Krista Mileva-Frank

Krista Mileva-Frank is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program. Her research investigates gardens and designed landscapes through the lens of material histories of extraction and craft from the nineteenth century to the present. She is currently a Chateaubriand Fellow of the French Embassy of the United States, hosted in Paris by the Centre André Chastel (Sorbonne Université/CNRS/INHA). She has presented her research at the annual conferences of the Society of Architectural Historians and the College Art Association, as well as at symposia at the University of Cambridge, Yale University, and Boston University.

She was the curator of Objects for a Heavenly Cave, a participating exhibition in Getty's 2024 PST ART: Art & Science Collide at Marta in Los Angeles. The show, which featured thirteen contemporary artists and explored the materiality and mythos of the grotto, was profiled in the The New York Times, The World of Interiors, and Wallpaper*.

Krista holds a BA magna cum laude in Art History and French Literature from Williams College (2018) and an MPhil in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Cambridge (2019) on a Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship. In summer 2024, Krista participated in the Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Program at Dumbarton Oaks, which addressed the theme "Environmental and Landscape Histories: Contested Places and Counter Narratives."