Kris Graves

Last updated
Kris Graves
Born1982 (age 41–42)
New York City, U.S.
Education SUNY Purchase
Website krisgraves.com

Kris Graves (born 1982) is an American photographer who primarily works in portraiture and landscape photography. He is based in New York and London, and his work has been published and exhibited internationally. [1] Graves's photographs evoke the sense of time, change, and memories as well as address social issues to raise awareness. [2] Graves founded and directs Kris Graves Projects, a publisher of art books.

Contents

Early life

Graves was born in 1982 in New York. He attended Purchase College, State University of New York, where he earned BFA in Visual Arts. [3]

Career

While working as a collections photographer at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Graves continued his photographic endeavors. [4] [5] He also started an art and photography publishing house, Kris Graves Projects, which has become a platform for collaboration between the publisher and its artists. [6] "On Death", published in 2019, was selected as "TIME'S Best Photobooks of 2019". [7]

Solo exhibitions

2-Person exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Meiselas</span> American photographer

Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for her 1970s photographs of war-torn Nicaragua and American carnival strippers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sally Mann</span> American photographer (born 1951)

Sally Mann is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.

Richard Misrach is an American photographer. He has photographed the deserts of the American West, and pursued projects that document the changes in the natural environment that have been wrought by various man-made factors such as urban sprawl, tourism, industrialization, floods, fires, petrochemical manufacturing, and the testing of explosives and nuclear weapons by the military. Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker writes that Misrach's practice has been "driven [by] issues of aesthetics, politics, ecology, and sociology." In a 2011 interview, Misrach noted: "My career, in a way, has been about navigating these two extremes - the political and the aesthetic."

Nick Waplington is a British / American artist and photographer. Many books of Waplington's work have been published, both self-published and through Aperture, Cornerhouse, Mack, Phaidon, and Trolley. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Tate Britain and The Photographers' Gallery in London, at Philadelphia Museum of Art in the USA, and at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, UK; and in group exhibitions at Venice Biennale, Italy and Brooklyn Museum, New York City. In 1993 he was awarded an Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Victoria and Albert Museum and Government Art Collection in London, National Gallery of Australia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Royal Library, Denmark.

Dawoud Bey is an American photographer, artist and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community, and other often marginalized subjects. In 2017, Bey was named a fellow and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is regarded as one of the "most innovative and influential photographers of his generation".

Lillian Bassman was an American photographer and painter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zanele Muholi</span> South African artist and visual activist (born 1972)

Zanele Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Penelope Umbrico</span> American artist (born 1957)

Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.

Stephen Shames is an American photojournalist who for over 50 years has used his photography to raise awareness of social issues, with a particular focus on child poverty, solutions to child poverty, and race. He testified about child poverty to the United States Senate in 1986. Shames was named a Purpose Prize Fellow in 2010 by Encore.org for his work helping AIDS orphans and former child soldiers in Africa.

Vera Lutter is a German artist based in New York City. She works with several forms of digital media, including photography, projections, and video-sound installations. Through a multitude of processes, Lutter's oeuvre focuses on light and its ability to articulate the passing time and movement within a tangible image.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janelle Lynch</span> American photographer

Janelle Lynch is an American artist who uses a large-format camera and alternative processes in the discovery of ecological, spiritual, and human connection. Combining portraits and nature imagery, Lynch’s work explores and imagines a world that centers beauty, connection, and empathy as foundational values and healing forces.

Charlotte Cotton is a curator of and writer about photography.

Kwame Brathwaite was an American photojournalist and activist known for popularizing the phrase "Black is Beautiful" and documenting life and culture in Harlem and Africa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tyler Mitchell (photographer)</span> American photographer (born 1995)

Tyler Mitchell is an American photographer. He is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is best known for his cover photo of Beyoncé for the cover of Vogue.

Zora J. Murff is an American photographer, curator, and educator. He is currently based in Fayetteville, Arkansas and teaches photography at the University of Arkansas. Murff's work focuses on social and cultural constructs including race and criminality, and grapples with how photography is used as a technology to perpetuate intentions and desires. His series, Corrections, is a visual exploration of kids in the juvenile criminal justice system in Eastern Iowa.

Sophie Rivera was an American artist and photographer of Puerto Rican-American descent. She was also an early member and instructor of En Foco, a not-for-profit organisation centred on contemporary fine art and photographers of diverse cultures. Rivera is best known for her 1978 photography series Nuyorican Portraits. Redefining Puerto Rican identity in the United States, the series included 50 black and white portraits taken in her home of Puerto Ricans in her neighbourhood.

Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano is an American visual artist working primarily in photography and video and a clinical psychoanalyst born in New York City. She currently works in both New York and in Panama. Mozman Solano's photographs and moving images simultaneously explore the relationship between storytelling, narrative fiction and documentary and the way that stories built on perception shape culture and condition behavior of individuals and environment.

Peter Kayafas is an American photographer, publisher, and educator based in New York City. He creates black and white photographs that are "simple and spare, yet quietly overpowering with their evocation of a history on a scale beyond that of individual human lives."

Mercedes Jelinek is an American photographer working in New York and Italy. She specializes in black and white portraiture, and her work has been published and exhibited internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hannah Altman</span> American photographer

Hannah Altman is an American photographer from New Jersey. Her artwork explores lineage, memory, ritual, and storytelling. She is known for her use of natural light and incorporating aspects of Jewish culture into her work.

References

  1. ↑ "Meet The Curators – Kris Graves". AINT—BAD. 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  2. ↑ "Kris Graves". Light Work. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  3. ↑ "Kris Graves". Sasha Wolf Projects. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  4. ↑ "Case Study of Kris Graves Photography | NEC Display". www.necdisplay.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  5. ↑ "What's Your Niche: Photographing Art for the Guggenheim Museum". PDN Online. 2013-08-26. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  6. ↑ "INFO". + KGP. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  7. ↑ "TIME's 30 Best Photobooks of 2019". Time. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  8. ↑ "NYAB Event – Kris Graves "Discovered Missing"". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  9. ↑ "Intimate Distances: Kris Graves' Cold Comfort". Hyperallergic. 2013-07-20. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  10. ↑ "Kris Graves: The Testament Project". LENSCRATCH. 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  11. ↑ "Kris Graves | The Testament Project". The Center for Fine Art Photography. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  12. ↑ Williams, Thomas Chatterton (29 September 2016). "A Photographer Visited the Scenes Where Police Killed 8 Black Americans. This Is What He Found". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  13. ↑ Williams, Thomas Chatterton (29 September 2016). "A Photographer Visited the Scenes Where Police Killed 8 Black Americans. This Is What He Found". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  14. ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  15. ↑ Leonhardt, Andrea (2017-07-27). "On View: 'The Legacy of Lynching' at the Brooklyn Museum". BK Reader. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  16. ↑ "Exhibits". Austin Public Library. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  17. ↑ "Arts event details – Peddie School | Private Boarding & Day School in NJ". www.peddie.org. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  18. ↑ Regan, Margaret. "Bathed in Light". Tucson Weekly. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  19. ↑ "The Fine-Art Photography Issue". PDN Online. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  20. ↑ "Kris Graves: The Testament Project". www.brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  21. ↑ "Kris Graves". Blue Sky Gallery. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  22. ↑ "The Testament Project". Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts. 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  23. ↑ Rosenberg, David (2016-02-21). "Stunning Portraits of Black Men That Accurately Portray How They See Themselves". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  24. ↑ "Intimate Distances: Kris Graves' Cold Comfort". Hyperallergic. 2013-07-20. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  25. ↑ "Baang and Burne Contemporary: 6X6". LENSCRATCH. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  26. ↑ "Art Splash: Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian – A Queens Affair – Farmani Gallery – New York". contemporaryartlinks.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  27. ↑ "LOST Carmel, curated by Kris Graves". Center for Photographic Art. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  28. ↑ "Art + Design | "All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party" Exhibit Opens at Sarah Spurgeon Gallery September 27". www.cwu.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  29. ↑ "All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party". Photographic Center Northwest. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  30. ↑ "CPW — Disruption. The Exhibition". www.cpw.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  31. ↑ "Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks". MassArt. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  32. ↑ Foco, En (2017-10-06). "En Foco presents The Apartment Gallery Series!" . Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  33. ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  34. ↑ "2017 Aperture Summer Open: On Freedom". Aperture Foundation NY. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  35. ↑ "UnBound6! Artist Line Up". Candela Books + Gallery. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  36. ↑ "Looking for Inspiration – Looking for Inspiration | Hearst". www.hearst.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  37. ↑ "Back to the Future". Aperture Foundation NY. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  38. ↑ "Announcing the 2019 Light Work Artists-in-Residence". Light Work (Press release). 13 September 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.