Barry Sutton is an American artist and educator using photography and AI to pose questions about our notions of beauty and the nature of truth. With a body of photographic work over the past 30 years largely focused on youth culture, Sutton has also become a leading voice in the field of synthetic photography, using AI to develop a new photographic language. His figurative and conceptual work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Rome and Brussels, and he regularly speaks at conferences around the world.

Sutton’s work has been published in Vogue, New York Times T-Magazine, Newsweek and others. His photographic retrospective, “96° in the Shade” was launched as NFTs in 2021, the first fashion/lifestyle project to be memorialized on the blockchain. His acclaimed synthetic photography projects Traces of Truth, Rapid Transit, Rad and Mythologies have sold more than 1400 editions. Limited edition prints from Mythologies, are available through Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

Sutton is the Chair of the MPS Fashion Photography graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, working with young creatives to explore the concepts that underpin their photographic practice in the context of fashion.