About Kristina
My work is about finding joy in the urban environment. Kristina Hagman is a life-long oil painter and printmaker. Her work spans themes and mediums, but many are inspired by place, with a deep nostalgia and a commitment to landscape.
Kristina had her first professional show at the age of 23 at the Arthur Elrod Gallery in Palm Springs. Her early work emulated the flowers painted by Georgia of O’Keefe. The lifestyle and beautiful landscapes of that early feminist artist led Kristina to move O’Keefe’s New Mexico in order to find her own art path there. She soon met e generous artists of the John Slone Figurative Drawing group, all professional artists who helped he find her way.
Her life and art have taken her around the world, from Tokyo’s walls of color to the sloping overgrown freeways of the Pacific Northwest. While living in Seattle Kristina was inspired by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai and his 36 views of Mount Fuji. Using the Japanese master as an exemplar, she created 36 Views of Mount Rainier though using western oil-based inks and wood block printing techniques.
Kristina now lives in Alexandria Virginia, close the great Potomac River. Her current work is dominated by landscapes and commissioned portraits.
Unconventional Education
As a child I sat painting next to my mother and grandmother who were all about making art. They helped me get my first exhibitions in Salon style settings that were very successful. But it was in Santa Fe, New Mexico where my professional life truly began. It was an amazing environment in which to be an artist. Though it was a small town back in the early 1980’s there were hundreds of galleries. Galleries and art dealers from all over the world came there to meet artists and my work was picked up for several out-of-town shows including, shows in New York and Germany. Encouraged by my local mentors I began to study in earnest, attending classes in art history at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque and The College of Santa Fe. In the early 1990’s I was juried into master classes at the Santa Fe Institute of Art and Design. At the institute I painted under master artists, Wayne Thiebaud, Nathan Oliveira, and Richard Diebenkorn. New Mexico was also a hub for fine art printmaking. I learned many printmaking techniques from Ron Pokrasso who is at Timberwick Studio. I continued to learn the craft of printing while publishing my own works when I moved to Seattle, with printmakers, Sheila Coppola of Sidereal Press in Tukwila, Washington. In California I worked with Madeleine Zyarewicz of Panorama Press in Highland Park and Gloria Kondrup of Architype Press in Pasadena.
In 2014 despite having dyslexia, I took on the challenge of writing a book about my wild and wonderful family. I was helped in this process by working in Santa Monica College’s Learning Disabilities Program and collaborating with author Elizabeth Kaye it was published in 2016 by Thomas Dunne Books.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Printmaker Inc. Alexandria, Virgina
2016 Bone Black Gallery, Austin, Texes
2015 Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island, Washington
2012 Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
2011 Ronald Tutor Campus Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2011 Senior Arts Foundation Popup Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2011, 2010 Cullom Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2010 Sidereal Fine Art Press, Tukwila, Washington
2010 Kinsey Gallery Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
2010 Robby King, Bainbridge Island, Washington
2009 Woodinville City Hall, Woodinville, Washington
2009, 2007 Antioch University, Seattle, Washington
2008, 2003 ACE Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2004 Studio 84 West, Ojai, California Nico Gallery, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington
1999, 2001 Bailey Boushay House, Seattle, Washington
2000 The Miner Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1998, 1999 Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1988 Das Fenster Gallery, Cologne, Germany American Airlines Sponsored Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany Jessica Darraby Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986, 1987 Whitney Gallery, Cocoa Beach, Florida
1983 Thomason Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
1982 Country Art Gallery, Long Island, New York
1981 Arthur Elrod Gallery, Palm Springs, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Athenaeum,Potomac River Life, Alexandria, Virginia
2020 Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia
2016 Printmakers Inc. Alexandria, Virginia
2017 Press On! Hangar South Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2015 Brand Library and Arts Center, National Works on Paper exhibition, Glendale, California
2015 The 101st Annual Member show, California Society of Printmakers, Gery Loft Gallery, Oakland, California.
2014 Last Hurrah to the Blue Whale, West Hollywood, California
2014 Venice Under the Influence, Venice, California
2013 The Floating World, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
2012 Man, Machine and Nature, Sission Gallery MacKenzie Fine Art Center Dearborn Michigan
2012 Celebration of Washington Artists, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington
2012 Currents: Seattle Print Arts Exhibition, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
2012 Creative Block Show, Seattle, Washington
2011 Joan Agajanian Quinn portraits, Santa Anna College, Santa Anna, California
Los Angeles Printmaking Society Members juried Exhibition, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California
2011 All media juried show Spokane City Hall Chase Gallery, Spokane Washington
2011 Inspired By The West, University House, Wallingford, Washington
2011 Moku Hanga Kites, KIWA Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Kyoto, Japan
2011 First Annual Moku Hanga Conference, Kyoto, Japan
2010 Ten: Juried print exhibit, Seattle Print Arts at the Kirkland arts center Kirkland, Washington
2010 Print invitational show Robby King Gallery, Bainbridge, Washington
2010 Juried Print exhibition Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
2010 Cullom Gallery, Seattle Washington
2009 Northwest Emerging Artists Seattle City Light Portable works, Seattle Washington
2009 20th National Exhibition the Los Angles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles CA
2009 Boston Printmakers 2009 North American Print Biennial, Boston University, Boston Massachusetts
2009 EDGE program group show, Edmonds Washington
2008 Print Artist Showcase, University House Issaquah, Washington
2007 Florence Biennale, Firenze, Italy
2004 Local Color, Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington
2002, 2003 ACE Gallery, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington
2000 “Artists Making Prints,” Jacob Lawrence Galley, University of Washington,Seattle, Washington
1997 “From the Heart,” Klein-Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991, 1995, 1997 “The Magnificent Subject,” College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 “Departures and Disclosures,” David Rettig Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994, 1995 Hahn-Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 Monothon, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1987, 1986, 1991 Summer Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1988 Portrait Show, Otis Parson Museum, Los Angeles, California “The Cow Show,” Ankerum Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 “Hollywood,” Otis Parsons Museum, Los Angeles, California
1987, 1988 “Valentine’s Show,” Sonoma State University, Sonoma, Calfornia
1987 Summer Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1986 Human Figure Show, Stables Gallery, Taos, New Mexico Susan Blanchard Galleries, New York, New York Mills Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1985, 1986 Whitney Gallery, Cocoa Beach, Florida
1985 “Woman in Art,” Susan Blanchard Galleries, New York, New York
Awards
1999 Recipient of the “Joseph Stella Scholarship” Borsa Di Studio “Joseph Stella” Edizione 1999, Centro Culturale Franco-italiano, Muro Lucano Italy (A grant to live and paint in Italy)
Collections
Complete set 36 views of Mount Rainier, Cynthia Sears, promised gift to Bainbridge Art Museum
2009 – A Commission by Doctor Salvatore Pagliuca to create a mosaic steps to the National Archeological Museum, Muro Lucano ,Italy. Image based on sonnet XIII by Ludovico Ariosto, poet of the 1500s
Seattle City light, Seattle, Washington
Group Health Cooperative, Bellevue, Washington
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
The Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
First National Bank, Weatherford, Texas
Gannet Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia
Bridget Fonda, Los Angeles, California
Joan Agajanian Quinn, Los Angeles, California
Howard Tullman, Chicago, Illinois
Other
2014 Woodblock presentation, Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena California
2012 Member of Seattle Print arts, Artist Trust, Los Angeles Printmaking Society and California Society of Printmakers
2003, 2002 Art teacher, youth program, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
2003, 2002, 2001 Painting teacher Stevens elementary School, Seattle, Washington
2001 Lecturer Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California
1992, 1995 Artist Lecturer: “Women of the West,” Recursions, Smithsonian Museum Art Tour, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1986 Curator of “Dragon Art,” Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1985 Guest Lecturer on Figure Drawing, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Publications
Closer Magazine, October 2015
Daniel Smith Catalog, 2009 – 36 views of Mount Rainier
Ventura County Star, (California) 2004
Ojai Valley News (California) 2004
Apex # 17 (Germany), Spring 1993
The New Mexican, June 1991 Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 1988
Los Angeles Times, January 1988
Beverly Hills 213, January 1988
Florida Today, September 1987
Santa Fe Reporter “Voices Edition”, Summer 1987
Florida Today, September 1986
U.S.A. Today, August 1986
The New Mexican, June 1986
Ranch and Coast, Spring 1986
Fort Worth Star Telegram, April 1983
U.S. Magazine, June 1982
Long Island Today’s Times, May 1982
New York Newsday, May 1982
Miami Herald, May 1982
People Magazine, April 1981
New York Post, February 1981