Kristy Bishop is multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in weaving and textiles. Her weavings combine bright, contrasting colors with bold patterns, playful lines, and heavy metallic fringe. Through slow material practice, Bishop explores the tactile relationship we have with cloth. The repetition of physical movement involved in creating a woven structure yields itself to an act of ritual and reverence for textiles, whether they are for utility, art, clothing, or comfort.

Kristy is a teaching artist focusing on textile practices. She travels for artist residencies in public schools all over South Carolina, hosts adult workshops, and summer camps. Kristy partners with Engaging Creative Minds, the Charleston Museum, McClellanville Arts Council, and the Gibbes Museum of Art to facilitate workshops. In August of 2019, Kristy was the artist-in-residence at the Gibbes Museum of Art where she focused on large-scale weaving. During the fall of 2015, Kristy participated in a three-month residency at 701 Center for Contemporary Art concluding with the solo exhibition, Bound. In 2016, Kristy was awarded the South Carolina Artists’ Ventures Initiative (AVI) Grant to expand her studio practice. She was the 2012-2013 Artist-in-Residence for the City of North Charleston. Since 2020, Kristy Bishop has been a Certified Teaching Artist through the South Carolina Arts Commission. Currently, her work was on view in the exhibition, Material World, presented by the Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County.