Kristina Sheufelt is a visual artist and environmentalist based in Detroit, Michigan. She received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022. In 2017 she attended a National Parks Arts Foundation residency in Texas, and in 2020 was invited to the La Wayaka Current residency in Chile. In 2023 Sheufelt was an AIR at the Prairie Ronde residency in Vicksburg, MI, and the Cedar Point Biological Research Station in Nebraska. Her work and research has been presented at institutions throughout the United States and abroad, and has won awards locally and internationally.
Sheufelt’s interdisciplinary practice utilizes object and image-making, ephemeral installation, and experiments in human-nature collaboration to investigate the underlying psychology of human ecological behaviors. Informing this investigation is a long-standing commitment to engaging in formal research within the biological and environmental sciences. Sheufelt’s work often deals with themes of permanence and impermanence, exploring parallels in love and loss across human and ecological relationships. She utilizes her body and experiences as a visual and symbolic reference point for human/nature relationships at large, reflecting on the need for ecological intimacy in the face of today’s myriad environmental crises.
Sheufelt’s interdisciplinary practice utilizes object and image-making, ephemeral installation, and experiments in human-nature collaboration to investigate the underlying psychology of human ecological behaviors. Informing this investigation is a long-standing commitment to engaging in formal research within the biological and environmental sciences. Sheufelt’s work often deals with themes of permanence and impermanence, exploring parallels in love and loss across human and ecological relationships. She utilizes her body and experiences as a visual and symbolic reference point for human/nature relationships at large, reflecting on the need for ecological intimacy in the face of today’s myriad environmental crises.