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, printmaking, weaving, sculpture, collage and drawing 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 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, at Lafayette College’s Experimental Printmaking Institute as a teaching fellow, 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 Manhattan. They taught printmaking at SUNY Purchase and are currently the Printshop technician at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.

Feel free to contact at:

kdifro@gmail.com