bio

Kristine Heykants mines our cultural landscape for visual artifacts to manipulate into images. By combining pop culture elements, high-impact color and a dramatic use of lighting, she makes portraits for the music industry, advertising and editorial clients. Taking influence from the worlds of cinema, painting and Pop Art, her work seeks to raise questions and provoke thought through the creation of dramatic situations and personas. Kristine's personal photo projects have been the subject of publication and gallery exhibition and she is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Her work has led her to travel extensively abroad, in France, Germany, Italy, England, the Philippines, Indonesia, Korea and Australia.

 

News

• I'm headed to Italy in October to continue photography for the Media Roles project. Special thanks to the Jerome Foundation for awarding the grant that makes this trip possible!
• New Photography: McKnight Fellows 2006-2007 is on exhibit through October 7 at the Minnesota Center for Photography. My work is showing, along with Twin Cities' photographers Orrin Rutchick, Mickey Smith and Angela Strassheim. Thank you McKnight Foundation for this amazing opportunity to create new images!
• It's back to school time, and this fall I'll be teaching classes in lighting, portraiture and fashion at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, and Ai Minnesota.
• Recently completed is an assignment for Mpls/St Paul Magazine, keep an eye out for the September issue.