Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American artist and educator whose art practice stems from the hyphen. Her interdisciplinary practice deals with materializing work that oscillates between auto-ethnography, celebrates contradiction, the failure/power of language, and critiques the framing of identity by mass media outlets. Research, analogue design methods and archiving act as foundational threads in all of her work. She currently works within textile installation, sculptural and functional ceramics, vexillology (the history and design of flags), social practice, accessible art programming and curation.

Her concern for access balances her formal object making and public engagement projects. In her social practice work, she operates as a facilitator and educator, intentionally offering immersive experiences centered around skills sharing and storytelling to yield visibility. Projects are designed to be inclusive and approachable with opportunities to collaborate with fellow community members. She is committed to creating and facilitating generative exchanges about the complexities of our collective and individual human experience.

“My Story Is My Flag” advocates for new flag designs and offers accessible ways to design and represent the spectrum of our identities outside of nationalism. This project has been successfully executed in Oakland, CA, Graham, NC, and Missoula, MT.

In 2019 she started Sabia Ceramics, a deco-punk ceramics line of functional and non functional wares inspired by her hometown of Miami, FL and its rich deco architecture and maximalist palette.

Recent solo exhibitions include Public Works Art Center in Summerville, SC (2024), Norco College Art Gallery in Riverside, CA. (2024) and Ditch Projects in Eugene,OR. (2023).

She received her AA from the New World School of the Arts/ Miami Dade Community College, her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina where she is an Adjunct Professor and Director of the SASI program at the College of Charleston. She also teaches multi-level Ceramics Handbuilding Courses at Terrace Clay Studio and Studio Union Arts Collective.