Kristin B Maldonado, born in Mobile, Alabama, holds a BFA from the University of North Texas.

Her art practice explores her lived experience as a fat woman of mixed heritage, African American from the Southern United States and Afro Latina from Panama, Central America, to answer the question of how much being an “other” has impacted those who were historically forcefully displaced. Through printmaking and oil painting, she blends memory, history and fantasy into new forms, contextualizing a colonial experience while recontextualizing her own ideas of self worth, connection to land and identity through her depictions of race, weight and femininity. The figures in her work subvert the traditional feminine subject, defying the boundaries set by inherited historical precedent.  Her goal is to fill the void left from the exclusion of darker or larger bodies, to display things not seen as traditionally beautiful, unworthy of being deemed art, as beautiful, of tremendous value as a subject. She paints  to make visible what has historically been condemned as invisible.

Kristin currently resides and works in Jacksonville, FL with her plants, cornsnake and kitty kats.