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Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her AA from the New World School of the Arts, Her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Recent solo exhibitions include Publicworks, Summerville, SC (2024), Norco College Art Gallery, Norco, CA (2023), Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR (2023), and Basketshop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (2018). She is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina and is a Professor at the College of Charleston, Director of SASI (Studio Art Summer Immersion) Program and teaches Ceramics at the artist collective, Studio Union.

Artist Statement

Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and arts educator committed to creating and facilitating generative exchanges about the complexities of our collective and individual human experience. Through approaches including ceramic sculpture, mixed media drawing, textile installation, public flag projects, curation and accessible arts programming; she produces her work with deep consideration for the power of design, color and language.

Her public project, My Story Is My Flag, advocates for new flag designs and offers accessible ways to design and represent the spectrum of our identities outside of nationalism. This project has been successfully executed in Oakland, CA, Graham, NC, and Missoula, MT. Her concern for access, balances her formal object making and public engagement projects.

She is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina and is a Professor at the College of Charleston, Director of SASI (Studio Art Summer Immersion) Program and teaches Ceramics at the artist collective, Studio Union.