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Wyatt Naoki Conlon (b. 1991, Los Angeles, CA) is an image-based artist who works with found and taken source material to examine ancestral history, shared memory, and the act of recollection. His work draws from family archives, organizing and contextualizing photographs to trace how images and people move through—and play with—time. Through research and systematic sequencing, he builds dense visual compositions that consider how the past is shaped and reshaped over time. His process often involves reordering, repetition, and accumulation, allowing meaning to emerge through structure rather than singular images.

Features / Awards
2023, Hightide, Los Angeles/Fukuoka 
2023, Subsequence Magazine, Tokyo
2023, Goodfight Journal, Los Angeles
2024, Tokyo TDC Award Nominee 2024, Tokyo

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p.14 - p.174

2025
Edition of 100
179p
Printed & Bound by For the Birds Trapped in Airports
ISBN: 979-8-9909119-0-1

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p.14 - p.174 of “Double Double, Protein Style, Animal Style with a Strawberry Shake and Chips” covers the years 1925 to 1941 during Shoichi’s childhood in Kahului, Maui, yet contains no images of him. As the second oldest of ten siblings, born to Ryuichi Yoshida from Hiroshima and Shizuyo from Maui, he enjoyed swimming in Iao Valley, eating Guri Guri, diving for tako, and playing football at Baldwin High School, earning the nickname “Alabama” from a scholarship offer from Alabama State. “p.14 - p.174” is a supplemental photographic exploration of my grandfather’s life before he was drafted into WWII. A token of the places he called home through surveys with distant family.



Double Double, Protein Style, Animal Style with a Strawberry Shake and Chips
with forward by Sara Knelman

2023
Edition of 1000
940p
Printed by Die Keure Belgium
ISBN: 978-0-578-98369-1

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Conlon's book weaves multiple timelines, from the minutes of his grandfather’s waking hours to a photographic archive of his entire life, allowing the viewer to observe and control the subject's passing time. Through systematic collaging, Conlon creates instantaneous moments of then and now and compositions of coincidences that capture life's intimacies.

p.42-43
p.194-195
p.202-203
p.222-223
p.224-225
p.268-269


Double Double, Protein Style, Animal Style with a Strawberry Shake and Chips

Book & Job, San Francisco, California - 2024.09.06
Aupuni Space, Honolulu, Hawaii - 2023.05.27
Bungee Space, New York, New York - 2023.05.04
Homesick Studios, Torrance, California - 2023.04.01
Goodfight (Launch), Los Angeles, California - 2023.03.11
Soot Gallery (Preview), Tokyo, Japan - 2022.11.14 An on-going series of site-specific exhibitions based on the book, locationally dependent on the places his grandfather interacted with throughout his life, features 1-1 digitally, screen and UV printed collage spreads.


709 N Hill St. #9, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - 5/15/23, 9:51The 110 weave smells different, Ave 26 Tacos isn't on Ave 26, Fig. St. Tunnels are brighter, our parrots appeared later than usual. There’s a red glass ball, or flaming pearl, that sits upon a dragon inside Asian Plaza. With good timing, you may be able to see the sun shine down through the exterior window arch through said pearl. Today that ball was sitting under some mailboxes while a lady cleaned the dragon. I think about the beehive and question whether or not they took them out before sealing the drainage holes while I watch the red glow of flaming dragon ball light up the bottom of the mail boxes.

A work that marks the beginnings of Wyatt Conlon's cataloged times and recollected bits of his city’s short-lived state. Simply, an attempt to replicate and settle in.  


Answers Have Questions

2018
Edition of 300
48p
Printed by Bookmobile, Minnesota, USA
Shot over the course of three years on his frequent visits to Japan, Answers Have Questions explores the myriad of ways in which picture making can take you.  A study of the photobook and how the juxtopostion and sequencing of images based on composition, color, light can lead one in no logical direction. Wyatt Conlon’s meditative and reflective attempt at photographing & editing as a way of unassociated memories through mourning.


Answers Have Questions

WK++, Tokyo, Japan - 2018.11.02
Weekend Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2018.09.07 Allowing the book’s form to determine the install, Wyatt presented a sequence of diptychs in Los Angeles and Tokyo as guide for his wandering progression of images.

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