Haley Morris-Cafiero is an American photographer and performer, born in 1976 in Atlanta. She earned a BA in photography and a BFA in ceramics from the University of North Florida in 1999 and an MFA in art from the University of Arizona. She lived in Memphis for fourteen years, moved to Belfast in 2018 to teach at the Belfast School of Art at Ulster University, and received her practice-based PhD from the University of Westminster in 2023. She is now Associate Professor and Subject Leader of Visual Arts at De Montfort University in Leicester.
Her series Wait Watchers, in which she photographs strangers reacting to her as she does everyday things in public, went viral in 2013. Her monograph The Watchers was published by the Magenta Foundation in 2015. In The Bully Pulpit (Fall Line Press, 2019) she dresses as the people who attacked her online and adds their comments to the images. She was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2013.
She is represented by TJ Boulting Gallery in London.
