About the Artist
Kristen Oyer is a multi media artist. She received her Bachelor’s in studio art from Principia College. Since 2020, Kristen has launched multiple digital collections and painting collections, created commissioned work, and has furthered her education in art and marketing.
In August 2021, she released her most extensive collection of paintings, The Poésie Collaboration. For this project, she partnered with poets from around the world and created work inspired by their poetry. In 2022, she launched the Solace Series and created and hosted Extra Credit, an art retreat.
Kristen lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Kristen began her artistic training at age 13 in private art classes. For her high school capstone, she produced a portfolio of portrait photography. She declared her Studio Art major early on in her college career and was exhibited in galleries on campus, and was accepted onto an art and creative writing study abroad program in Prague. Following the abroad, she traveled independently to Paris and London, falling in love with renowned museums including the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, the British Museum, Tate Modern, and the Wallace Collection.
For her college capstone, Kristen produced an installation piece which focused on ongoing themes in her work: grief and solace. The piece consisted of numerous bedsheets sewn together and painted with white house paint and various objects and materials used to illustrate the process of letting go of physical objects during times of mourning. In conjunction with her capstone, she choreographed and directed a dance film titled “RUE,” which appeared in a college film festival, dance production, and her capstone exhibition.
getting started on her abstract art career
“RUE.”
Cinematography: Vince Lomascolo.
Music: Interlude 1 by alt-J; 715 - CR∑∑KS by Bon Iver; Patience by The Lumineers.