About — Kristen Jean Wheatley

image by Lily Hobart

Kristen Jean Wheatley (she/her) is an artist from rural Southwest Virginia working with activity, circulation, and endurance. She uses wood, fabric, and metal to actualize her sculptural and performative work. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘PLOT’ at Lazy Eye Gallery and ‘Count the Ways’ exhibited through the Yucca Valley Public Art Program. Her work has also been shown in group shows at the Anderson, Gallery 263, the Hammer Museum Pop-Up at UCLA, and Snide Hotel, among others. Additionally, she has been awarded a Dean's Research Grant at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Visual Artist Residency at Vermont Studio Center. Kristen Jean currently lives in 29 Palms, California, on unceded Serrano and Chemehuevi land.

Through my work, I explore the ways we move and the way the world moves around us. By carefully observing both natural and human systems, I learn, follow, track, and respond through artistic production. By creating objects that make the invisible visible, I activate and investigate each cycle. I encourage audiences to look around and question how they consume, interact with, and even depend on the movement of resources, people, information, and themselves.

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