LISA
CRISTINZO

LISA CRISTINZO (she/her/beast) is a queer painter, installation artist, facilitator, and mystic, a first-generation Canadian residing in Tkarón:to on Turtle Island. Cristinzo’s work explores myth, materialism, and earth-based spiritual practices. She creates subversive paintings and spaces through queering the monolithic, entangling hierarchies, and diversifying systems of care.

 

She re-emerged as an artist, after  working many years in arts administration and programming,  including managing the artist residency program at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Mnisiing/Toronto Island. In 2022, she completed an MFA at York University, receiving SSHRC funding for her research into fire and climate change, along with the Samuel Sarick Purchase Prize.

 

Currently, Cristinzo’s work focuses on ecological cycles and working in co-authorship, creating work “about” and “with” plants. She completed the Doris McCarthy Artist in Residence Program in 2023 and participated in a local bio-based materials international program, “The Material Way” based in Denmark, where she made apple-based bioplastics from Doris McCarthy’s apple trees. She is currently a sessional professor, teaching painting and drawing at the Marilyn Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University.