Since the early 2000s, Guyton has pursued, with a notable consistency, an investigation into the condition and impact of digital image production. Guyton purposefully misuses his printer by challenging its commands and materials that exceed its design specifications. As a result, the digital work everts its inherent conflicts questioning the conditional nature of its visualization.

In his latest series, Guyton intensifies the interplay between painting and photography by integrating cellphone snapshot of paintings drying on the floor, views of and from the studio, screen captures, and enlarged bitmaps.

Wade Guyton is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Art (2014); the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (2004); the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Grant (2003); the Artists Space Independent Projects Grant (2002); the Delfina Studio Trust (2000).

Wade Guyton has had major solo exhibitions at the Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo (2024); Musée d’art moderne, Paris (2023); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019); Serpentine Gallery, London (2017); Brandhorst Museum, Munich (2017); Museo MADRE, Naples (2017); MAMCO, Geneva (2016); Le Consortium, Dijon & Académie Conti, Vosne-Romanée (2016); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2013); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012-2013); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2010); the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2009); Museum d’Arte Moderna (MAMbo), Bologna (2008); The Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2008); Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (2005), among others.

He was also featured in several international group shows and Biennales such as Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2024); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2023); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2021); The Kitchen, New York (2020); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2019); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2016);  Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2015); Punta della Dogana, Venice (2016); Venice Biennale (2013); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva (2013); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2011); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008); Whitney Biennial (2004).

His works have joined the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Collection Pinault, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Prada, Milan; FRAC .le-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris; FRAC Normandie, Sotteville-lés-Rouen; Glenstone, Potomac; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Münich; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.