Tyler Mitchell
Gagosian, London
September 15 – October 3, 2025
Harlem Stoop, 2024
Gelatin silver print, in artist's frame
30 x 37 1/2 inches (76.2 x 95.3 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Tyler Mitchell
Courtesy Gagosian
The Dinner Party, 2024
Gelatin silver print, in artist's frame
30 5/8 x 48 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (77.6 x 123 x 3.8 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Tyler Mitchell
Courtesy Gagosian
Gagosian presents an exhibition of photographs by Tyler Mitchell at its gallery in London’s historic Burlington Arcade. This marks the first public display of works from “Portrait of the Modern Dandy,” a visual essay developed for the catalogue of Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the spring 2025 Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The installation at Burlington Arcade coincides with the launch of Mitchell’s first monograph with Aperture, Wish This Was Real, and features a curated selection of publications that inform and expand his practice.
(New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025)
Artwork © Tyler Mitchell
Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
(New York: Aperture, 2025)
Artwork © Tyler Mitchell
Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
Examining the historical and cultural significance of Black style from the eighteenth century through to contemporary expressions, Superfine focuses on the concept of dandyism through the lens of the African diaspora. The exhibited garments and Mitchell’s photographs together articulate how self-fashioning becomes a form of agency, distinction, and resistance.
Introducing this body of work, Tyler Mitchell notes:
In this visual essay, my aim was not only to depict visions of profound camaraderie, beauty, and joy—though that alone would have been a worthy pursuit—but to explore how Black individuals have appropriated and transformed classical European fashion into something uniquely our own. Featuring models in garments from Superfine: Tailoring Black Style alongside fabulously self-styled men in vintage or the wearer’s own attire, this project is a love letter to modern Black dandyism.
Untitled (Abdou Shirtless), 2024
Gelatin silver print, in artist's frame
20 x 14 5/8 inches (50.8 x 37 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Tyler Mitchell
Courtesy Gagosian
Untitled (Christian in Wales Bonner Cover), 2024
Archival pigment print, in artist's frame
45 x 34 1/2 inches (114.3 x 87.5 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Tyler Mitchell
Courtesy Gagosian
These portraits engage in a dialogue with traditions of historical studio and portrait photography, emphasizing the symbolic power of dress. Mitchell’s images reflect his ongoing interest in constructing scenes of elegance, kinship, and Black visual sovereignty.
On Saturday, September 20, from 3 to 6pm, Gagosian will host a book signing with the artist for both Wish This Was Real and the Superfine catalogue.
GAGOSIAN
28–29 Burlington Arcade, London W1J OQJ
