Kirsten Batten Leach is an interdisciplinary artist who makes ephemeral sculptures and live performances about care-taking and bodily autonomy. She creates a record of these durational works in the form of painting, drawing and photography. Her background as a former ballet dancer and domestic worker informs the physical rigor of her object-making practice. Both experiences are two polarized forms of labor which made visible some aspects of extreme social stratification that persist in the United States.

She has exhibited works at NYU Gallatin Galleries, The Factory (Long Island City), and BlackBrick Project. Raised in Boston, MA she completed her MFA in Integrated Practices at Pratt Institute and earned a BFA in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College.

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