Kristen Hatgi Sink Is visual artist and photographer, born Denver, CO 1984. Kristen loves beautiful minds, faces, bodies, and often makes pictures with flowers and glitter. She works in film, digital, and wet plate collodion. Kristen received her BFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Kochi Japan, Canada, and Denver. Kristen lives In Denver Colorado with her husband Mark Sink in a 1900 house, which they are currently remodeling.
Photographer Kristen Hatgi Sink at once revels in and reveals the aesthetic conventions of decadence and beauty. Both sumptuous and cloying her images indulge in excess while leaving clues that not all is well in paradise. Bewildered and melancholy young women find themselves draped in extravagant floral arrays as they are positioned for optimal romantic lighting. Forlorn and often staring bemused into space or unapologetically back at the viewer, Hatgi Sink captures these young models moments after they seem to have come upon a tragic realization. Perhaps the smooth skinned girls have discovered a dark correlation between themselves and the cut flowers surrounding them – delicate objects of opulent refinement – on display, in bloom and soon to wither.
Kristen Hatgi Sink
Born Denver Colorado 1984
2008 Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2015 Bon Bon, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2015 A Tented Sky, Gildar Gallery, Denver CO
2014 Flower Face, Byer-Evans House Gallery Denver, CO
2013 Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi Robin Rice Gallery NY, NY
2009 Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi Robin Rice Gallery NY, NY
2008 “Light and Time” Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi Robin Rule Gallery Denver, CO
2007 “A Menagerie and the Tented Sky” Gallery Sink Denver, CO
Group Exhibitions
2015 Arrangements Denver Art Museum
2014 Platinum Print Alternative Process meets Tosahakkinshi, Cohju contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan
2014 Tosa Washi Platinum and Alternative Photo Processes, Japanese Paper Museum Ino, Kochi Japan
2013 Real is a Feeling, Gildar Gallery Denver, CO
2012 The Small Masterpiece, Robin Rule Gallery Denver, CO
2011 Month of Photography Library Show, Museum of Contemporary Ar Denver, CO
2011 The Big Picture, Illiterate Gallery Denver, CO
2011 Modern Uses of Alternative Processes Red Line Art Space Denver, CO MOP 2011
2011 30 Under 30 Women Photographers photoboite.com
2011 Feminine Influences, Flash Gallery Lakewood, CO
2010 Chasing the Sublime Ballet Nouveau Colorado
2009 Pure Pleasure, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
2008 A Continuum of Process of Method, Denver Public Library Denver, CO
2008 Beeing, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2006 And I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon, Gallery Sink Group Show
2006 The Nude, Art Institute of Boston Boston, MA
2005 Small Works, Flash Art Gallery Denver, CO
2005 Annual Contemporary Exhibition, The Art Center Grand Junction, CO
2004 Taking In, publishing and group show Boston, MA
2003 Colorado Congressional Award, Shown in White House
Art Fairs
2015 AIPAD, Represented by Paul Cava
2013 AIPAD, Represented by Paul Cava
2012 AIPAD, Represented by Paul Cava
Publications
2015 Juxtapoz
2014 BLACK FOREST: Four Visible Poems
Book Published by Candela Books
one image induced.
2013 Seities Magazine
Interview and Feature
2012 Two of a Kind"
Black + White Photography Magazine
7 page spread with interview by David Chow
2011 Blow Magazine
Issue 3 Inside Spread
2010 Cover of Shots Magazine 104