Alumni Career Pathway Series: Curating Your Digital Presence

Originally from Vancouver Island, Kirsten Hatfield (BFA 2014) is a graduate of the Fine Arts Diploma program at North Island College as well as a BFA recipient from Emily Carr University. She is heavily involved in the local arts community as a practicing artist, curator, art director and art educator. Her personal practice fluctuates between a wide variety of materials but is always centred around painting and colour theory. Her work has been featured on CBCarts, BBC, Huffpostarts, Seventeen Magazine, New York Magazine and locally in Sad Mag and Discorder Magazine. She currently resides on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations (Vancouver, BC) where she shows locally and internationally.

Cristian Hernandez (BFA 2017) is the co-founder of DDOOGG, a Vancouver-based experimental-comic press. DDOOGG has participated in book fairs and exhibitions in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, Stockholm, Lucerne, Shanghai, and Milan. His personal work explores the aesthetics of abstraction and representation in domains such as biotechnology, genetics, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and complex systems. Cristian has done web design, illustration, and graphic design work with Garden Don’t Care, Neon Eon Wine, Little Burgundy, 221a, Oxygen Art Centre, Carousel Magazine, As.Iz, Khotin, and OCA. He is currently an MA student in the graduate program in Science and Technology Studies at UBC.