bio

JW Toftness (b. 1984) is an MFA student at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). His work focuses on human relationships with technology and on slippages between perceived and mediated realities. Toftness’s multimedia works include photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Based in Savannah, GA, he is a featured artist in New South, Volume 2: Double Vision (Atlanta Center for Photography, 2025) and has been selected to attend Review Santa Fe in October 2026. Toftness was the lead artist for SCAD’s deFINE 2026 Painting & Photography Showcase and a Spotlight artist for their 2025 Fine Art Showcase. His work was exhibited in UnBound14! at Candela Books + Gallery in Richmond, VA, and in other group shows at: Office Space Gallery, Detroit, MI (as part of the NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival); XoXo Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Ingram Library Gallery, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA; Artstryngs, Savannah, GA; Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA; Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI; Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR; and ATHICA, Athens, GA. His work has also appeared in multiple online exhibitions hosted by Through the Lens Collective (South Africa), Lenscratch, and Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR). Cleo the Project Space (Savannah, GA) hosted Toftness’s solo exhibition, Coda, in December 2025; his MFA Thesis exhibition, Eidolon, was presented at SCAD’s Alexander Hall in April 2026; and he will have a solo show at Candela Photo Arts in the Fall of 2026. Toftness’s work is held in multiple private collections.