Krista Mileva-Frank

Krista Mileva-Frank is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program. Her scholarship investigates designed gardens and landscapes through the lens of material histories of extraction and craft, in the eighteenth century through the present. 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 is the curator of Objects for a Heavenly Cave, a participating exhibition in Getty's 2024 PST ART: Art & Science Collide. The group exhibition of thirteen contemporary artists, which explores the materiality and mythos of the grotto, runs from September 7 to October 12, 2024 at Marta in Los Angeles. The exhibition received coverage in 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."