Dean Hutton

DEAN HUTTON is a genderqueer* trans media artist provoking dialogue about the gaze, queer bodies, love and social justice. They have worked across photojournalism, print, digital, video and social media, performance and community action since the late 1990s. Their extensive studio practice, as a photographer for over 20 years and a visual artist since 2004 – producing works on paper, digital video and sculptural objects, bridge intersecting genres of documentary, fiction and fantasy – to produce radical queer counter narratives.

Their arts practice extends into building resilience through compassionate forms of arts education and mentorship of students and praxis through visual strategies to embodied knowledge production.  As a lecturer and facilitator of learning they are deeply invested in finding and improving modes of learning that excites, and encourages ethical self-expression and reflexive modes of engagement that contribute to repairing relationships, care and builds resilience for all. 

In 2018, I received a Master of Fine Art degree, with Distinction, at UCT with the Institute for Creative Arts and Michaelis School of Fine Art, on a Mellon fellowship. I have a BA degree from Unisa and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism from Rhodes University in 1997.