Kristina Reinis, 2026
KRISTINA REINIS
is a visual artist, writer, and public scholar engaged in a multidisciplinary study of home: how it’s inherited, who gets to define it, and how we build it for ourselves.
Trained at Harvard Divinity School, Reinis’ public scholarship examines how evangelical ideas about gender, family, and domesticity shape the cultural understanding of the “American home” in the United States. Her work focuses on the role conservative evangelical women play in producing and preserving this ideal through storytelling, mythmaking, and other narrative traditions, and how these stories have helped make the “American home” a powerful political force.
She traces that same idea of home wherever it resurfaces: in political rhetoric, popular culture and media, and everyday life. As a visual artist, she turns that lens inward, using painting, textiles, and handmade sets built from repurposed materials to reimagine a home of her own. Her installations blur realism with reimagined environments, bringing play, whimsy, and imagination into the ordinary. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
The two practices share a method, not just a subject: close, patient attention to the objects, texts, and histories that shape our understanding of home. This work plays out publicly online at @kristina.reinis, where video essays, cultural commentary, and art live side by side and showcase this ongoing study of home.
