Living and creating on a farm in rural South Carolina, the serenity of nature permeates Kristen Sloan’s work. Her oil paintings are a contemporary approach to Baroque painting where light is symbolic, represented objects are metaphors, and transcendence is unearthed in the most mundane of places. By employing elements such as portals, fabric folds, mundane objects, and reflective surfaces as symbolic devices, Sloan invites her viewers to contemplate themes of self-awareness and the illusionary nature of reality. Her oil paintings and ceramic sculptures probe the Divine, re-envision visionary encounters, and explore the complexities of the human interior.

Kristen van Diggelen Sloan received her BA in Visual Art from UCLA in 2006, and she earned her MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and was awarded the prestigious Graduate Fellowship in Painting. She has exhibited her work nationally at John Michael Studio - Art Basel, Miami, Art Chicago, the New Wright Gallery in Los Angeles, at The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, The Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco and in Charlotte, NC at The McColl Center for the Arts, Anne Neilson Fine Art, The Brooklyn Collective and SOZO Gallery. Sloan has taught Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and has received numerous awards and nominations. She is currently a 2024 Sacred Arts Fellow at The Grünewald Guild. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Luxe Interiors + Design and 7×7 Magazine among many others. She relocated from San Francisco to the Carolinas in 2014, and currently lives and works on a farm in rural York County, SC.