About

“Most of my art work is a means of thinking through issues around masculinity and contemporary politics (as well as the state of the art world and art history). I’m currently working on a series of Men’s Club Trophies. For example, Pluto & Proserpina draws on rape culture and white art history as one of the trophies dealing with the figure of the pick-up artist. These are American awards, intended to point out the way that negative masculine social behavior is condoned and rewarded in the United States.” –Kris Rac, 2021

Kris Rac is is a medievalist, curator, and artist.  History crafts all narratives, shapes nations, and generates our sense of self. It plays a crucial role in Rac’s practice.  They examine the connections we develop with the past through performed, visualized, or written motifs. Broadly, their work critiques the pressure of homogeneity enforced by national identity and collective thinking at the cost of individual bodies.  

Exhibitions

2021

Dog Park Good Naked, Brooklyn, NY.

The Closet: America’s Dressing Room Spring Break Art Show, NY.

What We Have to Offer Track 16 Gallery, Spring Break Art Show, NY.

Daughter’s Rising The Boiler, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Only if We Wish To Equity Gallery, Lower East Side, NY.

A Fine Disregard for Decorum Art of Our Century Gallery, Chelsea, NY.

2020

Just for the Taste of It Spring Break Art Show, NY, NY.

Uniforms For the End of Time (traveling exhibition: Proto-Gomez Gallery, 5-50 Gallery)

Seasonal Repression Field Projects Gallery, Chelsea, NY.

Remake/Remodel The Royal Gallery, WIlliamsburg, NY.

2019

New Thick The Royal Gallery, Williamsburg, NY.

Macho Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 

Slečny od maliarskeho stojana ATELIER XIII, Panská 13, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

Slečny od maliarskeho stojana A7 Rooms Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.

Don’t Step On the Grass 195 Chrystie Street, NY. 

Commingling: Dialogues ZXY Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Downstairs Beyond As of Now Gallery, Brooklyn Heights, NY.

Ground Histories Painting Space 122 Gallery, East Village, NY.

2018

Ghosts of Electricity Smoke the Moon Gallery; Hollywood, LA.

Barberini or Totes Masc for Samesies PROTO Gallery, Hoboken, NJ.

Bathers and the Back Room Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown, MA. 

Greatest Show Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY.

Spring Fling The Footlight; Ridgewood, NY.

2017

Body-ody-ody                     205 Hudson Gallery; New York, NY.

Vive Shelter Benefit           Honey Ramka; Bushwick, NY.

Through the Rabbit Hole   Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY.

Soft Glances Tu Casa Space; Maspeth, NY.

2016

Ess Ef Eff at PIVOT              PIVOT Gallery; Chelsea, NY.

Birthday Bash The Glove; Brooklyn, NY.

Education

Current PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY; NY.

2020. MPhil. Graduate Center, CUNY; NY.

2017.    MA. Hunter College, CUNY; NY.

2017.    Curatorial Certificate, Hunter College, CUNY

2014.    BFA. Purchase College, SUNY; NY.

2014.    BA. Purchase College,  SUNY; NY.