Krista Dragomer

Krista Dragomer is an interdisciplinary artist whose studio practice drives a broader investigation into ways of being and relating. She creates artworks and interactive practices that invite viewers and participants to sense into possible ways of being and relating beyond categorical definitions of space and place, self and world. She co-creates artworks, books, retreats, courses and events with organizations and researchers seeking new epistemologies and methodologies beyond institutionalized thought, weaving together her sense based explorations with forms of speculative philosophical inquiry and participatory practice across disciplines. Her artwork has been presented in galleries and in academic conferences, art and science museums, concert venues, public parks, storefronts, DIY artist-run spaces, and podcasts. She collaborates with Bayo Akomolafe as the Vunja Artist-in-Residence, working in the ecotones between Dancing With Mountains and The Emergence Network. She recently created artwork for Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader, publication date February 2026, Ayin Press. She is currently collaborating on an anthology for For The Wild, expected 2026.

Krista’s artwork gives corporeality and material presence to forms of life-living and processes that the language of modernity reduces to metaphor, letting the erotics of the unknown unmake bodies into swarms of becomings and emergences, into fleshy refusals to be represented or named. About Krista’s work, post-humanist philosopher Bayo Akomolafe writes I gasped when I encountered your art. I said to myself: "Here's another fascinating aesthetic exploration of the Afrocene!" Your work feels mycorrhizal, like it was painted with dirt...the way you uproot bodies and simultaneously re-root them in loamy soils simmering beneath the concrete floors of the Enlightenment.

Krista has several long-term collaborations including creating sound installations with experimental filmmaker Rashin Fahandej, whose mutli-platform work, “A Father’s Lullaby,” has been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival immersive program In Search of Us (2025), the ICA Boston, Prix Ars Electronica where it received the 2021 Award of Distinction in Digital Musics & Sound. She also collaborates frequently with writer-theologian Beatrice Marovich, and their work together was part of Machines in Between: An Immersive Online Audio Program curated by Dr. John Modern, and a comprehensive selection of her drawings is included in Marovich’s book “Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying” published by Columbia University Press, 2023. She has co-curated several of Dr. Eben Kirksey’s Multispecies Salon exhibitions and programs centering the intersection of art, research, and activism in local and global responses to the global climate crisis.

for art inquiries contact: studio.kristadragomer@gmail.com