B.1980 Miami, Fl

EDUCATION

2011 San Francisco Art Institute/ Master of Fine Arts in New Genres

2006 Sarah Lawrence College/ Bachelor of Arts in Latin American History & Literature

2004 New World School of the Arts- Miami Dade College/ Associate of Arts in Drawing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 To Go On Is Victory: Wishing Stations, Solo Show, Public Works, Summerville, SC

2024 Grieving in Color, Norco College Art Gallery, Norco, CA

2023 Tender Downshift, Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR

2023 Formas De Sobra A Través un Espacio, Greenway Public Art Project, Charleston, SC

2019 House of Duende, Solo Show, Basketshop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Artfields, Jones-Carter Gallery, Lake City, SC

2023 Artfields, The ROB, Lake City, SC

2022 Yardworks, Tiger Strikes Asteroids, Greenville, SC

2022 Studio Union, REDUX Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC

2020 Material Intentions, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2020 Women in Art, Amerant Bank, Miami, FL

2019 BlueTarp, WavePool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2019 Between the Legible and the Opaque, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, FL

2019 Play and Reality, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL

2019 Group Show, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn, NY, May-June

2019 DreamWeavers, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Tallest Part of the Arch, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2019 Toolbox, LMAK books + design, New York, NY

2018 Comfort Zone, Field Projects, New York, NY

2017 State of the Estuary Conference, Scottish Rite Center, Oakland, CA

2017 100 Days Actions Resistance March, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA

2017 Foreign Language Magic Word Mother Tongue, SOMArts San Francisco, CA

2016 Roam Oasis, Miami River Inn Art Basel, Miami, FL

2015 ASS Capital: Reflections of a Contemporary Culo, THIS IS WHAT I WANT Festival, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

2014 Projected Personae, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2014 Vexillology Workshop - Flag Stories - SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2012 Huele, Oye y Jama, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011 Sonido Pirata, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

2024 Dean’s Excellence Grant, College of Charleston, School of the Arts

2020 The Hambidge Center, Rabuns Gap, Georgia

2020/2021 Open Air, Missoula, MT

2020 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

2018 Signal Fire, Portland, OR

2018 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT

2018 DAAP School of Art, Visiting Artist & Scholar Series, Cincinnati, OH

2018 ACRE Residency Diversity Award, Chicago, IL

2018 Community Innovation Fund Award, Graham, NC

2016 East Bay Fund For Artists Grant, Oakland, CA

2013 Signal Fire, Portland, OR

2012 L.A. Novela Special, Thank You For Coming, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLIC PROJECTS

2020-21 My Story Is My Flag III, MT, with Missoula Museum of Art & Culture

2018 My Story Is My Flag II, Graham, North Carolina, with Archive of Creative Culture

2016 My Story Is My Flag I, Oakland International High School & Interface Gallery

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2024 SHAPERS, James Island Arts & Cultural Center, Charleston, SC

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022- present Adjunct Professor / SASI Director, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Classes taught: Themes & Practice, Drawing I, Sculpture I, Senior Thesis Exhibition

SASI (Studio Art Summer Immersion program) - Design, Coordinate, Recruit, Lead and Teach Mixed Media in South Carolina’s first and only arts centered pre-college program.

2022- present Ceramic Arts Instructor, Studio Union, Charleston, SC

Classes taught: Beginner Hand Building, Intermediate Hand Building

2013 -2014 Arts Instructor, San Francisco Parks & Recreation, San Francisco, CA

Classes taught: NoMixed Media, Drawing, Painting, Textiles and Stop Motion for the Developmentally Disabled.

2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Managed travel to Mexico City, lesson plans and provided mentorship and language translation for 12 undergraduate students for the Ecology of Materials Undergraduate Course led by artist John Roloff.

PRESS

Chloe Hogan, “Shapers celebrates local ceramic community”, Charleston City Paper, Nov 5, 2023

Chloe Hogan, “Summer Program gives students a glimpse into studio art careers”, Charleston City Paper, April 23, 2023

“Check out Cristina Victor’s Story”, South Carolina Voyager Magazine, May 12, 2022

Chloe Hogan,“Studio Union provides much needed space and community for local artists”,

March 23, 2022

Samuel E. Vazquez, Offerta Magazine, No. 1 Autumn/Winter 2021

Skylar Rispens, “Personalized Flags designed by local kids on display at fairgrounds”, The Missoulian, July 2021

Cory Walsh, “Artist Cristina Victor transforms flag design into exploration of identity”, The Missoulian, Aug 6,2020

Jesse Alejandro, “Itinerant Artist”, The Dispatch; Coronavirus dispatches podcast, Vice News

June 24, 2020

The Coastal Post, Studio visit with Paolo Arao, February 20, 2020

LuluWang, “First Gen”, A24, Issue 10, July, 2019

Lillian Kalish, “A Gallery in a Truck Fuels Up on Anti-Patriarchal Art”, Hyperallergic, November 11,2017

Katherine Rae Mondo,“My Story Is My Flag”, KGPC Interviews, July 8, 2016

Sarah Elizabeth Adler, “Flags as Art and Identity at Oakland International High School” East Bay Express, 2016

Crystal AM Nelson, “This is What I Want Festival 2015”, Culturebot, 2015

LECTURES

2022 Not Hibernating lecture series, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Nov 21

2022 NYC Crit Club, Visiting Critic & Artist Talk, March 24

2022 Virtual Artist lecture, Carnegie Mellon School of Arts, March 14

2020/2021 Open Air lecture, My Story Is My Flag project, Missoula, MT, July 22

2021 DAAP School of Art, Remote Visiting Artist & Scholar Series, Cincinnati, OH, April 21

2021 Clark College, Archer Gallery, Artist Talks, April 16

2021 San Diego State University, Virtual Talk, Feb 4

2021 Open Air Lecture & Flag Raising Ceremony, Missoula, MT, July 22

COLLECTIONS

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT

Proyecto Visibles, Miami, Fl/ Caracas, Venezuela

University of Maryland Special Collections, Baltimore, MD