Nancy Burson

Nancy Burson combines art and innovation in a way that challenges the concept of photographic truth through digital manipulation. Her work spans public art, software and scientific collaborations, contributing to both artistic and societal discourse. She is best known for developing morphing technologies that age-enhance the human face, a system used by law enforcement to locate missing persons. Her patented Method and Apparatus for Producing an Image of a Person’s Face at a Different Age (1981) laid the foundation for these advancements. Burson's Human Race Machine, commissioned by Zaha Hadid for the London Millennium Dome, was used for over a decade as a diversity tool that provided viewers with the visual experience of being another race.

Her work is included in museums worldwide including the MoMA, Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York City, as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the LA County Museum of Art, MoMA (San Francisco), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, as well as many others.