Karsten Creightney

male, American, born 1976

Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Creightney received his BA from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He subsequently completed the highly-regarded one-year program in lithography printing

at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque and received an MFA in painting from the University of New Mexico. His work is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts,

Flint Institute of Arts, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Muskeegon Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Springfield (MO) Art Museum and numerous

other institutions. The Flint Institute of Art organized the artist's first museum one-person exhibit in 2012, showing approximately thirty works on paper. Creightney's painting "Roadside Memorial" is featured in a primary set of the new AMC TV "Better Call Saul," a spin-off of hit series "Breaking Bad."