about
Marya Krogstad (b. 1958, S. Korea) Krogstad’s art practice is based in San Francisco and encompasses sculpture, installation, film, video/audio, and performance—current concentration being in installation/sculpture. Krogstad received her MFA in 2009 from San Francisco Art Institute; an M.A., B.A. in Art, and a B.S. in Nursing from California State University, Sacramento. She has enjoyed participating as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as in artist residencies at the Lucid Art Foundation and the Kala Art Institute. She has exhibited her work in San Francisco/Oakland/Bay Area/NorCal, Los Angeles, New York, Beijing and Shenzhen.
For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space and because they are others. In the realm of culture, outsideness is a most powerful factor in understanding… Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, p. 7, ©1986 Univ. of Texas Press
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