Tema Stauffer

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, North Carolina, 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 , along with a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Award in 2021. Southern Fiction has also been exhibited at Auburn University's Biggin Gallery, ETSU's Reece Museum, and MTSU's Baldwin Photographic Gallery.