Christina Krentz (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Mohkínstsis/Calgary, AB (Treaty 7 territory), whose practice spans still and moving images, collage, costume, performance, printmaking, and the written word. Guided by a feminist lens, and research, investigations centre on using the body as the site of construction and collaboration. She explores masking, recontextualizing representations of gender, and the everyday performance we make in our bodies. Her research crosses over into cyberfeminism and Mad/disability arts. She is often confronting historical misogynistic representations, and recently has begun research into constructing an imagined future of femme roles and representation. In her most recent project she is collaborating with dancers and new technologies, investigating the possibilities and consequences of a maternal machine. A driving goal of her creative practice is community and collaboration. She believes it is through creation we can find meaning and hope!

Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She is an instructor at Alberta Printmakers, an alum of the RBC Emerging Artists Program, and a participant of Creating Our Calgary — a civic-engagement initiative exploring art as a tool for social change. 

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. 

Contact: femassembly(at)gmail.com

IG: christina.krentz

Photo by: Nathan Krentz