Lyle Owerko
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BIO
Lyle Owerko (b. 1968, Canada) attended The Pratt Institute in New York. Owerko is a groundbreaking documentary photographer and artist whose work has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, with profiles on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, The New York Times Arts Section, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post. Often working with human rights organizations, such as Charity: Water and the United Nations Millennium Promise initiative, Owerko’s work frequently merges art with a social mission. Most notably, his contribution to urban history; "The Boombox Project” began as a vivid chronicle of portable vintage stereos that quickly expanded into numerous books and media extensions. In 2010, Abrams Image published a survey of those photos, which included a foreword by Spike Lee (along with contributions from a wide spectrum of artists, musicians and cultural luminaries).
Owerko’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress, Washington DC; The George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; The Smithsonian, Washington DC; and The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL. His work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK; the Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida SouthWestern College, Cypress Lake, FL; MOCA, Jacksonville, FL; and Mmarta Hereford, Herford, Germany; among many other notable private galleries and institutions. Owerko lives and works between San Francisco, California and New York, NY.
