Kris Kuksi is an American artist. In 2006 he was among approximately fifty finalists in the

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organised at the

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Education

Kuksi received his

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from Fort Hays University in 2002.

Work

Kuksi has studied with established artists in Italy,

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and

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, including participating in several international workshops including "Painting the Fantastic" with

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in Italy, "Old Masters New Visions Seminar" with Philip Rubinov Jacobson in Austria and "Painting Dali's Garden", with Venosa in Spain.The Arts
Hays, Kansas. Archived 5 April 2012. He creates intricate sculptures made up of thousands of individual parts that he collects and re-shapes before putting them together in a cohesive design. The

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exhibits three of his sculptures. In 2006 he was among approximately fifty finalists in the

organised at the

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Washington: National Portrait Gallery. Archived 9 November 2020. His work was shown at the Pulse Art Fair in Los Angeles in 2011, and has appeared on the front covers of the magazines ''Philosophie'' and '' Bl!sss''. The Ellis County Bar Association in

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owns one of his works.

Critical response

In a review of his 2003 solo show at the Fraser Gallery in Washington, D.C., Michael O'Sullivan of the ''

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'' described his images as "contrived to disturb and confront the viewer, which is probably why they don't".

Books

His book ''Divination and Delusion'' () was published in 2010 by

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. His second book, ''Conquest'' (ISBN 9780847860265), was published in 2017 by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

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