Tia-Simone Gardner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the department of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College, Saint Paul. Gardner is a true multimedia artist working in photography, printing, sculpture, installation and time-based media. As a Black feminist educator, Gardner’s practice explores how Black geographies intersect with designs of built environments and manmade natural worlds.

Raised in Fairfield, Alabama, Gardner earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions, residencies, fellowships.

Her longterm research-driven projects focus on land, rivers, extraction, mobility, and maritime history, including floating camera obscuras.