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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‘I’ve Used My Camera as a Compass’
Cultured Magazine by LaToya Ruby Frazier LaToya Ruby Frazier Shares the Tenets Behind Her Practice—and First MoMA Show As her exhibition “Moments of Solidarity” opens for previews, the artist-activist shares her accompanying credo exclusively with CULTURED. Here, Frazier outlines the origins, timelines, and influences behind the 23 years of work on view in the expansive show. […]
The Art World: What If…?! With LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Art World: What If…?! by Allan Schwartzman and Charlotte Burns Segment aired on May 9, 2024 We’re joined by the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, just before the opening of her major new exhibition ‘Monuments of Solidarity’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “This exhibition spiritually uplifts people,” she says. “It inspires […]
MoMA Surveys Artist-Activist LaToya Ruby Frazier
WNYC New York All Of It with Alison Stewart Published by All Of It Segments by All Of It Guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar Opening this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art is the first wholistic survey of artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, who was just named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential […]
With Unwavering Solidarity and Love, A LaToya Ruby Frazier Playlist
Listen to a playlist the artist and activist put together to honor frontline workers during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak. For International Workers’ Day in 2020, artist-activist LaToya Ruby Frazier compiled a playlist of 65 musical recordings from the 20th and 21st centuries—anthems of the enduring labor movement and working-class empowerment, from Pete Seeger and Woodie […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Is Paying It Forward
New York Times by Siddhartha Mitter Reporting from Braddock and Pittsburgh, Pa. She may be America’s foremost social documentary photographer, now with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. “All I’m doing is showing up as a vessel.” The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier creating a self-portrait in Braddock, Pa., her hometown, at the site […]
‘I come from community that’s been forgotten’
The Guardian by Veronica Esposito Artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, one of Time’s most influential people of 2024, prepares for a major survey of her work at the MoMA Momme from The Notion of Family, 2008, by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Courtesy of Gladstone gallery. Photographer and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monuments of Solidarity is monumental […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Steady Gaze
Artists and writers respond to the photographer’s arresting self-portraits Zora J Murff, Rebecca Bengal, Zoe Leonard May 8, 2024 An artist and activist whose work has illuminated stories of workers, women, and people of color, LaToya Ruby Frazier has devoted her career to resisting “historical erasure and historical amnesia.” To celebrate LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, a retrospective […]
In Solidarity: A Notion of Family, A Nation of Sisters
The Museum of Modern Art Roxana Marcoci May 3, 2024 Excerpt from the LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity exhibition catalogue “From the very beginning, I have always been working with other women artists who are not seen as artists or as a part of this art world,” LaToya Ruby Frazier stated in a 2019 conversation with […]
On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford
LaToya named in TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People of 2024
TIME100 by Lynn Nottage Photography by Sean Eaton. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art. LaToya Ruby Frazier is an eloquent storyteller, making visible the landscapes and lives of working people. With honesty and empathy, her photographs—soon to be displayed in a solo show at New York City’s MOMA—force us to confront how disenfranchisement, corporate greed, […]
FAMILY TIES
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate, intergenerational portraits The Atlantic by Hannah Giorgis Mom and Me on Her Couch (2010) (©2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery) The steel industry was already collapsing by the time the photographer and visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier was born, in 1982. Like many Rust Belt communities, her […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Raises Her Lens Against Environmental Racism and Healthcare Inequity in America
Arts Help by Zarah Owais From Braddock, Pennsylvania, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier uses her lens to capture the true essence of the Black experience in America. Her work tells the story of struggle but also that of resilience and strength as she exposes the cracks in the American water sanitation and health care system that marginalized populations […]