Artist Statement

Christina Krentz is a multidisciplinary artist working with still and moving images, printmaking, and digital scanners. She employs collage as both practice and methodology, emphasizing fragmentation and recontextualizing meaning. Her work explores the human condition through embodiment, frequently disguising the body to complicate and control the gaze. Grounded in a female perspective, her practice confronts the emotional and psychological weight of inhabiting a body shaped by cultural expectations, inherited histories, and systems that regulate how women are seen. 

BIO

Christina Krentz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Calgary where she focused her studies on the psychology of art and vision. Following a long career in commercial photography and many years dedicated to motherhood, she began developing a career in the arts. She spent the last several years engaging in one-on-one mentorships, focused on developing skills and experience. During this time she founded ‘Fem Assembly’, a grassroots feminist arts group that started as an an accessible critique group for recent graduates and self taught artists with a focus on providing opportunities for women, non-binary and trans artists. The group went on to curating exhibitions and publishing work; including curating an exhibition for Werklund Centre (formerly Arts Commons), Western Canada’s largest centre for the arts.

Christina’s work has been exhibited both locally and internationally, while receiving project support from Calgary Arts Development, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.She has completed training for arts administration at the Rosza Foundation, she teaches at Alberta Printmakers, and is an alumni of the RBC Emerging Arts Program. Most recently Christina participated in Creating our Calgary, a civic-engagement initiative that explores art as a tool for social change. 

Contact: femassembly(at)gmail.com

IG: christina.krentz