Victoria Christgen
Department Head
Associate Professor of Art, Campbellsville University
Director, Pence Chowning Gallery
https://www.torichristgen.com/
Education
-MFA, Studio Art 2012-2015
Maryland Institute College of Art
Summa Cum Laude Graduate
-BFA, Studio Art 2008-2012
Missouri Western State University
Summa Cum Laude Graduate
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2026- TLC, tiny little creations
Honest & Free Studio
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2025- Memory of Light
Achromatic Textile Installation, works on paper & clay
Gallery on the Square
Greensburg, Kentucky
2023- Memories for Wondering Souls
Coloring Book Pop-Up
Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2021 -10 Years in the Making
Mad Potter Studio
Weston, Missouri
-McCoy, Fall Fabric Launch and Exhibition
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2020 -Pura Vida, Pandemic Pandemonium
Tamarindo, Costa Rica
2018 -Nana’s Lace Revisited
Red Door Gallery
Kansas City, Missouri
2017 -Thistles and Magpies Pop-Up
Room in the Back Gallery
Lawrence, Kansas
2016 -Inca Interpretations
Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Badass Betties Pop-Up
Foster's Lounge
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Tori Christgen
Yost Gallery, Highland Community College
Highland Kansas
Juried, Invitation & Group Exhibitions
2026 Invited Live Drawing Artist, Mushroom Festival,
Livingston, Kentucky
Shared Containers, Community Exhibition
Pence Chowning Gallery
2025 Woman^9
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Kick off the Derby
Governor’s Artist
Frankfort, Kentucky
-PHASES: Celestial Stories
Paint Gallery
Cohes, New York
-Matriarch Reload; We Mother the Earth
Chestnut and Pearls Art Gallery
New Albany, Indiana
2024 -Stitched Together
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-ReFabricating the Forgotten- Alpha Rho Tau
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2023 International Fair Photo Exhibition & Contest
(2) 2nd place awarded
Campbellsville University
-Community Art Exhibition
Primrose on Main
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Green Country Art Council Depot Exhibition
Greensburg, Kentucky
-Light Work
Pence Chowning Art Gallery y
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Cognoscenti
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Nuditas 2023
Exhibizone Smart Exhibitions & Biafarin Artist Magazine
-Elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire, X)
Exhibizone Smart Exhibitions & Biafarin Artist Magazine
2022 Parts and Labor
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2021 October Plein Air Exhibition, 3rd place awarded
Plein Air Salon
-Portals and Pathways
International Trucking Service Gallery
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-The All Women Exhibition
Contemporary Art Gallery
2020 Contemporary Watercolor Artist- 1st place awarded
Art House Gallery
-Created in Isolation
Light Space Time Gallery
2019 Prints with Power
Prints of Today International
Coleen, Italy
-Fems of Fiber
Golden Thread Gallery
2018 Juried Member Exhibition- 2nd and 3rd Places granted
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art,
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Perspectives
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art
Saint Joseph, Missouri
2017 -Nufelibata
Union Street Gallery
Kokomo, Indiana
-Post Cards Revisited
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art
Saint Joseph, Missouri
Artist Residencies
2025 A Position on Retreat, Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, BC
-Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada
2024 South Porch Artist Residency, Summerville, South Carolina
Loretto Motherhouse, Loretto Kentucky
2021 Mad Potter Studio, Weston, Missouri
2020 Finca de Flora, Paraiso, Costa Rica
-Pura Vita, Tamarindo, Costa Rica
2017 Robidoux Resident Theatre, Saint Joseph, Missouri
2016 Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky
2015 Map Pottery Studio, Weston, Missouri
2014 Cutty College, Nevada, Missouri
2012 MWSU, Saint Joseph, Missouri
Curatorial
2026 Shared Containers, Community Exhibition
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Student Juried Exhibition
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Here, but Not Home, Eden Hale
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Reflections, Savannah Gumm
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Life in Layers
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Through My Eyes, Meredith Wilson
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Passions, Clair Proctor
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Aurelius Parrish
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Honeymoon, Penny Holland
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2025 John Luke Roberts
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
- Campus Paintings
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Comforting the Disturbed
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Railroads, Rust & Reverie
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
- Origins & Destinations
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Madison Hardin, Getting into Character
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Woman^9, Collaboration
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Limelight on the Arts
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Creative Collaboration of Devotion
Collaboration Dr. Loida Pineda
Gheens Recital Hall
-Student Juried Art Show
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Motherhood; Maranda Fowler
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2024 -Firework Trapped in a Box; Catrina Higgs
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Library Perspectives, Drawing Student Pop-Up 2024-2026
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Street Light Dreams
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Earth Day ReFabricating the Forgotten
Campbellsville University
-Sing Out, My Soul!
Collaboration Dr. Loida Pineda
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville University
-ReFabricating the Forgotten- Alpha Rho Tau
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2023 Light Work: Sculptural Light Exhibition
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Things that Never Die: Collaboration Dr. Loida Pineda
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Starfall: Collaboration with Dr. Chad Floyd
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2022 -Six: Collaboration with Dr. Chad Floyd
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville, Kentucky
- Watercolors
Ransdell Chapel
Campbellsville, Kentucky
- Lindsey Bailey
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Library Perspectives, Pop-Up Exhibition
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Interior/Exterior, Pop-Up Exhibition
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2021 -Plein Air Memories: Paintings of Taylor County
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Homecoming Pride, Painting Student Pop-Up
CU Art Cabin
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Library Perspectives, Drawing Student Pop-Up Exhibition
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
Workshops Taught
-CV/Artist Bio, Campbellsville University, 2025
-Journal & Book Making, Art Club, 2024
-Glue Batik, Sunday Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Plushie, Sunday Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Mystery Molds, Sunday Clay Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Screenprinting Clay, Sunday Clay Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Southern Women in the Art, Contemporary Plein Air, 2022
-Mad Potter, Screenprinting on Clay, 2021
-Pura Vita, Lace Printing, 2020
-Artscape, ink It Up, Direct Printing 2019
-Artscape, Basket weaving 2018
-Inca Interpretations Alternative Printmaking 2016
-National Conference of Undergraduate Research-Establishing a System of Green Sand Casting 2014
-Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education-Fiscally and Ecologically Responsible Metal Casting Methods. 2012
Professional Service & Development
2026- Artist Mentor, Bad Art, Good People, Albrecht-
Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
-Shared Containers, Community Sculpture Project
2025- Meet the Artist, Artist Talk, Women^9
Pence Chowning Gallery
-Faculty Breakout Teaching Session- Why Can’t Learning be Fun? Gamifying your Course
Campbellsville University
-Faculty Learning Community- Course Rebuild
Campbellsville University
-Find Your Legacy, Art & Chapel Collaboration
Campbellsville University
-Cheatham Center Advisory Council, Campbellsville University
-Health and Wellness Council, Campbellsville University
-Taylor Country Middle School Career Day
Talent Judge, International Fair, Campbellsville University 2024-2026
-Presenter; Establishing Mutually Beneficial Collaborations within the Arts
AC Summit, Knoxville, Tennessee
-Wellness Committee- Earth Day Festival
Campbellsville University
-Wellness Committee- Earth Day Yoga Instructor
Campbellsville University
- Art Club Faculty Cosponsor, Campbellsville University 2021-2026
-Wellness Committee- Earth Day Meditation & Sound
Campbellsville University
-Keyboard Kaleidoscope
Music & Visual Art Collaboration
Randsdell Chapel
Campbellsville University
-Women’s History Month Lecturer Khmer Silk Weavers
Campbellsville University
-Wellness Committee Harbinger of Spring Walk
Campbellsville University
-Exhibition Judge, Lincoln Days Art Show
Hodgenville, Kentucky
-Enhancing Community Engagement Committee
Campbellsville University
- Cheatham Center Advisory Council
Campbellsville University
-Takeo Orphanage Drawing-
United States Embassy partnership
Takeo, Cambodia
-Lindsey Bailey/CU Educational Collaboration
workshops, class instruction, artist talk
-Unmasking Memorial, Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Watercolor: Art & Design Woodwinds Collaboration, Ransdell Chapel, Campbellsville
University
- 200 Hour Yogi Certification
-Artist Thrive Conference, Winston Salem, North Carolina
-Enhancing Community Relationships Committee, Campbellsville University
Selected Publications & Press
- https://thecampustimes.com/2255/news/the-art-of-exchange-nine-artists-one-collective-journey/
- Russell Creek Review, Selected Artist 2026, 2025, 2024
- Campbellsville Review 2022, Cover Artist
- Campbellsville University https://www.campbellsville.edu/news/campbellsville-university-art-professor-introducing-fall-fabric-line-launch-and-exhibition-until-oct-1/
- https://www.campbellsville.edu/campus-life/campus-resources/faculty/victoria-christgen/
-Better Homes and Gardens, Do It Yourself, 01/21 Issue
-Art House Gallery-https://arthouseonlinegallery.com/art/artist-christgen-tori-artwork-authentic-breakfast/
-The Hand Magazine, Featured Artist: https://thehandmagazine.net
-St Joseph News Presshttps://www.stjosephpost.com/2016/02/06/first-saturday-includes-printmaking-exhibit-in-downtown-st-joseph/
-Hiawatha World https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/christgen-rudolph-artwork-coming-to-yost-art-gallery/article_d7120ca0-10a8-52cd-9adb-8f83bca80c22.html
-MICA https://libguides.mica.edu/mfast
-Campbellsville University https://www.campbellsville.edu/news/missouri-artist-exhibits-printmaking-at-campbellsville-university/
-AKMA https://albrecht-kemper.org/exhibitions/2019-akma-membership-exhibition-call-for-artwork/
-MICA https://mfastblog.wordpress.com/class-of-2015/
Awards & Honors
Kentucky Arts Council, Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant, Mentor Artist, with Alice Winston
Faculty Development Grant, Campbellsville University, 2024-2026
QEP Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2024
(2) 2nd place awarded, International Fair Photo Exhibition & Contest,
Campbellsville University
George Howell Earth Stewardship Club Awards, 2023
Facility Development Grant, Campbellsville University, 2023
WEL Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2023
QEP Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2022
WEL Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2022
3rd place awarded- October Plein Air Exhibition
1st place awarded- Watercolor Artist, Art House Gallery
2nd and 3rd places awarded, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, Missouri
MFA Studio Art Academic Scholarship
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Missouri Western State University
TLC- tiny little creations by tori lynn christgen
April 24th 6:00
Honest & Free Studio
Campbellsville, KY