Kristen Chiu is an Asian-American interdisciplinary artist.  She grew up in San Diego, CA from which she draws inspiration surrounding texture and natural elements.  Her work is informed by sentimentality, memory, thing theory, ritual, and natural spaces. As part of a diaspora--her mother immigrated from Taiwan--sentimentality towards objects has been integral to her practice. The ritualistic process of holding onto something tangible to connect to the intangible feels familial.