Krista Dragomer creates art, writing, and participatory works that move speculatively between complex ecological presents, mytho-poetic origins of life, and possible futures. Her practice includes drawings and mixed media works on paper, sculpture, audio installations, and interdisciplinary events at the intersection of art, philosophy, and social justice. Her work has been recently exhibited at the Morgan Paper Gallery in Cleveland, LMCC Art Center on Governors Island, and numerous festivals, academic conferences and international venues. Her collaborative projects have been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, ICA Boston, and Prix Ars Electronica where the soundscape she created for A Father's Lullaby received the 2021 Award of Distinction in Digital Musics & Sound. She sustains several long-term collaborations across multiple disciplines: Krista is the ongoing Vunja Artist-in-Residence with philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé’s organizations Dancing With Mountains and The Emergence Network. She creates sound installations with Iranian experimental filmmaker Rashin Fahandej focused on the criminal justice system and feminist histories in the US and Iran, and has co-curated several of anthropologist Eben Kirksey’s Multispecies Salon exhibitions, staging provocative intersections of art, research, and eco-activism. Dragomer's drawings are published in Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying by Beatrice Marovich (Columbia University Press, 2023) , Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader edited by Eden Pearlstein (Ayin Press, 2026), and Slow Earth Companion: Rooted Wayfaring in Fragmentary Times, an anthology of conversations and writing produced by For The Wild (Set Margins, 2026).
Drawing on the Senses (DOTS) is a practice that engages creativity as the aliveness of our interconnection with the world through our senses. DOTS invites participants to explore perception through exercises and prompts that approach drawing as a relational practice rather than the acquisition of representational skills. This practice integrates philosophical inquiry with embodied artmaking, working with these modes of inquiry as an invitation to observe, reflect, and experiment with the processes that connect sensing and worlding—the ongoing, active process through which worlds come into being through perceptual, relational encounters. The senses are not merely biological, but are the place where biology meets physics, history, culture, philosophy, theology, ethics—in other words, it is the place where we learn what to embody concepts like human, self and world. DOTS is an experimental creative practice that uses drawing to open up these concepts through regarding each as a continuum rather than a fixed point.
in conversation with Erin Manning
in conversation with Beatrice Marovich
"Becoming Earth"
Article by Beatrice Marovich featuring Krista's Shelf Life watercolor series—images exploring human composting and the transformation of bodies into earth through drawings of composting vegetables, breasts and flesh.
Publisher: SAND (Science and Nonduality)
Publication date: 2020
Link: scienceandnonduality.com/article/becoming-earth
"Animal Altars"
Essay by Beatrice Marovich with Krista's drawings exploring death, animal remains, hunting, taxidermy, and the boundaries between living and dead, human and animal.
Publisher: Killing the Buddha
Publication date: May 2, 2011
Link: killingthebuddha.com/mag/confession/animal-altars
contact: studio.kristadragomer@gmail.com