Kris Sanford is currently an assistant professor at Central Michigan University. She received a BFA in photography from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and an MFA in photography from Arizona State University.
Kris has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, London, Miami, and New York. She was included in the GETXOPHOTO 2016 photography festival in Getxo, Spain, received the Fellowship 17 International Award from Silver Eye Center for Photography, and had a solo exhibition at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon in 2017. Her photographs have been featured in Fraction Magazine, Light Leaked, Slate, and Huffington Post. She is represented by Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston, Texas and Tilt Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Her art explores intimate relationships, specifically queer desire, through the use of appropriated images, portraiture, and video.
