Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Medium: Video, conceptual art, sculpture, installation
Website: iandt.info
Ian Dolton-Thornton is an artist based in California, formerly based in Oakland, where he was director of Publication Studio Oakland — an artists’ books press operating on an on-demand print-and-bind model. He received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2021. His work has been exhibited at Et al. in San Francisco, VI Dancer, SFMOMA’s Open Space platform, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Important Projects in Oakland, among other venues.
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Dolton-Thornton’s practice moves across video, drawing, sculpture, installation, and publishing, with a shared interest in how everyday materials and economic systems shape lived experience and domestic space. His work addresses materiality and function in daily life — how objects, expenditures, and environments both reflect and produce the conditions we inhabit. His 2021 MFA thesis exhibition Personal Effects included ballpoint pen drawings, a carpet, and a lover’s knot formed from the US Consumer Price Index expenditure categories, linking intimate domestic objects to the abstract structures of economic measurement. His 2023 exhibition More Reality relocated a roommate’s belongings from a house into a shipping container gallery, accompanied by battery diagram collages and planning drawings — a spare, conceptually precise gesture about production, consumption, and what counts as display.
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