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Bayeté Ross Smith

Harlem, United States

Bayeté Ross Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, filmmaker and educator, working at the intersection of photography, film & video, visual journalism, 3D objects and new media.
He is Columbia Law School’s inaugural Artist-In-Residence, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a TED Resident, a Creative Capital Awardee, an Art For Justice Fund Fellow, a BPMPlus Grantee, a CatchLight Fellow, and a POV NY Times embedded mediamaker.
His work is in the collections of The Smithsonian Institution, the Oakland Museum of California, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The Brooklyn Museum. He has exhibited internationally at Paris Photo (France), Foto Museum (Belgium), the Lianzhou Foto Festival (China), with the U.S. State Dept. in South Africa. His work has been featured at Lincoln Center, the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the L.A. Film Festival and in The NY Times, The Guardian and PBS.