Fall of Freedom Mixtape / A Gathering of the Tribe

Tracie Dawn Williams curated a mixtape for the Fall of Freedom event, answering a nationwide call for unity in the face of rising authoritarianism in the US. For this call, I revisited the copper plates I had engraved with selections of text from I Looked & Looked. In this selection, Everything We Thought, the texts speak of searching for the moon as much as uncertainty in the face of climate crisis as hurricanes and other weather phenomena become increasingly dangerous.

ICP Photobook Fest, Oct 2-5

This past weekend, two images from La vie is like that were on view in the museum’s Project Space. Seaton Street Press presented a selection of its projects examining the intersections of site, language, and memory, reflecting on familial and constructed archives, migration stories, and geographies. From Justin Hui's Searching for Poon, reconstructing his grandmother's memory and journey from mainland China to Hong Kong, Diana Guerra's Fleeting Under Light, on border crossings and new understandings of family and homelands in Latiné communities, and my book, La vie is like that, exploring language acquisition, migration, love, grief, family, identity, and aphasia, to Tyler Rico's Convergence and Excavation, disparate moments and timelines embedded in places and objects, Matt Neff's Sometimes, on vernacular photography and time as a feeling, and Lindsay Buchman's Stratagems (an overture), reflecting on transracial adoption and how place shapes who we become.

Support Systems at Longwood Art Gallery

January 22nd is the opening of Support Systems, a group exhibition curated by Christina Freeman at Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx. I’m excited to have an installation of The Dry Garden included. The exhibit runs through February 25th. More info at the following link: https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery

Group show - Community Care in NYC

Happy to have work from my collaborative project with Christina Labey, The Library as a Garden, on view in this upcoming exhibition at the Lower Eastside Girls Club Gallery. The show, Community Care: Stewarding Your Neighborhood, is organized by the Lower East Side Ecology Center and opens on September 6th.

Press Print: Risograph Photobooks @ Penumbra Foundation, July 25 - November 1, 2024

Very excited to have La vie is like that included in the exhibition Press Print : Risograph Photobooks opening this week at Penumbra Foundation. If you’re in NY do stop by! The show runs through November 1st. More details at: https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/press-print

Old School, New Worlds

My collaborative project The Library as a Garden will be on view in Old School, New Worlds at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City. The exhibition is organized by Dense Magazine in conjunction with the Jersey Art Book Fair (runs Feb 3-4). The Library as a Garden is a collaboration between Christina Labey and myself exploring the connection between humans and plants through the lens of the archive. In this arboreal-focused installation, we weave together plant specimens, watercolor studies, and writing to infuse new life into historical archives. By casting trees as quiet observers of human history and pivotal figures in forging a sustainable future, in the hopes of redirecting our attention to the often-overlooked presence of nature in the urban landscape.

The Via Combusta at Jimei X Arles Photo Festival

Work related to my book The Moon & Stars Can Be Yours is included in the group exhibition The Via Combusta on view until January 21st in Xiamen, China as part of the Jimei X Arles Photo Festival. The exhibition curated by Yichen Zhou and Yingying Gan won the festival’s Curatorial Award and will be shown in expanded form this spring at Fotografiska in Shanghai and at Beijing’s Three Shadows Photography Center.

A Tree, A Garden at Antenna

My solo show, A Tree, A Garden, opens in New Orleans at Antenna on February 11, 2023. The show will be on view until March 26th. A corresponding publication, The Dry Garden, is available from Antenna Press.

A Tree, A Garden reflects on the many ways in which trees manifest into other things, from memorials and myths to memes, markers, and meeting points.The exhibition brings together two research projects that explore the place of trees in our understanding of the world. Inspired by trees found both in old-growth forests and on city streets, A Tree Grows in Queens incorporates a collection of written vignettes, archival images, and original photographs to explore how narratives of trees have touched on the larger topics of climate, capitalism, catastrophe, and compassion. The Dry Garden, an installation of cyanotype prints and a publication, is composed of reimagined archival material from herbaria, where plants are dried and stored for scientific purposes. The imagery transformed into shades of blue and white is influenced by Anna Atkins’ Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book of photographs ever published. The work reconsiders archival histories and explores how narrative can act as a riposte to plant blindness, encouraging more empathetic relationships with our natural surroundings.

Said To Be Dreaming at Olympia

A group exhibition on reading poems and images - featuring paintings, video, mail art, and sound. The show explores how the acts of reading and looking are themselves an art of daydreaming and meandering. The exhibition is curated by Chantal Soong Lee and Emily P. Dunne. The exhibition asks, what does a conversation between a poet and an artist, or between two visual artists, look like? http://olympiart.org/