About
Kristianne was born and raised in a small California beach town and grew up in a family of professional travel guides. After receiving her BFA in photography, she set off on her own adventures and honed her expedition skills in the mountains of California, Colorado, and Mexico while guiding for the Sierra Club and the Colorado Outward Bound School. Soon after she met her husband they set out on a life-changing adventure together sailing a 38' sailboat 8,000 miles from San Diego, CA to French Polynesia and north to Hawaii over the course of a year and a half.
Kristianne is a visual artist captivated by works on paper, installations, and book arts. Common themes are personal narrative and its intersection with environment and motherhood. She received a BFA in Photography from California State University at Long Beach. She taught photography at CSUF, held numerous workshops, lectured at CSULB, received recognition from Luerzer’s Archive, Communication Arts Magazine, and was a Critical Mass finalist.
When she's not in her studio or creating on location, she is exploring the California coast by sailboat with her husband and teenage children. Kristianne and her family are currently refitting a 46’ Kelly Peterson offshore sailboat to sail to the Sea of Cortez and beyond.
Balancing her thirst for adventure, freedom, and spontaneity while settling down with a routine to raise a family has heavily influenced her work. She is nestled into her hometown, for now, to be near family.
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RECOGNITION
Gold ADDY Award 2018
Critical Mass Finalist Top 200, 2017
Communication Arts Magazine Advertising Annual Award 2016
Communication Arts Magazine Photography Annual Award 2014
Director's Award, Voyages, The Kiernan Gallery 2013
Director's Award, July (3 selected), A Smith Gallery 2013
Director's Selection, Water! The Center for Fine Art Photography 2013
Honorable Mention, Through A Lens: Ten, Kellicut International Photo Show. Kim Komenich, Tom Till, Crista Dix 2013
EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Horizon and Everything Within It, curated by Hamidah Glasgow, The Center for Fine Art Photography in conjunction with Artworks Loveland, CO
2021
The Forgetting Room, Las Laguna Art Gallery
2019
Sanctuary, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror Laura Valenti
Summer Splash, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA.
Water, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror Elizabeth Avedon
2018
Thresholds, solo exhibition, Casa Romantica Cultural Center, San Clemente, CA
2017
The Quiet Landscape, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Jurors Jacob and Alyssa Hessler
2015
F-Stop Magazine Black and White Exhibition, Juror Christy Karpinski
2014
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photography Annual, Great Ocean Quarterly Cover Image
Griffin Museum of Photography 20th Juried Exhibition, Winchester, MA Juror Aline Smithson
Alternate Realities: 14 Photographic Visions, ARENA 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Expressions: Contemporary Portraiture, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA Juror Robin Rice
Take Flight, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA Juror Jennifer Schlesinger Hanson
The Art of Work, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, Jurors Julia Dolan and John Jay
The National: Best Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN (permanent collection)
2013
Voyages, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA Juror Christy Karpinski (two selected)
Water!, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Wally Mason
July, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Juror Christy Karpinski (three selected)
The Edges of Night: Dawn and Dusk, PhotoPlace Gallery, VT, Juror Sean Kiernan
Kellicutt International Photo Show, Through a Lens: Ten. Coastal Arts League Museum, Jurors: Kim Komenich, Tom Till, Crista Dix,
Open Water, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA, Juror, Jennifer Schwartz of Jennifer Schwartz Gallery (two selected)
Still Point V, Still Point Gallery
The Magic of Light, The PhotoPlace Gallery, online annex, Middlebury VT, juror Aline Smithson
Alternate Realities: 11 Photographic Visions, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
House Party Exhibition of Photography, 2951 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alchemy + Entity: New Works by Sixteen Photographers, Julia Dean Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Green, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror Corinne Tapia of the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York
2011
Human + Being, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror James Balog
2010
Selected works from Makai, Mother and Child, and Pu'uhonua solo exhibition, The Center for Spiritual Living Gallery, Capistrano Beach, CA
2005
Mother and Child, San Clemente Art Gallery, San Clemente, CA
2004
International Fine Art Photography Exhibition, the Center for Fine Art Photography at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, Juror, Mary Virginia Swanson
2003
Makai-Photographs Toward the Sea solo exhibition, JK Art and Design Gallery, San Clemente, CA 2002
International Fine Art Photography, Salt Lake City Olympics, Olympic Village, Salt Lake City, UT
International Fine Art Photography, Millenium Art Center, Washington, D.C.
2001
Honolulu Artists Group Show, Ala Moana Hotel, Art at Marks Garage Gallery, Honolulu, HI
INTERVIEWS
My Life Creative Podcast, February 6, 2017
F-STOP Magazine, January 8, 2014
PUBLISHED
2020
Ads of the World
Leurzer’s Archive
2018
2016
Zeit Leo Magazin
2015
2014
Communication Arts Magazine Photography Annual
Great Ocean Quarterly, cover
2013
F-Stop Magazine
Le Journal de la Photographie
Sea Stoke Blog
Blur Magazine, Issue 31
Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer
Orion Magazine, July/August
Sea Stoke, Issue Two
2012
Photobook Cali by Photo District News
2009
Makai - Photographs Toward the Sea