Krystal DiFronzo (b.1989 Chicago, IL) is an artist and educator residing in the rural corner of NW Massachusetts. They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and their MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2020. 

Utilizing natural dye, silk painting, quilting, printmaking, weaving, drawing and publications their work seeks out histories surrounding the relationships between pharmakon, ecology, symbiosis, illness, desire, and magic. They use these histories as a framework to construct slippery narratives that weave together past bodies (animal, vegetable, and mineral) with personal poetics and contemporary struggles with labor, medicine, and environmental collapse. 

They have held solo exhibitions at Wave Hill, Bronx; Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh; Hume, Chicago; Ballroom Projects, Chicago; and Dirt Palace in Providence, RI. Their work has been shown in group exhibitions at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; Kingfish Gallery, Buffalo; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; Field Projects, New York; and digitally through The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program and Perrotin Gallery. They have been an artist in residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, at Lafayette College’s Experimental Printmaking Institute, and at Bunker Projects as part of their Craft Fellowship. In 2023 they were a Kahn Mason Studio Intensive Program fellow at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC. Their publications are in the collections of the Joan Flasch Artist’s Books Collection as well as other academic zine libraries across the country.

They have taught printmaking at SUNY Purchase, Lafayette College and Williams College were they currently act as Printshop Manager and Technician. They also currently serve as Master Printer for Blazing Star Press, an artist in residency and editioning program based in Williamstown, MA that invites emerging artists to create new bodies of work through innovative non-toxic techniques.

Feel free to contact at:

krystal.e.difronzo@gmail.com