Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and arts educator committed to creating and facilitating generative exchanges about the complexities of our collective and individual human experience. Through approaches including ceramic sculpture, mixed media drawing, textile installation, public flag projects, curation and accessible arts programming; she produces her work with deep consideration for the power of design, color and language.

She is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina and teaches at Terrace Clay Studio.

CV

b. Miami, FL

EDUCATION

  • 2011 San Francisco Art Institute - Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art

  • 2006 Sarah Lawrence College - Bachelor of Arts, Latin American History & Literature 

  • 2004 New World School of the Arts - Associate of Arts, Drawing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

  • 2025 Cover To Cover, Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, SC

  • 2025 Memoria y Diseño, Nidum Studio, North Charleston, SC

  • 2024 To Go On Is Victory: Wishing Stations, Public Works, Summerville, SC

  • 2024 Grieving in Color, Norco College Art Gallery, Norco, CA

  • 2023 Tender Downshift, Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR

  • 2023 Formas De Sobra A Través un Espacio, Greenway Public Art Project, Charleston, SC

  • 2019 House of Duende, Basketshop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024 Artfields, The ROB, Lake City, SC

  • 2023 Artfields, Jones-Carter Gallery, Lake City, SC

  • 2022 Yardworks, Tiger Strikes Asteroids, Greenville, SC

  • 2022 Studio Union, REDUX Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC

  • 2020 Material Intentions, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL

  • 2020 Women in Art, Amerant Bank, Miami, FL

  • 2019 BlueTarp, WavePool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

  • 2019 Between the Legible and the Opaque, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, FL

  • 2019 Play and Reality, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL

  • 2019 Group Show, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn, NY, May-June 

  • 2019 DreamWeavers, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2019 Tallest Part of the Arch, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 

  • 2019 Toolbox, LMAK books + design, New York, NY

  • 2018 Comfort Zone, Field Projects, New York, NY

  • 2017 State of the Estuary Conference, Scottish Rite Center, Oakland, CA

  • 2017 100 Days Actions Resistance March, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA

  • 2017 Foreign Language Magic Word Mother Tongue, SOMArts San Francisco, CA

  • 2016 Roam Oasis, Miami River Inn Art Basel, Miami, FL

  • 2015 ASS Capital: Reflections of a Contemporary Culo, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

  • 2014 Projected Personae, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

  • 2014 Vexillology Workshop - Flag Stories - SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

  • 2012 Huele, Oye y Jama, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 2011 Sonido Pirata, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

PUBLIC PROJECTS

  • 2020-21 My Story Is My Flag III, MT, with Missoula Museum of Art & Culture

  • 2018 My Story Is My Flag II, Graham, North Carolina, with Archive of Creative Culture

  • 2016 My Story Is My Flag I, Oakland International High School & Interface Gallery 

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS 

  • 2025 Artist Business Initiative Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission

  • 2024 Dean’s Excellence Grant, College of Charleston, School of the Arts

  • 2020 The Hambidge Center, Rabuns Gap, Georgia

  • 2020/21 Open Air, Missoula, MT

  • 2020 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

  • 2018 Signal Fire, Portland, OR

  • 2018 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT

  • 2018 ACRE Residency Diversity Award, Chicago, IL

  • 2018 Community Innovation Fund Award,  Graham, NC

  • 2016 East Bay Fund For Artists Grant, Oakland, CA

  • 2013 Signal Fire, Portland, OR

CURATORIAL PROJECTS 

  • 2024 SHAPERS, James Island Arts & Cultural Center, Charleston, SC

PRESS

  • Chloe Hogan, “Shapers celebrates local ceramic community”, Charleston City Paper,  Nov 5, 2023

  • Chloe Hogan, “Summer Program gives students a glimpse into studio art careers”, Charleston City Paper, April 23, 2023

  • Samuel E. Vazquez, Offerta Magazine, No. 1 Autumn/Winter 2021

  • Skylar Rispens, “Personalized Flags designed by local kids on display at fairgrounds”, The Missoulian, July 2021

  • Cory Walsh, “Artist Cristina Victor transforms flag design into exploration of identity”, The Missoulian, Aug 6,2020

  • Jesse Alejandro, “Itinerant Artist”,  The Dispatch; Coronavirus dispatches podcast, Vice News

    June 24, 2020

  • The Coastal Post, Studio visit with Paolo Arao, February 20, 2020

  • LuluWang, “First Gen”, A24, Issue 10, July, 2019

  • Lillian Kalish, “A Gallery in a Truck Fuels Up on Anti-Patriarchal Art”, Hyperallergic, November 11,2017

  • Katherine Rae Mondo,“My Story Is My Flag”, KGPC Interviews, July 8, 2016

  • Sarah Elizabeth Adler, “Flags as Art and Identity at Oakland International High School” East Bay Express, 2016

  • Crystal AM Nelson, “This is What I Want Festival 2015”, Culturebot, 2015

LECTURES

  • 2022 Not Hibernating lecture series, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Nov 21

  • 2022 NYC Crit Club, Visiting Critic & Artist Talk, March 24

  • 2022 Virtual Artist lecture, Carnegie Mellon School of Arts, March 14

  • 2020/21 Open Air lecture, My Story Is My Flag project, Missoula, MT, July 22

  • 2021 DAAP School of Art, Remote Visiting Artist & Scholar Series, Cincinnati, OH, April 21

  • 2021 Clark College, Archer Gallery, Artist Talks, April 16

  • 2021 San Diego State University, Virtual Talk, Feb 4

  • 2021 Open Air Lecture & Flag Raising Ceremony, Missoula, MT, July 22

COLLECTIONS

  • Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT

  • Proyecto Visibles, Miami, Fl/ Caracas, Venezuela

  • University of Maryland Special Collections, Baltimore, MD

  • San Francisco State Estuary Partnership, San Francisco, CA