Born: 1978, Southern California
Lives: Billings, Montana

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Some Resembly Required, a collaboration with Jeff Eisenberg, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, California
2010 Stake Your Claim, a collaboration with Jeff Eisenberg, Eric Dean Gallery, Crawfordsville, Indiana
2009 Rapt in the Nameless Reverie, Peacock Gallery, Cochran, Georgia (Press Release)
2008 Time is Eternity, Eric Dean Gallery, Crawfordsville, Indiana (Press Release)
2005 transitions, West Gallery, California State University, Fullerton
2000 A Day in the Life of, University of California, Santa Cruz

Group Exhibitions

2012 Flash Nights: Whistling in the Dark, Curated by Stomper, King's Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Whistling in the Dark, Curated by Stomper, London, England
2011 Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Billings, Montana
2010 Things Are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, California
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Billings, Montana
2008 KY7 Biennial, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky (curator statement)
Darkroom Divas
, Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, California (Press release)
2007 Faculty Invitational, Gresham Art Gallery, San Bernardino, California
Photography, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California
Women: The Image, Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, Massachusetts
Altered Landscapes, Covina, California
2006 Sub-Urbane, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, California
Greater LAMFA, CSULB Art Gallery, Long Beach, California
UCSC Alumni Art Show and Auction, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, California
2005 Southern Exposure, New Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Graduate Student Exhibition, West Gallery, Fullerton, California
2004 Critique, West/East Gallery, Fullerton, California
Make Art Now, Circle Gallery, Fullerton, California
2003 Picture Me This, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, California
A Remembrance of Things Future, West/East Galleries, Fullerton, California
The Night the Still Life Died, Circle Gallery, Fullerton, California
2002 Presenter Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Yield Before Xing, Installation, Exit Gallery, Fullerton, California

Performances

2011 I Meant What I Said When I Said It, Performance, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Montana
2006 Yard Sale, Performance and audience interaction, Glendora, California
2003 Water Stories, Lecture and Performance, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Austin, Texas
2002 Water Stories, Performance, Society for Photographic Education West Coast Regional Conference, Oakland, California
Water Stories, Performance, Fullerton, California

Grants/Residencies

2011 CARE Grant ($1800), Montana State University
CARE Grant ($3000), Montana State University
Expanding Horizons in Digital Arts Special Grant ($15000), Montana State University
Artist-in-Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Know Indiana Summer Research Grant, Crawfordsville, Indiana
2008 Faculty Development Grant, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Artist-in-Residence
, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Know Indiana Summer Research Grant, Crawfordsville, Indiana

Lectures

2010 Artist Discussion, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, California
Work in Progress, Visiting Artist Lecture, Billings, Montana
Photography as Art, Moderator for Art Club Discussion, Crawfordsville, Indiana
2008 Reverie in the Digitally Photographic, Society of Photographic Education, Cleveland, Ohio
Work in Progress, Artist in Residence Lecture, Rochester, New York
Work in Progress, Visiting Artist Lecture, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Morphing and Compositing: Using the Technological in Art, Technology Talk, Crawfordsville, Indiana
2007 The Machine and the Garden, Visiting Artist Lecture, Crawfordsville, Indiana
The Presence of Absence, Visiting Artist Lecture, Covina, California
Transitions, Visiting Artist Lecture, Florence, Alabama
2006 Sub-Urbane, Panel Discussion, Whittier, California
Transitions: A Posthumous Collaboration and the Creation of Home, Visiting Artist Lecture, Decatur, Georgia
2003 Water Stories, Lecture and Performance, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Austin, Texas

Bibliography

2010 “Jeff Eisenberg and Kristen Wilkins make M0bile Pr4ctice.” Resonant City. (November) <http://www.resonantcity.net/?p=181>. Review.
2009 Wilkins, Kristen. "Streamin' Dreamin'." Wabash Magazine. Fall 2009 (article and image)
2008 "Artist Profile: Kristen S. Wilkins." Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. July/August issue.
Charles, Steve. "Kristen Wilkins and the Art of Rescue." Wabash College News. Oct. 22.
Copley, Rich. "'KY.7 Biennial' promises to challenge people's ideas of art." Lexington Herald-Leader. Nov. 7.
Finel Honigman, Ana. "Kristen S. Wilkins." Critic's Choice of the Week. Saatchi Online Daily Magazine, June 16.
2007 Hirsch, Robert. Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. Focal Press. (image credit)
2006 Bernal, Gina. "Sub-Urbane Art." El Paisano. Rio Hondo College student newspaper, September 20.

Collections

Visual Studies Workshop
Wabash College
Private Collections

Workshops/Teaching

2011 Self-Portrait Workshop Series for High School students, Billings, Montana
2010 - present Assistant Professor, Montana State University, Billings, Montana
2008 - 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
2007 Adjunct Faculty, Citrus College, Glendora, California
Adjunct Faculty, California State University, San Bernardino
2006 Adjunct Faculty, California State University, San Bernardino
Place and Time: Mapping and Moving, Visiting Artist Workshop, Decatur, Georgia
Environmental Art: Place and Time, Visiting Artist Workshop, Unity, Maine
Intro to Photography, Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Fullerton
2003 Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Fullerton
2002 Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Fullerton

Education

2006 M.F.A. Studio Art and Creative Photography, California State University, Fullerton
2000 B.A. Art, B.A. Biology (honors), University of California, Santa Cruz