ADRIAN PIPER, WHAT WILL BECOME OF ME, 1985-ONGOING
In the 1980s Piper’s interests in systemic oppression, racism, and social justice took a contemplative and self-referential direction. What Will Become of Me consists of twelve honey containers filled with the artist’s hair and two smaller jars holding bits and pieces of fingernails and dried skin, arranged as reliquaries on a wooden shelf…
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA, MOUTH TO MOUTH, 1975
English and Korean words appear on the screen, a mouth forms the shape of an "O," then opens and closes. Is this the beginning of language? In this early videotape, Cha isolates and repeats a simple, physical act — a mouth forming the eight Korean vowel graphemes — so that this ordinary action becomes something primal and riveting…
SIR ISAAC JULIEN, LESSONS OF THE HOUR, 2019
Lessons of the Hour is a poetic meditation on the life and times of Frederick Douglass, the ten-screen film installation proposes a contemplative journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and its relationship to contemporaneity…
ELEANOR ANTIN, CARVING: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE 1972
A landmark early feminist work, Eleanor Antin’s Carving: A Traditional Sculpture comprises 148 black-and-white photographs documenting the artist’s loss of 10 pounds over 37 days. Every morning she was photographed naked in the same four stances to record her barely perceptible self-induced weight loss…
JOEL MEYEROWITZ, POP
Pop chronicles the journey of three generations of Meyerowitz men on a road trip from Florida to the Bronx, in exploration of their familial roots…
AN-MY LÊ, DELTA
In her “Delta” series, Lê explored the Vietnam War’s migratory legacy. The color photographs focus on the everyday lives of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American women and girls in Ho Chi Minh City and New Orleans…
DAIDO MORIYAMA, JAPAN, A PHOTO THEATER, 1968
Originally published in 1968 – the year which also saw the launch of the influential Provoke magazine – the book already demonstrates Moriyama’s trademark visual style. On invitation of Japanese writer Shuji Terayama, Moriyama began photographing members of a traveling theater group, adding shots of dwarf show dancers, strip clubs, street performers, fetuses in formaldehyde containers and other motifs…
MARTIN NEWTH, 8 HOURS
The images each record a night’s sleep in different budget motels in the USA during the artist's honeymoon in 2001. The exposure time of the photographs is 8 hours…
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…