Bio
Barry Sutton is an American artist and educator whose work interrogates our perceptions of beauty and the nature of truth through photography and artificial intelligence. For over three decades, his photographic practice has explored youth culture, while his pioneering engagement with AI has positioned him as a leading voice in the emerging field of synthetic photography. Sutton works across a broad spectrum of AI tools to develop a new photographic language, actively shaping conversations around the intersection of traditional and synthetic imagery. His figurative and conceptual works have been exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Rome, and Brussels, and he is a regular speaker at global art and technology conferences.
Sutton’s work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times T Magazine, Newsweek, and other leading publications. His 2021 retrospective, 96° in the Shade, was the first fashion photography collection sold as NFTs on the blockchain. His acclaimed synthetic photography series include Traces of Truth, Rad, Olympia, and Mythologies, the latter of which is represented in print by Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. Evidence #028, from his recent series Evidence: Primordium, is part of the permanent collection of the Francisco Carolinum museum in Linz, Austria.
Sutton is the Chair of the MPS Fashion Photography graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he mentors the next generation of artists exploring the evolving landscape of photography.