About Kristina
From 2011 to 2021, Kristina was Curator of Exhibitions at Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum (formerly the University Art Museum) at California State University Long Beach. Highlights in her time at the Museum include David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own, which she co-curated with Maria Jose Herrera for the 2017 Getty Pacific Standard Time LA:LA Initiative. This exhibition traveled in 2018 to Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) as David Lamelas: Con vida propia. The multidisciplinary exhibition Jessica Rath: A Better Nectar was supported by Metabolic Studio and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Her 2014 project with Materials & Applications, Building Something (Beyond) Beautiful benefited from an NEA Art Works: Design grant and support from Pasadena Arts Alliance. Before arriving at the Museum, Newhouse presented She accepts the proposition: Women Gallerists and the redefinition of art in Los Angeles, 1967-1977 which was adopted by the Getty for the first PST Initiative in 2011. In 2007, she curated Fran Siegel: Companion at the IX Bienal Internacional de Cuenca in Ecuador. From 2001 through 2008, Newhouse was curator of the Torrance Art Museum. From 2003 until 2010, Newhouse was an editor for X-tra Contemporary Arts Quarterly and produced numerous reviews and essays for the magazine. Her most recent writing for X-tra was a 2020 review of influential filmmaker and artist Susan Mogul, entitled "A Feminist’s Survival Index." Newhouse has written essays for numerous art institutions including the Hammer Museum, MSU Broad Museum, the Benton Museum at Pomona College, and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, among others.