Parker Thornton - Bird 1

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Parker Thornton is an artist and professor who lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She earned her BA in English Literature and Studio Art from Oglethorpe University in 2013 and her MFA in Photography from Georgia State University in 2020. Her practice includes sculpture, photo/video, and writing that explores the body as it relates to power, queerness, and transformation. She has exhibited work internationally at Whitespace, Historic Oakland Cemetery, and National Centre for Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus), with solo shows in High Springs, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. Parker has been an artist-in-residence at Stoveworks (2023), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (2021), and Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland (2019). In 2019 she was granted a scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch Art Center and won “Best in Show” at Day and Night Projects (Atlanta, GA). She teaches at Emory University and the High Museum of Art.