Crystal Wagner received her MFA from the University of Tennessee in 2008, her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 2004, and her AFA from Keystone College in 2002. After teaching as a college art professor for five years, Crystal left academia to focus exclusively on her studio practice.

Wagner’s interest in combining 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional forms, alternative use of materials, hybrid approaches to printmaking, and massive site-specific installations, have led to her artwork being exhibited extensively in the U.S and abroad. Notable commissions include a large-scale installation for the internationally recognized band The Flaming Lips. a large shadow box for GNU a snowboard company out of Portland, OR, a large-scale installation piece for NIKE, presented in the Shrine Auditorium for The KOBE X Blackout Experience, and two installations for Viacom, one of which is a 117 ft piece at thier headquarters in Times Square.It was featured by the New York Times and was broadcast on national television on VH1's Top 20 Countdown, The United States Embassy, and most recently a large-scale installation for Warner Brothers, Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Currently you can find countless features on her work: New York Times, Architectural Digest, Artnet, Hi Fructose, Juxtapoz Magazine, Arrestedmotion.com, ArtAttacks Online, Art & Science Journal, Inspir3d.com, Complex Art & Design Magazine, Crome Yellow Magazine, Catapult Art Magazine, My Modern Met , Beautiful Decay Magazine and Dzinetripmagazine.com, many more. She was the recipient of an Awesome Without Borders, Awesome Foundation Art Grant and the Sculpture and Installation Category Award Winner of the SEE.ME, Art Takes Paris, international art competition. In print you can find features of her work published in Contemporary Paper Art Book, "Paper Art II" and the international contemporary installation book, "Global Installations" published by International Publishing. Select magazine features include: Dream Magazine, Bliss Magazine, 13 page article in Juxtapoz Magazine, 2015, Graffiti Art Magazine, 2016, Staf Magazine, 2016, 10 page spread in Hi Fructose Magazine's 2016 issue, Dream Magazine, India 2017, Frame Magazine, Amsterdam 2017, Drawing Magazine, among countless others.

In 2015 she was awarded the highly coveted Pollock-Krasner Grant.



RECENT EXHIBIITIONS

2022
Solo Exhibition, "Sublime", Fort Works Gallery, Fort Worth, TX,
Featured Work, Urban Art Biennale, Berlin, Germany

2020
Solo Booth, Art on Paper Fair, NYC, with Hashimoto Contemporary

2019
Select Curated Exhibition of Represented Artists, David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Solo Exhibition & Large-scale exterior installation, "Ignis Fatuus", curated by AFA Gallery, Belcastel, Aveyron France,
Solo Exhibition, Mesa Musuem of Art, Mesa, AZ,
Large-scale installation, The Crystal Ship Mural and Street Art Festival, Ostend, Belguim

2018
Solo Exhibition, "Axiom", Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA,
Large-scale Installation, Grammy Museum commission for Warner Brothers, "Get Animated", Los Angeles, CA,
Solo Exhibition, "Traverse", Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, VT
Curated Three Person Exhibition, Collsion Gray Matter, AFA Gallery, NYC,
Solo Exhibition, Nexus, Treason Gallery, Seattle, WA,
Solo Exhibition, Paradigms, Crown Collection Gallery

2017
Solo Exhitibiton, Tropism, Fort Works Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Solo Exhibition, Stolen Space Gallery, London,
Curated Group Exhibition, "Dimensions of Three", Allouche Gallery, NYC

2016
Solo Exhibition, "Featured Artist for 19th Islamic Architecture Festival". Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah
Large-scale installation, commissioned for the Life is Beautiful Festival, Las Vegas, NV,
Large-scale installation, featured at Mini Textile International Fiber Exhibition, Cernobbie, Italy,
Large-scale installation, featured as a part of Lodz Art in Public Places, Lodz, Poland,
Select Group Exhibition, Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition, "Flux" Bedford Gallery, Oakland, CA
Select Group Exhibition, "Grand Opening" Allouche Gallery, NYC,
Solo Exhibition, "Microcosm" Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibition, "Paroxysm" Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN,
Art on Paper Fair during Armory Week, NYC, with Hashimoto Contemporary, March
Solo Exhibition, "Surface Tension" Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA

2015
Curate Group Exhibition, Stolen Space Galery, London, December
Art on Paper Fair during Miami Basel, with Hashimoto Contemporary, December
Solo Exhibition, "Wanderlust", National Museum of Singapore, Singapore,
Solo Exhibition, "Biotica", 108 Contemporary, Tulsa OK,
Solo Exhibition, "Wild Efflux", Viacom Lobby, Times Square, NYC,
Art on Paper Fair during Armory Week, NYC with Hashimoto Contemporary, March
Art Market Contemporary Art Fair, with Hashimoto Contemporary, May
Scope Art Fair, Miami Art Basel, with Hashimoto Contemporary, December
Curated Group Exhibition, Something/Nothing, Vertigo Gallery, Denver CO,
Curated Group Exhibition, "Play" Galerie C.O.A, Montreal
Curated Group Exhibition, "Spectrum", StolenSpace Gallery, London UK
Curated Group Exhibiiton, "Boxes of Death", Roq La Ruem, Portland OR (exhibition traveled to Los Angelos, CA, San Francisco, CA, Portland
OR, Seattle, WA, and Tokyo Japan, 2014-2015
Large-scale installation, "Fall" Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Knoxville TN
Solo Exhibition, "Elasticity", Bagwell Art Gallery, Pellissippi State University, Knoxville TN, January
Solo Exhibition, "Immersion", Rosemary Berkel and Harry Crisp Musuem, Cape Girardeau, MO
Large-scale installation, Commission for the Flaming Lips at Womb Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
"Pseudo-Forms", solo exhibiiton, P/M Gallery, Toronto, Canada,
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, NY, February

2014
Large-scale installation "Bio Interloper", ArtPrize, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, September
Curated Group Exhibition, "Screen Print Biennial", Troy NY, September
Visiting Artist/Panelist, Hartford's School of Art Distingushed Artist Symposium, Hartford CT, September
Curated Group Exhibition, "Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction" a part of the Hartford's School of Art Distinguished Artist Symposium and Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford CT, Fall
Featured Work, LoveArt Contemporary Art Fair, w/ P/M Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Spring
Featured Work, Artmrkt Contemporary Art Fair, with Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA, Spring
Curated International Group Exhibition, "Paper Cuts", Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Spring
Curated Group Exhibition, "Space/Squared", curated by Sven Davis , White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Spring
Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Spring
Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Spring
"McClelland Scultpture Award and Survey Exhibition", McClelland Art Musuem, Australia, Oct.
"Synesthesia", solo exhibition, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA, March
"Vestibule", solo exhibition, Ann Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, KY, Feb.

2013
"Deluge" large-scale installation, a part of "Flirting with Abundance" curated two-person exhibition, Artspace, Raliegh, NC, Dec.
"Beyond Eden Art Fair", Thinkspace Gallery, with Spoke Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Oct.
Scope Art Fair, during Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, with Hashimoto Contemporary, Dec.
"Hyperplastic", solo exhibition, Fountain Gallery, Purdue University, West Layfayette, IN, Aug.
"Urban Kudzu II", large-scale printmaking and mixed-media installation as a part of a three person curated exhibiiton, "The Color Wheel", HereArt Gallery, Soho, New York, NY, Opening May 8th,
Curated Group Exhibition, "A Paper Affair", Kennesaw State University, GA, Spring
"The Arboretum", Solo Exhibition, University of Sounth Carolina, Beaufort, Opening