Summer McCorkle is a visual artist working with still and moving image-making. Her artwork has been exhibited or screened at the Bronx Museum, Wave Hill and Smack Mellon in New York, The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, along with various other venues in Mexico, England and the U.S.

Her cinematography work on various films has been seen at Sundance, Art Basel Switzerland, Yvon Lambert Gallery-Paris and various other venues in Europe, Canada, and the U.S.

She is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and has been an artist-in-residence at Montello Foundation in Nevada, Arteles Creative Center in Finland, Wave Hill, Residency Unlimited and the AIM program in New York City and the Arctic Circle which takes place on a tall ship in the Arctic Ocean around Svalbard, Norway. 

She is the recipient of a New York State Council of the Arts for Film & Media Individual Artists Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant and a Black Ball Photography Grant. 

She holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Hunter College and a BA in Photography from San Francisco State University.

Summer was born and raised in Wisconsin. When not wandering somewhere, she has called Brooklyn, New York her home base for the past 20+ years.