Multidisciplinary artist and educator Kristal Juan obtained her bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Printmaking at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico in 2019. Her artistic practice explores various topics related to anatomy, flora, fauna and the microscopic. Her work studies different ways to do mixed media using printmaking in a traditional, experimental and contemporary way.

Her work has been presented in different international spaces. Throughout the years she has participated in collectives in Puerto Rico, Greece, México, Portugal, Ecuador and the United States. For example, in 2024 she exhibited in Instituto Leonés de Cultura, Spain, Centro de Difusión cultural del IPBA “Raul Gamboa”, Mexico, and Souvenir 154, Puerto Rico. In 2023 she showed her work in 11th International Printmaking Biennial, Portugal and Museum of Art Francisco Oller, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

In 2019 she continued to develop her practice at La Casa de les Contrafuertes, where she managed the screen printing workshop. As part of the residency program in 2022 she had her first individual exhibition. As former co-founder of the collective project called Ciclos Graficos, Juan continued to promote artistic exchange and the tradition of the printmaking portfolio in Puerto Rico. She managed different printmaking theme portfolio projects and designed the package presentation. In January 2025 she was part of the artist residency at Mass Moca in North Adams, Massachusetts and currently, she works as a professor in the Printmaking department of the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico and a professor at Liga Estudiantes de Arte. Additionally, she is also part of the Housing and Workshops Project for Visual Artists of the Municipality of Bayamón.