Barry Sutton is an artist whose work probes the unstable architecture of truth and authorship. Working across photography, language systems, and algorithmic image-making, Sutton exposes the technical, cultural, and political infrastructures that determine what is seen, believed, and remembered.

His recent and ongoing projects Mythologies, Traces of Truth, Evidence, Beautiful Soup, and Con Jobs investigate how images and statements are constructed from fragments of collective memory. Mythologies explores how cultural icons are manufactured and reproduced across visual systems. Beautiful Soup interrogates the ethics of extraction, revealing how datasets absorb the labor, style, and intention of countless uncredited makers. Evidence turns the mechanics of generative systems into a visible substrate, foregrounding the processes that shape representation; works from this series are held in the collection of the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria. Con Jobs reconstructs disinformation into a form of absurdist poetry, using algorithmic recombination to reveal how repetition, spectacle, and manufactured cadence collapse truth into performance and how the lie has become one of the most persistent cultural forms of the contemporary era. Across these bodies of work, Sutton dismantles the surface of images and texts to reveal the systems that underwrite contemporary notions of credibility, agency, and authorship.

Sutton works at the intersection of visual culture and computational media, challenging the conventions of photographic practice while interrogating the mechanisms through which culture is written and rewritten by machines. He is the Chair of the MPS Fashion Photography Department at the School of Visual Arts and the founder of Cera, a mentorship system that explores how intuition, critique, and creative thought can be extended and challenged by computational intelligence.

He lives and works in New York City.