Andrew Atkinson is an artist and educator whose practice explores non-place, absurdity, and the immaterial through photography and digital media. His work investigates the empirical limits of photographic processes and the modeling potential of digital tools.

He holds a PhD from the University of the West of England on the digital recreation of the 19th-century Woodburytype photographic process, and went to postgraduate school in Bookarts at the University of the Arts. He also attended the Fullstack academy in 2017.

He was Director of the MFA in Studio Arts at Montclair State University from 2009–2017 and Assistant Professor in the department of Art and Design where he teaches visual arts and creative coding. Administratively, he has served as deputy chair and summer chair across the last decade, and has served as chair on many of the university’s committees. He has developed creative coding curricula for Vidcode and served as a consultant to the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, and as a member of the leadership team for the Ocean Memory Project.

He has exhibited internationally, including in the Argentinian photo biennial and at MagnanMetz in Chelsea, New York. He has curated exhibitions in the US, Italy, Argentina, and the UK and written for publications such as Architect’s Newspaper and Afterimage. He has taken part in artist residencies at the Glasgow School of Art, the Center for Book Arts in New York, and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. He has organized academic conferences for the Society for Photographic Education at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania, the Woodstock Center for Photography, and Montclair State University. He’s also been a member of the Ocean Member Project since 2020, and co-organized a workshop at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs and a hybrid workshop at Puerto Moreles, Mx.