Kristine Zingeler
KOAC Artist in Residence
September 1 – October 31, 2024
KOAC hosted Artist in Residence Kristine Zingeler in fall 2024.
Kristine Zingeler is a multidisciplinary artist born and residing in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). She currently works primarily with clay, photography, and found objects to create sculptural works that investigate notions of time, both geologic and human. As the mother of two young children, she balances art making with snack making and has fostered a deep love of collecting natural objects. She has participated in many local and national exhibitions.
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Kristine Zingeler is an artist well-attuned to observing nature’s textures, patterns, and histories, creating work that leans into a naturalist instinct toward inquisitive wonder. Exploring time and place, Kristine completed her artist residency at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre (KOAC), immersed in the land’s shifting fall season alongside contemporary sculptures bright and new on the horizon. Her ongoing research and photo-documentation of paleontology specimens at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller captured portraits in fossilized time, and her newest work views ancient life through a contemporary looking glass.
Kristine’s series of photographic collages and sculptural ceramics explore the fuzzy boundary we find ourselves observing between cretaceous and contemporary. Cut-outs, collages, and other meticulously hand-built forms communicate the artist’s interest in memorializing tactility, colour, and gestures of her own tiny imprints — marks of curiosity amidst the vastness of place and time. (Text by Ash Slemming)
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Kristine Zingeler was born and raised in Calgary Alberta, and received her BFA in Studio Concentration, with distinction from the University of Calgary. She has shown steadily since graduation in 2010. Awards include the Jason Lang Scholarship for academic achievement (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Jack Wise Award for Excellence in Painting (2010), she was a BMO 1st! ART Nominee ( 2011) and a finalist for the Kingston Prize in 2013. In 2014, two of her paintings were included in Manifest Press’ International Painting III, a catalogue of recent contemporary paintings from around the world. Kristine’s work is in numerous private collections across Canada.
