Leopold Krist

Leopold Krist became an artist because “I am a stubborn hedonist and creating is my highest form of pleasure.” In recent years, he worked primarily in book and experimental filmmaking. Krist was a featured performer at our recent Art 511 3-day flash exhibition in Chelsea: EMINENT DOMAIN. His work makes broad over-generalizations about queer existence and uses text “to map out the interiority of the transgender experience.” Krist often works in libraries and coffee shops and finds that aside from economic survival, social obstacles and general lack of support for artists pose grave challenges to his practice. Currently, the artist is working on a digital photo-book called The Migratory Patterns of North American Queers at the Turn of the Century. Moving forward, Krist aims to find an affordable studio space and keep writing.