Kirsten Stromberg (b. San Francisco, CA USA) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Florence, Italy.  Working with both experimental music and visual art, her work focuses on practices of listening and decentering as forms of critical resistance and reparative practice.

Themes she has touched upon include: pain, loss and recovery in the world-body, attunement across human and more-than human worlds, perceptual attention, embodied research, eco-systemic relations, and synaesthesia.

Kirsten graduated a Senior Fellow from Dartmouth College concentrating in electro-acoustic music and studio art. She completed her MFA in Arts and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University. Over the past two decades, she has continued independent studies under mentors and artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (known collectively as rosenclaire) in both Italy and South Africa.  

For over 20 years she has dedicated herself to international education and contemporary art lecturing at several universities and art institutions throughout Italy. Currently, she teaches painting and experimental music+sound art at Syracuse University Florence. Former positions include Program Director of The MFA in Studio Art at Studio Art College International (SACI), Studio Arts Coordinator and Studio Arts Supervisor at Syracuse University Florence with teaching positions at SACI, Washington University in St. Louis Florence, Istituto Lorenzo de Medici, and Florence University of The Arts. She is also currently on the board of Paradox Fine Art Forum, whose goal is to foster dialogue and advocacy for art education and artistic research through forums in cities throughout Europe.

Kirsten’s work has been shown/performed in both solo and group exhibitions internationally including: Murate Art District and Fabbrica Europa in Florence; L.A.C.E and Huntington Beach Center for The Arts in the Los Angeles area; The SF Arts Commission, 21 Grand and Works/San Jose’ in the San Francisco Bay Area; as well as exhibitions and projects in New York, London, Copenhagen, and Berlin.