Krista Belle Stewart was raised in the Syilx Nation community of Spaxmn. Her multidisciplinary practice moves between familial histories, materials that precede her, and the land that holds them.

Stewart's practice begins with encounters: a tintype photographer who wanted her portrait because she was "Indian," a CBC docu-drama made of her mother in the 1960s, German hobbyists who have spent decades imagining and performing "Indianer" life, and a cassette tape carrying her great-grandmother's songs, originally recorded on wax cylinder from 1905–1918. Each work is made with the permission and teachings of those to whom the material belongs, asking not just what these recordings, images, and objects represent, but what it means to bring them home.

Her work has been exhibited at MUDAM, Luxembourg; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Kunstverein Hamburg; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Additional presentations include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; the 39th EVA International, Limerick; and MoMA's Doc Fortnight, New York.

Stewart will join On Other Archives at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in November 2026 as co-faculty, and is preparing for a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. She is a PhD in Practice candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.