BIBR Gallery presents: Tony Gleaton - Brief Article

For the past 20 years, Tony Gleaton has been on a photographic pilgrimage of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Gleaton is committed to exploring every nuance of African influence in the Americas. First, he documented the little known black cowboys in the western US, then he went south of the border into Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Columbia to gather the photographic evidence of descendants of the Transatlantic slaves living there.

Born in 1948 in Detroit, he studied photography at UCLA, after a year tour of duty in Vietnam. He spent the late 70s as a fashion photographer in New York. In 1998 he was an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, NY. Among the public collections in the US and abroad that have acquired Gleaton's works are The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Field Museum and the Schomburg Collection. Although he's often traveling, Gleaton currently lives in Los Angeles.

Recent Exhibitions Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers Brooklyn Museum of Art, April 2001; Wedge Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, May 2001

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