Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Krystyna Printup (New York, 1983) is a Brooklyn based artist, curator and educator whose work investigates her identity as an Indigenous woman and the issues surrounding ideal representations of the Native American community. A member of the New York Tuscarora Turtle Clan, Printup references her tribal history throughout her paintings, sculptures and design work referencing American Indian folk art, pop culture stereotypes, and objects of everyday life which are then combined with her own family's history and traditions. She has exhibited at Marianne Boesky gallery; Mehr Midtown Gallery; Schafler Gallery; White Box Gallery; The Hole; NYU Kimmel Windows Gallery; Year 08 Art Fair: London and at the Whitney Biennial 2017. Printup launched an original art collection with The Company Store for their inaugural Fine Art in 2018 and Artfare listed her one of the "60 contemporary artists to collect in 2019". In 2021 she designed an immersive installation reimagining the Iroquois story of creation " Turtle Island" for the Chashama Gala in Times Square. She is the 2018 awardee of the Stony Brook "40 under 40" Award, and Fund For Teachers double grantee. Printup received a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a MLA from StonyBrook College, Stony Brook, NY.
Krystyna Printup
(b.1983) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2010 Pratt Institute Graduate Center, New York, NY
2009 MLA Stony Brook College, Stony Brook, NY
2005 BFA Pratt Institute, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 SEEING RED at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 OUTCROPPING: Indigenous Art Now at Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
WE THE PEOPLE at The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
2021 Turtle Island -The Iroquois story of creation at Chashama Gala, New York, NY
2020 A Small Needed Fact ( after a poem by Ross Gay) at Assembly Room, New York, NY
2019 VOICES: Indigenous Storytelling at Kimmel Windows Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Indigenous Creatives at PWRPLNT Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2017 DebtFair at Whitney Biennial 2017 at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2016 Vylacil Summer Exhibition at Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery, Vylacil, NY
See.Me:The Art of Color at Chashama Gala, New York, NY
Plant Sale at Rabbithole Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Yourself at Local Project Gallery, Long Island City
Dark and Scary at The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Old York Road at White Box Gallery, New York, NY
2008 YEAR 08 LONDON Art Fair, with Mehr Midtown Gallery, London,UK
PROJECTS
2025 "Land Acknowledgement 5 ", installation, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven CT
2023 "Land Acknowledgement 6 ", installation, the Tender Art Space, Concord MA
2019 "To Name an Other" Jeffrey Gibson, New Museum, N.Y, performer
"Homeland" Private Exhibit at ETS Headquarters, Princeton, NJ
2019 ARTFARE App: featured artist and inaugural 60 NYC artists
2018 Indigenous Creatives Festival, promotional artwork; flyer design and exhibition artist
2017 The Company Store Fine Art Collection, Featured Artist and limited edition collection
Teaching Artist
2006- Current Art Department Chair, Brooklyn School for Social Justice
AWARDS
2025 Awardee, Academy for Teachers, New York, NY
2024 Fellowship, Fund for Teachers, New York, NY
2022 Awardee, Wardrobe Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Grantee, Spark the Arts, YSA/ Hilton Tapestry Collection, New York, NY
Honoree, Stony Brook 40 Under 40, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2017 Fellowship, Fund for Teachers, New York, NY
2015 Awardee-Semi Finalist, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series at Rush Foundation, New York, NY
PRESS /PRINT
Segal, Mark, Indigenious Art in Southamptons, The East Hampton Star, Feburary 2022
Feleciano, Cheryl, NYU Kimmel Windows Galleries Presents Voices, NYU NEWS, March 2019
Printup, Krystyna, Native American...or Indian..or Whatever you call us, TRIBES, July 2018
Linea, Staff, The Summer Exhibition at Vytlacil, Linea the Artist's Voice, July 2016
Jones, Karen, Seeing the Art in Plastic Straws and other cast offs, New York Times, March 2013
Scander, Alex, Perry and Printup, Snapback from NYC, DaVibe Magazine, April 2012
Pursuing Justice with a Paint Brush, Odyssey Vol. 4, November 2008
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