Tiffany Joy Sutton
B. 1981; St.Louis, MO.
Education
2018- 2019 Regional Arts Commission, Teaching Artist Institute
2001-2003 Washington University in St. Louis - St.Louis, MO - Photography - audit coursework
1999-2001 St.Louis Community College- Florissant Valley, MO - Photography- audit coursework
Visiting - Teaching Artist - Workshops
December 2022- Portrait Session- Houska Gallery
November 2021 - Portrait Day with Tiff Sutton at G-CADD!
October 2020 - Portrait Day with Tiff Sutton at G-CADD!
August 2019 - May - 2020 - Teaching Artists - Photography - Intersect Arts Center, St.Louis, MO
June - July 2019 - Teaching Artist - General Arts Education - St.Louis Artist Guild, St.Louis, MO
October 2019 - Maker’s Night: Instant Portraits with Tiffany Sutton - Photography - Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, MO
September 2019 - Free Family Day - Art at a Boiling Point! - Camera Obscura - Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, MO
October 2017 - Pinhole Photography - New Art in the Neighborhood - Contemporary Art Museum - St.Louis, MO
Group and Solo Exhibitions
2023 - The Call is Coming from Inside the Houska - Houska Gallery - St.Louis, MO
2023 - Counterpart - Ma’s House - South Hampton, New York
2023 - Gaze: Power & Politics - Wichita, KS
2022 - Black Ice-Houska Gallery-St.Louis, MO
2022 - In- between- TechArtista - St.Louis, MO
2022 - FotoFocus 2022 - Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum Hamilton, Ohio
2022 - Nytjagmurinn “The Thrift Container” - Laugarvatn, Iceland
2022 - Tiff Sutton - Kansas Public Library - Kansas City, Kansas
2021 - Without Geography You Are Nowhere/Everywhere - virtual exhibition
2021 - Take Care, Vera - Museum Blue - Online Exhibition
2021- Black Landscape - St.Louis Artists Guild, St.Louis, MO
2021 - Long View - Airport Gallery - St.Louis, MO
2021 - In the City: Memories of Black Presence - online exhibition
2021 - Through Different Eyes: Voices Amplified - St.Louis Artists Guild
2021 - Black Body Radiation- St.Louis Public Library website
2020 - Black Nonpareil - Angad Arts Hotel, St.Louis, MO
2020 - Two Way Lens: Portraits as Empathy - Humble Arts Foundation; Online Exhibition
2020 - Exhibition #24 - G- Cadd Gallery - Granite City, Ill
2020 - Girls with Fruit Vol. II - St.Louis Lambert Airport - St.Louis, MO
2020 - Black Body Radiation - Contemporary Art Gallery - St.Louis Community College, St.Louis, MO
2019 - Black Photo - St.Louis Community College, St.Louis, MO
2019 - Girls with Fruit - The Dark Room, St.Louis, MO
2019 - The Color of My Love is Blue - University City Library, The Gallery, St.Louis, MO 2019 - Sutton’s In Technicolor - Erica Popp Gallery, St.Louis, MO
2019 - Girls with Fruit Redux - The Royale, St.Louis, MO
2018 - Art Is For Everyone - Erica Popp Gallery, St.Louis, MO
2018 - Rose Raft’s Artist-In-Residence Exhibition - Flood Plain, St.Louis, MO
2018 - Girls with Fruit - South City Art Supply, St.Louis, MO
2017 - Luxury Items - Cranky Yellow, St.Louis, MO
2011 - Portion Control - PSTL, St.Louis, MO
2002 - View Point - City Museum, St.Louis, MO
2000 - 8 Artist - North Gallery, St.Louis, MO
Artist Talks
2023- If It Wasn’t for the Women: Grounded Perspectives - St.Louis Art Museum, St.Louis, Missouri
2022 - June Residents Artist Talk - Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugartivn, Iceland
2021 - Marketing Your Art – Panel Discussion with Guild Executive Director, Kathryn Nahorski, and Education Director, Tiffany Sutton
2021 - In the Studio with Tiff J. Sutton International Photography Hall of Fame - St.Louis, MO
2021 - Artist Talk for Take Care, Vera, via Zoom - University of Missouri in St.Louis
2020 - Two Black Artists In Conversation x Lola Ogbara, Aaron Brown, Paul Impagi Sepuya
2020 - Artist Talk for Black Body Radiation via Zoom - St. Louis Community College - Forest Park - St.Louis, MO
2019 - Cocktails and Conversations: Artist Talk with Tiffany Sutton - Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, MO
2019 - Artist Talk for Sutton’s In Technicolor - Erica Popp Gallery, St. Louis, MO April
2019 - Closing Residency Artist Talk - Paul Artspace, St.Louis, MO
Residencies
2023 - Paul Artspace, Godek in Stuttgart, Germany
2022 - Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugardalur Valley, Iceland
2020 - Remote Residency, The Travel Agency
2019 - Community Artist In Residence, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, MO 2019 - Paul Artspace, St.Louis, MO
2019 - Artist in Residence, Vashon High School, Contemporary Art Museum ArtReach, St.Louis, MO 2018 - Artist in Residence, Vashon High School, Contemporary Art Museum ArtReach, St.Louis, MO 2018 - Rose Raft Artist in Residence; New Douglass, Ill
Fellowships
2020- #InTheCity Visual Arts Fellowship - Harvard University
Awards
2023 - Regional Art Commission - Artist Support Grant
2022 - MAPS Mock Trial Grant
2022 - Puffin Foundation
2022 - Black Women Photographer + Nikon Grant - $10,000 Grant winner
2020 - Artist Relief Fund - Covid -19 Grant - Regional Arts Commission
2020 - Futures Fund - Grant - The Luminary
2020 - A Sustaining Arts Practice Fund (ASAP Fund) - Grant - The Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2019 - Regional Art Commission Artist Support Grant
1999 - Photographer of the Year - St.Louis Community College - Florissant Valley
Publications
2023 - Musee Magazine - Woman Crush Wednesday https://museemagazine.com/culture/2023/12/6/tiffany-j-sutton
2023 - 12 Famous Black Photographers You Should Know in 2023 - shotkit.com - https://shotkit.com/famous-black-photographers/
2022 - Grant - Grant-winning portraits of Black women fracture the mythical monolith - NPR - The Picture Show
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/02/01/1073813489/black-women-fracture-the-mythical -monolith
2022 - Black Women Photographers’ Grant Awards $50,000 to 12 Recipients - Rangefinder
2021 - These Photographs Celebrate All Kinds of Motherhood
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/what-motherhood-means/
2020 - Celebrating Ourselves: Self-Portraits by Women and Non-Binary Photographers https://theluupe.com/blog/2020/12/10/celebrating-ourselves-self-portraits-by-women-and-non-binary-photographers/
2020 - Layers of Representation In Multiple Exposures -
http://hafny.org/blog/2020/12/layers-of-representation-in-multiple-exposures
2020 - G- CADD Reopens Its (naturally socially distanced) Campus This Evening - stlmag.com
2020 - The Future Of Analog - hazelartmag.com
2020 - Mom - Online Exclusive - Period.
2020 - Tiffany Goes to Harvard - Juana Magazine
2019 - Tiff j Tiff Sutton & the ‘ Visual Style of Vulnerability’ - St.Louis Small Press Expo
2018 - Vashon through the Lens - HEC-TV
2018 - Vashon through a Lenses - Riverfront Times
2011 - St. Louis Art Capsules -Jessica Baran Encapsulates the St. Louis Art Scene - Riverfront Times Online
2000 - North Gallery Opens New Storefront Art Show - North County Journal