Who is Behind Oikospace?
Kristina Reddy - Bio
Kristina Reddy is a Ukrainian-born American multidisciplinary artist, educator, and founder of Oikospace. Her work explores the meeting point between inner perception and natural phenomena through expressive painting, intuitive process, and atmospheric color, creating immersive visual environments that invite stillness, attention, and sensory awareness.
She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Art Palm Beach, and she was awarded a residency by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France. She received the Merit Scholar Award from the New York Academy of Art and teaches art and design at the university level in Chile, where she also contributes to graduate studies in transdisciplinary creativity.
Based in Chile, her practice moves between studio painting, commissioned works, and collaborative creative processes. She works with collectors, designers, and private clients to create artworks and experiences that bring together visual presence, perception, and lived engagement.
Artist Statement
My work emerges from an attunement to the forces that move through nature and inner experience. I paint from direct sensation—of movement, breath, and energy as living phenomena.
Rather than depicting landscapes, I construct experiential spaces where the visible and invisible meet. Within these environments, scale shifts: the microscopic becomes vast, the intimate expands into the cosmic, and inner and outer worlds encounter one another.
Each painting functions as a living field of relationships, shaped by internal systems of time, space, and transformation. I work intuitively, allowing the image to reveal itself through process rather than imposing it..
My intention is to create spaces that invite presence, expanded attention, and a renewed sense of connection to the living world.
Creative Practice
Creativity is the foundation of my work and the method through which I explore perception, healing, and transformation. I approach art as a living process — one that moves across painting, design, teaching, and collaborative experience rather than remaining confined to a single medium.
My practice expands across forms because creativity itself is not fixed. It is a field of attention, experimentation, and discovery. Through this process I investigate how visual language, sensation, and imagination can reconnect us with presence, with nature, and with ourselves.
Alongside my studio practice, I teach transdisciplinary creativity at the graduate level, where I guide others in exploring creative process as a way of thinking, sensing, and engaging with the world.
Recent exhibitions and presentations of my work have taken place in the United States and internationally, including New York, Princeton, and Santiago.
Creative Philosophy
Creativity is healing
Art is a sacred act
Joy is a compass
Beauty is a portal to the soul
We are co-creators with life
— This is the foundation of everything we make, teach, and share.
Exhibitions
2026
Between Worlds — El Huerto, Santiago, Chile
2018
Acción–Reacción — Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile
2017
MFA Thesis Exhibition — New York Academy of Art, New York
TriBeCa Ball — New York Academy of Art, New York
2016
TriBeCa Ball — New York Academy of Art, New York
Deck the Walls — New York Academy of Art, New York
2015
Deck the Walls — New York Academy of Art, New York
2011
Art Palm Beach — Contemporary Art Fair, Florida
2010
CG Gallery — Princeton, NJ
2009
Dime Bag 3 — Giant Robot Gallery, New York
ART-TK — Parsons School of Design, New York
AMT — Parsons School of Design, New York
What is Oikospace?
Oikospace is an evolving sanctuary for soulful art, intentional design, and joyful living. It is the space where my creative practice extends beyond the studio into daily life — through objects, environments, and experiences shaped by attention, beauty, and meaning.
Rooted in transformation and presence, Oikospace invites a slower way of seeing and a deeper way of relating to the world. Each piece and offering is created as an entry point into awareness — a moment to reconnect with perception, imagination, and the self through creativity.
