Krystle Brown

Krystle Brown (they/them) is a multimedia artist based in Salem, MA. Their work explores the connections between class, ancestry, place, environment, and labor, often embracing the role of family archivist and community documentarian. Combining these themes, Krystle creates multimedia installations and photographs that explore the inherent power dynamics in these topics. They hold a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Painting and Art History and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

While studying at SMFA at Tufts, Krystle was awarded the Montague Travel Grant to research in Northern Ireland to understand political strife through the 20th and 21st centuries. From 2019 to 2021, they were an Emerging Artist at Kingston Gallery and had their first solo show in March 2021. In 2022 they began a community art project, “Calling Home,” as an artist-in-residence with the Urbano Project in Boston, MA.

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