Guest Faculty Lecture: Lyle Ashton Harris

Lyle Ashton Harris

Lyle Ashton Harris (born in Bronx, New York, 1965) has cultivated a diverse artistic practice, ranging from photography and collage to video installation and performance art, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic globally through intersections of the personal and the political. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Miami and in recent group exhibitions at Copenhagen Contemporary (“The Art of Sport”), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“Black American Portraits”), and currently through autumn 2022 at the Voorlinden Museum in the Netherlands (“Art is the Antidote”). A solo exhibition of his works spanning three decades will be presented in the U.S. by the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and the Nasher Museum at Duke University in 2023-24. His work is represented in the collections of MoMA (New York); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); the Tate Modern (London, UK), among many others. Harris’s most recent photography monograph was published by Aperture, and he is represented by LGDR, New York.

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