DIGITAL RESIDENT
Kat Thompson

june 2025

Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist working in Virginia. Thompson works with photography, textiles, collages, and installations. She then combines these mediums to explore notions of Afro-Caribbean selfhood within the African Diaspora. Being of Jamaican heritage, Thompson confronts her dual identity through recent projects that depict traces of her family’s journey through personal and found materials. Her focus is to uncover stories that mirror parts of ourselves back to us, including our histories, current realities, and future possibilities. Her works have been exhibited at Page Bond Gallery (Richmond, VA) Visible Records (Charlottesville, VA), the Fenwick Gallery and Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Reston, VA). She was a recipient of the Young Alumni Commissioning Award, College of Visual and Performing Arts: George Mason University (2021-2022) and she is currently a Hamiltonian Artists Fellow (2023-2025) in Washington DC and a Post-Grad Artist in Resident with the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA.    

Thompson received her BFA in Photography from George Mason University and her MFA in Photography + Film from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Learn more about Kat’s work here.