Biography
Kristi Arnold is an American artist and academic whose mokuhanga practice developed through international residencies and a deep engagement with Japanese printmaking traditions. She received a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas, an MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in visual arts and theory from the University of Sydney, Sydney College of Art in Australia. She is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.
In 2018, Arnold was selected for the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory (MI-LAB) Basic Training Program, a five-week artist residency in Katsuyama, Fujikawaguchiko-cho, Japan, where she studied mokuhanga with a residential master printer. The imagery in her prints derives from her experiences during the residency, reflecting the natural surrounding landscapes of Lake Kawaguchiko and other parts of Japan.
Arnold serves as an assistant professor of art at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where she has organized exhibitions highlighting Japanese printmaking, including a 2023 exhibit at the college that brought mokuhanga to an academic audience in the mid-Atlantic region. She contributes to Mokublad, the publication of Mokuhanga Magic.
Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally, including venues in California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Belgium, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Bulgaria, and Austria, and most recently in a solo show at the International Center for Graphic Arts in Poland.
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Kristi Arnold is an American artist and academic whose mokuhanga practice developed through international residencies and a deep engagement with Japanese printmaking traditions. She received a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas, an MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in visual arts and theory from the University of Sydney, Sydney College of Art in Australia. She is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.
Kristi Arnold's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Kristi Arnold is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.