TORI TINSLEY
Butt Poke, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 in, 2020
Tori Tinsley (b. 1980) is an Atlanta-based artist. With the use of exaggerated facial features and dark humor, her work explores the layered emotions and vulnerability inherent in caring for another. Tori earned a BFA from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, an MAAT from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the Georgia State University Welch School of Art & Design. Her work has been shown in New York, the Gold Coast of Australia, Miami, and Atlanta. Tinsley’s work has been featured in Art Papers and Oxford American, among others, and included in New American Paintings magazine. Tinsley has had solo shows at Laney Contemporary in Savannah, Hathaway Gallery in Atlanta, and Sweet Lorraine Gallery in New York. She is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, a City of Atlanta Emerging Artist Award, and an Idea Capital Grant. She works and resides in Atlanta, GA.
