About

BIO

Krista Davis is a visual artist working in video, animation and sculpture, living between Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory (Dawson City, Yukon) and K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her practice is a space where dirt, bones, and jars of microscopic algal communities meet costumes, wigs, and jars of glass glitter. Where queerness, the Wild and relationships in the natural world guide artistic explorations. In this space, Davis hopes to uncover creative, even fantastical strategies to shift human and non-human relationships towards a more ecologically just world.

Davis’ work has exhibited at festivals and galleries internationally. She has two collaborative side projects, Hypercosmic Earth and Dirt (HEaD) and The Paradise Boys, and has been a contributor-participant with ecological projects such as Drylab 2023, Nibi Walks and Stories for the Arctic Refuge. Before turning focus to her solo practice in 2016, Davis co-founded the OUTeast Queer Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and created queer cabaret-style music/video/comedy synthetic-haired mash-up shows with a group of artists and musicians at the Company House. 

Davis received her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and MFA from at Arizona State University. 

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