Kristine Zingeler was born and raised in Calgary Alberta, and received her BFA in Studio Concentration, with distinction from the University of Calgary. She has shown steadily since graduation in 2010. Awards include the Jason Lang Scholarship for academic achievement (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Jack Wise Award for Excellence in Painting (2010), she was a BMO 1st! ART Nominee ( 2011) and a finalist for the Kingston Prize Finalist in 2013. Two of her paintings were included in Manifest Press’ International Painting III, a catalogue of recent contemporary paintings from around the world in 2014. Kristine’s work is in numerous private collections across Canada.

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Kristine Zingeler has recently been researching and documenting the collection at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and the land at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre in Springbank, west of Calgary as a way of exploring not only time but place. Ceramic sculptures act as monuments to the textures, colours and gestures of her research;  a sort of reef that references specific  place and vast history. The photographic collages become windows to this immense past and also the artist’s own tiny history within it.