Krista Thompson has curated several exhibitions, including the Bahamian Visions: Colonial Photographs of the Bahamas (2003), National Exhibition (NE3) (2006), Developing Blackness (2008) at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas; An Account of a Voyage to Jamaica with the Unnatural History of That Place, Fred Wilson's reinstallation of the collections of the Institute of Jamaica, 2007); and co-curated En Mas':Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean (Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, March 2015).
Thompson is currently working on The Evidence of Things Not Photographed, a book that examines notions of photographic absence and disappearance in colonial and postcolonial Jamaica and Black Light, a manuscript about electronic light and its archival recovery in African American art.