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Tema Stauffer

Studio Address: Department of Art & Design, ETSU
Ball Hall 114
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

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Tema Stauffer is a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscape of American spaces. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at East Tennessee State University. Her work has been exhibited at Sasha Wolf, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, and Jen Bekman galleries in New York, as well as galleries and institutions internationally. In 2018, Daylight Books published a monograph of her Upstate series portraying the lingering legacy of American industrial and agricultural history in and around Hudson, New York. The book was nominated for the Unveil’d Photobook Award 2018 and the prints were exhibited at ETSU’s Reece Museum, Tracey Morgan Gallery, ilon Art Gallery, and Hudson Hall. Her work is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC, where her current series, Southern Fiction, was exhibited in Fall 2021. The production of this body of work received support from ETSU’s Research Development Committee through Small Grant Awards in 2019 and 2021 and Major Grant Awards in 2020 and 2022. She was also the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 2021. Daylight Books will release her second monograph, Southern Fiction, in September 2022.