Krista Svalbonas holds a BFA in Photography and an MFA in Interdisciplinary studies. Her work has been featured in a number of exhibitions including at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Spartanburg Art Museum in South Carolina, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, Marshall gallery in Los Angeles, Klompching Gallery and ISE Cultural Foundation in New York. Her work has been collected by the Cesis Art Museum in Latvia, Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelpia, Gregg Museum of Art and Design in North Carolina and is part of numerous private collections. Recent awards include a Center for Photography Grant (2022), Baumanis Creative Projects Grant (2020), Rhonda Wilson Award (2017), Puffin Foundation Grant (2016) and a Bemis Fellowship (2015) among others. In 2022, Svalbonas had solo exhibitions of her Displacement series at the Copenhagen Photo Festival in Denmark, the Kiek de Kok in Tallinn Estonia and the Augsburg museum of Textile and Industry in Germany. She is an associate professor of photography at St. Joseph’s University. She lives and works in Philadelphia.
