LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER – SELECTED WORKS
2015-05-11Presented here, for the first time in New York, are recent colour images that were part of Frazier’s installation Born By a River at the Seattle Art Museum. These images are an extension of her prior work and document Braddock from the air—a dramatically different vantage point by which to view her community and the landscape-in-crisis that has informed Braddock’s history and the experiences of Frazier’s family.
LaToya Ruby Frazier (born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, 1982) received her BFA in photography and graphic design in 2004 at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and her MFA in 2007 from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, New York. In 2011, Frazier completed the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and shortly thereafter was appointed Critic in Photography at the Yale University School of Art. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first New York solo exhibition, A Haunted Capital, was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. Frazier has received numerous grants and awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2015 TED Fellowship.
Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2015
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th St
fourth floor
New York
10001
