Casper Sutton-Fosman

Casper Sutton-Fosman is a cross-disciplinary curator, artist, and academic and current Textiles and Materiality coordinator. Their work centers conceptions of identity through a trans and disabled lens, pushing boundaries of medium and discipline to open in-between spaces for being. They hold a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MFA from OCAD University, where their research centred the figure of the haunted house as allegory for queer/disabled resistance to nuclear family structures. They have exhibited, curated, and held residencies in Toronto and New York, and currently serve on the Programming Committee of InterAccess in Toronto.

Casper’s research examines the relationships of queer/trans and disabled communities to lens-based art and image-capture technologies. Finding overlap and kinship in questions of representation, medicalization, and surveillance, they hope to question the politics of visibility. Their curatorial practice guides their research, looking towards lens-based artists within queer, trans, & disabled communities. Drawing on hauntological analysis, crip theory, fine arts, and queer/trans studies, their work takes on multifaceted and non-linear forms.