Krystyny Vandenberg’s work centers on community, history, and human connection. Through painting and textiles, she reflects on winemaking traditions alongside the people behind them, celebrating shared labor, memory, and the stories that shape place.
Krystyny Vandenberg is an artist working with painting and textiles whose work explores the significance and the difficulties involved in forming relationships with family, friends and identity. Themes of community, how we connect with others and history are central to her work.
She started her career in after school art classes in 2002 and she went on to receive her BFA in studio arts with an emphasis in drawing and painting from Biola University in 2017. She received her MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2022.
Her work has been exhibited throughout California and internationally including a solo show at the Helen and Abraham Bolsky Gallery in Los Angeles, California and group shows at the Brea Gallery (Brea, CA) the Clara and Allen Gresham Art Gallery (San Bernardino, CA), the Colonnade (Long Beach, CA) and at the Enoteca (Redondo, Portugal). Her work is currently held in collections at Biola University and the Municipal of Redondo.
Her interest in history and art led her to participate in an archeological field school in the Alentejo region of Portugal in 2017. Learning how history influences art and how art affects history became important to her work. She participated in an artist residency in the town of Redondo in 2018. There she was able to physically combine painting and archaeology by using materials found on the digsite and around town to paint the people she was surrounded by. She now has her studio based in Southern California and frequently collaborates with local artists and curators.