Barry Sutton is a New York–based artist whose work moves between photography, artificial intelligence, language systems, and conceptual research. His practice examines how images—and the structures that produce them—become sites where cultural memory, computation, and imagination converge.

Across series such as Evidence, Con Jobs, Cera, and Mythologies, Sutton constructs systems that reveal the underlying architectures of image-making: the fragments, traces, revisions, and emotional pressures that shape creative thought. His projects often operate at the edge of legibility, using AI not as a tool for depiction but as a collaborator in exploring how meaning is generated, distorted, or lost.

Sutton’s work has been exhibited internationally and collected by institutions including the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz. Prior to his work with AI, he built a career in traditional photography, drawing on that visual language to push the synthetics of machine-generated imagery into new territory.

He currently serves as Chair of the MPS Fashion Photography program at the School of Visual Arts, where he leads curricular innovation at the intersection of photography and emerging technologies.