Kristianne Molina
Email:
krmolina@ucsd.edu
Website:
kristiannemolina.com
Biography:
Kristianne (Kate) Molina is a doctoral student in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism Phd Program at the University of California, San Diego. She earned an MA in Critical Theory and the Arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York and received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award. Kate also attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey with a concentration in Painting and Drawing and a Pre-college Scholarship from Parsons School of Design in New York. She is also an alumnus of the Visual and Performing Arts High School magnet program in the New Jersey City University and received the Anthony S. Guadadiello Memorial Scholarship for college.
In 2024, she was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship for her research on the Boxer Codex at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. In 2023, she presented in the conference Mediating Myth: Image and Objects as Critical Intercessor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. In 2021, Kate co-curated Liwayway: Balik Tanaw at Mana Contemporary with a sponsorship from the Monira Foundation in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2017, she exhibited in the XI Florence Biennial: Creativity and Sustainability at the Fortezza de Basso in Florence, Italy and was awarded the 5th Prize in Textile and Fiber Arts. In 2018, she presented a solo exhibition I Am Both. I Am Neither. at District Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines. That year she was also invited as a Teaching Artist Resident at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York and curated I Am We, a presentation of her collaboration with Peekskill high school teachers and students and including her work in Between I and Thou at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2016, she received an Artist Residency at the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary and continued to serve as the Assistant to the Director and mentored students in the high school program Sol Studios. She has conducted workshops on her research with natural dyes and pigments, textiles, specifically on the natural science of the insect cochineal at the NYU Food & Culture (2018), The Ethical Community Charter School (2018), Mana BSMT Lunch & Learn Series (2018), and during the exhibition Implied Scale: Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change (2020) curated by Kele McComsey at Mana Contemporary. Kate has participated in group exhibitions such as The First Picture of You (2019) at the Philippine Consulate General New York, The Bojagi Textile Forum (2018) in Seoul, Korea, Morir Sonador (2018) curated by Alex Santana in Knockdown Center, New York, Please Touch: Body Boundaries (2018) curated by Ysabel Pinyol at Mana Contemporary and others.
Kate is also the Founder and Artistic Director of ESKOLASTIKA, an art and wellness laboratory and is a 200YTT certified yoga practitioner and currently training in the 500YTT program in Atmananda Yoga International. At the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in New York, she began her Vedanta studies and was trained in meditation at the So Shim Sa Korean Zen Center in New Jersey. She participated in the Getty Consortium Seminar (2024) with Meridith Cohan at the Getty Museum and Library, Mana Professional (2018) in Mana Contemporary moderated by Sara Raza, New York Crit Club (2017) with Catherine Haggarty, and Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York (2016) with Jesse Chun and is affiliated with Project Clay Studios Hoboken and FIELD collective.
