Barry Sutton is an American artist based in New York whose work combines photography, artificial intelligence, and language systems to examine how images and the systems that produce them shape cultural memory. His series Mythologies (2023) draws on fashion photography, street culture, and online aesthetics to examine how images build the myths youth culture uses to understand itself, merging photography with AI processes.
Mythologies was shown as a solo exhibition at NFT Factory in Paris in November 2023, and Sutton is represented by Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. A follow-up, Mythologies II, released as open editions on Foundation in January 2024, turned the same synthetic lens toward broader social narratives. Sutton described the works as addressing “patriotism, power, success, desire, beauty, the tools of work and worship”. In Olympia (2024), released through the Verse x Tender launchpad as a 1-of-50 auction, Sutton used the lens of sport to address global issues including immigration and pollution.
