Kristin McIver is an Australian artist based in New York. Her conceptual practice includes sculpture, painting, sound, video and installation. Utilizing devices such as language, light, data and algorithms, the works explore themes of identity as commodity within digital consumer culture.

The artist examines personal identity and its relationship to social media, and how the participants of digital culture become both the subject and object of the media cycle. McIver’s works propose that ideologies served to consumers through social media networks empowered by advancing technologies are engineered behind the screen by political and market agendas. In turn, these algorithmic ‘truths’ become referents for new models of self-representation, reshaping global social politics.

Kristin completed a Master of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) in 2014, at University of Melbourne (Victorian College of the Arts), with a thesis You and Me: Models of Self-Representation in Participatory Culture.

Significant acquisitions include National Gallery of Victoria, Latrobe University Museum of Art, The Friebe Collection. Her work was awarded the Winner of Melbourne Sculpture Prize in 2012. Other exhibitions and achievements include Melbourne Now (National Gallery of Victoria 2013), Status Quo (James Makin Gallery 2013), Data Portraits (Royale Projects: Contemporary Art, CA 2013), Private (Liverpool Street Gallery 2016), ME/ME (Chasm Gallery, NY 2014), Vancouver Biennale Residency Program (2015), Art OMI Residency, NY (2013).

McIver is represented by Jane Lombard Gallery (New York), Royale Projects Contemporary Art (Los Angeles/USA), and Liverpool Street Gallery (NSW, Australia). Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, UK and North America.