Crystal Wagner modtog sin MFA fra University of Tennessee i 2008, sin BFA fra Atlanta College of Art i 2004 og sin AFA fra Keystone College i 2002. Efter at have undervist som kunstprofessor på college i fem år forlod hun den akademiske verden for udelukkende at fokusere på sin kunstneriske praksis.

Wagners interesse for at kombinere 2-dimensionelle og 3-dimensionelle former, alternativ brug af materialer, hybride tilgange til printproduktion og massive stedspecifikke installationer har ført til, at hendes kunstværker er blevet udstillet i stor udstrækning i USA og i udlandet. Bemærkelsesværdige opgaver inkluderer en storstilet installation for det internationalt anerkendte band The Flaming Lips. en stor skyggeboks til GNU, et snowboardfirma fra Portland, OR, et storstilet installationsstykke til NIKE, præsenteret i Shrine Auditorium for The KOBE X Blackout Experience, og to installationer til Viacom, hvoraf den ene er et 117 fods værk i deres hovedkvarter på Times Square. Den blev vist af New York Times og blev udsendt på nationalt tv på VH1's Top 20 Countdown, USA's ambassade, og senest en storstilet installation for Warner Brothers, Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

I øjeblikket kan du finde utallige artikler om hendes arbejde, i bla.: 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, Dzinetripmagazine.com, og mange flere. Hun har modtaget adskillige priser bla.: Awesome Without Borders, Awesome Foundation Art Grant, Sculpture and Installation Category Award-vinder af SEE.ME, Art Takes Paris, samt den internationale kunstkonkurrence. På tryk kan du finde tryk af hendes arbejde udgivet i Contemporary Paper Art Book, "Paper Art II" og den internationale samtidsinstallationsbog "Global Installations" udgivet af International Publishing. Udvalgte magasin artikler omfatter: Dream Magazine, Bliss Magazine, 13 siders artikel i Juxtapoz Magazine, 2015, Graffiti Art Magazine, 2016, Staf Magazine, 2016, 10 siders opslag i Hi Fructose Magazines 2016-udgave, Dream Magazine, Indien 2017, Frame Magazine, Amsterdam 2017, Drawing Magazine, blandt utallige andre.
I 2015 blev hun endvidere tildelt den meget eftertragtede Pollock-Krasner pris.



UDVALGTE UDSTILLINGER:

2023
Curated Group Exhibition, "GRAFFUTURISM", Kirk Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark,

2022
Large-scale installation, Commissioned by TOYOTA, CA
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
Select Curated Exhibition of Represented Artists, David Bloch Gallery

2019
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
Solo Exhibition, "Featured Artist for 19th Islamic Architecture Festival"

2016
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
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 February 8th