Andrew Wright

Who is Andrew Wright?

Andrew Wright is a Canadian multimedia artist based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is best known for his work with video and large-scale photography. He holds a specialist degree in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Windsor. Since then, he has lived and worked as a visual artist in Waterloo, Ontario and now Ottawa, Ontario.

Andrew Wright’s work is described as multi-tiered inquiries into the nature of perception, photographic structures and technologies, and the ways we relate to an essentially mediated and primarily visual world. To this end, he has produced sculpture, film, installation, outdoor works and prints that probe phenomena, narrative, antique and contemporary technologies.

One of Wright's most well known work is Blind Man's Bluff, a video installation piece that has been exhibited in galleries across Canada. In this piece, the viewer watches and listens to the describer, a man who is watching and describing one of Boris Karloff's last films titled, Blind Man's Bluff.