LaToya Ruby Frazier has been named a 2015 TED Fellow and will speak at the TED2015 conference Truth and Dare, held March 16-20 in Vancouver.
The new class of Fellows for TED2015 includes 21 game-changing thinkers representing 15 countries, working across disciplines at the forefront of their fields.
Frazier(born 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania) received her BFA in applied media arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (2004) and her MFA in art photography from Syracuse University (2007). She also studied under the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2010–2011) and was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin (2013–2014).
In 2014, Frazier accepted the assistant professor of photography position at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has previously held academic and curatorial positions at Yale University School of Art, Rutgers University, and Syracuse University. Frazier lectures prolifically at academic and cultural institutions such as International Center of Photography, NY; Columbia University School of the Arts, NY; Parsons, New School, NY; Pratt Institute, NY; Cooper Union, NY; Tisch School of Arts, New York University; School of Visual Arts, NY; Freie Universitat Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center and Hamburger Bahnhof; and Tate Modern, London among others.
Courtesy of SkowheganArt.org
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded LaToya Ruby Frazier a Fellowship based on prior achievement and exceptional promise. Successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
LaToya Ruby Frazier has been described as “an artist on a mission with a prophetic voice” who has a “preternaturally mature body of work,” by The Village Voice and New York Times.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century
Self Portrait (March 10a.m.) 2009 ©LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Village Voice
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Apr 3, 2013
The mother of all Great Depression books, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, grew out of a Time magazine assignment. Accepting it were two young artistes, James Agee and Walker Evans, who agreed to produce a “photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers.” Their boss, Henry Luce, wanted a tidy piece of objective journalism; what he got was a 495-page tome that blew away traditional forms of photographic and written reportage. It was also, in Agee’s beatific parlance, “an independent inquiry into certain normal predicaments of human divinity.”
The Flesh and the Asphalt, Both Weak
LaToya Ruby Frazier Photography at Brooklyn Museum
New York Times
Art Review
“Fifth Street Tavern and UPMC Braddock Hospital on Braddock Avenue” (2011)
Braddock, Pa., is about nine miles southeast of Pittsburgh, hugging the eastern bank of the Monongahela River. But in the photographs of LaToya Ruby Frazier, who grew up in this steel town, its coordinates are not so precise. Braddock is in the bodies of Ms. Frazier’s elder family members, who used to work at the local mills; it’s in the empty foundation of the hospital that used to serve them, before it was closed and demolished. It’s there in every picture Ms. Frazier has taken, and it’s here in her outstanding first New York solo show.
Braddock, PA Levi BIllboard 2010
Empire State
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
April 22 — July 21, 2013
NEW York’s role as the ruling city of the art world has held steady since at least the middle of the 20th century. Next month, a new exhibition about the city’s ever-growing and constantly shifting art scene is opening in the capital of a much older empire: Rome.
“Empire State,” featuring the work of more than 25 New York artists, opens in Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 22 and runs until July 21.
