Walead Beshty (b. 1976, London, UK) is an artist and writer working in Los Angeles.
Although Beshty is most known for his work in photography, his bodies of work span a large
variety of media including sculpture, painting, installation and video.
From 2007–2016 he was associate professor in the Graduate Art Department of Art Center
College of Design, and has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago; University of California at Los
Angeles; and California Institute of the Arts among others. Beshty’s work is represented by Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Petzel Gallery, New York; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; Rodolphe
Janssen, Brussels; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; and Capitain Petzel, Berlin.