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Jaclyn Wright


Jaclyn Wright is an American multi-disciplinary artist and educator. Her work incorporates archival images, in-camera collages using a large format view camera, performance, and photographic installations. Recent solo exhibitions include Filter Space (Chicago, IL) and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT); recent and upcoming group exhibitions include The School: Jack Shainman Gallery (Kinderhook, NY), Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (Germany), Artists’ Fair Kyoto (Japan), Light Work (Syracuse, NY), Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton, NY), and Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (Netherlands). She is part of the 2025 Artist-in-Residence program at Light Work, is a 2024-25 Foam Talent, and was a 2023 Utah Visual Arts Fellow. She has received grants and awards from Aperture & the Creator’s Lab Fund, PhMuseum, and the Film Photo Award. Her work has been featured and written about in numerous online and print publications, including Light Work's Contact Sheet #225, Foam Magazine #65, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Southwest Contemporary, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, among others. Her first monograph, High Visibility (Blaze Orange), was published by GOST Books in 2023. She received her MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University and is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT.