Continuing the Fall 2024 Photography Lecture Series the MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Keisha Scarville. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2pm on Tuesday, October 15.

Keisha Scarville (b. Brooklyn, NY; lives Brooklyn, NY). Her work has been widely exhibited, including the Studio Museum of Harlem, Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, ICA Philadelphia, Contact Gallery in Toronto, The Caribbean Cultural Center, Lightwork Syracuse, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Higher Pictures Gallery, and Baxter Street CCNY. 

Recent group exhibitions include The Rose, lumber room, Portland, Oregon (curated by Justine Kurland); If I Had a Hammer - Fotofest Biennial, Houston (2022); We Wear the Mask, Higher Pictures, New York (2020, curated by D’Angelo Lovell Williams); and All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2020, curated by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons). Her work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Center of Photography at Woodstock, Yale University Art Gallery, the George Eastman House, the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. She has participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Lightwork, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, Stoneleaf, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), Baxter Street CCNY, BRIC Workspace, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. 

In addition, her work has appeared in publications including Vice, Transition, Nueva Luz, Small Axe, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times where her work has also received critical review. She is the recipient of 2023 Creator Lab Photo Fund and received the inaugural Saltzman Prize in Photography earlier this year. She is currently a faculty member at Parsons School of Design, the International Center of Photography, Cornell University, and this fall is a visiting professor in the Art, Film and Visual Studies Department at Harvard University. Her first book, lick of tongue rub of finger on soft wound, was recently published by MACK and shortlisted in the 2023 Aperture/Paris PhotoBook Awards and has received wide acclaim. Her newest book is scheduled to be published this fall by TIS Books, with accompanying text by Tina Campt.

All Photography lectures are free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu

Image detail: Keisha Scarville, Untitled, 2022