Kirsten Batten Leach is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in sculpture, drawing, and performance. The viscerality of her objects and performances is drawn from strict extensive training in dance. While pursuing a career in ballet, she supported herself as a domestic worker for ten years. During this time, she became interested in the connections between material production and physical labor. She stages interventions with her body and with everyday objects as a way to reframe harmful structures of power. Organic substances such as mold and rust reflect themes of decay, precarity, rupture and impermanence. Raised in Boston, MA she completed her MFA in Integrated Practices at Pratt Institute and earned a BFA in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College. She was the recipient of the Stutzman Foundation Award for Sculpture, a Pratt<Forward Artist-in-Residence, and has shown work at NYU Gallatin Galleries and with LIC-Artists at The Factory.