Krista Leigh Steinke
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Assistant Professor
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2024
Krista Leigh Steinke is an interdisciplinary artist working in moving images, experimental photography, and installation. She regularly exhibits and screens her work in museums, galleries, and film festivals across the country, as well as internationally. Her work has received support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Glasscock Center for Art and Humanities, and a Fellowship from the Howard Foundation. She has been a visiting artist at numerous colleges and universities and participated in several art and media festivals as an exhibiting artist, speaker, or curator. Steinke holds an MFA from The Maryland Institute, College of Art, and a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.
ISEA2019
Krista Steinke is an artist who works in photography, video, and installation. Her project-based practice explores the human-environmental relationship and photography’s unique role in mediating that experience. Krista has exhibited and screened her work in museums, galleries, and film festivals across the country, as well as internationally. Her works are represented in public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA, Woodmere Museum in Philadelphia, the Brauer Museum of Art, Atlanta International Airport, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, and Fidelity Investments, among others. She is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, a grant from the Puffin Foundation, an Artist Residency at Light Work, a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and most notably, a Fellowship in Photography from the Howard Foundation. She has been been invited to be a visiting artist at numerous colleges and graduate schools and has participated in several photo festivals and conferences either as an exhibitor, speaker, or curator, including The International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAA), Denver Month of Photography, Fotofest, The Invision Photo Festival, and Society for Photographic Education (SPE). Krista received a BA in Art and the Advanced Humanities from Valparaiso University (USA), a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from The Maryland Institute, College of Art. She has lived all over Texas, in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Seattle, and Chicago, among other places. Currently, she divides her time between Houston and New York state.
