Multidisciplinary artist Kyle Krauskopf approaches his practice with a sense of constancy and dedication—creating as naturally as others breathe.
His efforts explore perception, memory, and the subtle complexity of everyday experience. Working across painting, mixed media, murals, and artist books, he creates work that invites reflection and active engagement while resisting fixed interpretation.
His visual work is defined by layered surfaces and a balance between clarity and ambiguity. Through additive and subtractive processes, Krauskopf builds compositions that preserve traces of earlier marks, evoking the fragmented nature of memory. This approach extends to his mural practice, where large-scale works engage architectural space and public environments, encouraging viewers to pause and reconsider their surroundings.
Krauskopf is the author of The Meantime Chronicles, an ongoing series of artist books combining text and image to explore transitional, “in-between” moments. He most recently self-published The Meantime Chronicles, Volume 2, a year-long project featuring a new story and illustration each week, prompted by collaborators from around the world. The work merges his visual and literary practices while emphasizing community participation, all of which concluded with a nationwide book tour in the summer of 2025.
Some of his previous projects include Small Drawings High Hopes, 365 Days of Wood, and Gratefully in Your Debt. Across all formats, themes of liminality—between past and present, presence and absence—remain central.
Across all mediums, Krauskopf’s work is unified by an emphasis on process, collaboration, and attentiveness—encouraging viewers to slow down, look closely, and form personal connections shaped by their own experiences.
Beyond his studio practice, Krauskopf has contributed to arts communities throughout the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. He has helped establish galleries and art spaces, supported the reopening of the Belltown Art Walk, and worked with Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery and Fortuity Cellars.
An emphatic advocate for mental health, he supports the National Alliance on Mental Illness, advocating for awareness and connection, as he sees it: “no one but you, truly knows what’s going on within you.”
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2025- The Meantime Chronicles Book Tour, Various Locations across 28 states
2023- The Meantime Chronicles, Nuwave Gallery, Ellensburg WA
2022- In The Meantime, Slip Gallery, Seattle WA
2021- Small Drawings High Hopes, The Native Nook, Rochester IN
2020- Small Drawings High Hopes in cooperation with NAMI Seattle, Seattle WA
2019- Food Art Collection “Illustrated Fare” Seattle, WA
2019- Connect Lounge “Krauskopf” Seattle, WA
2019- Parke Diem Seattle, WA
2018- Bemis Annual Art Show Seattle, WA
2018- Palomino “Follow the Emerald Star” Indianapolis, IN
2018- Brooke Westlund Gallery “VV” Seattle WA
2017- Verity Credit Union “Pop Portraits” Seattle WA
2017- Manu’s Bodega -a selection of works- Seattle WA
2016- Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery “365 Days of Wood” Seattle WA
2014- Murphy Arts Building “Buy or Burn” Indianapolis IN
2013- Pure Gallery “The End” Indianapolis IN
2012- The Dash In - a selection of works- Fort Wayne IN
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026- Trailblazers, Nuwave Gallery, Ellensburg WA
2022- Pollination Syndrome, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022- Bloom, Get Nice Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019- The Getty Museum “Build a Beast” Los Angeles, CA
2019- Zhou B Gallery “Mad Scientists” Chicago, IL
2019- Ghost Gallery “Red List, Endangered Moths and Butterflies” Seattle, WA
2019- Fiesta de Frida “Women’s Justice League Benefit” Chicago IL
2018- Vie Magazine “Logan Lane Holiday Block Party” Grayton Beach, FL
2018- Ballard Seafood Festival Seattle WA
2018- Sunflower Project “Sunflower Project Fundraiser” Chicago IL
2017- “7th Annual Light, Space, & Time Animals Competition” lightspacetime.art
2017- Miami County Museum Annex “Miami County Artists” Peru IN
2016- Seattle Children’s Hospital Silent Auction Benefit Seattle, WA
2015- Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery “Ghouls” Seattle WA
2013- Indianapolis Arts Garden Collective Show “Love” Indianapolis IN
2012- Factory 17 “First Friday” Indianapolis IN
2012- Cinema Center “Braineaters’ Ball” Fort Wayne IN
2011- Fountain Square “Art Squared” Indianapolis IN
Selected Publications and Media:
“Heart on His Sleeve” Vie Magazine September 2018
“Creating Your Own Success in Art” IntervWednesday April 2018
Artist Portfolio Magazine Q2 Art Competition June 2017
“365 Days of Scroll Sawn Animals” Make Magazine. November 2015. makezine.com.
Education:
Yale University- The Science of Well Being, 2020
Ball State University- B.F.A., Studio Art-Emphasis in Drawing, 2009