Tyler Mitchell (b. 1995 Atlanta, GA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a photographer and filmmaker working across many genres to explore and document a new aesthetic of Blackness.

In 2018, he made history as the first Black photographer to shoot a cover of American Vogue for Beyoncé’s appearance in the September issue. The following year, a portrait from this series was acquired by The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection.

In 2019 Mitchell held his first solo exhibition, 

, at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam where he showed new photographic and video works including installation films 

. An iteration of the show traveled to the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York in 2020. Mitchell published an eponymous monograph with Prestel RandomHouse in conjunction with the exhibition, further exploring his take on a Black visual utopia.

In 2020 Mitchell was announced as the recipient of the Gordon Parks Fellowship, which supports a new project that reflects and draws inspiration from Parks’ central themes of representation and social justice. Mitchell’s fellowship culminated in an exhibition of the new works at the Gordon Parks Foundation Gallery in Pleasantville, NY. The show opened in Fall 2021.

Mitchell has lectured at a number of institutions on the politics of image making including Harvard University, NYU, Paris Photo and the International Center of Photography (ICP).

American Vogue, British Vogue, Teen Vogue, Vanity Fair, WSJ Magazine, M Le Monde, i-D Magazine, AnOther Magazine, Dazed Magazine, Document Journal, The Guardian, The FADER

Comme des Garçons, Uniqlo, Calvin Klein, Prada, Apple, Mercedes Benz, Loewe, JW Anderson, Simone Rocha x Moncler, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Converse, Nike, Ray-Ban

Vogue: In conversation with Tyler, The Creator

Art in America: In conversation with Amy Sherald

, Self Published, 108 pages, Softcover, Nov 10

An Imaginative Arrangement of the Things Before Me

, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY, Sept 24-Jan 2, 2022

, Jack Shainman Gallery, 20th St, New York, Sept 9-Oct 30

, Jack Shainman Gallery, 24th St, New York, Sept 9-Oct 30


, Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London, Curated by Antwaun Sargent, Oct 7-Dec 18

, Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook, NY, Curated by Helen Molesworth, Jun 5-Oct 30

, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY, Jan 25-Mar 15 & Sept 1-Jan 4, 2021

, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, April 19-June 5

, Aperture Foundation, Oct 24-Jan 18, 2020, (

 in Arles, France as part of Recontres d'Arles)

, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, Curated by Siobhán Bohnaker, Brendan Embser, Marvin Orellana, and Antwaun Sargent, Jun 28-Aug 24

, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO, July 23

Aperture Conversations: Tyler Mitchell and Salamishah Tillet on Black Utopia

, With Thelma Golden, Vogue Forces of Fashion, New York, NY, Oct 10

Artist Walkthrough of Roy DeCarava’s exhibition 

, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, Sept 14

 With Deborah Willis and Grace Wales Bonner, Foam Amsterdam, Apr 19

In Conversation with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Harvard University, Mar 7

Take the Shot: Photography in the Digital Age, With Deana Lawson, Ming Smith and Hank Willis Thomas, No Commission Art Basel Miami, Dec 6

, International Center of Photography Museum, With Ashleigh Kane, Nov 7

, Talk Art Podcast with Russell Tovey and Robert Diamant, Dec 3, 2020 

Dialogues: Tyler Mitchell and Antwaun Sargent

, David Zwirner Podcast with Lucas Zwirner, April 8, 2020

Tyler Mitchell, From Skateboarding to Photographing Beyoncé

, The Business of Fashion Podcast with Imran Amed, July 26, 2019

British Fashion Awards New Wave Creatives