Kris Casey

Kris Casey is a visual artist and creative researcher from Chicago, IL. Her work draws heavily from various fields of philosophical and scientific inquiry, including evolutionary developmental biology, bio-aesthetics, evolutionary aesthetics, and genetics. Her research and practice examines relationships between biology and technology, natural and artificial, material and immaterial, subject and object. Her paintings can be seen as assemblages or accumulations of natural and technological elements whereby the biological concepts of mutation, contamination, decay, generation, emergence and metamorphosis become modes of inquiry into the production of novel forms. Kris has a BFA in Painting from Columbia College, an MA in Digital Media: Technology & Cultural Form from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Letters, Art, and Contemporary Thought from Universite Paris 7 Diderot in Paris, France. Kris was an artist-in-residence at the Cite Nationale des Art in Paris in 2015. She was awarded the Individual Artist Project grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in 2016 and an Individual Artist Support grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2018. Upcoming exhibitions include “Abstract Mind” at the CICA Museum in 2019, as well as “Art Teleported, Brooklyn” in which she will present her project “Posthuman Painting”. She is Consultant of Creative Strategies at SkyART, a nonprofit art center for young people on the South Side of Chicago and Director of Marketing & Communications for Fulcrum Point New Music Project.