Based in Greenwich, CT, Jay B. Wilson has worked as a fine art photographer for over two decades and has been taking pictures since he was given his first camera at age nine. Wilson has documented the extraordinary beauty of Connecticut’s Gold Coast, as well as landscapes from Long Island to the flats of West Texas and the beaches of La Jolla. He is inspired by the lights and shadows of cities like New York, London and Paris, and has recently focused on nighttime and urban photography. During the Covid pandemic, Wilson completed a project highlighting the interior lights of homes and buildings at night, which resulted in a solo exhibition at Cos Cob Library and was prominently featured in local media.
Wilson’s photography has been recently exhibited at Connecticut institutions such as the Carriage Barn Arts Center, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich Historical Society, and Rowayton Arts Center. His work is in private collections around the country, as well as corporate collections at the New York Hilton and Andaz Fifth Avenue Hotel. Wilson has presented solo shows in Connecticut and New York, including two exhibitions at Google’s New York headquarters.
Wilson’s work has also been featured in Popular Photography, Greenwich Magazine, Fourculture Magazine, the Manhattan User’s Guide, Photogrunt, and other publications. He is an exhibiting member of the Rowayton Arts Center, where he serves as President of the Board of Directors, The Carriage Barn Arts Center, The Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Greenwich Art Society.
Wilson has spent his career working in advertising at agencies including Ogilvy and Wunderman, and is currently a VP, Analyst with Gartner for Marketers. He graduated with a B.S. in Political Science from Syracuse University, studied photography at the New School, and has taken photography workshops and courses with multiple award winning photographers including Todd Hido, Gregory Halpbern, and Matt Black.
Recent Juried Exhibitions and Awards:
Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT – Photography & Sculpture Juried Exhibition, juried by Krista Dix, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2nd Place, Photography, June 2025
Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT – 45th Annual Juried Photography Show, juried by Brett Abbott, New Britain Museum of American Art, February 2025.
Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT – Annual Members Show, juried by Lauren Rosati, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Prize for Photography. August, 2024.
Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT - 107th Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Ramsay Kobler, Assistant Curator for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project. May, 2024
Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT - 2024 Spring All Media Juried Show, juried by Roseline Michael Neveling. April, 2024
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI - 10th International Competition, juried by Karen Haas, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. March, 2024.
Dorado 806, Santa Monica, CA - California Dreaming, juried by Amelie Lauric and Meghan DeRoma. March, 2024.
Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - 44th Annual Photography Show, juried by Marina Chao, the Center for Photography at Woodstock – Honorable Mention. February, 2024
International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO - 2023 Open Photography Competition, juried by Joyce Tenneson. November, 2023.
Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT - Photography and Sculpture Exhibition, juried by Hans Neleman. Honorable Mention. July, 2023.
Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT - Annual Members Exhibition, juried by Clare Davies, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art. August, 203.
Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT - 106th Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. May, 2023.
Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX - Texas National 2023, juried by William Eiland, Director, Georgia Museum of Art. April, 2023.
Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT - Spring All Media Juried Show, 2023, juried by Jill Sarver Rossi, Executive Director, Rome Art Program
Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - 42nd Annual Photography Show, juried by Platon, 2022
Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT = 104th Annual Bendheim Exhibit, 2021 juried by Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Greenwich Historical Society, Bush-Holley House Museum
Second place, This Place Matters photography contest, 2019 & 2018
- Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT
Honorable Mention, Photography and Sculpture, 2021
Honorable Mention, black and white photography, Marine and Coastal Art, 2019
First place, color photography, Autumn Juried Exhibition, 2018
- Google, Inc. - New York, NY
Solo exhibitions at Google headquarters in 2016 and 2019