Studios Press. Summer 2015. 2013 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 20, Open Studios Press. Winter 2013. 2012 Drawing Club: A collaborative coloring book, Walker Art Center, Summer 2012. 2012 Roberts, Kathleen. Proof Magazine, Poiein, vol. 1. Issue 1. Summer 2012. 2011 International Drawing Annual 6, Manifest Creative Research Gallery publications. 2011 Sullivan, Michael O. Exhibition Review: Green…, The Washington Post. June 30, 2011. 2011 Venn, Beth. Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press. Spring 2011 edition. 2009 Self, Dana. La Esquina’s Happy Tree Friends is smarter and subtler... The Pitch, March 17, 2009.