Eva Sutton is a transmedia artist, whose work explores the intersection of photography, found archives and installation. Her projects include documentary work on informal, makeshift communities in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on contemporary Cambodia. Her ongoing, long-term project is focused on the collecting, archiving and dissemination of vernacular photographs, documents and other ephemera, which serve as visual counterparts to the collected oral histories of Southeast Asian refugees in the United States.
Her work has been featured at Aperture Gallery; SF Camerawork (San Francisco), Exit Art (New York); The Santa Barbara Museum of Art; The Tang Museum; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Purnell Center for the Arts at Carnegie Mellon; The National Center of Photography in Paris; Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento, Italy; Trondelag Center for Contemporary Art in Norway and at SIGGRAPH.
She has lectured on issues in art and technology at venues including Princeton University, New York University, The Cooper Union, The American Museum of Natural History in New York, Hong Kong Center for the Arts, Bophana Media and Arts Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia and The Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba. Her projects, based on the intersection between photography, interactive installation and robotics have been featured in publications including Aperture, The New Yorker, Harpers, Artbyte, The New York Times and Leonardo.
Sutton holds a BA in Architecture from The School of Design, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, did graduate studies in Computer Science at the George Washington University and holds an MFA in Computer Art from The School of Visual Arts, New York. Sutton is a Professor Emeritus of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island where her research and teaching was focused on the relationship between photography, installation and time-based media.
Currently, Sutton is continuing her transmedia practice as partner and creative director of the design/make firm, NOA Living, where she is exploring the transformation of photographic images into woven and hand-knotted fabrics.