Education

2020 MFA in Painting & Printmaking. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2012 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL

Awards and Residencies

2023 EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Kahn Mason SIP Fellow. New York City, NY

2022 Bunker Projects Craft Residency Fellowship. Pittsburgh, PA

2021 Lafayette College Experimental Printmaking Residency. Easton, PA

Atlantic Center for the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL

The Drawing Center Viewing Program 20/21. Online

2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

Dean’s Critical Practice Research Grant, Yale University

2012 Southside Hub of Production. Chicago, IL

Selected Professional

2023 Instructor, Intro to Relief & Extended Media. SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY

2021 Instructor, Beginning Printmaking

Visiting Critic, Capstone Senior Thesis. Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2020 Teaching Assistant, Self-Publishing & Senior Thesis. Yale School of Art. New Haven, CT

2019 Programming Coordinator, Yale Norfolk School of Art. Norfolk, CT

2017-2018 Exhibitions and Programming Manager, Hume Chicago. Chicago, IL

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Transatlantic Tarantism. Wave Hill Sunroom Projects Space. Bronx, NY

You were born good at make die. Bunker Projects. Pittsburgh, PA

2021 Sprig of Rue. Green Street Galleries. Easton, PA

2020 Messengers and Promises. Dirt Palace, Providence, RI

2017 Who Twists Lures. Ballrooms Projects, Chicago, IL

2015 All the Pretty Horses. Hume, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions/Print Expos

2022 Salamander. Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University. Lincoln, NE

The House Protects the Dreamer. Kingfish Gallery. Buffalo, NY (two-person exhibition)

2021 Paul Nudd’s Purple Mayonnaisery. Western Exhibitions. Chicago, IL

A gate//a veil//a vessel. Field Projects & Home Gallery NYC. New York, NY

2020 Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA. Online Viewing Room, Perrotin Gallery.
ONLY WHEN YOU ARE CALLED: Painting Thesis Group. Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2018 Comix Body. Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2012-2018* Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. Center on Halsted, Chicago, IL

Chicago Zine Fest. Columbia College/Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, IL

2017 Truer Lives. Arts of Life, Chicago, IL

2014, 2016 RIPE. Rhode Island Public Library, Providence, RI

2015 Short Run. Fisher Pavilion, Seattle, WA

Burnout. Learning Machine Gallery, Chicago, IL (two-person exhibition)

Linework. Norse Hall, Portland, OR

2013 Autoptic. Aria, Minneapolis, MN

*Exhibited every year

Selected Performances & Panels

2020 El Salón. Online Panel moderated by Eva Mayha Davis for Perrotin Gallery. https://vimeo.com/440379883

2015 “Pictures of Pictures”: A Roundtable on Poetry and Comics. Panel Moderated by Tony Trigilio for CAKE, Chicago, IL.

Bibliography

2022. Sidney Mullis, “Help and Harm: Untangling Care from Violence (Review of You were born good at make die.)”, Bunker Projects, Apr. 30, 2022. https://www.bunkerprojects.org/helpandharm.html

2020 Keegan Bonds Harmon, “Interview with Krystal DiFronzo”, Dirt Palace, Oct. 13, 2020. http://dirtpalace.blogspot.com/2020/10/interview-with-krystal-difronzo.html

2019 Harrison Smith & Matthew Reiner, “Artist’s Portrait: Krystal DiFronzo”, Yale Herald, Nov. 18, 2019. https://yaleherald.com/artists-portrait-krystal-difronzo-6d7cae8dd400

Laurie Piña, “Fan Mail: Krystal DiFronzo”, The Comics Journal #304, Sep. 24, 2019