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Kirsten Batten-Leach is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculptures and performances about carework and bodily autonomy.
She creates a record of these durational works in the form of photography and drawing. Her background as a former ballet dancer and domestic worker informs the physical rigor of her object-making practice.
She is currently a 2025-26 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, was shortlisted for the Smack Mellon Residency Program and is a Puffin Foundation Grant Recipient. She has exhibited works at NYU Gallatin Galleries, My Pet Ram, The Factory (Long Island City) and Black Brick Project. Raised in Boston, MA she completed her MFA in Integrated Practices at Pratt Institute and earned a BFA in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College.
