Steinke-Finch, Krista Assistant Professor

Krista Steinke is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker known for her experimental approach to photo media. Her work draws from various sources such as art and photographic history, science, current events, the female perspective, and individual experience to explore how the physical, social, and personal intertwine.



She regularly exhibits her work in museums, galleries, and film festivals across the country, as well as internationally. Her time-based works have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery, UK, ISEA 2024, Brisbane, AU; Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, Trinidad + Tobago; Earth Day Film Festival, CA; Currents New Media Festival, NM; The Dallas Contemporary, TX; Jersey City Art Museum, NJ; Aurora Picture Show, TX; Symphony Space, NY; aCinema Space, WI; Detroit Museum of New Art, MI; Palm Springs Art Museum, CA; Sarai Media Lab, New Delhi; Goliath Visual Space, NY; Baltimore Artscape, MD; Columbia University and Climate School, NY; Engauge Experimental Film Festival, WA; and Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; among others.



Her work has received support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, Glasscock Center for Arts and Humanities, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, among others. In 2024, she received a Jones Artist Award, hosted by the Houston Endowment, and was featured in the Texas Biennial.



Steinke holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art. She grew up in Texas and has lived in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Seattle, and Chicago, among other places. Currently, she divides her time between Houston, Texas and rural New York state.