Kristīne Priedīte ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Latvia

Kristīne Priedīte is a Latvian visual artist working across painting, restoration, and curatorial practice. In 2025, she completed a Master’s degree in Restoration at the Art Academy of Latvia and is pursuing a second Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies, expanding her practice into contemporary art processes and exhibition-making.

Her work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions in Latvia and internationally, including exhibitions organised by the Latvian Artists’ Union and the Latvian State Forests Scholarship in Art from 2023 to 2025, where she received the Audience Award in both 2023 and 2024. She participated in ART RIGA FAIR in 2025 and the RIGA CONTEMPORARY SURREALISM BIENNALE in 2026, and has also exhibited at VEF Culture Palace, MASA Gallery, Bulduri Exhibition House, and T.ART Gallery. In 2025, she received the Jūrmala Museum Award for her work 2 Monkeys at the juried exhibition Cik vērts?.

In September 2026, Priedīte participated in Nida Expression XXXII, the 32nd International Professional Painting Plein-Air in Nida, Lithuania, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the Brücke Manifesto. The international plein air provided an opportunity to further develop her painting practice through direct engagement with landscape and place, as well as international artistic exchange.

Priedīte is also part of the international ArtandFashionRiga project as both an exhibiting artist and event host. Within the project, she explores the concept of the art-dress, transforming garments into wearable artworks through painting and mixed media. These works are activated through performance, where movement, space, and interaction with the viewer become integral elements of the artwork.

Alongside her artistic and curatorial practice, Priedīte works as a painting teacher at Paint & Progress studio, leading regular classes and creative workshops. Her artistic practice combines conceptual thinking with technical precision. Working primarily in hyperrealistic painting, she explores psychological states, relational structures, and emotional tension. She is interested in how visual systems can become metaphors for vulnerability, fragmentation, and connection, bringing together classical painting techniques with contemporary conceptual inquiry.