Dorsey Kaufmann is an award-winning artist who lives and works in Tucson.
— About
Dorsey Kaufmann is a multimedia artist who creates interactive participatory art installations. Employing digital design, technology, data visualization, sculpture and video; her work embodies the intimate and personal aspects of data collection and use - concerning people’s health, homes, local environment, and body politics. With a critical lens, she analyzes how governments and industries employ data around natural Earth systems that dictate access, health, and livelihood of local communities.
Dorsey has received numerous awards for her artwork, including the 2023 Information is Beautiful Gold Award Winner, the French National Center’s Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies Award, the 2022 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology Shortlist, ArtConnect’s 2021 Artist to Watch, the University of Arizona School of Art’s Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Award, and three-time recipient of the UA College of Fine Art’s Medici Scholar Award.
Her work has been featured on Rolling Stone France and shown nationally and internationally at Inspace at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Harpa Kaldalón in Reykjavik, Iceland; Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the 2022 Venice Bienniale at the Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa in Italy; Maryland Institute College of Art’s (MICA) Brown Center; Biosphere 2, Arizona; Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center; Inscape Arts in Seattle, Washington; and for the College Art Association in New York and Los Angeles. She has published in Nature, ACM’s Journal of Creativity and Cognition, the International Journal of Science Education, Frontiers, the Journal of Risk Research, and Conjuncture - the Whitney Museum of American Art 2020 ISP Publication.
She received her MFA from the University of Arizona School of Art and currently lectures at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Design Informatics and Edinburgh Futures Institute.
