Daryl Thetford is a Tennessee artist working in photography-based digital media and collage.

In 2015 Thetford had a solo exhibit, The Struggle to Evolve Before The End of Time" and artist talk at The Gallery at Penn College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.


Thetford’s work was featured in an solo exhibit "Inspired Chaos" at the Coffman Gallery at the University of Minnesota, December 8-January 25, 2015. Also in 2014 I his work was featured on the Knoxville Museum of Art catalog cover for their exhibit and auction.

Earlier this year Thetford was featured in a solo show, “The Struggle to Evolve Before the End of Time” at the Art Museum at the University of Memphis’s Caseworks Gallery, a four-person show at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado ” Reflections and Resolutions: Creating New Worlds in Digital Collage” and in a solo show – Introducing the World of Daryl Thetford at The Arts Company and the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee

In 2012 Thetford was invited by director Patricia Lanza to participate in Digital Darkroom: Altered Realities, a slide show exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. He was one of 28 artists invited to participate in this invitation-only event which explored work “at the intersection of art and technology.”

Thetford’s work has also been featured museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States, including SOFA Contemporary, the Alexandria Museum of Art (Louisiana); the Knoxville Museum of Art (Tennessee); the Mobile Museum of Art (Alabama), the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California-Chico, the Hunter Museum of American Art, CreateHere, and the Association for Visual Arts (Chattanooga, Tennessee), the San Diego Art Institute, Urban Art Works (Alpharetta, Georgia), and Open Concept Gallery for the SMart Multimedia Festival (Grand Rapids, Michigan).
Thetford’s work is in private, public, and corporate collections, including those of the Menard Financial Group in Houston, Texas, the Mullins Group and Hotel Red in Madison, Wisconsin, the National Security Agency in Collierville, Tennessee, the mayor’s office in the city of Hoover, Alabama, and Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Iowa.

In 2012, Thetford had solo exhibitions at the Jung Center in Houston, Texas, the Kennedy-Douglas Center for the Arts in Florence, Alabama, and Tanner-Hill Gallery in Chattanooga. In 2011, his Art in Motion “Urban Landscape” design was one of five selected from a pool of 38 entries for a project sponsored by Public Art Chattanooga, an initiative to wrap Chattanooga’s downtown electric shuttles and thereby transform them into mobile, public works of art. Also in 2011, Thetford’s work was shown at Art Dallas, represented by Tanner-Hill Gallery in Chattanooga. Lastly, his photograph, “Money,” was featured in the June 2011 issue of Twill, an international trilingual magazine based in Paris, France.