Kristian Battell is an artist living and working in Jersey City, NJ. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (NYC) and a BFA in Printmaking and Art of the Book (Art History minor) from SUNY-Purchase. The artist has exhibited in the United States and Europe, with artist residencies completed with ChaNorth, Index Art Center and more. Battell serves as a teaching artist at the Montclair Art Museum.
Works
Solo Exhibitions
2025 — Everything is cool, VillageOneArt, New York, NY
2024 — Silent Signals, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2019 — Warren County Community College, Washington, NJ
2017 — Montclair Art Walk for Mattise Week, Montclair, NJ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 — Artist as Activist, NJ Council of the Arts Annual, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ · Our Environment, Our Future, Gaelen Gallery, West Orange, NJ
2024 — Figurative Constructs, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ · Shomrie Adamah: Keep the land that I give you, Gallery at TSTI, South Orange, NJ
2023 — I Would Prefer Not To…, curated by Kele McComsey, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ · Ugly, SlowBurn NYC, Be Electric Studios, Brooklyn, NY · Inaugural Show, The Box Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2022 — TRASH, curated by Tim Kelley, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY · JCAST Group show, Cancro Building, Jersey City, NJ · Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River?, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT · Instructor Spotlight Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ · Terrarium, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY
2021 — Here, Now: Recent SVA MFA Graduates, curated by Maria Del Carmen Carrion, 79 Warren St, New York, NY
2020 — Inspiring Minds, Online Exhibition, ValleyArts, Orange, NJ
2019 — JCAST Group show, Bethune Center, Jersey City, NJ · Partners in Art, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY · On The Rocks Summer Show, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY · State of the Art, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ · Inspiring Minds, ValleyArts, West Orange, NJ · Newark Spring Open Studios, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ · Newark Spring Open Studios exhibit, Newark Print Shop, Newark, NJ
2018 — Group show at the Brunswick Center for JCAST, Jersey City, NJ · If These Wall Could Talk, Linear Knitting Studio, JCAST, Jersey City, NJ · Fern and Fossil Pop Up for Newark Arts Fest, Index Art Space, Newark, NJ · A Show for More Crete, Index Art Space, Newark, NJ · Incubate, Newark Print Shop, Newark, NJ
2017 — Jersey City Open Doors Pop-Up, Triangle Building, Jersey City, NJ · Fern & Fossil Open Doors Newark Pop-Up, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ · ArtReach Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ · Transitions, Newark Print Shop, Newark, NJ
2016 — American Roadtrip, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 — Lorimoto Open Call Show, Lorimoto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · People’s Choice Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · New Prints/Summer 2015, International Print Center of New York, NY, NY · 2nd Annual Juried Print Exhibition, Artworks Visual Art Center, Trenton, NJ · Spring 2015 Printers in Residence, Newark Print Shop, Newark, NJ
2014 — Antonio Frasconi Retrospective, Gallery 1019A, Purchase College, Purchase, NY · Printed Matter’s NY Book Art Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY · Recent Purchase Graduates Showcase, Skylight Gallery NYC, New York, NY · Art + Design BFA Exhibition, School of Art and Design, Purchase College, Purchase, NY · Flat Bastard: Works by Kellie Murad and Kristian Battell, Forum Art Space, Purchase, NY · Structure, The Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ
Kristian Battell’s solo exhibition, Everything is cool, was on view at VillageOneArt, Chelsea, New York, June 5–July 5, 2025.