Kristine Potter is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. Her previous work has focused on military cadets (“The Gray Line”) and the relentless danger of the American west (“Manifest”). Both of these series reframe the mythology of indomitable men and explore the bleed between human violence and natural threat. In her most recent work, “Dark Waters,” Potter uses video, photographs, and sound to depict threatening waters and the people around them. This work investigates a feedback loop between nature and myth: how a threatening landscape primes a culture for violence, and a violent culture projects threat onto a landscape. Potter was awarded a MFA in photography from Yale University in 2005. She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2019 awardee of the Grand Prix Image Vevey. Her first monograph, Manifest, was published by TBW Books in 2018.

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Ms. Potter regularly accepts editorial assignments from journals and papers such as The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Bloomberg News and The Financial Times. 

Recent Press

• 2020 "Kristine Potter Manifesting Darkness" Nearest Truth Podcast with Brad Feuerhelm, here.
• 2020 "Kristine Potter the Landscape Echoes" Juxtapose Magazine, June 2020, here.
• 2020  Interview with Matt Dunne, Rocket Science Magazine, Jan 2020, here.
• 2019  Grand Prix Images Vevey Announcement, here.  
• 2019 “Three Women Photographers Reclaim the American Landscape”, Aperture, here.
• 2019 “Kristine Potter: photographing Nashville’s country music scene”, Financial Times Magazine, here.
• 2018 “Reframing the Masculinity and Mythology of the American West”, NPR, here.
• 2018 “Kristine Potter’s Manifest Challenges Masculine Ideals and the Mythology of the American West”, Photo District News, here.
• 2018 Interview, Strange Fire, here.
• 2018 “Kristine Potter’s Portraits of Masculinity”, British Journal of Photography, here.
• 2018 “Masculinity Manifests Strangely In Kristine Potter’s Exploration Of The American West”, Ignant, here.
• 2018 “PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018: RON JUDE”, Photobookstore Magazine, here.
• 2018 Mary Frey selects “Manifest”, Photo Eye, here.
• 2018 Guggenheim 2018 Fellows Announcement, ARTFORUM, here.
• 2018 Interview with Guggenheim Fellows, Humble Arts Foundation, here.
• 2017 Video on “The Gray Line”, Light Work, here.
• 2016 Review of MTN, Creators Project, VICE, here.
• 2015 Essay for Contact Sheet 182, Light Work, here.
• 2015 “What is She Doing There?”, Light Work, here.
• 2015 Film Talks Interview #25, Foto Filmic, here.

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