Krista Dragomer is a shape-shifting she monster living and working on the banks of Red Hook, Brooklyn. As an artist, she amphibiously moves between multiple modalities, creating 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. Her practice is deeply collaborative, frequently co-creating with organizations and researchers seeking new epistemologies and methodologies beyond institutionalized thought, weaving together her sense based explorations with forms of speculative philosophical inquiry across disciplines.
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, tickling and chaffing the haptics of vision with their strange familiarities. Through the many forms her monstery practice takes, she is asks: What does it mean to be human now? What worlds would we make if we truly believed that we are ecological beings rather than autonomous organisms, separate and alone?
Krista’s work 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 is the Vunja Artist-in-Residence (2024-25), working in the ecotones between We Will Dance With Mountains and The Emergence Network, co-creating festivals, retreats, courses, written materials and artworks.
Krista has several long-term collaboration including creating sound installations with experimental fillmmaker 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 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 Dr. Beatrice Marovich’s book “Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying” published by Columbia University Press, 2023. Krista 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. She recently created book cover artwork for “Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader”, published by Ayin Press and is currently collaborating on an anthology for For The Wild, expected 2025.