iO Tillett Wright

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iO Tillett Wright, a transgender American author, photographer, television presenter, and activist.

Early life

Wright and his mother, Rebecca Wright, a poet and actress, grew up in New York City. He attended Brockwood Park School in England, United Kingdom. Wright is a transgender man. In his book Darling Days, he chronicled his upbringing.

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Career

Wright founded and served as editor-in-chief of a street art journal from 2002, Overspray, which was on display until 2009.

Wright was a staff writer at The New York Times from 2010 to 2012, and he had two blogs called Notes From The Underground, which iO reviewed underground performances—and The Lowdown.

Darling Days, A Memoir, Wright's first book, was published on September 27, 2016, an imprint of Harper Collins.

Prestel's second book, Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America, was published on September 15, 2020.

Clarkson Potter's third book, Oasis: Modern Desert Homes Around The World, was published in November, 2020.

Wright spoke at TEDxWomen in Washington, DC, in 2012, discussing sexuality and gender as a continuum. The interview has been watched more than three billion times.

Wright is a self-taught photographer whose first camera was a Pentax KX.

At Fuse Gallery in Manhattan on September 22, 2010, Wright unveiled Breedings, his first solo show of photographs. In August 2011, Wright premiered Camila, his second solo exhibition, and Act Like You're Fine, a group show he curated at Tokyo's Vacant Gallery.

Since 2010, Wright has been working on a program called Self Evident Truths, which asks Americans if they are "other than straight" and photographing respondents who declare themselves to be "anything other than straight." Wright has photographed 10,000 people in all 50 of the United States to date. Prestel has released "Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America," which includes all ten thousand images, as well as a foreword by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors on September 15, 2020.

Wright appeared in many independent films, including in a 2004 appearance as a McDonald's employee in Sex and the City, and after an over ten-year absence, he appeared in the independent film Holy New York (2020).

In 2016, Wright co-hosted MTV's Suspect with Nev Schulman.

Wright appeared on Episode 6 of MTV's Catfish: The TV Show in 2017.

Wright produced and hosted The Ballad Of Billy Balls, a true crime investigation into the murder of his mother's lover.

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