Bio

Austin Cullen is a Houston based photographic artist and educator. He received his BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2019, and his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022. He currently works as the Head of Digital Media at Cypress Falls High School, and as an educator at the Houston Center for Photography. His current project explores how museum displays and the natural world influence and affect one another. This project stems from his long-standing interest in natural history museums and the history of display. He has always been fascinated by the extravagant ways museums frame the American landscape. In his practice, Austin welcomes and encourages collaborative making and discussion. In the project, A Natural History (Built to be Seen) and dust watching, he has worked closely with several significant natural history museums, researchers, and exhibit fabrication companies such as the Field Museum, The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Morrill Hall: University of Nebraska State Museum, PBE Design Group, Kansas University Natural History Museum, and the Hastings Museum.