Kristan Horton
Kristan Horton was born in Canada in 1971. He studied at Guelph University and the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has had an international exhibition career since the late 1990’s including Glassbox, Paris (FR), ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Inter Communications Center, Tokyo (J). Horton’s work has been shown in Toronto at the internationally connected Art Metropole as well as with Wynick/Tuck Gallery, the new Diaz Contemporary, The Power Plant, and recently in Buffalo, NY at the Albright Knox. Horton was featured by Marco Deseriis in La Repubblica delle Donne (Milan, IT), by David Balzer in Canadian Art, by Ian Carr-Harris in Contemporary magazine(UK), by Yam Lau in C Magazine, and by Rosemary Heather in Flash Art. With recent solo exhibitions at Toronto’s YYZ Artists Outlet, Mercer Union, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Art Gallery of York University, and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
About the Art Work
Kristan Horton thinks about media as a portal. The idea that they connect one point in space and time with another point in space and time is really just another way of describing the act of reporting and the act of reading. These wormholes are an illustrative gesture. It’s an idea about one magazine article connecting with the reality of another magazine article.