Tori Foster (she/they) is an openly autistic, queer, and transmasculine visual artist whose practice seeks to extract the invisible from the visible. She works in the areas of personal identity, the nature of consciousness, and emergent behavior. Much of her earlier work literally or metaphorically describes things we can’t see with the naked eye, but none-the-less can intuit or experience viscerally. Her newest works explore the conflict between the American sociopolitical climate and her neurodivergent, queer, and trans identities.
Foster earned an MFA and a BFA from TMU in Toronto Canada and was formerly an Assistant Professor in New Media at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as well as an Assistant Professor of Digital Art/Video at California State University, Northridge.
She has received dozens of grants and awards including her most recent grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for the creation of It’s Complicated, an interactive piece exploring the dynamics of relational gender. 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 Los Angeles, USA.
