Original color vintage Cibachrome print, very large size, signed on verso.
Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965) is an American artist who has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, photo montage, installation art and performance art. Born in the Bronx, Harris was raised between New York City and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for his self-portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work has been acquired by major international museums, most recently by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His commissioned work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. In 2014 Harris joined the board of trustees at the American Academy in Rome and was named the 10th recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Born in the Bronx New York City, He currently lives and works in New York City and is an Associate Professor at New York University.
Education
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, 1992
National Graduate Photography Seminar, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1991
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, 1990
Bachelor of Arts (with Honors), Wesleyan University, 1988
Works in Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Miami Art Museum
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Princeton University Art Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Studio Museum in Harlem
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010Untitled (Black Power), Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands
Ghana, CRG Gallery, NY
2008Sketches from the Shore, The Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA
2004Lyle Ashton Harris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Blow Up, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) Traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Bang! The Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1998Distillation, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Alchemy, in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
1994The Good Life, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Face, Broadway Window, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
“The Progress of Love”, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
“The Romare Bearden Project”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011 “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
Kreyol Factory, Grande Hale de la Villete, Paris, France (catalogue)
S&M: Shines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times, [Co-Curator], 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, NY
2007 Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
(NOT) GAY ART NOW, Curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Male Desire Two, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2002 Typical Men: Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Welcome, Curated by Renato Bianchini, Citta Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy
1998 Diana.98, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Millenovecento, Galerie Analix B Polla & C Cargnel, Paris, France
Black Nudes: New Identities, Gay Games Amsterdam 1998, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Portraits, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
The Paranoid Machine, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Published Photographs
Stanley, Alessandra, “Berlusconi, The Return,” The New York Times Magazine, April 15, p. 40, (photographed Silvio Berlusconi)
Hyland, John, “Hot Chicks, Cool Rooms,” The New York Times Magazine’s Fashions of the Times, Spring Issue, p.185
2000Portraits of Cuban Link, Fat Joe, Jermaine Dupri,
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