Kristina Reinis is a visual artist, historian, writer, theologian, & public scholar based in Boston.
Artist Bio
Kristina Reinis is a Boston-based visual artist and public historian. Working with repurposed craft materials alongside classical painting techniques, Reinis roots her practice in an exploration of home: home as it is inherited, enforced, and redefined.
Contextualized by her evangelical upbringing in Texas, Reinis' artwork builds off her graduate research at Harvard Divinity School to critically engage American evangelicalism and their vision of the American home, "true womanhood," and conservative political culture.
In parallel, her artwork also builds a home for herself. In multi-media installations that blur realism with reimagined environments, Reinis redefines domesticity by infusing play, whimsy, and imagination into the ordinary while still challenging established norms.
Through altered interiors, portraiture, and familiar objects, her deeply personal yet playful work invites reflection on domesticity, religion, gender, disability, and their collective impact on identity, placemaking, and belonging. Reinis has exhibited locally and nationally, including at Harvard University, the San Antonio Art League and Museum, the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, and the Rockport Center for the Arts.
Kristina Reinis, 2026
Artist Statement
Through painting, cardboard, and textiles, I construct sculptures and immersive installations that reimagine the spaces we call home. Since childhood, art has been a way for me to reimagine my environment and build tangible connections with others. Today, I use my practice to interrogate North American evangelicalism―or the "home" I grew up in―while also reimagining a new understanding of home for myself.
My work often begins with familiar interiors and everyday objects. Through play, bright colors, material experimentation, and at times an unnerving surrealism, I toe the line between realism and imagined environments. This approach is informed by two impulses: the nontraditional craft of my childhood and my formal training as an oil painter. Central to my method and creativity is a sustainable art practice, often working with repurposed craft materials alongside classical painting techniques.
While grounded in personal experience, I aim to create environments where viewers can reflect on how religion, domesticity, gender, and disability shape their own understanding of home. By reworking the materials and symbols of domestic life, I do not abandon the idea of home but reconfigure it, leaving space for complexity, contradiction, and self-definition.
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Kristina Reinis, 2026
CV Request
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Production
Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, “Ebb + Flow,” Production, 2024-New York, NY and Miami, FL,
Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre (ECC), Venice Biennale, “Elements of Being,” Production, 2024, Venice, Italy
Art Workshops
Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Drawing from Life, November 2025, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Digital Scrapbooking, October 2025, Cambridge, MA
The Museum of Art and Design, Building a Home, March 2025, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, MOCA Makers: Home Making, Making Home, October 2024, Miami, FL
Soho House, Miami Beach, Cardboard Home Workshop, August 2024, Miami, FL
Coral Gables Museum, Building a Home: Cardboard Architecture Workshop, May 2024, Miami, FL
Exhibitions
2025
Flex & Flux, Group Show, Collective 62, Miami, FL
2024
Friends of Laundromat, Group Show, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
We Got The Power, Sixth Annual Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, Group Show, CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
What is your Relationship to Magic?, Commissioned Group Show, Flamboyán Consulting, Miami, FL
2023
Museum of Process, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2022
Black Church Arson: Testimony and Witness, Harvard Divinity School Library, Cambridge, MA
2020
Best of Wish U R Here, The Eagle Harbor General Store Museum, Eagle Harbor, MI
Show & Tell, Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Rising Eyes of Texas, State-Wide Juried Exhibition, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
Collegiate Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio, TX
2019
The Mini Fall 2019, Juried Exhibition, Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Wish U R Here, The Eagle Harbor General Store Museum, Eagle Harbor, MI
2019
Collegiate Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio, TX
First Come, First-Show, Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, TX
The Mini 2019, Juried Exhibition, Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2018
Womyn in Art, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Student Showcase 2018, Juried Exhibition, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
The Mini 2018, Juried Exhibition, Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Lectures & Panels
“Reversing Fortune’s Fool: Renewed Faith, Love, and Reconciliation,” (Panel), Coral Gables Art Cinema, Miami, FL, 2024
“Arts, Culture, and the Everglades,” (Panel), 39th Annual Everglades Coalition Conference, Naples, FL, 2024
“Residency Bound,” (Panel), College of the Arts University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, 2023
“Religion and Nation Beyond Nationalism” (Lecture + Panel), American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Denver, CO, 2022
“What Shall We Call Thee Then?': Defining Femininity Outside the Male Heteronormative World in John Donne's 'Sappho to Philaenis.’” (Lecture), Trinity University Summer Research Symposium, San Antonio, TX, 2018