Kristina Hines

Kristina Hines is an artist fascinated by humanity. Her earliest search for the foundations of humanness led her to study biology as an undergraduate. After working a decade in hospitals and clinics as a research assistant, she turned to paint to discover more about human existence.

The human body is still at the forefront of her work. She uses oil paint to create and carve life-size expressive representational images of people, using traditional tools as well as her body to paint. She explores the intersection of experience, emotion, physicality, and illusion in her work. She pursues a broad practice, which considers teaching and collaboration with students to be an expression of art.

A fundamental part of her practice is to consider herself both a teacher and a learner, whether in her role as an MFA student at the University of Utah, as a teaching assistant at the university level, or as a facilitator in the community. She has shown at The University of Utah and City College of San Francisco, presenting work that contemplates the nature and justice of human existence.

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