Sinners & Saints
Anthony Gayton
1968 Born in Devon, England.
1987 Began to study photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham.
1988 Moved to London to complete BA (Hons) Degree in Photography (University of Westminster).
1989 Awarded the Agfa Bursary for final degree project.
1989-90 Exhibited work in group shows in galleries around London.
1993 Moved to Vienna, Austria.
1993-98 Worked as photographer’s assistant in Vienna and Paris.
1998 Took over as studio manager to Andreas H. Bitesnich and began own
photography after an eight-year break.
Since 2000 Work published and exhibited internationally.
2005 First book ‘Sinners & Saints’ published by te Neues.
Since 2006 Gallery representation in Barcelona (MiTO Gallery).
Since 2007 Left studio of Andreas H. Bitesnich to concentrate solely on own work.
2010 Relocated from Vienna to Bideford, England.
Exhibitions:
1989 ‘Animal Magic’. Group exhibition at the Special Photographer’s Company, London
1990 ‘Four Young Photographers’. Group exhibition at Visage, London
2001 ‘Heads or Tales’. Solo exhibition at Café Berg, Vienna
2003 ‘Man:Myth’. Solo exhibition at the Motto, Vienna
2003 ‘Sinners & Saints’. Solo exhibition at Galerie Simon Holpert Vienna
2004 ‘The Human Tragedy’. Group exhibition at Galerie Simon Holpert, Vienna, as part of the International Month of Photography
2004 ‘Sinners & Saints’. Solo exhibition at Selig, Munich
2005 ‘Sinners & Saints’. Solo exhibition at Mate Gallery, Berlin
2005 ‘Sinners & Saints’. Solo exhibition at ArtBits Gallery, Vienna
2005 ‘Secret Matter:Life’. First large-scale exhibition about gay/lesbian life in Austria
over the last hundred years. Neustifthalle, Vienna
2006 ‘Mein Schwules Auge 3’. Group exhibition at the Schwules Museum, Berlin
2006 ‘The Angelus and Other Stories’. Solo exhibition at the MiTO Gallery, Barcelona
2006 ‘My Queer Eye’. Group exhibition at the Carmen de la Guerra Gallery, Madrid
2006 ‘Cap-I-Cua’. Group show at the MiTO Gallery, Barcelona
2007 ‘Paul Pichier – Das Negativwork’. Group exhibition at the Nestroyhof, Vienna
2007/8 ‘The Fall’. Solo exhibition at the MiTO Gallery, Barcelona (
2008 ‘San Valentino nell’Arte Contemporanea Spagnola’. Group exhibition at the
Museo Diocesano e Capitoare di Terni, Italy
2008 ‘Loveball’. Group exhibition at the MiTO Gallery, Barcelona
2009 ‘Anthony Gayton’. Solo exhibition at the Galerie Frédéric Got, Paris.
2009 ‘The Portrait. Photography as Stage. From Robert Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin’.
2009 Group exhibition at the KunsthalleWien, Vienna
2009 ‘Behold The Man’. Solo exhibition at MiTO Gallery, Barcelona
2010 ‘De Pictura - En Defensa De La Belleza’. Group exhibition at Espai Metropolità d’Art de Torrent, Valencia, Spain
Art Fairs:
ArteLisboa, Portugal 2007
Art Madrid, Spain 2007 / 2008
SWAB Barcelona, Spain May 2008
Scope London, UK October 2008
Scope Basel, Switzerland June 2009
Arte Santander, Spain July 2009
Berliner Liste, Germany September 2009
Televison Appearances:
‘Sunshine Airlines’. ORF Austria. August 2005
‘Kultur Tip’. ORF Austria. September 2005
‘Continuara’. TVE Spain. May 2006
‘Continuara’. TVE Spain. January 2008
‘Tendencias’ Spain. February 2010
Published in:
Akut Switzerland / AXM UK / Blue Australia / Booklet Germany / Charlatan USA / Cosmopolitan Germany / Display Switzerland / DNA Australia / Du & Ich Germany / Eyemazing Netherlands / First Austria / Gay Times UK / Genre USA / GIB Austria / GUS Belgium / G Magazine Hong Kong / Männer Aktuell Germany / Mate Germany / Name It Austria / Playgirl USA Pool Austria / Pref France / Schaufenster Austria / Shangay Spain / Squeeze Netherlands / VanityGay Spain / Winq Netherlands / Zero Spain.
Included in Books:
'Waschbrettbauch und Wespentaille. Der Traum vom schönen Mann' G. Tobias Natter (Selbstverlag/Österreichisches Lesben-, Schwulen- und Transgenderforum) 1999
‘Mein Schwules Auge 3’ Axel Schock/Rinaldo Hopf (Konkursbuchverlag) 2006
‘Man to Man: A History of Gay Photography’ Pierre Borhan (Vendome Press) 2007
‘NightVisions - Contemporary Male Photography’ (Bruno Gmünder) 2008
‘Hotel de Dream’ Edmund White (Domaine Étranger) 2009 (cover)
‘Das Porträt: Fotographie als Bühne’ (Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg) 2009
De Pictura - En Defensa de la Belleza’ (EMAT - Ajuntament de Torrent) 2010