Ryan Hattaway – Artist Biography

Ryan Hattaway is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and creative director whose work bridges the worlds of luxury, fashion, and contemporary culture. His practice spans photography, painting, sculpture, graffiti, design, and film—each medium serving as a lens through which he explores beauty, modernity, and human expression.

Rooted in a lifelong fascination with visual storytelling, Hattaway began as a self-taught designer, mastering the disciplines of design before founding his own luxury branding and marketing agency. Over nearly fifteen years, he built an international portfolio that included a who’s who clientele of the world’s most iconic brands including Ferrari, Red Bull, W Hotels, GQ, Grey Goose, Lamborghini, Hublot, McLaren, and Mercedes-Benz—developing a distinctive visual language defined by cinematic sophistication and emotional precision.

Though he had always been immersed in creativity, Hattaway didn’t fall into film and photography until his mid-thirties—an unexpected turn that quickly became the defining chapter of his artistic journey. What began as a chance exploration evolved into a decade-long pursuit of merging his eye for design with a new cinematic world.

Today, Hattaway channels that evolution into his fine art and fashion photography, creating a signature aesthetic that fuses sleek elegance with cultural commentary and the empowered female form. His debut art collection marks a full-circle moment. An immersive body of work that intertwines photography, painting, digital mixed media, sculpture, and video.

His work has been featured in leading publications including Vogue, Elle, WWD, Men’s Journal, Esquire, QQ, New York Post, USA Today, US Weekly, Maxim, Playboy, Nakid Magazine, Haute Living, KEEN, Flaunt, and 90210 Magazine.

Hattaway has collaborated with an array of cultural icons and celebrities such as Post Malone, Marshmello, Taylor Fritz, Naomi Osaka, Lamelo Ball, Migos, Mike Tyson, Diane Von Furstenberg, Cardi B, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Kathy Ireland, Cole Hauser, Logan and Jake Paul, Brody Jenner, Udonis Haslem, DJ Khaled, Ludacris, Jeezy, Artbat, Rick Ross, Olivia Culpo, Amanda Cerny, Daddy Yankee, Steve Aoki, Nelly, Anuel, Maluma, Nicky Jam, and Robin Schulz.

Following his debut during Art Basel Miami Beach, Hattaway continues to expand his presence in the global art scene with upcoming gallery exhibitions and collaborations. Through his multidimensional works, he invites viewers to see the familiar with new clarity, illuminating the tension between fantasy and reality, luxury and beauty.