Code of Conduct

• Sat, Feb 28, 2026 - Sat, May 9, 2026  9am - 5pm On View
• Friday, Mar 6, 2026  6pm - 9pm Art Reception

Code of Conduct, a forthcoming exhibition produced in conjunction with the 2026 FotoFest Biennial, Sudhoff aims to humanize the impact of gun bills, call into question established school safety protocols, and, through gallery activations, address our shared responsibility in creating a safer society.

In her recent video, “New Spelling,” which features her two children, it begins with familiar words such as “vote” and “flag,” but quickly moves on to terms like “legislation,” “amendment,” and “semi-automatic.” The oral spelling test ends with her then eleven-year-old son reciting and her then nine-year-old daughter spelling the names of K-12 massacres. “New Spelling” serves as a warning about the normalization of gun violence in our everyday lives, filmed at her children’s elementary school, a historically safe educational space now subject to threat at any moment.

Code of Conduct will include a site-specific installation expanding on Sudhoff’s ongoing
projects, “Not a Drill” (2023-2025) and “77 Minutes in Their Shoes” (2025), which survey our increasing exposure to gun violence in the USA.

Sarah Sudhoff is a Cuban-American artist born in Honolulu, Hawaii and based in Houston, Texas. Her practice merges photography, performance, video, and installations with social engagement to explore the multi-layered impact of the ongoing gun violence epidemic, with a specific focus on Texas and K-12 school shootings. Her interest in protest through art stems from her experience as a photojournalist, artist, woman, and mother.

Her work has been exhibited at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Blaffer Art Museum in Texas, Donggang Photo Museum in South Korea, Pioneer Works in New York, Luckman Gallery in California, and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Sudhoff is included in the forthcoming traveling exhibition "Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and their diasporas," opening this summer at Colby College Museum of Art.

Sudhoff's recent visiting artist lectures include Duke University, Ohio State University, Austin Peay State University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Rice University, RMIT University in Melbourne, Rhode Island School of Design, Blaffer Art Museum, Health & Wellbeing International Conference in Oxford, England, and Material Selves: Health, Gender and Performance symposium at the University of London. Articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Time, Cabinet, and Southwest Contemporary.

Sudhoff’s research and residencies have been supported by New York Foundation for the Arts, Artpace, Tiffany Foundation, Penland School of Craft, McColl Art Center, Houston Arts Alliance, Kinsey Institute, the DoSeum, DOMUS and a forthcoming artist residency at Interlude Artist Residency.

Sudhoff completed an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a BA in Journalism and Photography from the University of Texas at Austin.