Leah Sutton is an American photographer and installation artist who is interested in the history of gender and nature. Her work is conducted through extensive research and artistic expression of topics relating to society, gender, and the human perception of nature. She has continued to research the invention of non-human nature globally through art and science in the Age of Enlightenment.

Sutton’s most recent work is on the Victorian obsession with natural history and how it relates to Victorian views on gender and economics. Through looking at art and literature produced in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, she compares popular icons of Victorian England that use natural history to show gender roles. In a recent exhibition, Sutton researched Victorian bird iconography and its use in showing that a woman’s virtue and innocence can only remain intact by remaining indoors. This popular icon compared young girls and women to caged birds; a trend that has continued into the twenty-first century with the creation of house-shaped bird cages.