Stephanie Sutton is an Associate Professor of Art at Winthrop University, specializing in photography and expanded media. Her practice in self-portraiture asks viewers to question their relationship to the screen as a modern mirror. Using her own body through performances for the camera, she argues for the unique power the fat body has as a noncompliant, disruptive, and spoiled visual identity. Performances interweave rituals of labor and luxury to redefine notions of discipline and pleasure. Sutton's work transgresses the limits of the isolated subject to redirect self-consciousness on to the viewer. She earned her MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, and her BFA in studio art from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University. She lives and works near Rock Hill, South Carolina.
