About Kristen Guest Studio
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Education
2016 - 2017
Full Sail University
2000 - 2007
Middle Tennessee State University
Awards
2024
Gallery's Choice
2024
Published
2023
Honorable Mention
2023
Gallery's Choice
2023
Juror's Choice
2023
Published
2022
Finalist Award
2022
First Place
2022
Talent Award
2021
Honorable Mention
2021
Published
2021
Honorable Mention
2021
Honorable Mention
2020
Artist of the Month
2020
Staff's Pick
2020
Ones to Watch in 2020
2019
Published
2019
1st Place
2019
Juror’s Choice
2018
Honorable Mention
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Biography
Kristen Guest is an award-winning and published full-time artist and art instructor in San Diego, California. She graduated from art school at Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Art Education, that focused on painting, book arts and printmaking, and has been teaching realism painting since 2004 and abstract painting since 2018. Kristen currently works in three mediums: acrylic, oil, and pencil.
Kristen lives in North Poway near Rancho Bernardo and Escondido, where she works out of her home studio and shares Studio 6 at Art on 30th, an art center in the North Park district of San Diego, where she showcases and sells her work locally. Art on 30th is also where she is a Mentoring Artist and the Director of Education. Kristen recently became a Teaching Artist for R&F Paints and shares her love and knowledge of their Pigment Stick product line.
Her work is currently represented through Ashton Gallery in San Diego CA and Janssen Artspace in Palm Springs CA, and has been on exhibit with Sandstone Gallery in Laguna Beach CA, Borrego Art Institute in Borrego Springs CA, The Athenaeum Arts & Music Library in La Jolla CA, Huntington Beach Art Center in Huntington Beach CA, Arc Gallery in San Francisco CA, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in Port Angeles WA, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago IL, Jen Tough Gallery on Artsy, and Saatchi's The Other Art Fair Online Studios Los Angeles.
