BEACH BLONDE, 2025
Kristina Kozlitina (b. 2000) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a BDes from the University of British Columbia. After studying architecture, she shifted her focus to painting, combining an interest in graphic design with a reverence for early 20th century figuration. Influenced by the distilled geometry of early-aughts cartoons and the decisive brushwork of modernist giants like Modigliani and Marsden Hartley, Kozlitina returns to the figure with a 21st-century female sensibility. In her paintings, women and objects are suspended in tension between contours of modelled form and flat planes of colour, unaware of, or unbothered by being perceived. Kozlitina’s work has been exhibited at Portal Gallery (Vancouver, CA) and BothKinds Projects Space (Vancouver, CA), and she will present a three-person exhibition with THIS Gallery (Vancouver, CA) in spring 2026.