DEANA LAWSON, AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH, 2018
This is the first monograph on the photography of Deana Lawson, who has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals…
PARIS IS BURNING, JENNIE LIVINGSTON, 1990
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene…
TEXAS ISAIAH, MY NAME IS MY NAME
My Name is My Name incorporates photography and a system of celebration (altar) to highlight the multi-dimensional relationship between ancestry, ceremonial rituals, elements within nature, dream etching, and protection…
CHI YIN SIM, THE SUITCASE IS A LITTLE BIT ROTTEN, 2023
“The suitcase is a little bit rotten” is a conceptual series of work using new and found imagery to speculate on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance, between the artist’s socialist grandfather – a political activist in British Malaya executed for his politics during the Cold War…
ISAAC JULIEN, LOOKING FOR LANGSTON, 1989
Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists from the Harlem Renaissance…
CARLOS MOTTA, LEGACY, 2019
A 30-minute video endurance performance by Carlos Motta, Legacy, presents the artist, looking directly at the camera and wearing a dental gag, as he tries to repeat, from memory, a timeline of HIV/AIDS, from to 1908 until 2019, spoken at him by American radio journalist Ari Shapiro…
ANA MENDIETA, SILUETA SERIES, 1973-1978
Her Silueta (Silhouette) series (begun in 1973) used a typology of abstracted feminine forms, through which she hoped to access an omnipresent female force…
PINAR YOLAÇAN, MOTHER GODDESS
Mother Goddess, published by Baron, showcases the work of artist Pinar Yolaçan and serves as an artefact of her visual explorations of the body, along the themes of gender and otherness…
CLAUDE CAHUN, SELECT WORKS
Her first recorded self-portraits are dated as early as 1912, when the artist was about 18. In the early 1920s, she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun, which would be the third and last time the artist changed her name…
SHIRIN NESHAT, TURBULENT, 1998
Turbulent is one of Neshat’s most critically acclaimed films, having been awarded the Lion d’or at the Venice Biennale in 1999. It was also her first foray into the realm of video, a medium that subsequently has played a major role in her artistic production…
CHERYL DONEGAN, HEAD, 1993
With Head, Donegan ushered in a new era of brash, low-tech performance video. Here she confronts sex, fantasy, and voyeurism in an autoerotic work-out performed to pop music…
BARBARA NITKE, RESURRECTION, 1991-1994
By the late eighties, the hardcore porn industry had left New York and moved out to California. People who were serious about their adult film careers moved with the business, but I loved New York too much to leave. I stayed behind and found other things to do…
AIDA MULUNEH, SELECTED WORKS
Looking to her background as a photojournalist, Muluneh uses this foundation of visual and symbolic language and blends it with the sentiments, intensity, and passion of poetry…
CLIFFORD PRINCE KING, KISS OF LIFE, 2022
In Kiss of Life, two Black people living with HIV reflect on their experiences with the virus. Raw conversations surrounding disclosure, rejection and self love are expressed through visual poetry and dreamscapes…
KRISTINE POTTER, MANIFEST
Created while working in remote areas along the Western slope of Colorado between 2012 and 2015, Kristine Potter builds on her previous investigations of masculinity and the American Soldier, here fixing her gaze on a parallel archetype, the American Cowboy…
MARLON RIGGS, COLOR ADJUSTMENT, 1992
In this documentary, Marlon Riggs carries his landmark studies of prejudice into the Television Age. COLOR ADJUSTMENT traces 40 years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths and stereotypes…
OMER FAST, CNN CONCATENATED, 2002
CNN Concatenated 2002 is a single channel colour video lasting approximately eighteen minutes and composed entirely of excerpts from the American television news channel CNN…
AMBER BYRNE MAHONEY, FIRST HAIRCUT, 2023
The day we first cut his hair — I write “we" because it does feel something collaborative, doesn’t it? Something done together. There is the one with the hair, the one with scissors, the one saying: yes, please, go and cut his hair (and what right do I have?…
LORNA SIMPSON, CALL WAITING, 1997
In works such as Call Waiting (1997), she depicts people of color engaging in intimate yet incomplete conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to plumb the mysteries of identity and desire…
MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN, TRANSFORMATIONS: CROSSDRESSERS AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM, 1978-89
This series actually started in New Orleans on the last day of Mardi Gras, 1978, when by fluke, I stayed at the same hotel as a group of crossdressers, one of whom became a friend…