Arist, Educator, Curator
Kristine Hunter
Bio
Kristine Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores memory through performance, sculpture, installation, and photography,. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from Stony Brook University, New York, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Oregon–Eugene, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Her education also includes a Certificate of Completion from The Paris Fashion Institute in Paris, France, and an Associate of Science degree in Fashion Design from Plaza Three Academy in Phoenix, Arizona.
Hunter is Art Faculty and Fine Arts Coordinator at Bay College in Escanaba, Michigan. Her work has been published in the second edition of Elements of Photography by artist and author Angela Faris-Belt.
She was an Artist-in-Residence at Château d’Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France in 2020 and 2022, where she received the Denis Diderot Award. Sculptures created during the residency, jouissance and the red one, are part of the château’s permanent collection and on permanent display. In 2022, Hunter was also an artist-in-residence on Mackinac Island and received the Grand Prize for Poetic Visions of Mackinac.
In summer 2025, Hunter was an Artist-in-Residence at AADK Spain curated by The Creative Body Institute, followed by an Artist-in-Residence curated by Raegan Truax and the Creative Body Institute in November 2025 in Fleinvær, Norway. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally..
“Hunter’s artwork invites the viewer to reflect on the indelible recollections that define our own realities.”- Monica Bravo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California.
Artist Statement
When I was a child and would visit my grandparents, I was always intrigued with the bookshelf behind my grandpa’s chair. The shelves held books such as, The World Encyclopedia, big pictures, and words for such a small child. I would go through all these books, but my favorites were the ones that held the human form in transparent pages. These pages could be lifted to show the skeleton, muscles, and the separate organs, all the layers of the human form. It fascinated me that they broke down the body into layers and that you could simply lift the pages to discover another layer, one that was just as important as the first for the function and completion of the human. I saw a greater picture; this concept of layering has intrigued me throughout my life. I struggled growing up about the notion of what made me and where I belonged. I wrestled to accept all the facets of myself, to understand that events whether positive or negative had to be accepted and understood as my existence. The layer of living: the construction and destruction of self that is necessary for growth. This is a process that is articulated for me best through the creation of my works. It is a theory that I have continually nurtured and dissected.
I am an interdisciplinary artist; featuring the sensorial, inviting the viewer to participate in the completion the works. The integration of image, video, sound, sculpture, and installation is crucial to my creative practice.