Bio

Kristin Reeves

B.F.A., Fine Art Photography, Ball State University

M.F.A., Art & Technology, University of Florida

Kristin Reeves (b. 1976 Muncie, IN, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist who stages live expanded cinema performances, exhibits electronic and lens-based artworks, and collaborates in professional theater productions. Her creative research interests include the historical use of media across clinical and art spaces. She invented new editing and material processes to reflect a contemporary understanding of trauma for her live feature-length show Bodies for Strength and Power to express visual narratives of injury and resilience. She earned her BFA at Ball State University and her MFA at the University of Florida. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Centro Cultural de España CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, CROSSROADS, San Francisco, CA , Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY and Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, IL. Her work has been published in Analog Cookbook and Found Footage Magazine. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Foundations at Grand Valley State University.