Spring 2024 RISD Photo Lecture Series
Spring 2024 RISD Photo TC Colley Lecture
Photo: Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2019, Thanks to the Lewis Baltz Research Fund
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Joanna Piotrowska
Joanna Piotrowska (b. 1985) is a Polish artist based in London. She examines the human condition through performative acts and the construction of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, performance and film. Family archives, self-defence manuals and psychotherapeutic methods are used as reference points as Piotrowska explores the complex roles which play out in everyday performance. Her psychologically charged photographs probe human behaviour and the dynamics of familial relations, exploring intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection. The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, and imposed conventions that play out in the domestic sphere.
Her work has been exhibited at: Le Bal, Paris (2023), FRAC Île-de-France, Paris (2023), Kunsthalle Tübingen (2023), 59th Venice Biennale (2022), The 16th Lyon Biennale (2022) Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2022), MACRO, Rome, Italy (2020), Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw (2020), Tate Britain (2019), Kunsthalle Basel (2019), NS-Dokumentationszentrum München (2019), MoMA, New York (2018), Kunsthalle Wien (2018), 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), ICA Singapore (2017), Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2016), Hayward Gallery, London (2014), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2013).
Spring 2024 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lectures
Photo: Allen Frame, Figures on the Pier, Positano, Italy, 2018
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Allen Frame
Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York, and author of four books of photographs: Detour (2001); Fever (2021); Innamorato, and Whereupon (2023). He was a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and the Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, Russia, through CEC Artslink, in 2019. He has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including, Luxe, Calme, Volupte at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, in 2023, with co-curator Antonio Sergio Bessa. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA).
Photo: Tommy Kha, Tourist (Halloween Costume), East Memphis, 2021
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He is the recipient of the Next Step Award, the CPW Vision Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo’ Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow. His work has been published in NY Times, the New Yorker, and Foam. He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures Generation, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, and Blue Sky Gallery, and, presented at Paris Photo curated by Holly Roussell.
He joined Higher Pictures Generation in 2022. His first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023.