Biography
Cristi Rinklin’s paintings, installations, and works on paper explore the back-and-forth between technological and analog simulations of the landscape. Rather than faithful representations of the natural world, her work manifests as illusory composites; environments situated between geographical, virtual, and psychic space.
Rinklin received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1999, and her BFA in painting from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1989. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums throughout the United States for over twenty-five years. She has had numerous national and international exhibitions in galleries and museums, including solo exhibitions at the Newport Art Museum, the Fitchburg Art Museum, and the Currier Museum of Art, and her work has included in solo and group exhibitions in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, Seattle, Rome, Florence, and Amsterdam. Her paintings have been included in the 2010 and 2012 Northeast edition of New American Paintings. Rinklin is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust and the Jerome Foundation Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at the American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist and Scholar program, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts. Her work is represented in Boston by Ellen Miller Gallery. Rinklin is currently a Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, MA. She lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
Upcoming Exhibition
Work will be featured in a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Zillman Museum at the University of Maine, Bangor, from September-December 2025