Krista Anderson-Larson is a visual artist and arts administrator working in Minneapolis, MN. Their sculpture, installation, and video work explores themes related to domestic spaces and gender / sexual identity through materials ranging from found objects to oil paint. Anderson-Larson has received Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals and Artist Initiative grants, and was awarded the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2016 from the International Sculpture Center in Hamilton, NJ. Their work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and has also been featured in several publications including Sculpture magazine and Art in America.
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Artist Statement:
My work explores the development of queer identity as experienced within the bathroom. In my practice I extract common bathroom objects and fixtures, arranging and manipulating them to create interactions that reference the body or multiple bodies.
Many key physically and psychologically developmental moments take place within the private enclosure of the domestic bathroom. It is the only place in many homes where a person—especially children and adolescents—can experience the true privacy needed for physical self-examination. It persists as a space that accepts arousal and sensuality while also providing a sense of safety, comfort, and private experience. These occurrences unconsciously interlace the psyche with the physical site of the bathroom—its sterile nature, soft porcelain fixtures, and cool surfaces—as the transition into adulthood is finalized.
Particularly for queer and gender nonconforming people who grow up in conservative households, like myself, these experiences play a role in how our body and identity are intertwined. My work investigates and expands upon these pivotal moments, questioning what it means to have the architectural space of the bathroom intrinsically tied to initial sexual development. By transforming the space itself into a sanctuary for sensual exploration free from outside judgment, my work reveals the importance of early private interactions between the self and the body.
In the public realm, these spaces offer a strange sense of hybrid privacy. A public restroom stall provides respite from unpleasant surroundings, but lacks a sense of total privacy afforded by the domestic bathroom. By having to choose a bathroom that doesn’t align with our identity, this sense of safety that comes with the privacy of the domestic bathroom is stripped away. My sculptures aim to straddle this divide between public and private, utilizing fixtures from both.
My work strives to create cognitive dissonance between the viewer’s familiarity with the forms and fixtures of the bathroom and their usual encounters therein. By arranging these items in uncomfortable proximity to each other, objects are transformed into bodies, each with a potential for desire. My peculiar and erotically charged sculptures invite sensuality and arousal while harkening back to a space that provides security and privacy. In this way, I invite the viewer to reexamine their understanding of desire and take pleasure in this process.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Hardly Soft, 2025, NE Sculpture Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by: Nathanael Flink
fragments of inimacy, 2024, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Untitled 18, 2024, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by: Danielle Krysa (@thejealouscurator)
Unraveled: Telling Queer Stories in Cloth, 2023, Squirrel Haus Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by: Anna Racecar
PARADOX, 2023, Conga Lounge, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by: Alexandra Beaumont (Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN)
Build on this Gesture, 2023, Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN
sure as a fish in the sky; bird in the sea, 2022, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by: Kehayr Brown-Ransaw (People’s Library, Minneapolis, MN)
Minneapolis Sketchbook Project, 2021, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Speculative Futures, Present Imaginations, 2021, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
Midwestern Biennial, 2020, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Juror: Jim Dempsey (Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL)
like the inside, 2020, Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
this body is mine alone?, 2019, Gallery 610, Menomonie, WI (solo)
Pop-up, 2019, E&L Bindery Building, produced by Yeah Maybe, St. Paul, MN
Aesthetic Flesh, 2019, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI (solo)
14th Annual Small Works Show, 2018, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Juror: Nicole Kaack (Artforum International)
MN State Fair Fine Art Exhibition, 2018, MN State Fair Grounds, St. Paul, MN
Dexterity/Synergy, 2017, Thorp Building, Minneapolis, MN
Raspberry Monday, 2017, Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
Juror: Megan Vossler (Macalester College, St. Paul, MN)
Remnant, 2017, Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (solo)
22nd Annual ISC Student Award Exhibition, 2016, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Altered State, 2016, Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (solo)
PUBLICATIONS
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol 43, June 2019, p. 12
Sculpture Magazine, “The International Sculpture Center 2016 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards,” Vol 35 No 8, October, 2016, p. 53
Art in America, “On View Now: Grounds for Sculpture,” October 2016, p. 63
"Using Art to Erase Stigma of Mental Illness," by Maggie Hradecky, Rockford Register Star, June 16, 2016
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Creative Support for Individuals Grant, 2021, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
Artist Initiative Grant, 2019, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
People’s Choice Award, 2018, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Studio Residency, 2017, mentored by Jean Shin, Brooklyn, NY
Raspberry Monday Art Award, 2017, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
Juror's Recognition Award, Raspberry Monday, 2017, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (Juror: Megan Vossler)
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, 2016, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ