WENDY RED STAR, AMNÍA (ECHO), 2021
Photography is an integral aspect of Wendy Red Star’s multi-disciplinary practice. Amnía (Echo) captures Red Star’s singular approach to examining how photography supports the crafting of identity—personal and communal—by interweaving archival and contemporary images with historical narratives…
CLIFTON MOONEY, SELECTED WORKS
Polaroid Photography is a passion, to be completely honest I don’t know where exactly it comes from. A number of things come to mind like the instant gratification, the excitement of what might come out, or in my opinion the only true tangible photography to exist…
MENGWEN CAO, LIMINAL SPACE, 2017-ONGOING
I use tender gaze to explore the beauty and intimacy of queer and trans people of color lives. Joy and resilience exist in everyday life. In quiet moments, we keep becoming…
FÉLIX GONZÁLEZ-TORRES, UNTITLED (BILLBOARD)
Between February 20 and March 18 of 1991, González-Torres mounted the image on 24 billboards to honor the day his love passed away…
JUSTINE KURLAND, GIRL PICTURES
The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets…
SUNIL GUPTA, SUN CITY
This project is a fictional narrative loosely based on the 1962 film, "La Jetée" by Chris Marker. We can view it as some "stills" from a film that is "missing."…
JESS T. DUGAN, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MOM, 2005-present
Jess T. Dugan is an artist and writer whose work explores the complexities of personhood, relationships, desire, love, and family. While their practice is centered around photography, it also includes writing, video, sound, drawing, and installation…
JOAN JONAS, LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE, 1972
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the self and the body…
KEISHA SCARVILLE, LICK OF TONGUE, RUB OF FINGER, ON SOFT WOUND
Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life tracing routes of movement between the Caribbean and America in order to investigate her own lineage...
PAJAMA, SELECTED WORKS
In 1937, the painters Jared French (1902-1989), Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) and Margaret French (1906-1998) began to experiment with a camera during summers on the beaches of Fire Island and Provincetown, and in the winters back at their New York City studios…
NATHAN MILLER, INSIDE-OUT
Installed at a historical fort, Inside-Out was an examination and open forum on violence in relation to the human spirit…
RENLUKA MAHARAJ, LAMBI KAHANI
My family’s history as indentured laborers in Trinidad and Tobago has been a point of departure for ongoing dialogue and research. My work is ultimately autobiographical and is influenced by the narratives, myths and folklore born from the women who migrated from India to the Caribbean…
ODETTE ENGLAND, WOMAN WEARING RING SHIELDS FACE FROM FLASH
Odette England collects photographs of men taking pictures of women without permission, women rejecting the camera by placing their hands over their faces, and men posing with guns…
ASIA STEWART, DREAMGURL
Stewart was inspired to begin this series after a video of her 2020 performance “La Négresse blanche,” which includes nudity, was downloaded by an anonymous Vimeo user named “J” and shared on various pornographic sites without her consent in February 2021…
RASHID JOHNSON, THE NEW BLACK YOGA, 2011
New York-based Rashid Johnson explores complex cultural identities and issues relevant to being African American in the present day. The artist’s recent ventures in film make use of the medium’s ability to express meaning through movement…
LOLA FLASH, CROSS COLOUR
These selections are a reflection of the late 80's and early 90's, a time when the AIDS crisis was at its highest in New York city. I was an activist and a member of ACT UP, as well as ART+ (an affinity group focusing on issues around brown people affected by AIDS)…
JALEEL MARQUES PORCHA, HIGH INTERROGATION
JaLeel is a multidisciplinary artist whose works engage in notions of the archive and history; community and universality; (transgenerational) trauma and the ideas of overcoming said trauma…
MING SMITH, SELECTED WORKS
Harlem-based, Detroit-born, Ming Smith attended the famous Howard University, Washington, DC. Ming Smith first became a photographer when she was given a camera, and was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers in New York in the 1960s, working to document black life…
MARINA ABRAMOVIC, RHYTHM 0, 1974
In Rhythm 0 (1974), she invited audience members to do whatever they wanted to her using any of the 72 items she provided: pen, scissors, chains, axe, loaded pistol, and others…
RINEKE DIJKSTRA, BEACH PORTRAITS, 2002
Tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful, and sometimes unknowingly beautiful, the adolescents in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits stand alone, the ocean rolling behind them…