Kristin Malin grew up in New Orleans and received her BFA in painting from Louisiana State University in 1979, graduating magna cum laude. She attended The New York Studio School and received her MFA in painting from Columbia University in 1983. In New York, she exhibited in Lower East Side galleries, received an Artist’s Space grant, and worked at the N.Y. Council for the Humanities and the Environmental Defense Fund. In 1987, Malin moved to the coast of Maine, where she continued to paint and has been active on the school board at the local and state levels. She exhibited at The O’Farrell Gallery, the L.C. Bates Museum, the legislative galleries of the Maine Arts Commission, the New York Studio School Gallery, executed exhibition murals for the Maine Maritime Museum, and was a visiting artist in local schools and libraries. Her work was included in The Art of Maine in Winter by Carl Little. She currently exhibits her work at the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME. She recently had work accepted in the Juried Biennial Exhibit at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, ME.