iO Tillett Wright

iO Tillett Wright was born on September 2, 1985 in Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.^[1] is an artist, director, photographer, writer, film maker, activist, and actor. Wright grew up in New York, and was a professional film and television actor for 18 years.

At 18, Wright founded a street art magazine, Overspray, in which she served as founding Editor in Chief until 2009.

As an actor, Wright appeared alongside Steve Buscemi, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, including a brief appearance on Sex And The City. Wright then became a featured columnist for T Magazine, at The New York Times. In addition, she had two regular blogs called Notes From The Underground—for which she reviewed underground performance—and The Lowdown.

Her current project Self Evident Truths examines Americans, asking them whether they are "other than straight", and photographing respondents who self-evaluate themselves to be "A[nything] other than 100% straight". To date she has photographed 8,447 people in over 30 cities across the USA.

Wright's photographs appeared on the cover of The New York Times magazine in August 2010, marking the beginning of her public photography career. On September 22, 2010, Wright opened Breedings, her first solo show of photographs, at Fuse Gallery in Manhattan. In August 2011, she debuted Camila, her second solo show, and Act Like You're Fine, a group show she curated at Tokyo's Vacant Gallery.

Actress Olivia Thirlby used the Self Evident Truths project to come out publicly as bisexual.

References

External links

• "iO Tillett Wright home". 
• "Self Evident Truths". 
• IO Tillett Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay at TED