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 autoethnography,  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, social practice, accessible art programming and curation.

Her concern for access balances her formal object making and public engagement projects. With her textile installations and sculptural ceramic works, she plays with pairing design and messaging. While her textile pieces are composed of solely repurposed materials, her ceramic pieces are made with a strong awareness for the legacy vitrified forms carry beyond our lifetime. As an avid vexillologist and flag designer, she advocates for new flag designs and offers accessible ways to represent the spectrum of identity outside of nationalism. 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. 

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 Wheel Throwing and multi-level Ceramics Hand building Courses at Terrace Clay Studio.  

Photo by Colin Conces at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art