What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
"I met LaToya through the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023, the year that I was honored at their gala. In my remarks, I talked about how I was motivated to follow Parks’s example in using art and storytelling to bring visibility to the WNBA. That resonated with LaToya because she is a former basketball player and has always wanted to tell their stories. When we met, we quickly discovered our shared passion for basketball and uplifting women athletes." —Clara Wu Tsai, New York Liberty Owner
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WITNESS at MCA Chicago
The photographer as witness is a familiar conceit, one that evokes the artist’s responsibility to observe the lives of others. It’s a role that has been reinforced by traditions of photojournalism, documentary photography, and anthropology, while taking on new forms and renewed urgency in recent years. Drawn largely from the MCA’s collection, the photographs in Witness […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier receives Gordon Parks Foundation Award
THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION 10TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS “CELEBRATING THE ARTS” MAY 24, 2016 The Gordon Parks Foundation 10th Anniversary Awards Dinner and Auction was held on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at Cipriani 42nd Street. Event co-chairs were Nejma and Peter Beard, Alicia Keys and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, Karl Lagerfeld, Usher IV and Grace Raymond, […]
“Genius Grant” Photographer Uses Camera as Weapon Against Racism
LaToya Ruby Frazier, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, documents three generations of Blackness in a decaying steel mill town By LaToya Cross “This is not an art project.” But rather the collection of over 100 photographs is the life of photographer and Art Institute of Chicago instructor, LaToya Ruby Frazier. Inspired by Gordon Parks’ ideology of […]
Frazier awarded Proclamation in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Allegheny County Council President John P. DeFazio awarded a Proclamation to congratulate LaToya Ruby Frazier for being named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, and to officially thank her for “examining race, class, gender and citizenship in our society and inspiring a vision for the future that offers inclusion, equity and justice to all.” The Proclamation was […]
Frazier awarded MacArthur fellowship
LaToya Ruby Frazier is the only photographer among the 24 winners of the prestigious 2015 MacArthur Fellow Program by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. “I’m overjoyed to receive this award because often, when you’re a young black woman talking about inequality, people don’t take you seriously,” [Frazier] says. “It’s validation to my work […]
LaToya receives ICP Infinity Award
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is pleased to announce the honorees of the 2015 Infinity Awards including Guggenheim Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier for her publication The Notion Of Family. Award winners will be honored at the gala event on Thursday, April 30, 2015, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, in New York City. The Infinity Awards are […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier named 2015 TED Fellow
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. Read more about the 2015 TED Fellows -»
Frazier named Skowhegan resident faculty
Skowhegan announces 2015 faculty, including LaToya Ruby Frazier. 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 […]
Frazier awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
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 Review
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century 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 […]
New York Times Review
The Flesh and the Asphalt, Both Weak LaToya Ruby Frazier Photography at Brooklyn Museum New York Times Art Review 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 […]
In Rome Exhibition, a Poem to New York
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 […]