Tori Foster (she/they) is an openly autistic, queer, and transmasculine new media artist whose practice seeks to extract the invisible from the visible. She works in the areas of personal identities, the nature of consciousness, and emergent behaviour. Much of her work literally or metaphorically describes things we cannot see with the naked eye, but none-the-less can intuit or experience viscerally.
Foster earned an MFA and a BFA from TMU in Toronto Canada and is currently an Assistant Professor in New Media at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was previously based in Los Angeles California as Assistant Professor of Video/Digital Art at California State University, Northridge.
She has received dozens of grants and awards including two current grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council for the respective creation of It’s Complicated, an interactive sign exploring gender experience, and of Conversations with Fate, a generative performance piece exploring the emergent behaviours of a herd of autonomous robots. Her work has been presented in 18 countries world-wide, including Germany, India, China, Australia, Brazil, and the USA, and is held in numerous private and corporate collections.
Foster is based in the USA and Canada.
