Liz Nielsen is an American photographer based in Brooklyn.
Nielsen prefers using traditional analog photography methods with hand-made negatives and natural lighting. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and a MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago two years later.
Nielsen's photography has been featured in The New Yorker, [1] The New York Times, [2] Wall Street Journal, [3] Hyperallergic [4] ArtSlant, [5] British Journal of Photography, [6] and LensCulture,. [7]
Her work has been exhibited at Black Box Projects [8] in London, the Denny Gallery [9] in New York, Danziger Gallery in New York, and SOCO [10] Gallery in North Carolina. Nielsen and Carolina Wheat founded the Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2016, and have also co-organized the exhibition Transaction at Knockdown Gallery.
She was a 2020 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. In 1936, he helped found the Photo League, a cooperative of photographers who banded together around a range of common social and creative causes. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Derek Fordjour is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator of Ghanaian heritage, who works in collage, video/film, sculpture, and painting. Fordjour lives and works in New York City.
Thomas Roma is an American photographer who has worked almost exclusively since 1974 exploring the neighborhoods and institutions of his native Brooklyn, photographing scenes from churches, subways and everyday life. His work, made almost exclusively using a homemade camera, has received widespread acclaim.
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 2000's, 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".
Rebecca Norris Webb is an American photographer. Originally a poet, her books often combine text and images. An NEA grant recipient, she has work in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Her photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, and other magazines. She sometimes collaborates with photographer Alex Webb, her husband and creative partner.
Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn is a Canadian-born artist currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her art practice is primarily research-based and often takes the form of installation, video, photographs and audio. She received her BFA from Concordia University (2003), her post-graduate diploma in Critical Studies from the Malmö Art Academy (2005) and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Clare E. Rojas, also known by stage name Peggy Honeywell, is an American multidisciplinary artist. She is part of the Mission School. Rojas is "known for creating powerful folk-art-inspired tableaus that tackle traditional gender roles." She works in a variety of media, including painting, installations, video, street art, and children's books. Rojas is lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sasha Waters is an American filmmaker and a professor of film and art foundation at the #1 public Fine Arts School in the country, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Deana Lawson (1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family, spirituality, sexuality, and Black aesthetics.
Sharon Core is an American artist and photographer. Core first gained recognition with her Thiebauds series (2003-4) in which she created photographic interpretations of American painter Wayne Thiebaud's renderings of food. Two of her works in the Thiebauds series, Candy Counter 1969 (2004) and Confections (2005) were acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2005.
Nona Faustine is an American photographer and visual artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is an American writer, educator, and artist from East Palo Alto, California. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts known for her work in installations, book arts, immersive text-based installations, large-scale public text pieces, publications, collage, and audio recordings. Rasheed's art explores memory, ritual, discursive regimes, historiography, and archival practices through the use of fragments and historical residue. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she is currently the Arts Editor for SPOOK magazine. In 2021 her work was featured in an Art 21 documentary, "The Edge of Legibility."
Paula Wilson is an African-American "mixed media" artist creating works examining women's identities through a lens of cultural history. She uses sculpture, collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodblock. In 2007 Wilson moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Carrizozo, New Mexico, where she currently lives and works with her woodworking partner Mike Lagg.
Brenda Goodman is an artist and painter currently living and working in Pine Hill, New York. Her artistic practice includes paintings, works on paper, and sculptures.
Melissa Stern is an American artist and journalist. Her drawing and sculpture have been exhibited in museums, galleries, private and corporate collections throughout the world. Her art reviews and cultural commentary have been featured in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn-based digital arts publication. She serves as Art Editor for Posit, a journal of literature and art.
Kei Ito is a Japanese visual artist working primarily with installation art and experimental photography currently based in the United States. He is most known for his Sungazing,Afterimage Requiem, and Burning Away series.
Cara Romero is a Chemehuevi photographer from the United States. She is known for her dramatic digital photography that examines Indigenous life through a contemporary lens. She lives in both Santa Fe, NM and the Mojave Desert.
Endia Beal is an African-American visual artist, curator, and educator. She is known for her work in creating visual narratives through photography and video testimonies focused on women of color working in corporate environments.
Liz Sales is an American artist and educator. She works primarily in the medium of photography, and her work explores the interplay between lens-based perception and human perception. Her writing has been published in multiple magazines, including International Street Photographer, Triple Canopy, Foam Magazine, and Musée Magazine. She was an editor at Conveyer Magazine. Sales works in New York City.
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."