KRISTIN BEAL is an artist, curator and educator. She studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Wichita State University (BFA Drawing and Painting) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA Painting and Printmaking). In 2004 she was awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship Award, the Kansas Innovation Grant in 2010, as well as a Wichita Arts Council Grant for her selection and participation in Wichita’s River City Biennale. She is a founding member of Hack.Art.Lab, a collaborative team of artists, educators and technologists. Kristin often pursues projects that explore various means of collaboration, via community based art projects. 

Select Exhibitions include Luminous, Box 13, Houston, TX., You Complete Me, Hack.Art.Lab at Paragraph Gallery c/o The Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO., & Living Arts, Tulsa, OK., Dream Come True, Mulherin Pollard Projects, NYC.,  Indigenous Territory, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. one-person show., Supercellica, a traveling / evolving Squirrelly Girls exhibitionists event, Walnut Street Gallery, Wichita, KS., Inland Systems, River City Biennale, Wichita, KS. curated by Hesse McGraw, Director/Bemis Center for Cont. Art., Cultivating Strategy, Hack.Art.Lab, White Gallery, Butler Community College, Eldorado, KS., SCOPE: Miami, with ADA Gallery(RVA), Miami, FL., A Fluid Wilderness with Sandra Luckett, Hack.Art.Lab, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA.