Kristine Thompson

Kristine Thompson is an Associate Professor of Photography and MFA Graduate Coordinator at LSU's School of Art within the College of Art & Design. She holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her work explores representations of death, mourning practices, and the intersection of past and present through photography and digital media.

Her research focuses on how photographic imagery circulates globally, particularly in contexts of grief and memorialization. Notable projects include Images Seen to Images Felt (2016), which transforms digital news imagery into tactile photograms, and Still Beneath the Surface (2018), an installation probing personal and cultural mourning through buried photographs. She has exhibited at institutions like Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles) and Armory Center for the Arts.

Thompson has received grants including the DAAD Fellowship and Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists Award. Her curatorial work includes projects at UCR/California Museum of Photography. She teaches courses ranging from basic photography to graduate-level studies in art as research and portraiture.

Her publications include collaborative books like Past & Present Tense (2018) and Images Seen to Images Felt (2018), which contextualize her artistic and curatorial explorations of memory and mortality.