Sutton is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and
Women,
Gender, and
Sexuality Studies at
Northeastern University. She is also a Research Affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
MIT). She serves on the advisory committees of the MIT
List Visual Arts Center, Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), and
Boston Art Review, and is on the editorial boards of
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and Bloomsbury’s International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics series. Her research has been supported by institutions such as the
Andy Warhol Foundation and the
Getty Research Institute. From 1997 to 2002, Sutton served on the advisory board of
Rhizome, a pioneering nonprofit for born-digital art, helping to develop foundational frameworks for exhibiting, archiving, and theorizing internet-based practices. Her editorial career began at
Afterimage, where she focused on the underrepresentation of minority voices in art criticism. She later became the inaugural editor of
Art Journal Open, where she expanded the role of digital scholarship and public engagement in contemporary art history. Sutton co-curated the large-scale
urban art exhibition in
Los Angeles titled
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, organized by the
MAK Center. She has also held curatorial roles at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her first book,
The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema (
MIT Press), was the first comprehensive study of
VanDerBeek’s multimedia work and was translated into French in 2023, with a foreword by
Olafur Eliasson. She has collaborated with artists including Jennifer Bornstein,
Anna Craycroft, and
Sara VanDerBeek, editing the first monograph on the latter. From 2016 to 2018, she worked with
Renée Green on exhibitions and programming at Harvard’s Carpenter Center, culminating in the publication of
Renée Green: Pacing (D.A.P., 2021). ==
Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman ==