KRISTEN DEFONTES

Education

CUNY Brooklyn College - Master of Arts 2005

SUNY Purchase College - Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art + Design 2002

Awards

2021  Individual Artist Grant, Schoharie County - NYSCA Statewide Community Arts Decentralization Program, CREATE

        Bracing Stone, 2021- Permanent Installation, George Landis Arboretum, Esperance, NY                                                 

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Edge + Overlap, 287 Main Gallery - SEEC in collaboration with Schoharie County Arts, Schoharie NY

2020  After the Storm, CREATE Gallery, Catskill, NY

2019  After the Storm, Grosvenor Art Gallery, SUNY Cobleskill, NY

        Press- After the Storm

2014  Looking In, Recent Photographs, Hive ArtSpace, Schoharie, NY

2008  Water Land Sky, Tiffany Smith Gallery, Johnstown, NY

2007  Harbor Prints, Spectrum Theater, Albany, NY

2004  Harbor Prints, Cedar Tavern Gallery, New York, NY

2003  Prints and Sculpture, Ternhaven Cellars, Greenport, NY

Group Exhibitions

2024

From This to That, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY

Seen Scenes: Member’s Show, CREATE Gallery Catskill, NY

Juried Exhibition 4, Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY

What We Hold: Stories and Objects, CREATE Gallery Catskill, NY

2020

Small Works Show, CREATE Gallery, Catskill, NY

Together in Isolation, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY

North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, North Bennington, VT

2018

SIGNAL- Tri-State Juried Exhibition, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

InstaSelect, Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, NY

2016  Far and Wide, 8th Annual Woodstock Regional Exhibition, Woodstock, NY

2012  Juried Show 2012, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY

2010  

Mashup, Collar Works, Troy, NY

Tomorrow’s Masters Today, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

2009  

Off The Block, Kristen DeFontes & Lynn Oddo, North Main Gallery, Salem, NY

Review - Guild is ‘Off the Block’ Glens Falls Post Star

The River, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY

Award- Ulster Savings Bank Award, 3rd Prize for River Wide #2, The River, WAAM

2008  

River, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY

Member’s Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY

2007  

Regional 2007 Works on Paper, Perrella Gallery at FMCC, Johnstown, NY 

Member’s Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY

2006  Vineyard Vignettes, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY

2003  

SIX CHIX, Cedar Tavern Gallery, New York, NY

Kristen DeFontes, Catherine Day, JoAnne McFarland, GCCA, Catskill, NY