Tyler Mitchell

Tyler Mitchell (b. 1995, Atlanta, Georgia) is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, his work explores new visual narratives of beauty, desire, and self-determination, often blending historical references with imagined futures.

Mitchell’s photographs center themes of play, empowerment, and freedom, offering alternative representations of Black life and culture. His work is held in major public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Brooklyn Museum; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Fotografiemuseum (FOAM), Amsterdam; and others.

He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including Ghost Images (Gagosian, New York); Wish This Was Real (C/O Berlin and Photo Elysée, Lausanne); Idyllic Space (High Museum of Art, Atlanta); I Can Make You Feel Good (FOAM, Amsterdam and ICP, New York); Chrysalis (Gagosian, London); and Domestic Imaginaries (SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah).

In 2024, Mitchell received the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator from the British Fashion Council. His photography has appeared in Vogue (US and UK), Dazed, i-D, AnOther Magazine, Interview, M Le Monde, Vanity Fair, GQ, Aperture, W Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Zeit Magazin. He has also collaborated with brands such as Loewe, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, Wales Bonner, and JW Anderson.