Cristina Getson

Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada.
After receiving her degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto and working as an engineer, she started taking evening art courses at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her love of expressing herself through painting became a permanent reality as she joined a studio collective, and started to pursue art full time.
Working with acrylics, Cristina’s work is imbued with vibrant colours, and influenced by the pull of opposites - smooth and rough, light and dark, indefinite and detailed. It is a dialogue between past and present in order to capture not the physical aspects of a moment in time, but rather the feeling of it. The application of paint is made visible through the brushstrokes and marks left behind; it is a joyful revelling in the materiality of the paint itself.
Cristina has exhibited in Canada and across the United States, and was accepted as an Artist-in-Residence at Palazzo Monti in Italy, in 2018.

Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering. University of Toronto, Canada.

2020 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Toronto, Canada (July 2 - 12)
2019 Arta Gallery. Toronto, Canada (Oct. 24 - Nov. 12)
2019 The Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto, Canada (July 12 - 14)
2019 Summer Exhibit, Blue Crow Gallery. Toronto, Canada (July - August)
2019 Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, Canada (July 3 - 17)
2018 Aqua Art Miami. Miami, Florida (Dec. 5 - 9)
2018 Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Houston, Texas (Oct. 4 - 7)
2018 Queen West Art Crawl. Toronto, Canada (Sept. 22 - 23)
2018 Summer Exhibit, Blue Crow Gallery. Toronto, Canada (July - August)
2018 The Other Art Fair. Brooklyn, New York (May 3 - 6)
2018 Stripes, bG Gallery. Santa Monica, California (May)
2018 Wondrous Ways, Arta Gallery. Toronto, Canada (March 22 - April 2)
2017 The Other Art Fair. Brooklyn, New York (November 9 - 12)
2017 Queen West Art Crawl. Toronto, Canada (September)
2016 Art Square Gallery. Toronto, Canada (December)
2016 5th Annual Group Show, Project: Art Studio. Toronto, Canada (June)
2015 Eclectic Journey, Art Square Gallery. Toronto, Canada (December)
2015 Pop-Up Show, Project: Art Studio. Toronto, Canada (December)
2011 2nd Annual Art Exhibition, Project: Art Studio. Toronto, Canada (December)
2010 12” x 12” Exhibition, Project: Art Studi...