Kristina Podesva

Kristina Lee Podesva is an artist, writer, and Editor at Fillip, an international contemporary art journal and publishing organization based in Vancouver, Canada. Her works have appeared in exhibition and publication projects in Canada, the United States, and Europe including at Artspeak (Vancouver), Dorsky Gallery (Long Island City, NY), Golden Parachutes (Berlin, Germany), La Fonderie Darling (Montreal), Platform (Winnipeg), Tate Modern (London, UK), and YYZ (Toronto), among other venues. Podesva was the inaugural artist in residence at the Langara Centre for Art in Public Spaces and founder of colourschool, a free school project dedicated to the speculative research of five colours. Her artwork has appeared in various publications and exhibition catalogues including Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation, Secret Publicity, Kits for an Encounter, decentre, and Helen’s Cookbook, among others.

As Editor at Fillip, she has contributed writing to various Fillip publications including Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, Komma: After Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, and 100% Vancouver, which she co-edited with Jeff Khonsary, and with whom she is developing a forthcoming anthology entitled Institutions by Artists (2012). As a writer, she has developed essays, reviews, and catalogue texts for Fillip, Bidoun, Artspeak gallery, and Surrey Art Gallery, among other spaces.

Podesva is currently a Visiting Scholar at the California College of the Arts, where she is teaching graduate students in the Curatorial Studies and MFA Social Practice programs as well as undergraduates in the Visual Studies department.

She received a BA in the History and College Scholar programs at Cornell University, a MFA from the University of British Columbia, and is currently a candidate in the PhD program at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.