Krista Davis

Krista Davis is a visual artist working in video, animation and sculpture, living between Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory (Dawson City, Yukon) and K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her practice is a space where dirt, bones, and jars of microscopic algal communities meet costumes, wigs, and jars of glass glitter. Where queerness, the Wild and relationships in the natural world guide artistic explorations. In this space, Davis hopes to uncover creative, even fantastical strategies to shift human and non-human relationships towards a more ecologically just world.

Davis’ work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries internationally, including a recent solo show The Icehouse Architect at The Blue Building, in Halifax, NS. She has been a contributor-participant with ecological projects such as Drylab 2023, Nibi Walks led by Sharon M Day, and Stories for the Arctic Refuge. Before turning her focus to her solo practice in 2017, Davis co-founded the OUTeast Queer Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and created queer cabaret-style music/video/comedy synthetic-haired mash-up shows with a group of artists and musicians at the Company House. She is currently working on a poetry-animation collaboration with a young poet, Samanda Ritch. 

Davis received her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and MFA from at Arizona State University.