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…
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…
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…
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…
TINA BARNEY, NUDES
A lesser known part of Barney's back catalougue however, is the series of nude portraits she created in the early 1990s. Exhibited just once and since left to gather dust in a closet in her Rhode Island home, in these rarely seen photographs Barney reacted against what she says had become for her the somewhat stilted poses of her friends and family…
OZIER MUHAMMAD, HARLEM
Chicago-born, Muhammad is the grandson of Nation of Islam Founder Elijah Muhammad. Coming of age in that famous family of Black Muslim leaders — itself spotlighted in an array of news, commentary and pictures — he picked up jazz and a Yashica film camera around the same time…
TIFFANY J. SUTTON, BLACK BODY RADIATION
Photographer Tiffany Sutton’s body of work is rooted in narrative portraiture, family vernacular, and candid documentary photography. Her style developed out of an interest in cinematography. Her still images were mostly a self-biography that grew into something more…
SARAH LUCAS, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH FRIED EGGS, 1996
Sarah Lucas’s portrayals of the body have a strong sense of humour and they challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals. In Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, Sarah Lucas looks back at the viewer with a confrontational stare...
TARRAH KRAJNAK, MASTER RITUALS II: WESTON'S NUDES, 2020
Deconstructing Edward Weston’s Nudes in the form of self-portraits, the artist Tarrah Krajnak inserts herself as both author and subject into Weston’s original work…
JOY GREGORY, OBJECTS OF BEAUTY, 1992 – 1995
Who can deny the power of a pair of hairdresser’s scissors, or the bewitching effect of a set of dark false eyelashes? These images raise questions about women’s pursuit of changing ideals of beauty and the meanings we attach to the objects themselves…
MARIA KHEIRKHAH, I THINK THEREFORE I QUESTION, 2002-3
For me self-representation is always about self-reflection, self-agency. It is also a signal, a reminder of erasure and misrepresentation. Speaking back to this erasure becomes about claiming one's own history, claiming one's past, present and future self…
FRANCESCA WOODMAN, SELECTED WORKS
STEPH FOSTER, THE EYES BENEATH THE OAK,
One of the most pernicious aspects of our prison system is how it renders people invisible and inaudible so that their stories are hidden from our collective understanding. This allows the perpetuation of exploitative and abusive systems that disproportionately affect people of color, as their experiences are systematically hidden from view…