Tyler Mitchell

Born in Atlanta in 1995, Tyler Mitchell is a Brooklyn-based artist, photographer, and filmmaker. He received a BFA in film and television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2017. Mitchell’s work has been published widely in magazines, including Aperture, Dazed, i-D, Interview, M le magazine du Monde, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W magazine, WSJ Magazine, and ZEITmagazin. His work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Brooklyn Museum, all in New York; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and National Portrait Gallery, London. In 2018, Mitchell was commissioned to photograph Beyoncé for Vogue, making history, at the age of twenty-three, as the first Black photographer to shoot the magazine’s cover. Mitchell’s first solo exhibition, I Can Make You Feel Good (2019–20), was presented at Foam, Amsterdam, and at the International Center of Photography, New York. He is the photographer of the catalog for Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His solo exhibition Wish This Was Real opened at C/O Berlin in 2024 and toured to the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (2024–25) and Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2025), followed by Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2025–26) and Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna (2026).