The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Abdulhamid Kircher as a speaker of the Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, October 20.

Abdulhamid Kircher (b. 1996) is an artist from Queens, New York. He was born in Berlin to German and Turkish parents, and immigrated with his mother to the United States at the age of eight. His work is a living archive of place and people, as it is also a dedication to the language of photography, the mechanics and aesthetic possibilities of the form. Through his devotion to classical forms of image making and the radical experimentation required for each of his subjects, his process bridges the idea between document and narrative. He received his BA in Culture and Media from The New School in 2018 and his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego in 2022. His debut monograph Rotting from Within published by Loose Joints was released in 2024 on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. His project To Be Held By The Earth received the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026 and he was awarded the Hamburger Bahnhof Studio Award in 2026. His second monograph New Genesis published by Loose Joints is set to release in the spring of 2026. Abdul currently lives and works between Berlin and New York.

All Photography lectures are free and open to the public. 

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu

Image detail: Abdulhamid Kircher, Untitled from Rotting from Within, 2014-2024.