WILL SUTTON

November 2024 Resident

Largely in the language of drawing, I blend together subcultural imagery of skateboarding, graffiti, and aggressive music, and cartooning figuration to sort through the muck of my obsession with Southeastern aggressive subcultures. On discarded substrates culminate in wary youth rejoicing amongst death metal logos, skate shoes while tracking expressions of pain and substance abuse within Southeastern United States. 

Will Sutton is an artist and curator based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Will grew up listening to metal, writing graffiti, and skateboarding. Through these interests, Will found his passion for artmaking. After graduating college in 2022 with a BFA in Painting in Drawing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Will’s creative research has led him to utilizing artmaking to explore the subcultures that originally pulled him into artmaking. He has been involved in artist-run spaces in Chattanooga, and is the Co-Director of a residency and curatorial program called Union Arts. He has attended residency at Stove Works and has shown at Tangerine Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art at Chattanooga, and COOP Gallery in Nashville in Spring of 2025. 

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Mineral House Media’s digital residency program is a series of online “takeovers,” wherein each selected artist is given full control of the Mineral House Media Instagram feed for 2 weeks. Residents complete an interview to be published at the close of their designated month. The residency also includes a group exhibition at the end of the year. It is a great way to experiment, showcase your practice in a new way, and develop a new following. If you wish to be considered for our 2024 residency year, Apply Here!