Kristen Peyton is a painter and printmaker working from observation and invention.
She earned a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the University of New Hampshire in May of 2017 and a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary in 2012. Kristen is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a resident of Richmond, Virginia. She is the Director and Curator of the Flippo Gallery at Randolph-Macon College and an adjunct professor of studio art at Randolph-Macon and William and Mary.
She has exhibited in curated shows across the East Coast and in New York City, including Blue Mountain Gallery’s 2018 winter and summer Juried Exhibitions, juried by Betty Cuningham and John Yau respectively, as well as Linda Matney Gallery’s Celebration of Female Artists, Manifest Gallery’s MASTER PIECES, First Street Gallery’s MFA National Competition 2016, and the Oxford Art Alliance’s Juried Show 2017 in which she received the First-Place Juror’s Prize. Recent solo shows include Resonance: New Works by Kristen Peyton at the Lauren Kindle Studio in Easton, PA, and The Function of Light at the Linda Matney Gallery in Williamsburg, VA, opening October 2018.
