The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Alanna Fields as the first visiting artist of the Spring 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, February 10.

Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Maryland, USA) is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work both deconstructs and reconstructs Black queer memory and history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Paris Photo, The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami, and Expo Chicago. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, The High Museum of Art, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art. She has presented solo exhibitions at Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art and Baxter Street Camera Club of NY and participated in gallery exhibitions at Yancey Richardson Gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery, Hannah Traore Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, and the Silver Eye Center for Photography, among others. Fields received her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and has given lectures on her work at Penumbra Foundation, Aperture, Light Work, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design at The New School, Syracuse University, and Stanford University. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant recipient who has participated in residencies at Silver Arts Projects, Light Work, Baxter St. CCNY, Fountainhead Arts, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, among others. Her work has been commissioned by and featured in major publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Aperture Magazine, and FOAM Magazine. Fields has held professorships at Pratt Institute and currently at Howard University, teaching Photography in the Department of Art. In 2025, Fields released her first monograph, Unveiling, which was shortlisted for the Aperture X Paris Photo First Book Prize. Fields currently lives and works between New York City and Washington, D.C.

All Photography lectures are free and open to the public. 

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu

Image detail: Alanna Fields, Stormé (Composition No. 2), 2024.