Details
| First Name | Cristine |
| Last Name | Baena |
| Username | cristineb |
| Bio | For 14 years Cristine has been developing work around research between thought and matter inspired by her mentors Antoni Gaudi, Wassily Kandinsky, Henry Moore and Calder. Paulistana, born in 1964, lived in Seattle, Miami, Curitiba and Mexico City, learning to value family and adapting to new cultures and the new. She graduated in Visual Arts at the Tuiuti University of Paraná, Brazil and discovered Glass in 2007, in Curitiba, to explore it from 2008 to 2011, with Romero Gurman, in Mexico. She went to Northlands Creative in 2016, in Scotland, a milestone in her artistic life, inspiring her to have her first solo exhibition in 2017, Alma de Vidro, in Ouro Preto -MG, Brazil. Cristine gained international recognition with exhibitions in St Petersburg, FL in 2019, and Sweden, in 2020. She began to stand out after her participation in The Venice Glass Week, as an artist selected by the HUB jury, in 2021, where she presented Viva la Vida. In 2022, she was invited to participate in the UN committee for the International Year of Glass in Art. Participated in the 1st. International Biennial of Glass Art Iberoamerica, in Costa Rica, as a guest artist. Her work Omni.PRESENCE received recognition from the Imagine Museum, FL, USA and was donated to FUNCDEVI institutional collection. Still in 2022, she participated in the ACAV exhibition, “Glass a time traveller” , in Barcelona and the Salão de Arte em Vidro Brasil, in Curitiba. She has been a member of the Glass Art Society (USA) since 2014. Also a member of ACAV (Spain), CGS – Contemporary Glass Society (United Kingdom), Scottish Glass Society (Scotland) and AACG (USA). |
| Country of residence | Brazil |
Statement
| Statement | Cristine Baena explores the connection between living beings and nature through transparency and light effects, creating immersive installations or sculptures to activate sensory curiosity activating mental spaces of meditation and abstraction and bringing a unique experience. |
Exhibitions
| Exhibitions | – SELECTED for TRACE2024 , exhibition from Glass Art Society Conference in Berlin ,with a Sustainable Project. – May 2024. – Acav Exhibition – “Glass, a time traveler”- Artesania Catalunya, Barcelona – Selected Artist – Oct 2022 – Imagine Museum Recognition for high quality of glass artwork – Cartago, Costa Rica – Aug 2022 – 1st Iberoamerican Glass Art Biennial – Museo Municipal de Cartago, Costa Rica – Guest Artist – Aug 2022 – Exhibition Ano do Vidro – Glass South America Fair 2022 – São Paulo – Brasil – Curator & Artist – June 2022 – Salão de Arte em Vidro Brasil Curitiba – Guest Artist and Speaker – May 2022 – The Venice Glass Week – Hub – Palazzo Loredan – Venice, Italy – Selected Artist – Sept 2021 – Online Exhibition GAS Sweden – Selected Artist – May 2020 – “Visions in Glass” – GAS 2019 – MOREAN ARTS CENTER – ST. PETERSBURG, FL – USA – Selected Artist – Apr 2019 – “SOUL OF GLASS’ – ALMA DE VIDRO Solo exhibition –SESI OURO PRETO – Sept 2017 Solo exhibition – D&D – July 2019 |
Interests and medias
| Interests | Ceramics, Filmmaking / Video art, Glass, Interactive art, Mixed media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Sound art, Street art |
| Ceramics medias | Clay |
| Painting medias | Acrylic, Fresco, Ink |
| Glass medias | Glassblowing, Glass fusing |
| Filmmaking / video art medias | Video installation, Stop motion |
| Sculpture medias | Glass, Wood, Plastic, Wire, Wood |
| Sound intermedias | Sound sculpture |
| Photography | Digital image, Photographic film |