Gloria Sutton

Gloria Sutton is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and New Media at Northeastern University, with an affiliation in the Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT. She holds a PhD from UCLA and has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute and Whitney Museum. Her research focuses on durational media’s impact on visual art since the 1960s, with particular attention to expanded cinema, digital networks, and post-internet art.

• Primary affiliations: Northeastern University (main appointment), MIT (affiliate)
• Key roles: Carpenter Center Scholar-in-Residence (2017-2018), co-curator of How Many Billboards

Education: Doctorate in Art History from UCLA (specific year not stated).

Research interests include:

• Critical analysis of network culture in visual art
• Material histories of time-based media
• Intersection of art, architecture, and technology (e.g., Le Corbusier studies)

Publications include The Experience Machine (MIT Press) and edited volumes on Sara VanDerBeek and Renée Green. Current projects explore immersive art critique and Shigeko Kubota’s work.

Awards:

• Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (recent)
• Emily Hall Tremaine Award (2008)

Grants and residencies:

• Carpenter Center residency (2017-2018)
• Whitney Museum Independent Study Program fellowship

Lecturing and collaborations include engagements at SFMoMA, Walker Art Center, and Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts.