Bio/Statement
Kristina Arnold is an artist and educator living and working in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her practice combines an undergraduate degree and work in community health with a graduate degree in painting, professional museum / gallery experience, and a life-long dedication to activism. Materializing in two, three and four dimensions, Arnold’s work ranges from pieces that question current societal understandings of health and wellness and suggest alternative paradigms, to producing projects that more specifically direct desired outcomes. An objects and materials lover, her practice includes collecting and cataloging as a method for understanding.
Born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, Arnold received a degree in community health from Brown University. Upon graduation she moved to Nashville to pursue a career in public health, working in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After five years she returned to her first love, atte