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

• Nudism in Minnesota is included in the Minne Photo Show on view at the Minneapolis offices of Fallon Worldwide through January 2009.
• Enrollment is underway for my popular survey course "Deconstructing the Fashion Shoot", offered through Minneapolis Community & Technical College's Continuing Education program in February 2009.