Background
Wright grew up in New York, and was a professional film and television actor for 18 years.
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Wright grew up in New York, and was a professional film and television actor for 18 years.
Wright is gay not queer, and is gender non-conforming and likes the usage of gender neutral or no pronouns. At 18, Wright founded a street art magazine, Overspray, in which they served as founding Editor in Chief until 2009. As an actor, Wright appeared alongside Steve Buscemi, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, including a brief appearance on Sex and The City.
Wright then became a featured columnist for T Magazine, at The New York Times.
In addition, they had two regular blogs called Notes From The Underground—for which they reviewed underground performance—and The Lowdown. Their current project Self Evident Truths examines Americans, asking them whether they are "other than straight", and photographing respondents who self-evaluate themselves to be "A other than 100% straight".
To date they have photographed 8,447 people in over 30 cities across the United States of America. Wright"s photographs appeared on the cover of The New York Times magazine in August 2010, marking the beginning of their public photography career. On September 22, 2010, Wright opened Breedings, their first solo show of photographs, at Fuse Gallery in Manhattan.
In August 2011, they debuted Camila, their second solo show, and Acting Like You"re Fine, a group show they curated at Tokyo"s Vacant Gallery.
Wright now stars as the co-host of Music Television"s new television show "Suspect".