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Wyatt Gallery is an American photographer. [1] [2]
Born in Philadelphia, he now lives between New York City and Trinidad & Tobago. [3] Gallery graduated high school from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1993. [4] [5] He has a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he received the Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship in 1997. [4] He received a Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad in 1999. [5]
Gallery has produced a variety of photo series in various Caribbean nations. He frequently documents many places following natural disasters, such as New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Haiti following a 2010 earthquake. These works have contributed to relief funds for the local communities. [6]
Gallery, along with Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, and Michelle Woo, founded For Freedoms in 2016. It is an "artist-led platform... dedicated to impacting collective change through civic engagement, discourse, and direct action." [7] Gallery was the "Billboard Director" for a For Freedoms project in which they placed artist designed billboards around the United States ahead of the mid term elections in 2018. [8]
Gallery married his long-time girlfriend and Miss Universe 2008 contestant, Anya Ayoung-Chee, in 2018. [9] Following the theft and release of their private sex tape in 2009, they ceased to appear in public together for some time, but continued dating. They have a son, Kaïri Pilar Gallery, who was born on July 3, 2018. [10]
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Wyatt Gallery is an American photographer. [1] [2]
Born in Philadelphia, he now lives between New York City and Trinidad & Tobago. [3] Gallery graduated high school from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1993. [4] [5] He has a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he received the Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship in 1997. [4] He received a Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad in 1999. [5]
Gallery has produced a variety of photo series in various Caribbean nations. He frequently documents many places following natural disasters, such as New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Haiti following a 2010 earthquake. These works have contributed to relief funds for the local communities. [6]
Gallery, along with Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, and Michelle Woo, founded For Freedoms in 2016. It is an "artist-led platform... dedicated to impacting collective change through civic engagement, discourse, and direct action." [7] Gallery was the "Billboard Director" for a For Freedoms project in which they placed artist designed billboards around the United States ahead of the mid term elections in 2018. [8]
Gallery married his long-time girlfriend and Miss Universe 2008 contestant, Anya Ayoung-Chee, in 2018. [9] Following the theft and release of their private sex tape in 2009, they ceased to appear in public together for some time, but continued dating. They have a son, Kaïri Pilar Gallery, who was born on July 3, 2018. [10]