Laine Wyatt is an Associate Professor with the University of Central Florida where she has taught art/photography since 2000.
She taught previously at the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH, and at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL. She took an undergraduate degree in studio art/photography from the University of Florida, did postgraduate work at San Francisco State University and received her MFA in studio art/photography from Florida State University. From the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Wyatt was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in 1997-8, an Artist Enhancement Grant in 2006, 2007 and again in 2008, and she was a Merit Artist in 2011.
She is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education and has served as Portfolio Reviewer at the national conference since 2005. She was a Peer Reviewer for SPE’s 50th Anniversary National Conference held in Chicago in 2013 and is Co-Chair of the Women’s Caucus.
Wyatt has exhibited her work in more than 135 exhibitions across the country (including Museum of Contemporary Art, GA, Monmouth Museum, NJ, Society for Contemporary Photography, MO, Museum of Contemporary Photography, IL, Center for Fine Art Photography, CO, PUNCH Gallery, OR, CA, BJ Spoke Gallery, NY, Torpedo Factory Art Center, VA, Northlight Gallery, AZ, Tampa Museum of Art, Photoplace Gallery, VT, Orlando Museum of Art, Silvermine Gallery, CT, Crown Center Gallery, IL) and abroad, and she has won a number of awards for individual works.