Kristan Woolford

Born in Atlanta and raised in Stone Mountain, GA, Kristan Woolford is a commission based digital artist whose work seeks to synthesize the original pillars of Hip Hop culture with Social Justice themes. His background in documentary filmmaking inspires video collages of Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist narratives.

Kristan has screened short films at venues such as Ciné, Plaza Theatre, and screened a feature length documentary broadcasted on cable television. He has served as Director, Producer, and Editor for a weekly internationally broadcasted television program and served as the Director of New Media at Atlanta’s public access television station People TV. As his work has matured, Woolford continues to push the boundaries of how digital mediums like video collages and projection mapping can encourage a deeper understanding of Black experiences in America. His video collage work has been featured in exhibitions such as The High Rise Show, Drive Thru ATL, Midtown Alliance’s Heart of The Arts, Off The Wall, and 30 Summers at Atlanta Contemporary.

Kristan’s video collage work relies on remixing and layering digital elements to document and collapse moments from the past and present using projection technology. As an aesthetic of his work, projection is meant to suggest a casting of alternate realities, and a call to see our current and future social climate through a nuanced lens focused on our country’s dark past to provoke healing and accountability.

Kristan is a Film Post Production Professor of Practice at Georgia State University, Visiting Lecturer of Film at Georgia Tech, and a Teaching Artist with several non-profits, serving as Chief Professorial Officer of eurketSTEAMlabs, where he works to train Atlanta’s future generation of digital creators. Kristan is a 2023 Atlanta Contemporary Nexus Fund Grantee recipient, a featured artist in Comfiart’s Design + Muse signature program, and in the 2023-2024 Midtown Alliance Heart of The Arts cohort as the inaugural Studio Artist in Residence at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) hosted by Perkins + Will architecture firm. Kristan is a proud alumni of The Creatives Project Studio residency program, C4 Atlanta’s Hatch Intensive Program: For Artists Working With Community, Hampton University, and Georgia Tech.