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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography, with a permanent collection of over 18,000 works. As an international hub, MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists, and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming.


Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976 as an intimate and comprehensive visual study center for students, educators, and general audiences alike, MoCP presents public programs and exhibitions that foster a greater understanding of the artistic, cultural, and political implications of the image in our world today.


MoCP continues to offer a stimulating and innovative forum for the collection, creation, and examination of contemporary images from diverse aesthetic traditions and technologies.


Visit mocp.org for a list of upcoming exhibitions and events. 


Image courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Photography

 

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What if Emmett Till lived? What if he had returned home still a child, alive and free? If Emmett Till Lived… is an exhibition and a civic invitation. The very statement invites a range of questions, a reckoning with the past, and a probing investigation of the current state of American life. This exhibition, and the invitation it offers to viewers, creates a collective arena to consider how freedom has been secured on American ground.


In 1955, Emmett Till, then fourteen years old, had traveled from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta region to visit his family during the summer, bought candy at Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, and was accused of whistling at a shopkeeper, a white woman working in the store. The accusation violated the racial caste system of Jim Crow rule that kept the economic, civic, and social subordination of black Americans the law of the land. Days later, the woman’s husband, Roy Bryant, his brother-in-law John William (J.W.) Milam, and one other man kidnapped Till from the home of his uncle Moses Wright near Money, Mississippi, and took him to a barn where they brutally tortured, mutilated, and killed him with the force of a mob lynching. Till’s body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River weighed down by a 75- pound cotton gin fan wrapped around his neck with barbed wire. The next month, Bryant and Milam were acquitted by a jury in Sumner, Mississippi. In January 1956, they confessed to the murder in Look magazine with pride. Till’s lynching was a warning: in Mississippi, Jim Crow rule would remain.


In 2017, the Till case was reopened by the Justice Department when new information emerged that the woman who had accused him of whistling at her had recanted. While her statement did not lead to any persecution after the FBI investigation—the statute of limitations had run out and perjury in a state court is not a federal crime—it did result in the Justice Department’s statement that “the government does not take the position that the state court testimony the woman gave in 1955 was truthful or accurate.” 


There were many Tills, yet his murder was the one made visible to all. “Let the world see what I’ve seen,” his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley said. Till-Mobley asked for an open casket funeral for her son in Chicago and 100,000 attended—the largest civil rights event and the most impactful for mass mobilization to date in the United States. 


Racism had been clear; Till’s death gave many new resolve coming as it did a year after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that legally outlawed segregation. Till’s murder became the event that shook the consciousness of the nation enough to enforce it. 


“We were the Till generation,” Congressman John Lewis said, echoing the sentiments of many. When Rosa Parks explained why she refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white customer, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott, she said, “I thought of Emmett Till and I couldn’t go back.”


Picture it. What would it have required for Till to live? If Emmett Till Lived… honors Till and the history born of his sacrifice. The show—drawn entirely on work in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago—imagines what could have come in his life: photographs of different restaurants pay homage to the last meal Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, packed for him before he left Chicago, others show his favorite pastimes, meditate on the love he might have experienced, on days spent enjoying life in Chicago, on the playground, at the beach, attending prom, living free. There are images of railway lines that mark his one-way trip from Illinois to Mississippi and the travels that might have one day taken him around the world. There are photographs of the full range of life events Till missed: from the Chicago Bulls as a cultural phenomenon to the love we imagine he might have known as he grew into a man, to the election of Barack Obama and the extended Civil Rights protest and movement today.    


The show deliberately draws upon the work of a vast array of photographers who emblematize the full range of American life including: Hanif Adbur-Rahim, Tom Arndt, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Uta Barth, Endia Beal, Dawoud Bey, Christian Boltanski, Keith Carter, Teju Cole, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Cochrane, Barbara Crane, Paul D’Amato, Bruce Davidson, Paul Dahlquist, Erica Deeman, Jack Delano, Jess T. Dugan, Jim Dine, Elliott Erwitt, Terry Evans, Walker Evans, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Rachel Feirman, Scott Fortino, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Leonard Freed, Kris Graves, Guillaume Simoneau, Todd Hido, Earlier Hudnall, Jr., Janna Ireland, Dorothea Lange, An-My Lê, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Stephen Marc, Diana Matar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martin Hyers + William Mebane, Julie Moos, Kurt Markus, Natasha Moustache, Zora J Murff, Laurel Nakadate, Arteh Odjidja, Gordon Parks, Alexis Peskine, David Plowden, Marc PoKempner, Sheila Pree Bright, Walker Rosenblum, Anastasia Samoylova, Jon Saudek, W. Stephen Saunders, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Arthur Shay, Sara Shamsavari, Aaron Siskind, Victor Skrehneski, Joel Sternfeld, Alfred Stieglitz, Bob Thall, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Charles Traub, Jerry Uelsmann, Todd Webb, Carrie Mae Weems, and Garry Winogrand. 


If Emmett Till Lived… is an exhibition that mounts a civic invitation through an online component of the show that allows viewers in Chicago and beyond to craft their own displays in response to three prompts: 

These invitations are crafted to consider the sacrifice of his life, and what it wrought, and what work remains.

-Sarah Lewis


About the curator

Sarah Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has authored and edited over 60 publications including The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, which won the American Book Award; the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery; and the award-winning volumes, Carrie Mae Weems and “Vision & Justice.” As founder of Vision & Justice, Lewis has organized landmark convenings and founded a Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, and the New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles from Vogue to The Boston Globe to The New York Times. Lewis’s influence resonates widely: a chapter on her life is included in Laura Lynne Jackson’s New York Times bestseller, Guided: The Secret Path to an Illuminated Life (2025) and her work has been highlighted in Brené Brown’s Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit (2025).

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Join MoCP, Filter Photo, Latitude Chicago, and other photography organizations for the Photography Guild at Arts in the Dark, Chicago’s annual Halloween parade celebrating the city’s vibrant arts and cultural community.


Photographers of all ages and experience levels are welcome to join the festivities. Just bring a camera of any kind and be part of the parade! This event is free and open to all.

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UMBRA is an exhibition consisting of photography and multimedia works by acclaimed fashion photographer Viviane Sassen (Dutch, b. 1972). The work in UMBRA, which means shadow in Latin, emphasizes the play of light and shadow that is characteristic of her work. The artist is also known for her alluring color photographs in which form and content balance on the edge of abstraction. Most recently, Sassen was awarded the Society’s Honorary Fellowship award from The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK, (2015), and received the Gold Medal Deutsche Fotobuchpreis for Best Photobook 2016, Stuttgart, Germany (2015). 

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DARKROOM

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• VIP RECEPTION | 5:30–6:30 PM at MoCP, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

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• BENEFIT AUCTION + PARTY | 6:30 – 9:00 PM at VENUE SIX10, 610 S. Michigan Ave.

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Join the photography community for our annual benefit, DARKROOM, and enjoy a festive evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and an auction. All proceeds will support MoCP exhibitions, public programs and community engagement initiatives.

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SILVER CAMERA AWARD HONOREE: Victor Skrebneski

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AUCTION ARTISTS INCLUDE: Dawoud Bey, Clarissa Bonet, Kate Breakey, Daniel Coburn, Kelli Connell, Barbara Diener, Terry Evans, Brendan Fernandes, Juan Fernandez, Jin Lee, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Curtis Mann, Colleen Plumb, Victoria Samburnaris, Geissler/Sann, Viviane Sassen, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Victor Skrebneski, Alec Soth, Sonja Thomsen, Jan Tichy, Iké Udé, Helena Wilson, Hyounsang Yoo

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Purchase tickets here.

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Lecture in Photography featuring Malcolm Daniel, Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Lectures in Photography is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Photography Department of Columbia College Chicago.

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Exhibition on view: April 13-July 2, 2017
\r\nOpening reception: Thursday, April 13, 5-8pm

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Known as one of the world’s most provocative artists, Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) creates work that boldly confronts contemporary political and social issues, both in China and abroad. As an outspoken human rights activist, writer and curator, Ai’s practice crosses multiple disciplines including sculpture, public works, film, music, poetry, photography and social media. #AiWeiwei is an exhibition specifically designed for the Museum of Contemporary Photography that focuses on Ai’s early diaristic photographs from the 1980s and 90s in New York and Beijing along with a series of recent social media based installations that center on what Ai refers to as photo activism. Ai’s fame drives over half a million visitors to his twitter and Instagram pages and he uses these tools, sometimes leveraging irony and humor, with disorienting effect, to bring attention to serious humanitarian issues and the constellation of state forces around them. The accompanying publication will feature an interview with Ai Weiwei by MoCP executive director Natasha Egan and texts by graphic designer and lecturer Liz McQuiston and independent curator John Tancock.

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Image: Ai Weiwei, New York Photographs, 1983-1993, Lower East Side Restaurant, 1988

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Lecture in Photography featuring Charlotte Cotton, Independent Curator
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\r\nLectures in Photography is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Photography Department of Columbia College Chicago.

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LOCATION: 
\r\nThe Jazz Showcase
\r\n806 South Plymouth Court
\r\nTheme: All That Jazz

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Please join the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Museum Council and staff for a public unveiling of four new prints by Tal Barel, Kai Caemmerer, Janna Ireland, and Iké Ude that will be added to the MoCP Fine Print Program.
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\r\nPast and present fine prints in the program will be available for a discounted price of $300 at the event. All proceeds will support MoCP exhibitions, public programs and community engagement efforts.
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\r\nTo learn about sponsorship opportunities or for more information, please contact Sangini Brahmbhatt at sbrahmbhatt@colum.edu for more info.

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Early Bird Tickets are $40 until this Friday, May 26! ($50 after)
\r\n(All tickets will be held at the door)
\r\nRSVP HERE

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Celebrate the book release of #AiWeiwei
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\r\nEnjoy a last look at the exhibition, hear remarks from MoCP executive director Natasha Egan, and purchase the book on Ai Weiwei's first Chicago-based solo exhibition.
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\r\nTo celebrate the closing of this historic exhibition, the MoCP is releasing #AiWeiwei, the ultimate companion book to the exhibition. The publication features an interview with Ai Weiwei by MoCP executive director Natasha Egan and essays by lecturer Liz McQuiston and art historian John Tancock, and showcases the thirteen photographic and video works in the exhibition.

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Exhibition on view: July 13-October 1, 2017
\r\nOpening reception: Thursday, July 13, 5-7pm

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Photography as a medium is distinctive in its relationship to the practice of sequencing. With its origins in cinematic frames and a typically flat, reproducible form, photography lends itself to a storyboard approach. Photo books and exhibitions often depend on, and capitalize on, the fact that photographs that work well as stand-alone images can be enhanced and enriched by the presence of other images in their vicinity.
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\r\nre:collection is a celebration of the MoCP’s vast archive of photographs, and an exploration of how we perceive images. A stream of images runs through the galleries, spanning the history of photography and offering a diverse array of approaches. Each photograph speaks to its neighboring photograph in terms of content, form or another, more subtle, connecting factor waiting to be discovered. At certain junctures, tributaries are formed that group related ideas and address some of the most pressing social issues of our time. Each line of images starts with a camera-less construction, a nod to the beginnings of the medium when images were made without the camera apparatus as we know it today, and a gesture meant to underscore the unreliability of photographic representation.

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Image: An-My Lê, 29 Palms: Captain Folsom, 2003-2004

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Join us for our first ever MoCP Family Day, with programming for all ages: from tots to teens to in-betweens. Enjoy a photo scavenger hunt, take a tour of the exhibition designed specifically for children, and explore other interactive activities. Family Day is free, but please RSVP here.

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Featuring Laurence Rasti, Barbara Davatz, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Alexandre Haefeli, Jess T. Dugan

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Exhibition on view: October 12 - December 22, 2017
\r\nOpening reception: Thursday, October 12, 5-8pm

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Disruptive Perspectives is an exhibition that focuses on gender, an aspect of human identity that is often expressed and understood through visual indicators. The artists included use photography to explore gender as a living language through which an expansive range of identities are articulated that cannot be sufficiently characterized using a simplistic male/female binary. Rather than rendering identity as fixed, the works on view consider gender as a constant negotiation that is shaped by the human psyche, the passage of time, and the complex relationship between self and other.
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\r\nThis exhibition is co-curated by Allison Grant, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions and Education at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago and Nadine Wietlisbach, Director at Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. The exhibition will be presented simultaneously at both curators’ home institutions. 

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Image: Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, #23 (The Longest Day of the Year)

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Join us at MoCP After Dark, a new evening event series at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

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Tickets* for the event are $25 for nonmembers, $20 for members, and $15 for students, FREE for Columbia College Chicago Students.

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*Ticket price includes drinks

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Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago presents the work of three artists, all of whom trace their family stories to histories of political turmoil, violence, and displacement. In using personal experiences as starting points, the artists transform the autobiographical into a multivalent lens through which to view complex political narratives. Adam Golfer, Diana Matar, and Hrvoje Slovenc use family stories originating during World War II, the Qaddafi regime in Libya, and the Croatian War of Independence, respectively, as a starting point for examining how traces of the past confound and obscure the present.

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Adam Golfer, recipient of the MoCP’s 2016 Snider Prize, explores the overlapping histories of violence and displacement connecting Europe, Israel, and Palestine. Mapping his family history—beginning with his grandfather’s experiences during the Holocaust, his father’s relationship to Israel in the 1970s, and arriving in the present to face his own complex feelings toward Israeli occupation of Palestine—Golfer uses snapshots from his family’s archive, text, and digital ephemera to map contradictory histories.

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Diana Matar photographs evidence of absence in Libya to document sites of political violence, a project particularly shaped by her father-in-law’s disappearance as an opposition leader in the early 1990s. Chronicling her visit to Libya after the 2011 revolution, Matar’s subtle black and white photographs of landscape and architecture document the human rights violations that occurred during Qaddafi’s regime, while serving as a meditation on the personal absence of her father-in-law.

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The photographs of Hrvoje Slovenc’s project Croatian Rhapsody: Borderlands underscore the turbulent past of Slovenc’s homeland during the Croatian War of Independence and its aftermath, as well as his experiences as a young, queer Croatian immigrant in New York City. Using three-dimensional, audio, and video components and various materials, Slovenc’s work grapples with dislocation, identity, and ultimately, the permeable borders that govern nations—and ourselves.

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The exhibition, running January 18 through April 1, 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, traverses an often fraught relationship to the past and, in the process, ultimately complicates the present.

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Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave.

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Using photography, testimony, and archive, Diana Matar explores the controversial question of how beauty can be used in the depiction of power and violence. Speaking about her long-term projects Evidence and This Violent Land, Matar will discuss the practicalities of her research methods and explore how photography can respond to history and our contemporary political reality.

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MoCP Print Study Room

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MoCP curatorial assistant Shawn Rowe will lead a guided viewing of works from the museum’s permanent collection that explore themes of war, identity, and displacement. Works by photographers Anthony Haughey, Curtis Mann, Rachel Papo, and others will be discussed in terms of the unique processes and approaches used in visualizing conflict.

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DARKROOM Benefit Auction for the Museum of Contemporary Photography

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Event takes place at VenueSIX10 at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL

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Artist Deborah Willis to be honored

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DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago’s (MoCP) annual benefit auction. This year’s event, co-chaired by Lisa Bailey, Dawoud Bey, and Jackie Moss, will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Venue Six10.  Photography enthusiasts will enjoy music, hors d’oeuvres, drinks and good company while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists, including work by Ai Weiwei, Dawoud Bey, and more. All proceeds raised at this event will support essential MoCP exhibition and education programs in 2018.

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This year, the MoCP is pleased to present the sixth annual Silver Camera Award to Deborah Willis. The Silver Camera Award honors those who have made significant contributions to the medium of photography. Deborah Willis is a celebrated photographer, historian, and curator of African American photography. She is the author of many notable books, including Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, which inspired a traveling exhibition. Her photographs and scholarship have centered on representations of blackness, womanhood, and beauty. She is currently the chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and received her M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute and a Ph.D. in cultural studies from George Mason University.

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Tickets to DARKROOM start at $150 for individuals and $300 for VIP Tickets. Visit mocp.org for more information.

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Apr 12 — Jul 8, 2018

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Opening Reception: Thursday April 12, 2018

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Through a lens of Afro-futurist aesthetics, In Their Own Form seeks to illuminate the myriad of ways blackness might hope to exist without the imposition of oppression, racism and stereotypes ever-present in Western cultures. Re-imagining, re-purposing, mysticism, avant-gardism, and spirituality, closely related to the Afro-futurist movement, have long been tied to the Black Experience and have functioned as a necessary escape from a fraught past and present. In Their Own Form prefaces personhood, both fantastical and actual, over perceived realities. In Their Own Form is curated by Sheridan Tucker Anderson, MoCP Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts.

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Artist Talk, 6:45PM

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Following the opening reception for In Their Own Form, join exhibiting artist Ayana V. Jackson for a talk on her artistic practice, which examines the role of the camera in constructing identity and the role of photography in representing race and gender.  

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Exhibiting artist Alun Be will discuss his Edification series on view in In Their Own Form as well as his broader artistic practice.

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Guest-curated by filmmaker Cameron Granger, Video Playlist is a recurring series of one-night public video screenings programmed in response to MoCP exhibitions. Granger, whose work examines notions of blackness and representation in film and media, will curate a program of video works that respond to these themes in In Their Own Form.

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Jennifer Scott, D.Denenge Duyst-Akpem, and Ingrid LaFleur

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Jennifer Scott will lead a discussion on Afrofuturist themes in contemporary art and how they inform artistic practice in photography and other mediums. Jennifer Scott is director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago. D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem is an Afrofuturist space sculptor, performance artist, designer, writer, and educator. Artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur founded the Afrofuturist film and art program Afrotopia and was notably a former candidate for mayor of Detroit.

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Lesley A. Martin is creative director and publisher of The PhotoBook Review at Aperture. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture, American Photo, FOAM, and Lay Flat, among other publications, and she has edited over seventy-five books of photography. She has curated several exhibitions of photography and is a visiting critic to the Yale MFA Photography program. Lectures in Photography are co-presented by the MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

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In conjunction with Columbia College Chicago’s Manifest Urban Arts Festival, MoCP will host an interactive celebration of science fiction in books and comic books. Stop by to explore In Their Own Form, peruse a curated selection of books and comic books, listen to Afrofuturist beats, and make interdisciplinary connections between Afrofuturism in contemporary photography, literature, and illustration.

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In this session, Sheridan Tucker Anderson, MoCP curatorial fellow for diversity in the arts, will lead a print viewing on race and representation. This print viewing introduces a range of photographs that focus on the wide spectrum of identities present among those of African descent--both on the continent of Africa and within the African Diaspora--and seeks to challenge stereotypical portrayals common in popular culture, as well as offer a more diverse and inclusive view of the collection.

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Opening Reception: July 19, 5-7PM

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From the untarnished abandon of so-called wild spaces to literal urban jungles, Lucas Foglia: Human Nature reflects on the human impact on the natural world and how humans have altered the seemingly unalterable. Examining a broad range of themes, from the scientific realities of climate change to the poetic human longing for natural spaces, Lucas Foglia: Human Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces—internal and external—that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural world.

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The MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2017-2018 exhibition season is generously sponsored by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Efroymson Family Fund, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

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Opening Reception: Thursday, July 19, 5-7PM

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Historically, landscape photography has played a vital role in shaping the public’s concept of the outdoors. Photographer William Henry Jackson’s federally funded photographic survey of the American West in the late nineteenth century was later used to persuade Congress to establish Yellowstone as the first national park. Decades later, Ansel Adams created some of the most well-known landscape images in history, while working with the Sierra Club to successfully advocate for the government's expansion of national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite.
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\r\nHistorical photographs by Ansel Adams and William Henry Jackson are presented alongside works by contemporary photographers including David Avison, Jonas N.T. Becker, Marilyn Bridges, Terry Evans, Justin Kimball, and Greg Stimac. Highlights include David Avison’s images from his Changing Chicago series, taken at Chicago beaches in the late 1980s and Terry Evans’s Meet Me at The Trinity series, which captures images of a community gathering on a riverbed against the backdrop of a highly engineered landscape.
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\r\nRunning concurrently with Lucas Foglia: Human Nature and curated by MoCP curator of academic programs and collections Kristin Taylor, View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection not only portrays photography’s historical role in the establishment of parks but also a more contemporary view of the various ways people use these spaces for spiritual healing, mental clarity, or other, more subliminal needs.

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This print viewing is meant to serve as a basic introduction to the medium of photography and includes images that demonstrate a range of fundamentals and techniques including camera optics, use of vantage point, framing, focus, light, time of day, and digital manipulation. This selection also introduces viewers to a variety of traditions, such as landscape, portraiture, and street photography.

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Chicago teens are invited to participate in an evening of teen-led programs including art-making, interactive gallery workshops, and more!

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This print viewing introduces photographs with a focus on portraiture where visual information such as setting, clothing, body language, and facial expression speak to the identity of the subject. Choices made by the photographer such as use of vantage point, lighting, framing, timing and composition also impact the viewer’s perception of the subject.

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Celebrate summer with Family Day at the MoCP. Kids of all ages and their grownups can participate in a sun print workshop, photo scavenger hunt, and other interactive activities relating to nature.

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This print viewing addresses various approaches to the genre of landscape photography from the mid-20th Century to the present. Viewers will be exposed to numerous ways photographers have imaged the land, its use, and its place within the popular imagination.

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This print viewing introduces works made by artists who construct photographic images to address a concept or create a narrative. These artists alter the scenes they encounter and photograph or go to more elaborate ends to create hybrid images more removed from real world events. Among the techniques they use are manipulating images or creating montage and collage by hand, in the darkroom or computer, and constructing tableaux that they then photograph.

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Florence Williams is a journalist, podcaster, and bestselling author of The Nature Fix: Why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative. Williams will discuss her book, which explores the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and ultimately strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas—and the answers they yield—are more urgent than ever. Florence Williams is a fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature.

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Exhibiting artist Lucas Foglia will discuss his project Human Nature as well as his broader artistic practice. Foglia’s work is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; among others. Lectures in Photography are co-presented by the MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

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Join Filter Photo for a Welcome Reception at the Museum of Contemporary Photography to mix and mingle with friends and colleagues before the Keynote Lecture by Mona Kuhn. 

View the current exhibitions at the MoCP, Lucas Foglia: Human Nature and View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection. 

Refreshments will be provided.

Visiting artist and workshop instructor, Keliy Anderson-Staley, will be making wet plate collodion portraits with her 8×10” field camera in the Columbia College Chicago darkroom on the 10th floor. Only a limited number of portraits can be made and will be first come, first served, but everyone is welcome to observe the process.  Sign up for Keliy’s workshop to learn more about the wet plate process.

 

 

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This event takes place in the Ferguson Auditorium at Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan.

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Lecture Presented by: Mona Kuhn
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Kuhn will be speaking at the 2018 Festival. Read more about her photographic practice below.

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Mona Kuhn is best known for her large-scale photographs of the human form.  Her approach is unusual in that she develops close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy, and creating the effect of people naked but comfortable in their own skin.  In addition, Kuhn’s playful combination of visual strategies, such as translucency explores our connectedness with the environment.  A sublime sense of comfort and intelligence permeates her works, showing the human body in its most natural state while simultaneously re-envisioning the nude as a contemporary canon of art.

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Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent.  In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute.  She is currently and independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.  Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debut by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), and Private (2014).  Mona’s upcoming book titled She Disappeared into Complete Silence is scheduled for Fall/Winter 2017.  Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

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Mona Kuhn’s work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna, and Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.

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In conjunction with EXPO Art Week, join Kristin Taylor, Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, for a tour of current exhibitions at the museum, including Lucas Foglia: Human Nature and View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection. This tour is free and open to the public.

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Echoes: Reframing Collage examines the parallels between Arnold’s work and 21st-century artists including Wardell Milan, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ayanah Moor, Krista Franklin, and Xaviera Simmons. These artists not only reconceptualize the photocollage, they also build upon Arnold’s legacy as an artist whose medium and content reflected his multifaceted identity.

Highlights include works like Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Mirror Study (Q5A3505) (2016). Sepuya’s process—tearing his prints into fragments, splitting the body parts of his models and collaging multiple prints—results in a photocollage that creates a singular, faceless subject, through the assemblage of multiple bodies. Wardell Milan’s Early Spring. The Charming Evening (2014) investigates intertwined personal and political histories. Renowned figures from politics, art history and pop culture stand beside family snapshots in the elaborate dioramas he builds to photograph, resulting in an intersectional assemblage exploring representations of race and gender.

MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2017-2018 exhibition season is generously sponsored by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Efroymson Family Fund, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Support for Echoes: Reframing Collage is provided by a travel and research-specific grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Echoes: Reframing Collage is part of Art Design Chicago, an exploration of Chicago’s art and design legacy, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

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From October 11 through December 21, 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago presents The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics. During the tumultuous 1960s and 70s, the prolific artist Ralph Arnold made photocollages that appropriated and commented upon mass media portrayals of gender, sexuality, race and politics. Arnold’s complex visual arrangements of photography, painting and text were built upon his own multilayered identity as a black, gay veteran and prominent member of Chicago’s art community, hence the title for the exhibition, which is drawn from one of the artist’s more personal pieces. Arnold participated in some of the era’s most provocative exhibitions yet by the mid-1980s he increasingly focused on his teaching and service to the art community.

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The conversation will be followed by a reception at the MoCP from 7-8:30 p.m.

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography will host art historian Amy Mooney in conversation with the esteemed photography scholar Deborah Willis in an unprecedented reveal of the forgotten work of African American photographers working in Chicago from the 1890s through the 1930s.

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As a viable commercial enterprise that was supported through the growing black press, Chicago’s historic contributions have long been overlooked. Considering the work of over 65 studios that were owned and operated by African Americans, Mooney and Willis will discuss the ways that photographs made during that period transformed the visual representation of black America, both within the public realm of popular culture and the private space of the family album. From the glamour shots by Woodard’s Studio to Patton Studio’s documentation of the opening of the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library, these images circulated in national publications, significantly contributing to an affirming and celebratory representation of black lives. 

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The conversation will be followed by a reception at the MoCP and an opportunity to view current exhibitions including The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity and Politics and Echoes: Reframing Collage.

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Image: Woodard’s Studio, Chorus Line, c. 1920. Black and white print. 35 x 28cm (13 25/32 x 11 1/32”). Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Note: this takes place in various locations - not just MoCP! Visit museum website for details. 

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Keynote Lecture: Richard J. Powell is Friday, October 19, 6pm 

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Richard J. Powell is John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University. A specialist in American art, the arts of the African Diaspora, and contemporary visual studies, he has written extensively, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History (1997 & 2002), and Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008).

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Symposium

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Saturday, October 20, 10am-5pm at Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 68th Street, Chicago

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Although under-recognized in most surveys of Chicago art, the South Side nurtured important artistic movements, raised complex questions about the nature of black aesthetics, and promoted the arts through community arts organizations that continue to shape the fabric of Chicago. This symposium presents a series of panels and intergenerational dialogues that connect the history of the South Side to the present moment, in which the community, its arts organizations, and artists continue to play a central role in the visual culture and artistic dialogue of Chicago’s vibrant art and design community.

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This symposium is co-presented by MoCP and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.

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Join guest curator Greg Foster-Rice and MoCP chief curator and deputy director Karen Irvine for a special tour of The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold and Echoes: Reframing Collage. Exhibiting artists Krista Franklin, Ayanah Moor, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn will be present to talk about their work.

 

 

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Guest curator Greg Foster-Rice and MoCP chief curator and deputy director Karen Irvine will lead a special tour of The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold and Echoes: Reframing Collage. Exhibiting artists Krista Franklin, Ayanah Moor, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn will be present to talk about their work.  

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Join us for a print viewing of works from the museum’s collection made with the collage technique employed by the artists in the current exhibitions. This print viewing will include works by Aimée Beaubien, Marshall Brown, Robert Heinecken, Michael Robinson, and Penelope Umbrico.

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Stage Two, 618 S Michigan Ave.
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\r\nEchoes: Reframing Collage exhibiting artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya will discuss his work on view as well as his broader artistic practice. Sepuya’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and Milwaukee Museum of Art, among others. Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

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Video Playlist is a recurring series of one-night public video screenings programmed in response to MoCP exhibitions. This edition of Video Playlist is curated by Romi Crawford, Associate Professor in Visual and Critical Studies and Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, whose research revolves primarily around formations of racial and gendered identity and the relation to American visual arts, film, and popular culture.

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Join us for an after-hours party at MoCP After Dark. Against the backdrop of The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold and Echoes: Reframing Collage, dance the evening away to a DJ set, while enjoying drinks and savory bites.

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Find tickets here.

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Barbara Kasten is known for photographs that transform architecture into formal abstract compositions using lighting, color gels, and mirrors. Originally from Chicago, Kasten is the recipient of many prestigious awards, and her work has been widely exhibited by major museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; International Center of Photography, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by the MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

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Join us for a special celebration of photography books. Local photographers of note including Jess T. Dugan, Barbara Diener, Laura Letinsky, and Cecil McDonald, Jr. will be at the MoCP to discuss and sign their newly released books.

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We are currently facing an unprecedentedly vast movement of people across borders, which has left 10 million people stateless. Stateless: Views of Global Migration seeks to humanize this stark data, providing an alternative visual landscape to the imagery typically associated with the current wave of global migration. Through the individual lenses of eight contemporary artists, this exhibition lays bare the contradictions inherent to the crisis, finding beauty and strength in the face of collective trauma.

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Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave.

This half-day event will feature exhibiting artists, activists, writers, and scholars who are engaged in issues surrounding refugee rights, global migration, and resettlement practices. Examining these issues within both Chicago and the global context, this series of panels will grapple with issues at the forefront of the Stateless exhibition.

This event is free, but please register in advance.

Register for the Symposium

This symposium is co-sponsored by Heartland Alliance and the Transatlantic Refugee Resettlement Network.

Schedule

1:00-2:30 - Panel 1: Understanding Global Migration

This panel will examine the scope of the crisis of global migration, with an emphasis on deepening our understanding of what is happening to refugees, immigrants, and displaced people on a local, national, and global level.

Moderated by Carrie Mann, founder of the Transatlantic Refugee Resettlement Network. Panelists include Amanda Crews Slezak, Supervising Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center’s Asylum Project; Scott Portman, Regional Director, Middle East & North Africa, Heartland Alliance International; Rajit K. Mazumder, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Interim Director, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, DePaul University; Leena Zahra, Community Program Coordinator, Karam Foundation.

3:00-4:30 - Panel 2: Art as Activism: Photographing the Refugee Crisis

This panel will examine issues of representing global migration in art and journalism. Panelists will grapple with pertinent questions such as: How does the camera function to both distance the viewer and bring them closer to the individual lives and stories of displaced people? What kind of stories are being told about refugees and who gets to tell them? And how does art provide a vital means to empower and activate in these times?

Moderated by Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and author ofWe Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria.Panelists include Jackie Spinner, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia College Chicago; Hiwa K, Artist; Daniel Castro Garcia, Artist; Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Artist.

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Chicago teens are invited to reflect, engage, share, and create, in this multidisciplinary creative workshop exploring issues relating to the exhibitionStateless: Views of Global Migration.

This event is free, but please register in advance HERE

 

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Get to know the museum's collection with this public print viewing led by the MoCP's curator of academic programs and collections. Drop in to learn about some of the museum’s best works that are normally behind closed doors and meet fellow photography enthusiasts. Works discussed will relate to themes in the current exhibition and will include works by Gohar Dashti, Fazal Sheikh, Marcela Taboada, David Taylor, and Dorothea Lange, among others.

 

 

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Hosted by Museum of Contemporary Photography

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 6 PM – 8 PM

Stage Two - 618 S Michigan Ave

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DARKROOM | 28 FEBRUARY 2019

VIP RECEPTION | 5:30 – 6:30 PM
VENUE SIX10 | 610 S. MICHIGAN AVE.

BENEFIT AUCTION + PARTY | 6:30 – 9:00 PM
VENUE SIX10 | 610 S. MICHIGAN AVE.

Join the photography community for our annual benefit auction and party, DARKROOM, and enjoy a festive evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and an auction. All proceeds will support MoCP exhibitions, public programs and community engagement initiatives.

Silver Camera Award Honoree
Lalla Essaydi

DARKROOM Co-Chairs
Ted Keim and Marisa Murillo

DARKROOM Honorary Co-Chairs
Bill and Vicki Hood

 

Auction Artists

Marshall Brown

Kai Caemmerer

Natan Dvir

Lucas Foglia

Terry Evans

Doug Fogelson

Geert Goiris

Clifton Henri

Frank Ishman

An-My Lê

Vera Lutter

Sandro Miller

David Maisel

Victoria Sambunaris

Lincoln Schatz

Bob Thall

Iké Udé

Zhang Wei

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A Sharp Light That Shines features a selection of short narrative and experimental documentary films from filmmakers exploring global migration from their varied backgrounds and perspectives. These films focus on patterns of human movement around the globe as a current event, a lived history, an inherited and shared memory, and a contemporary experience.

Free, Register HERE

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In response to Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star, this exhibition showcases photographs and films by Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol pulled from the museum’s permanent collection and the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP). Both artists separately investigate forms of systemic racism in Chicago and beyond through the lens of individual stories.

Carlos Javier Ortiz (American, b. 1977 Puerto Rico) considers contemporary black life in comparison to the ideals of the Great Migration, which took place from 1915 to 1970 when six million African Americans left the South to find new opportunities in the North. Illustrating socioeconomic patterns that pave the way for a cycle of poverty and violence, his two projects, A Thousand Midnights (2016) and We All We Got (2014), document youth and families in Chicago from multiple perspectives over the course of many years. Ortiz focuses on those affected by gun violence, casting light on the larger forces fostering recurring tragedies in our city.

Long interested in the abandonment and dereliction of residential structures, sociologist and photographer David Schalliol (American, b. 1976) questions the ever-changing urban landscape as it relates to larger race and class inequities. His feature-length film, The Area (2018), follows a community activist, Deborah Payne, as she fights a multi-billion-dollar intermodal freight company in its quest to buy and demolish over 400 homes owned by African American families in her Chicago neighborhood of Englewood. The film is paired with Schalliol’s images of lone buildings centered between vacant lots, appearing as shrines to disappearing neighborhoods. “Instead of seeing one peculiar building, we see the legacy and immediacy of urban transformation,\" says Schalliol.  \"Instead of asking ‘What happened to thishouse?’ we ask, ‘What is causing this phenomenon?’”

The MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2018-2019 exhibition season is generously sponsored by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and the Efroymson Family Fund.

 

 

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In the exhibition, Dawoud Bey responds to the September 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—an event that resulted in six deaths of black children by white supremacists. In 2012, Bey created large-scale diptychs that commemorate this tragedy, featuring a child at the exact age of one killed in 1963 paired with a portrait of an adult at the age the child would be in the year 2013. Also on view will be Bey’s video 9.15.63, as well as a selection of prints from both the MoCP permanent collection and the Ryerson Image Centre’s Black Star Collection of photojournalism.

 

 

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Location: Conway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st Floor

Join the MoCP for a panel discussion exploring the segregated history of Chicago neighborhoods, in conjunction with the current exhibition Chicago Stories: Recent works by Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol. The discussion will be moderated by Kristin Taylor, MoCP curator of academic programs and collections. Panelists include Natalie Moore, WBEZ South Side reporter and author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, exhibiting artists Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol; artist Tonika Johnson, whose project Folded Map encourages interactive exploration of Chicago’s racial and geographic divisions; Lucy Baird, archivist and historian at Baird & Warner, one of Chicago’s largest real estate companies whose founder long advocated for fair housing; and Deborah Payne, a community activist in Englewood and the protagonist in David Schalliol’s film, The Area, which is currently on view at the museum.

Register here

 

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Location: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan

Rebecca Senf is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum. Between 2007 and 2015, she curated over 30 exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, as well as exhibitions at the Center for Creative Photography. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Art History from Boston University and is the author of Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (2012).

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by the MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

 

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In conjunction with Columbia College Chicago’s Manifest Urban Arts Festival, the MoCP will host Columbia alum Tonika Johnson '03 for a one-day presentation of Folded Map, a project that explores the ongoing impact of Chicago segregation. All are welcome to come and meet the artist, explore the MoCP’s current exhibitions, and personally reflect on the project’s implications, both in the context of the exhibitions and their own lives.

 

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Get to know the museum's collection with a series of public print viewings. MoCP's curator of academic programs and collections will lead a mini-course on select themes and works pulled from the archive. Drop in to learn about some of the museum’s best works that are normally behind closed doors and meet fellow photography enthusiasts. These sessions are free and open to all.

 

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Chicago teens are invited to engage in creative interactive workshops and reflect on themes of the exhibitions. This event is organized in partnership with CPS Lives.

 

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Taking place at Chez, 247 East Ontario Street
Thursday, June 13, 6-8:30 p.m.

FIRST LOOK is the MoCP's annual party celebrating the addition of four new prints to the Fine Print Program. Guests will enjoy hors d'oeuvres and specialty cocktails, as well as special discounts on editioned fine prints. All proceeds from FIRST LOOK will support MoCP exhibitions, public programs and community engagement. FIRST LOOK is organized by the Museum Council.

Purchase Tickets Here

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Get to know the museum's collection with a series of public print viewings. MoCP's curator of academic programs and collections will lead a mini-course on select themes and works pulled from the archive. Drop in to learn about some of the museum’s best works that are normally behind closed doors and meet fellow photography enthusiasts. These sessions are free and open to all.

 

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Curated by Teju Cole

Questions of liberation tend to interleave the present and the past. What is happening now is instinctively assessed with the help of what happened before, and both despair and hope are tutored by memory. The old Negro spiritual “Go Down Moses,” beloved by Harriet Tubman and generations since, sought to link the black American freedom quest with the story of ancient Israel’s struggle to be free of Pharaoh’s bondage.

Humanity is on the move. The ground beneath our feet is shifting, the skies cannot be relied upon, and even our own bodies bear the marks of the strain. Everyone is longing to be free, and everyone is curious about whether hope is still possible. The photographic archive contains evidence that thus it ever was, that we have always lived in this urgency.

Through an intuitive sequence of photographs, in images soft and loud, this exhibition proposes a redefinition: that hope has nothing to do with mood or objective facts, but is rather a form of hospitality offered by those who are tired to those who are exhausted.

 

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Join The Museum of Contemporary Photography for the latest in their ongoing series of public print viewings, Photos at Noon: Recent Acquisitions. MoCP's curator of academic programs and collections will lead a mini-course on select themes and works pulled from the archive. Drop in to learn about some of the museum’s best works that are normally behind closed doors and meet fellow photography enthusiasts. These sessions are free and open to all.

 

 

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Get to know the museum’s collection with a series of public print viewings led by MoCP’s curator of academic programs and collections. Drop in to learn about some of the museum’s best works that are normally behind closed doors and meet fellow photography enthusiasts. These sessions are free and open to all.

In this session, it's Viewer's Choice! Email audiencedev@colum.edu with your selections.

 

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Join the Chicago-based, four-time Grammy-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird for a special performance at the MoCP. Experience a musical journey through the museum, as the ensemble leads a multi-sensory, interactive performance that responds to the visual imagery of the exhibition sonically. This event is free, but space is limited.

 

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Open for Art After Hours, a citywide open gallery night inviting EXPO CHICAGO visitors and the Chicago community to experience the city's vibrant art scene during extended hours. 

For details and participating galleries and art spaces, click here.

6:00–9:00pm | Citywide Locations 

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Go Down Moses curator Teju Cole will give a public lecture about his various photographic practices. Drawing on his experiences as a photographer, critic, teacher, curator and juror, Cole will consider the ways we assess pictures and the possibilities for photography in a time of image excess.

 

Image: Martin Lengemann

 

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Third Realm presents contemporary Asian art from the FarEastFarWest collection, a Shanghai-based organization that commissions and acquires contemporary Asian artworks and is housed at the MoCP. Capturing nearly a decade of crucial artistic production in Asia (2007-2013), Third Realm presents works by artists who use photography, film, installation, and performance to investigate liminal spaces. Covering a range of conceptual modalities and cultural contexts, these works disrupt binaries—of global and local, present and historical, spiritual and secular. Featuring artists predominantly from China, as well as Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia, and projects developed in Asia by international artists such as Paola Pivi, Third Realm connects works from across East and Southeast Asia to present a comprehensive view of contemporary Asian art that, while conceptually grappling with shared themes, is still resistant to broad categorization. 

This exhibition is curated by Davide Quadrio. Artists include Birdhead, Cao Fei, Comfortable Collective, FX Harsono,  Jompet (Agustinus Kuswidananto), Lu Yang, Sutee Kunavichayanon, Surasi Kusolwong, Gary Ross Pastrana, Paola Pivi, Sun Xun, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Xijing Men, Yang Zhenzhong, and Zhou Xiaohu.

FarEastFarWest was founded in 2007 by Eric Guichard and Davide Quadrio and serves as a production platform for artistic projects. The shared goal of its co-founders is to identify artists, select projects and produce historic pieces which address contemporary issues relevant to life in Asia. Individual artworks from the collection have been displayed in prestigious arts institutions across Asia and Europe. FarEastFarWest endeavors to continue promoting the visibility of the artists involved in its program.

 

Image: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ghost Teen, 2009

 

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Join the MoCP Museum Council, artists, and friends of the museum for an after-hours party at MoCP After Dark.

Against the backdrop of Third Realm, dance the evening away to a DJ set, while enjoying drinks and savory bites. Support the MoCP while exploring the museum after hours at this annual party!

Purchase tickets here

 

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Join local Chicago teens to explore the exhibition and participate in art-making workshops relating to the exhibition Third Realm. Teens can share their own work in an art share, take a photo in a photo booth, experiment with photo collage and instant cameras, and join in special teen tours of the museum.

Free with Registration

 

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Jessica Labatte has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Elmhurst Art Museum; Hyde Park Art Center; Higher Pictures, NYC; Golden Gallery, and Horton Gallery, NYC. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum.com, and Chicago Magazine. Labatte received an MFA and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and lives and works in the Chicagoland area.

 

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As the powerful technology behind artificial intelligence grows more sophisticated, machines have developed the capacity to not only capture images but to “see” them as well. In Real Life is an exhibition seeking to examine the real-world impact of computer vision—from the murky ethics of data collection and surveillance to the racial and gender biases that abound in facial recognition technology.

Through the lens of six artists working with a range of digital media, In Real Life presents works that grapple with the fraught relationship between humans and technology, with an emphasis on the social and aesthetic ramifications of machine “seeing.” With a charged underpinning of human biases, these pieces, many of which were generated through algorithmic technology, present a speculative near-future wherein the socio-political consequences of AI have already begun to compromise how we visualize the world—and our humanity. 

In Real Life is organized by MoCP executive director Natasha Egan. Artists include Stephanie Dinkins, Trevor Paglen, Maija Tammi, José Orlando Villatoro, and Liam Young.

 

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Chicago teens are invited to join exhibiting artist Leo Selvaggio for a special artmaking workshop. Space is limited - register here.

 

 

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Join exhibiting artist Leo Selvaggio for an exhibition tour and gallery talk.

If you need special accommodations for this event, please contact audiencedev@colum.edu

 

 

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DARKROOM Benefit Auction on February 27, 2020 for the Museum of Contemporary Photography 

Purchase tickets HERE

Artist Kenneth Josephson to be honored

DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago's (MoCP) annual benefit auction. This year's event, co-chaired by Cheryl Sandner and Ann Thompson, with honorary co-chairs Jeremy Efroymson, Elissa Hamid Efroymson, and Adnaan Hamid, will take place on Thursday, February 27, 2020 from 6:30-9 p.m. at the recently-opened Columbia College Student Center, with a VIP Reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m. preceding the event.  Photography enthusiasts will enjoy hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and music while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists, including work by Teju Cole, Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann, Christian Patterson, Dave Jordano, and more. All proceeds raised at this event will support essential MoCP exhibition and education programs in 2020.

This year, the MoCP is pleased to present the seventh annual Silver Camera Award to Kenneth Josephson. The Silver Camera Award honors those who have made significant contributions to the medium of photography. Chicago-based Kenneth Josephson (American, b. 1932) is considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. His career was launched at the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, where he studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Josephson was later a professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1960 to 1997, and a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship (1972) and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (1975 and 1979). His work is in the MoCP permanent collection as well as the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Bibliotéque National, Paris; and Fotograficka Maseet, Stockholm.

Tickets to DARKROOM start at $150 for individuals and $300 for VIP Tickets. Visit mocp.org for more information.

 

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Link: https://colum.zoom.us/j/448939547
Meeting ID: 448 939 547

While our recurring series Photos at Noon has been put on hold until the museum reopens, we are thrilled to introduce our new online photography course: Photos at Zoom! Every week, Photos at Zoom explores different topics relating to photography. This week, we will discuss works artists have made inside their homes  and intimate spaces as well as of family members and friends. We will build on topics discussed in Week 1 to introduce documentary and conceptual approaches in personal storytelling. Select artists featured include LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kelli Connell, Carrie Mae Weems, Cecil McDonald, and Melissa Pinney.

Learn more about last week's session and watch the recording here.

Image above: Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled #2451, 1990

 

 

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Photos at Zoom

Landscape and Place with Jordan Putt, Curatorial Assistant

Wednesday, April 8, 12 p.m.
Link: https://colum.zoom.us/j/448939547
Meeting ID: 448 939 547

While MoCP's recurring series Photos at Noon has been put on hold until the museum reopens, we are thrilled to introduce our new online photography course: Photos at Zoom! Every week, Photos at Zoom explores different topics relating to photography. This print viewing addresses various approaches to the genre of landscape photography from the late-19th century to the present. We will discuss the numerous ways photographers have imaged the land, its use, and its place within the popular imagination. Select artists featured include William Henry Jackson, Marilyn Bridges, Henry Wessel, Jr., and Barbara Diener.

Learn more about last week's session and watch the recording here.

 

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Friday, April 10, 12 p.m. CST

Link: https://colum.zoom.us/j/214290758

Did you love learning about Cecil McDonald’s work during the Week Two session of Photos at Zoom on the topic of photographing in domestic spaces? Join us as McDonald gives a behind-the-scenes look at his studio and practice and answers your questions about his work and series, In the Company of Black.

 

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Link: https://colum.zoom.us/j/448939547
Meeting ID: 448 939 547

How does the use of color change the way people see your photographs? This session will focus on the fundamentals of color theory and how factors such as time of day, light source, and composition impacts the viewer's perception of color in images. Artists discussed include William Eggleston, Barbara Kasten, William Christenberry, Stephen Shore, Hyers + Mebane, and more.

Learn more about previous sessions and watch the recordings here.

 

Image: Barbara Kasten, Architectural Site #17, The High Museum, 1988

 

 

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Link: https://colum.zoom.us/j/214290758

Join us as Mark Klett gives a behind-the-scenes look at his studio and practice and answers your questions about his work. Mark Klett is a photographer interested in making new works that respond to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography.

 

 

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Photos at Zoom: Constructed and Staged Images with Kristin Taylor
Wednesday, April 22, 12 p.m. CDT
Virtually presented on Zoom
Register here

While our recurring series Photos at Noon has been put on hold until the museum reopens, we are thrilled to introduce our new online photography course: Photos at Zoom! Every week, Photos at Zoom explores different topics relating to photography. This session introduces artists who create narratives by carefully composing their settings, altering photographs, or going to more elaborate ends to construct images based in imagination rather than a record of “real” events.  Techniques vary, including handmade montage, collage, and stitching together multiple images in the darkroom or digitally.  Artists discussed include  Cindy Sherman, Endia Beal, Omar Iman, Cortis + Sonderegger, Colleen Keihm, Ayana Jackson, Jennifer Greenburg, and more.


Watch previous sessions here.

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Lecture in Photography: Anastasia Samoylova
Thursday, April 23, 6 p.m. CDT
Virtually presented on Zoom
Register here

Anastasia Samoylova moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. Although her work takes many forms, a central concern is the place images occupy in our understanding and misunderstanding of the world. The epic project FloodZone, photographed in the Southern United States, reworks our expectations of coastal paradise into a psychological portrait of communities faced with rising sea levels.

Anastasia Samoylova completed her MA in Environmental Design from Russian State University of Humanities (2007), and MFA from Bradley University, Peoria, IL (2011). She has been included in many exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including at the Aperture Foundation, New York, NY (2016); the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (2015); and the Contemporary Arts Center, Peoria, IL (2013), among many others.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

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MoCP Behind the Lens: Jay Wolke
Friday, April 24, 12 p.m. CDT
Virtually presented on Zoom
Register here

Join us as Jay Wolke gives a behind-the-scenes look at his studio and practice and answers your questions about his work!

Jay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University and the California Museum of Photography. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is currently a Professor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Watch previous sessions here.

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Photos at Zoom: Portraiture and the Human Subject 
With Curatorial Assistant Lindley Warren Mickunas
Wednesday, April 29, 12 p.m. CDT
Register for the webinar here

This session introduces works by historical and contemporary photographers who depict the human subject and where visual information such as setting, clothing, body language, and facial expression speak to the identity of their subjects. Artists discussed include Edward Steichen, Dawoud Bey, Julia Margaret Cameron, Myra Greene, Natalie Krick, Shizuka Yokomizo, and more.

Watch previous sessions here.

 

 

 

Image: Dawoud Bey, The Birmingham Project: Don Sledge and Moses Austin, 2012

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MoCP Behind the Lens: Ross Sawyers
Friday, May 1, 12 p.m. CDT
Register for the webinar here

Join the MoCP and photographer Ross Sawyers for a virtual sneak peek into his studio! 

Ross Sawyers completed a BFA in Photography and New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute (2002) and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle (2007). His work has been widely shown in numerous group exhibitions, as well as a solo show at Platform Gallery in Seattle, WA (2007). Other notable honors include the Crystal Apple Award from the Society for Photographic Education (2007) and a nomination for the John Gitmann Fellowship (2008). Sawyers lives and works in Chicago, where he is the Chair of Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Watch previous sessions here.

 

 

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With Curatorial Assistant Dylan Yarbrough

Wednesday, May 6, 12 p.m. CDT

Register in advance for this webinar: https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PVlPz0fQQsOFgG6MAhiDpA

This session introduces artists who use their practice to elevate awareness of social, economic, and cultural issues and to inspire positive social change. In this photographic approach, the process of collaboration is often as important as the physical artwork and the relationships between subject, audience, and community are paramount. This selection of work encourages consideration of the perceptions of social issues and how photography can either represent or misrepresent these topics, while also navigating the artists’ formal choices. Select artists include Darryl Cowherd, Susan Meiselas, Barbara Kruger, Lorenzo Triburgo, Zanele Muholi, and Danny Lyon.

Image above:  Zanele Muholi, Tumi Nkopane, Kwathema, Spring, Johannesburg, 2010

 

 

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Register in advance for this webinar: https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C3OOZ9umSYyW_Cu955RUFA

Join the MoCP and photographer Priya Kambli for a virtual sneak peek into her studio! 

Priya Kambli was born in India. She moved to the United States at age 18 carrying her entire life in one suitcase that weighed about 20 lbs. She began her artistic career in the States and her work has always been informed by this experience as a migrant.

She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and continued on to receive a Masters degree in Photography from the University of Houston. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2008 PhotoLucida awarded her a book publication prize for her project Color Falls Down, published in 2010.

 

 

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Photos at Zoom: Recent Acquisitions 
With Collections Assistant Madeline Heuer
Wednesday, May 13, 12 p.m. CDT
Register in advance for this webinar here

Are you interested in learning more about historical and contemporary works the MoCP has recently acquired? Would you like to learn what it’s like working behind the scenes in the museum’s collection? Join Collections Assistant, Madeline Heuer, as she takes us through some of her favorite artworks that have been added to the museum’s collection in the past year as well as some insights on a day in life in the museum’s vault. Select artists featured include Marsha ‘Red’ Adams, Dorothea Lange, Donna Ferrato, Joanne Leonard, Bruce Davidson, Patti Smith and Lynne Goldsmith.

Watch previous sessions here.

Have you been attending our Zoom programs? We would love your feedback! Please take a few minutes and fill out the survey below. We appreciate your help in improving our programs. 

 

 

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Sarah Meister is a curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. Meister has organized a variety of exhibitions, including Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020), Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (2017), From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola (2015), and Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light (2013). Her current research examines narratives around twentieth century photography in Latin America and its international context.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register in advance for this webinar here

Ever wonder where the MoCP stores its collection of 16,000 photographs? This week for Photos at Zoom, join MoCP executive director Natasha Egan in an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek into the vault! Learn about the MoCP's vast collection of photographic objects and how these works inform the curatorial process, including curatorial approaches from former guest curators Teju Cole and Jan Tichy. Egan will discuss works by Dawoud Bey, Binh Danh, Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Vera Lutter, Shi Guorui and Penelope Umbrico.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

Watch previous sessions here.

 

Top Image: Penelope Umbrico, Excerpt from 8,146,774 Suns from Flickr (Partial) 10/15/10, 2010

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register in advance for this webinar here

Join MoCP intern Sheridyn Villareal for a live demonstration of the cyanotype printmaking process, where she will demonstrate how to create the photosensitive medium and then how to use it to create simple or complex prints using found objects and natural materials. Don't miss this one-of-a kind demonstration! This workshop is open to all, though teens are especially encouraged to attend!

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register in advance for this webinar here

 
Join the MoCP and photographer Vera Lutter for a virtual sneak peek into her studio! Drawing inspiration from the urban landscape, Lutter's work utilizes the tool of the camera obscura to render the world around her unfamiliar and new. 
 
The camera obscura (literally, \"dark room\") is one of the oldest optical technologies, the principle of which holds when light passes through a small aperture into a darkened chamber and an inverted image will appear on the wall opposite the hole. Lutter hangs black-and-white photographic paper on the wall to capture the image. The resulting pictures are one-of-a-kind paper negatives. In 2001, the MoCP commissioned Lutter to turn rooms in Chicago office buildings into camera obscuras and photograph Chicago's downtown. 
 
This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

Top Image: Vera Lutter, 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2001, 2001

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register in advance for this webinar here 

Join the MoCP and photographer Christopher Gregory-Rivera for a virtual sneak peek into his studio! 

Christopher Gregory-Rivera is a Puerto Rican photographer based in New York City. He works extensively on various photographic projects in Puerto Rico and The Americas. His work is particularly interested in examining the residue of power and colonialism. His work will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Temporal: Puerto Rican Resistance. 

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

Top Image: Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Las Carpetas series, 2014-2017

 

 

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Photos at Zoom: Alternative Processes with MoCP Registrar Carissa Meier
 

Wednesday, June 10, 12 p.m. CDT
Presented virtually on Zoom
 

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Throughout photography’s history, technological improvements have caused many photographic processes to fall out of widespread use. This print viewing features artworks made by contemporary artists who utilize 19th Century processes. Also included are artists who have invented their own processes or use hybrid processes in order to achieve particular visual or conceptual effects. Select artists featured include:  Binh Danh, Ann Hamilton, Alison Rossiter, and Lorna Simpson.

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Watch previous sessions here.

Image: Binh Danh, Memory of Tuol Sleng Prison, Child 7, from the \"Immortality: The Remnants of the Vietnam and American War\" series, 2010

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June 12, 12 p.m. CDT
Presented virtually on Zoom
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Join the MoCP and photographer Aimée Beaubien for a virtual sneak peek into her studio! 

Chicago-based artist Aimée Beaubien constructs optically perplexing arrangements from fragments of her own photographs. Cutting and reconstructing her images, she hybridizes media, inventing forms that combine sculpture and collage in a matrix of shifting planes and disorienting relations of scale. Vastly different photographic experiences—of nature, the arts, and the urban environment—are interwoven in each assemblage, collapsing the specificities of their making into one singular object. In this way, Beaubien tests the flexibility of photographic representation, using the documentary capacity of the medium only to cite colors, patterns, and spaces. Beaubien is Assistant Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

Top Image: Aimée Beaubien, Shifting Outlook, 2015 

 

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Curatorial Assistant Jordan Putt
Wednesday, June 17, 12 p.m. CDT
Presented virtually on Zoom  |  Register in advance for this webinar here

This print viewing exposes students to various ways that photography has been used to document aspects of reality. Whether engaging in storytelling, activism, or reportage, the artists included take varied ethical and personal approaches as they use pictures to engage with the world that surrounds them. Select artists featured include: Gordon Parks, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide, Diana Matar, and Alec Soth.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

Watch previous sessions here.

 

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June 19, 12 p.m. CDT
Presented virtually on Zoom
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Join the MoCP and photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz for a virtual sneak peek into his studio! 

Carlos Javier is a director, cinematographer and documentary photographer who focuses on urban life, gun violence, racism, poverty and marginalized communities. In 2016, Carlos received a Guggenheim Fellowship for film/video. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in a variety of venues including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts; the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY; the Detroit Institute of Arts; and the Library of Congress. In addition, his photos were used to illustrate Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Case for Reparations (2014) article, which was the best-selling issue in the history of the Atlantic Magazine. His photos have also been published in The New Yorker, Mother Jones, among many others.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom  |  Register in advance for this webinar here

This session will focus on images created in Chicago and of communities in Chicago. Works feature will cover the city’s rich photographic history, including the Institute of Design and the Changing Chicago Project. Artists featured include Michael Abramson, Barbara Crane, Richard Nickel, Antonio Perez, Kerry Coppin, Aaron Siskind, Patty Carroll, and more.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register in advance for this webinar here

Join the MoCP and photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi for a virtual sneak peek into his studio! 

Berlin-based street photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi is known worldwide for his images depicting life in global cities, focusing primarily on everyday moments within rapidly changing urban environments and in Africa. In 2019, he was commissioned by the Chicago Architectural Biennial and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a month-long residency in Homan Square in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale, where he hosted photography workshops with students, activists, and community members. Akinbiyi took daily walks around the city, observing and photographing his surroundings, and resulting in the project, Easy Like Sunday Morning— North Lawndale (2019). These images were recently acquired by the MoCP.

Akinbode Akinbiyi’s images have been included in exhibitions around the world, including at documenta 14 (2017) in Athens and Kassel; the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2016); and Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, South Africa (2013-14); among many others.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Temporal: Puerto Rican Resistance. Originally scheduled from April 9 – July 3, 2020, the exhibition will open to the public July 7, 2020. The museum's reopening will include timed ticketing, mandatory face masks, and a socially distanced viewing experience. The museum will restrict the number of guests in the museum in order to ensure a safe viewing experience.

Temporal: Puerto Rican Resistance explores Puerto Rico’s contemporary history as an unincorporated territory of the United States. The exhibition traces the continued impact of three recent major events: the enactment of the US federal law titled the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) in 2016 to oversee the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis—which has resulted in detrimental cuts to the island’s public services, the US response to Hurricane María in 2017, and the mass protests in July 2019 that forced the governor's resignation. Artists include Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Mari B. Robles López, Eduardo Martínez,Ojos Nebulosos, Adriana Parrilla, Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo, Erika P. Rodríguez, Edra Soto, SUPAKID, and Rogelio Báez Vega. The exhibition is organized by MoCP curatorial fellow for diversity in the arts Dalina Aimée Perdomo Álvarez.

Temporal takes its name from a Puerto Rican plena song, which roughly translates to “storm.” Plena, a style of music with Afro-Caribbean origins dating back to the early 1900s, has been referred to as the “sung newspaper” of the people and often incorporated into protests chants on the island. The exhibition follows in the storytelling style of this traditional Puerto Rican musical genre, showcasing documentation of protests, life during and after María, and art of the resistance.
 
The museum’s ground floor galleries will trace the impact of Hurricane María, exploring issues of poor infrastructure and economic sustainability in a financial crisis. Additional galleries will be dedicated to the historic silencing of the independence movement in Puerto Rico, as well as evolution of the Puerto Rican resistance movement, especially in relation to the July 2019 protests.
 
Highlights of the exhibition include a piece by Chicago-based artist Edra Soto, whose large-scale installation Graft (2020) features viewfinders where visitors can discover Soto’s photographs from the day after Hurricane María. Other notable pieces include works by Mari B. Robles López, whose photograph Paro Nacional, julio 24 (2019) featuring activists banging on pots and pans during a protest will be printed on a collection of four actual pots and pans and displayed on the wall of the gallery. Other works include pieces by the photojournalist Erika P. Rodríguez, whose photographs documenting Puerto Rico during the hurricane and recent protests have frequently appeared in The New York Times.
 
“The exhibition is an attempt to make sense of the tumultuous recent years the island has had, as well as a contemporary reimagining of the traditional cultural element of plena music and its stories,” said Perdomo Álvarez.

Top image: Mari B. Robles López, Paro Nacional, julio 24, 2019

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Presented on Instagram Live. Follow @mocpchi on Instagram to watch. instagram.com/mocpchi

Join exhibiting artist Edra Soto on Instagram Live for a special virtual gallery talk! Follow us on Instagram @mocpchi to watch the livestream. Learn more here. 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Join the MoCP and photographer Erika P. Rodríguez for a virtual sneak peek into her studio! 

Documentary photographer Erika P. Rodríguez is from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her photography explore topics of community, identity, and countering the stereotypical representation of the Caribbean. Her work is currently on view at the MoCP in Temporal: Puerto Rican Resistance and has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, NPR, and Smithsonian Magazine, among others.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Instagram Live
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Join us on Instagram Live for a conversation through \"Kiskeya Salón\" on how the Dominican women who raised Ojos Nebulosos shaped her installation currently on view at the MoCP in Temporal: Puerto Rican Resistance. This conversation will be held in Spanish and English.

This is part one of a two part conversation, which will continue the following week, on Thursday, September 3, 4 p.m. CDT on Zoom. Please stay tuned for more information!

Top Image: Ojos Nebulosos, Kiskeya Salón, 2015-2020

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
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Join us on Zoom for an open conversation with Ojos Nebulosos and model Alanis De La Cruz on how being a woman of Dominican descent influences their work. Moderated by writer Celia M. Ayala Lugo.

This conversation will be held in Spanish and English. It will also be livestreamed on the MoCP YouTube page.

 

 

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Register for the livestream here

**Please note that registrants will be emailed a link prior to the virtual screening**

Video Playlist is a recurring series of one-night public video screenings programmed in response to MoCP exhibitions. Historias del Pueblo will feature a selection of Puerto Rican short films and video art that find the personal narratives within larger social issues. Curated by Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez and Kate Bowen. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez and co-founders of the Filmes Casa production company, Raúl Abner Samrah and Samara Pérez Santiago.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom

Register in advance for this webinar here 

Join the MoCP and photographer Adriana Parrilla for a virtual sneak peek into her studio! 

Adriana Parrilla was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from Spéos Photographic Institute in Paris. Her professional background as a ballet and contemporary dancer played a significant role in developing an inner sensibility to the world around her. Her work is an all-encompassing story, which centers on themes of identity construction, race, and resilience.  In 2019, she was awarded the Teodoro Torres Award (Photo-Essay) in the Annual Competition of the Association of Puerto Rican Photojournalists. 

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Friday, September 25, 12 pm. CDT
Presented Virtually on Zoom
Register here

The MoCP has a collection of over 16,000 photographs that are stored in a vault at the museum, accessible only to the museum's staff. In this exclusive peek into the vault, MoCP chief curator and deputy director Karen Irvine will share with the public her personal favorites from the collection, including works by Vito Acconci, Marina Abromovic, Shizuka Yokomizo and Vik Muniz. Don't miss this rare tour behind-the-scenes!

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Reserve a ticket to the exhibition

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents What Does Democracy Look Like? from October 1 – December 23, 2020. Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the  MoCP  has invited seven faculty members from various departments at Columbia College Chicago to mine the  MoCP’s  permanent collection of nearly 16,000 objects. Each curator has interpreted the museum’s collection to consider what democracy means to them, and how photographic images record and shape our understanding of current and historical events. This exhibition will not only showcase photography from the collection, but will also feature participatoryelements, including onsite voter registration. 

With more than 200 works on view, the exhibition includes work by artists including Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Dawoud Bey, Patty Carroll, Darryl Cowherd, Krista Franklin, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Gordon Parks, Art Shay, Carrie Mae Weems, and Garry Winogrand, among many others.  

Within this umbrella, the seven different interpretations of visualizing democracy are varied in approach. In one collection of images, photojournalism—and a free press in general—is examined as essential to democracy. Featuring photographs that display moments portraying our shared humanity, including stories of endurance and protest, as well as gains and struggles, photojournalists present the realities of the current moment and allow a society to envision what the alternative might look like.  

In another gallery, the historical roots of democracy, particularly who has been denied voting rights in American history, is displayed. 2020 is the 150th anniversary of the 15th amendment’s ratification and the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment’s, two landmark moments that allowed many more Americans to vote. With this history in mind, viewers are presented with images signifying that which has changed, while acknowledging the continued lack of voting access for many, due to felon disenfranchisement and voter suppression. 

Other curators make apparent the connection between technology and the democratic state. One curator uses red and blue photographs from the MoCP collection as a data visualization of the popular vote in the last ten presidential elections in the US, inviting the viewer to reconsider the beliefs, values, and mythologies associated with this American two-party system. Another gallery uses augmented reality to highlight the toxic relationship between democracy and technology, through an interactive installation wherein visitors are encouraged to speak into an iPad, which uses an algorithm to corrupt their language, demonstrating the ways in which words are coopted and distorted through corporate technologies. 

Other highlights include more optimistic conceptual approaches to the question of visualizing democracy, including a selection of images tied to the concept of Black femme joy, featuring photographs that capture Black girls, women, and gender non-conforming femmes as they exercise their freedom to joyfully occupy public and private spaces. Another gallery uses images of nature, particularly the tree, as a metaphor for an inclusive democracy and ultimately, a free society.  

“We are excited to partner with members of the Columbia College Chicago faculty to present this exhibition that not only interprets the concept of democracy, but also considers how the museum’s collection can be used to represent where we see, or don’t see, democracy thriving in the world we live in,” said curator of academic programs and collections Kristin Taylor. 

The exhibition is organized by MoCP chief curator and deputy director Karen Irvine and curator of academic programs and collections Kristin Taylor. Guest curators include:  Melanie Chambliss,  Ph.D., Assistant Professor of African American History;  Joshua A. Fisher,  Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Immersive Media, Interactive Arts and Media;  Joan Giroux,  Professor, Art and Art History Department;  Ames Hawkins, Ph.D.,  Professor of English and Creative Writing;  Raquel L. Monroe,  Associate Professor of Dance;  Onur  Öztürk, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor of Instruction, Art and Art History Department; Sharon  Bloyd-Peshkin,  Associate Professor of Journalism.   

There will be a panel discussion on Thursday, October 8, 2020 addressing  voter disenfranchisement, moderated by guest curator Sharon  Bloyd-Peshkin. 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here: http://bit.ly/votingMoCP

The panel discussion will focus on the barriers that eligible voters face in trying to exercise their most fundamental constitutional right. Exhibition co-curator Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, Associate Professor of Journalism, will moderate the panel. Panelists include Ami Gandhi, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights; Rose Colacino, Indivisible Illinois; Brian Simmons, Chicago Votes; José Morales, Jr., Fair Fight Action.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

Image: Hyers + Mebane, Voting Booth 3719, from the EMPIRE portfolio, 2006

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom  |  Register here

Part I: What are people looking for in a democracy? In this session, panelists will discuss the right to vote, the right to protest, the importance of a free press, and the ability to live joyfully in public spaces. Featuring Melanie Chambliss, PhD, Assistant Professor, Humanities, History, and Social Sciences; Joan Giroux, Professor and Associate Chair, Art and Art History; Raquel L. Monroe, PhD, Director, Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Associate Professor of Dance; and Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, Associate Professor of Journalism. Moderated by MoCP executive director Natasha Egan. 

This event will be recorded and transcribed. If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

Image: Krista Franklin, She Taught Us How to Fight I (diptych), 2016

 

 

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Presented Virtually on Zoom
Register here

Kristine Potter’s work explores masculine archetypes, landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and the current awardee of the Grand Prix Image Vevey. Her first monograph, Manifest, was published by TBW Books in 2018.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago. This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

Image: Kristine Potter, Dark Waters, 2016

 

 

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FIRST LOOK: Fine Print Party


Thursday, October 29, 7 p.m. CDT
Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Please join the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Museum Council, staff, and artists for a special online celebration of the MoCP Fine Print Program. Printed especially for the Museum by some of the most innovative photographers working today, the sale of editioned Fine Prints directly supports artistic and educational programs at the MoCP. Prints by more than 70 artists are available online including works by artists of local, national and international renown.

 

 

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Wednesday, November 11, 4 p.m. CDT
Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

How do images shape our understanding of current and historical events? In this live virtual workshop we will explore artworks from two current exhibitions Anthem (Weinberg/Newton Gallery) and What Does Democracy Look Like? (Museum of Contemporary Photography) as inspiration for new photographs. Working with a camera and everyday materials such as copy paper, paper clippings, and small objects, we will create compositions to tell a story.

This workshop is created in partnership with Weinberg/Newton Gallery and will be lead by Lisa Lindvay, Education Coordinator at Weinberg/Newton Gallery

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

***

Materials:
Paper
Scissors
Household objects
Camera (phone or tablet)

Prep your materials:

Using 4 sheets of copy paper, cut out approximately 12, circles, squares, strips, and triangles

Gather small objects from around your home or outdoors that are a reflection of your personal identity

 

 

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Presented Virtually on Zoom
Register here

Since the 1970s, Plumb has explored subjects ranging from her suburban roots to the United Farm Workers movement. Her first book, Landfall, published by TBW Books in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2019 and the Lucie Photo Book Prize 2019.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

This event will be recorded and transcribed.  If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Photos at Zoom: The Maternal Image
January 13, 12 p.m. CST
Presented virtually on Zoom

Register here

In anticipation of the upcoming MoCP exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency, this Photos at Zoom session, led by Curatorial Assistant, Emilie Plunkett, will feature images in the museum’s collections that depict aspects of maternity, fertility, and motherhood. Additionally, Plunkett will address ways the pregnant body is, and has been, depicted in pop culture, in addition to prevailing gender binaries surrounding maternal health care.

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu

 

Image: Emmet Gowin, Hospital Polaroid Copy, Westminister, California from the Center for Photographic Studies Portfolio, 1969; printed 1972

 

 

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency from January 19 - May 23, 2021. The exhibition explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities women encounter in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility. The exhibition features eight artists who consider a range of topics including birth, miscarriage, pleasure, the lack of access to abortion, trauma, and the loss of fertility. The exhibition is organized by MoCP chief curator and deputy director Karen Irvine and curator of academic programs and collections Kristin Taylor.
 
With works ranging from photography to video installations, the exhibition includes work by artists Laia Abril, Candice Breitz, Elinor Carucci, Krista Franklin, Doreen Garner, Candy Guinea, Joanne Leonard, and Carmen Winant. This exhibition seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the precarious nature of reproductive rights in a time where the future of these rights is uncertain.
 
Works on view cover a range of issues all linking back to the theme of reproductive justice. Highlights include Candice Breitz’s installation Labour(2017-ongoing), which probes the many meanings of the word “labor” in terms of capitalism, from the act of giving birth to the labor that is inherent in mothering and nurturing a child, as well as the domestic labor that has historically been assigned to women.
 
Artists Carmen Winant and Elinor Carucci both explore female sexuality, implicitly and explicitly critiquing the patriarchal gaze at different stages of female life and fertility. Winant’s photographic assemblage of female sexuality in History of My Pleasure (2019-2020) highlights the agency of the libidinous female body, while Carucci explores sensuality and pleasure after menopause, emphasizing imagery that is seldom made visible within art history and popular culture.
 
Other works on view highlight the often-invisible struggles of the reproductive body, including Under the Knife (2018), a project created by Chicago-based artist Krista Franklin, which intimately details the artist’s long struggle with uterine fibroids, a condition that can cause infertility and disproportionately affects Black women. Joanne Leonard explores a different kind of trauma in her Journal of a Miscarriage series (1973), a series of collages that grapple with the loss of her first pregnancy to miscarriage.
 
Taking a historical approach to understanding the contemporary state of reproductive healthcare, Laia Abril investigates the history of birth control and the subsequent consequences of restricting women’s access to safe and legal abortion, while Doreen Garner hauntingly pays tribute to Black women who were subject to torture in the name of medical research. Looking closely at the contemporary moment from an LGBTQ+ perspective, Candy Guinea depicts the artist’s journey with her partner as they attempt to conceive their first child through insemination, revealing pervasive gender binaries surrounding maternal health care.
 
The exhibition’s title, Reproductive, refers to both the act of copying something, like a photograph, and the biological creation of offspring. Additionally, the active tense of the verb “to reproduce” points to the capacity that these artists are at once demonstrating and demanding agency.
 
“The artists featured in this exhibition create space for themselves—and for others—to claim their power,” said exhibition curators Karen Irvine and Kristin Taylor, “revolutionizing the prevailing sense of what it means for a woman to be (re)productive.”
 
Exhibition dates are subject to change due to Covid-19. Reservations are required. Visitors can make a reservation at mocp.org.

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom  |  Register here

Join the exhibition curators and artists online to critically explore questions posed by the exhibition.

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

Register in advance and pay what you wish to join us on Zoom. Your contribution supports our dynamic public programs and events. Contribute here: giving.colum.edu/mocp

 

 

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Wednesday, February 10, 6 p.m. CST
Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Join Loretta J. Ross, Visiting Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, for a special guest presentation on the history of BIPOC reproductive justice and oppression. Professor Ross will share a selection of photographs from the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, as part of a residency and collaboration between the venerable activist and the Smith Collection.

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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February 18, 7 p.m. CST
Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

What does \"reproductive\" even mean? Join Chicago Women's Health Center (CWHC) for a feminist conversation about the messages we receive and the language we use when talking about bodies and reproduction. We'll explore some medically-accurate definitions of body parts and consider how the way we relate to, talk about, and think our bodies can be political acts. Bring your thoughts and questions to this conversation! 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom  |  Register here

Carmen Winant is an artist and writer based in Columbus, Ohio whose work in Reproductive uses text and images to represent the agency of the female body. Her practice includes collage, installation, and mixed-media to create complex responses that counter representations of women. Carmen Winant has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her piece My Birth (2018) was exhibited in MoMA’s Being: New Photography exhibition.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Join the MoCP for a casual drop-in session where we will closely read and discuss one photograph together from the museum's collection. This week we will look at Seunggu Kim's photograph titled Bengal Tiger, 2014.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

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March 5, 12 p.m. CST
Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Join the MoCP for a casual drop-in session where we will closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Julia Margaret Cameron's Sir John Herschel, from Camera Work, Issue No. 41, 1867.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

This panel will address historical and contemporary misconceptions of the female body. Panelists will also delve into the history of women’s reproductive health care and how the fields of gynecology and obstetrics have been shaped by race and class-based discrimination.

Panelists include: OB-GYN and educator Wendy C. Goodall McDonald, MD, aka Dr. Every Woman; Scout Bratt, Outreach and Education Director at the Chicago Women’s Health Center; writer, educator, and performer Terri Kapsalis; and moderated by exhibition curators Karen Irvine and Kristin Taylor. 

This event is sponsored by Art+Feminism. Learn more here. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

 

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March 12, 12 p.m. CST | Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join the MoCP for a casual drop-in session where we will closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Widline Cadet's Not Yet Titled, 2019.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join the MoCP for a casual drop-in session where we will closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Walker Evans' Kitchen Wall in Bud Field's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. 

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, March 24, noon CST live, rebroadcast at 6 p.m. CST | Presented virtually on Zoom

Register for live session here 

Register for rebroadcast here

Candice Breitz’s recent work reflects on a media- saturated global culture and probes widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity. Breitz will discuss her work including Labour (2017, ongoing), currently on view in Reproductive, which explores links between capitalism, labor, male dictatorships and the regulation of women’s bodies.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Join the MoCP for a casual drop-in session where we will closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Stephen Foster's 10 Percent, 2019.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

Register here

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Please join us as we unpack the hidden history and anatomy of the clitoris, and suppressive attitudes toward the sexuality of people assigned female at birth. Sarah Chadwick, author of The Sweetness of Venus: A History of the Clitoris (Wild Pansy Press, 2021), will be in conversation with multimedia artist Sophia Wallace, whose works seek to establish the clitoris in visual representation. This program is in conjunction with the current exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

 

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April 16, 12 p.m. CDT | Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Shizuka Yokomizo’s image, Stranger (5) from 1998 and discuss the relationship between photographers and their human subjects in portraiture.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Joanne Leonard’s piece, Romanticism is Ultimately Fatal, from 1998 and will learn more about her work in the current exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Barbara Crane's print, \"Whole Roll: Pigeons\" from 1975 and will also discuss the New Bauhaus, later called the Institute of Design.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants.

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Peter Cochrane's image, \"For Michael\" from 2019.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants.

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

David Campany is a curator, writer, and Managing Director of Programs at the International Center of Photography, New York. Renowned for his engaging and rigorous writing, exhibitions and public speaking, David has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, Stedelijk Museum, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

Join the MoCP and photographer Tabitha Soren for a discussion on her practice and a virtual sneak peek into her studio! Tabitha Soren works with photography and mixed media to depict complex psychological states and the ways people cope with and survive through chaos. Soren’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Harvard Art Museums, the George Eastman Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, amongst others.

 

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join us for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Dave Jordano’s image in the Midwest Photographer’s Project, \"Packard Motel, Eastside Detroit\" from 2016, and also learn about his piece in the DARKROOM benefit auction.

This event in being held in conjunction with DARKROOM, the museum's annual benefit auction. Learn more about DARKROOM here. 

 

 

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Martine Gutierrez, from June 3 – August 29, 2021. This exhibition features work from Gutierrez’s independent art publication, Indigenous Woman (2018), a 124-page glossy magazine exploring how deeply sexism, colorism, racism, transphobia, and other biases are embedded and ubiquitous in popular culture and fashion photography.

This exhibition is organized by Asha Iman Veal, MoCP curatorial fellow.
 
Disrupting beauty ideals of cisgendered whiteness, Gutierrez reappropriates pop cultural imagery to center herself as both artist and muse.
 
“We are conditioned to assume that physical appearance is, in fact, identity, which is often not the case,” writes Martine Gutierrez in Indigenous Woman.“As mixed transwomen, we’re often seen as male when we feel female, or have been assumed to be from another culture because our ethnicities are ambiguous. None of us fit neatly into one category.” 
 
Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989, Berkeley, CA) is an artist, performer, and musician who produces elaborate narrative scenes that employ tropes of pop culture to explore the complexity, fluidity, and nuances of both personal and collective identity in terms of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and culture.

“Martine Gutierrez introduces herself as the cynosure of global desire,\" says exhibition curator Asha Iman Veal. \"Mass-culture imagery becomes far more sly, tenacious, and intriguing when reimagined and revised by this female artist of color.\" 

This exhibition of Gutierrez’s photographs, presented in the Print Study Room of the MoCP galleries, represents a body of work that has been exhibited all over the world including the 58th Venice Biennale. In August 2021, Martine Gutierrez at the MoCP will coincide with Public Art Fund’s Martine Gutierrez: ANTI-ICON, a new series of photographs on 350 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York City and Chicago. 

Exhibition dates are subject to change due to Covid-19. Reservations are required. Visitors can make a reservation at mocp.org.

Top image: Martine Gutierrez, Covertgirl, Ad p44 from Indigenous Woman, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery NY

 

 

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Part of Towards Common Cause


Much Unseen is Also Here brings together the works of two major artists who both consider the theater of the landscape, monumentality, cultural history, and representation. Probing monuments and identity, An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander explore history’s embeddedness in our present. Lê’s Silent General (2015–ongoing) presents large-scale views of places and people in the contemporary American landscape, while Sikander uses sculpture, drawings, and animation to examine representations of intersectional femininity that is prompted by questions of who monuments historically depict.

Much Unseen is Also Here has been generously supported through the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Learn more and visit MoCP

 

Image: Left: An-My Lê, Fragment VI: General Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard Monuments, Homeland Security Storage, New Orleans, Louisiana, from Silent General, 2017 Pigment print. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Right: Shahzia Sikander, Promiscuous Intimacies, 2020, Patinated bronze, edition of 5 with 2 APs. © Shahzia Sikander. Photo: Jason Wyche, New York. Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.

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DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago's (MoCP) annual benefit auction and gala, which will be taking place entirely online. This year's event, co-chaired by Joe Reinstein and Lincoln Schatz and will take place on Thursday, June 10, 2021 from 5:45-8:00 p.m., central time. The benefit auction is presented by Sotheby’s.

The virtual event with kick off with a pre-show DJ set entitled “Pre-Party Rare Groove 45RPM All Vinyl DJ Set” with Joe Shanahan, founder and owner of famed music venue Metro Chicago, Chicago's independent music venue. He will be spinning 45s—in honor of the museum’s 45th anniversary year—remotely from The GMan Tavern in Wrigleyville.

Following the pre-show, attendees will enjoy the formal program, wherein they will gain access to exclusive content and engage virtually with MoCP staff, artists, fellow supporters, and surprise special guests during an interactive livestream. The evening will conclude with a virtual cocktail party hosted on Wonder.me, a platform where people can move freely between groups, join conversations, and enjoy an energizing and fluid evening of conversation, networking, and virtual socializing.

The benefit auction will open one week before the event itself on Sothebys.com. Photography enthusiasts will have the chance to bid on celebrated contemporary and historical artists, including work by Dawoud Bey, Tabitha Soren, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward J. Steichen, Pete Souza, Victoria Sambunaris, Sandro Miller, Brian Ulrich, and more. All proceeds raised at this event will support groundbreaking exhibitions, public programs, and community engagement efforts in the museum’s 2021-2022 season.

General admission to DARKROOM is completely free. VIP tickets start at $250 and go up to $1000, with benefits ranging from exclusive future VIP exhibition opening invitations to private behind-the-scenes museum tours. All contributions are tax-deductible. Visit mocp.org for more information.

 

About the MoCPThe Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography.  As an international hub, the MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming.

 

MoCP Sponsors The MoCP is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2020-2021 exhibition season is sponsored by the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), the Efroymson Family Fund, and the Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

 

 

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Thursday, June 17, 6 p.m. CDT 
Presented virtually on Zoom 
Register here

Though women make up more than half the population of Chicago, and are noted for their role in shaping the city’s history, they make up a minuscule percentage of the monuments in the landscape. Join Michelle Duster, Sam Kirk, and Marcia Walker-McWilliams along with moderator Meg Duguid as they explore the ways women have been left out of our monuments and memorials, explain how the underrepresentation affects perceptions and policies, discuss efforts to remedy the problem, and propose ideas for the future.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Much Unseen is Also Here, Columbia College Chicago's Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Spaces (DEPS), the Chicago Womxn's Suffrage Tribute Committee, and the Chicago Monuments Project.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Martine Gutierrez’s image titled Body En Thrall, p106 from Indigenous Woman, 2018, and will also discuss her work in the current MoCP exhibition, Martine Gutierrez.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Vera Klement's mixed media piece, War Monody (Autumn), from 2004.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Friday, July 9, 12 p.m. CDT | Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Petcoke piles in southeast Chicago at Koch Industries site along Calumet River, made by Terry Evans in 2014.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom. Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Construction in South Beach I, from the FloodZone series, made by Anastasia Samoylova in 2018.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Thursday, July 22, 6 p.m. 
Presented virtually on Zoom 
Register here

Join exhibiting artists An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander for a conversation about their artistic practices and Much Unseen is Also Here.  

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Fern Shaffer's print, Nine Year Ritual, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, from 1997.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Robyn Beeche's piece, Scarlett 3 faces, from 1986.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Savoy #3, 2003, by Iké Udé.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Wardell Milan's piece, Early Spring. The Charming Evening, from 2014.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections every Friday at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at David Taylor's Border Monument No. 198, Desierto de Altar/Yuma Desert, from the Working the Line series, 2009.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu.

 

 

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Read more here

In American Epidemic: Guns in the United States, nine artists examine the role guns play in structural violence, poverty, systemic racism, and an increasingly militarized police force. Using the photographic medium, these artists provide a nuanced exploration of the way in which guns are yielded in this country, including the politicization of trauma, public mourning (and the rote political refrain of “thoughts and prayers” in response to gun violence), and a host of other issues laid bare by this uniquely American plight.

Featuring work by Carolyn Drake, Nancy Floyd, Stephen Foster, Andres Gonzalez, Félix González-Torres, Zora J Murff, Renée Stout, and Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, American Epidemic not only explores the complex array of issues that arise with the increased presence of guns in American society, but advocates for an intersectional understanding of how gender, race, capitalism, and militarism affect the larger conversation around gun control in this country.  

This exhibition is organized by Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director. 

The MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. American Epidemic: Guns in the United States has been generously supported through the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Image: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Death by Gun), 1990

 

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MoCP Print Study Room | Register here

 

 

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Event will be livestreamed  |  Register for the in-person event here

 

 

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Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave

Event will be livestreamed  |  Register for the in-person event here

 

 

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Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave

Event will be livestreamed  |  Register for the in-person event here

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom

Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections on select Fridays at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one photograph together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Deborah Luster’s image titled \"Tooth for an Eye, Ledger 06-02 / Location: 1200 block of Elysian Fields (St Roch) /  Date(s): February 6, 1993 / Name(s): Robert H. Megert (53) / Notes: Beating\" made in 2008-10.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants. 

 

 

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The Columbia College Chicago Photography Department is pleased to announce the debut of “Photography Week 2021” from November 8 to 12. Photography Week is a celebration of the medium of photography through artist talks, panel presentations, the “Lectures in Photography” series, and an exhibition. ‘Photography Week’ will kick off with renowned photographer Wendy Ewald the evening of November 8, and the will culminate with an exhibition featuring the 2020 and 2021 work of MFA Graduates in Photography. Click the links below to register. Scroll down for event descriptions.

 

All times are Central Time Zone

 

Register for Wendy Ewald: Artist Talk 

November 8th 6:00pm via Zoom

 

Register for In Conversation: Elaine Miller, Ryan Lowry & Bianca Garcia 

November 9th 1:30pm via Zoom

 

Register for Nancy Floyd - Lectures in Photography

November 10th 6:00pm, in person or stream live

 

Register for In Conversation: Simone Tobias, Efrem Zelony-Mindell & KC Crow Maddux 

November 11th 12:00pm via Zoom
 

Register for Melissa Ann Pinney: Artist Talk

November 11th 6:00pm via Zoom

November 08 2021 6:00pm

Artist Talk - Wendy Ewald

Artist Wendy Ewald will discuss her current exhibition at Weinberg/Newton Gallery in Chicago in which she presents two collaborative photographic projects: Daily Life and Dreams in the Pandemic: A Project with the Centro Romero Youth Program (2020–2021) and The Devil is Leaving His Cave: Photographs by Children from Chiapas (1991). The first is a newly commissioned work developed in partnership with 15 young people at Centro Romero, an immigrant service organization on the city’s Northwest side. The exhibition features the students’ own photographs and stories, made and recorded during their year working with the artist, alongside portraits taken by Ewald and the students. The Devil is Leaving His Cave is likewise a collaborative photographic endeavor, made with Mayan and Ladino children in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1991. Together these projects provide a glimpse into the historical and contemporary realities of life within the Latinx communities of Chicago and beyond.

 

November 09 2021 1:30pm

In Conversation: Elaine Miller, Ryan Lowry & Bianca Garcia

Elaine, Ryan and Bianca will discuss their respective careers as photographers and artists and how they have navigated the ever changing landscape of what it is to be a professional photographer. Join them for a conversation about their unique work and the different ways in which they have found success as photographers.

 

November 10 2021 6:00pm

Lectures In Photography - Nancy Floyd

Nancy Floyd has been an exhibiting artist for over thirty-five years and is Professor Emerita in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her work is especially focused on women and the female body, and has been included in exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA amongst others, and is held in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, High Museum of Art and Lightwork.

 

November 11 2021 12:00pm

In Conversation: Simone Tobias, KC Crow Maddux & Efrem Zelony-Minedll

Designer Simone Tobias, Artist and Curator Efrem Zelony-Mindell and Artist KC Crow Maddux will discuss their respective careers and creative pursuits. Join them for a conversation about their work and how their trans and non-binary identities have influenced their careers.
 

November 11 2021 6:00pm

Artist Talk - Melissa Ann Pinney

Persistence of Vision

Guggenheim Fellow and CCC alumna Melissa Ann Pinney will highlight the major themes of a career that spans four decades in photography. She will also discuss her project in the Chicago Public Schools and her current role as the 2021/22 Diane Dammeyer Fellow in Photographic Arts and Social Issues. Pinney has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.
 

November 12 2021 5:00pm

Opening Reception: Columbia College Chicago MFA Photography Exhibition

The graduating classes of 2020 and 2021 will present their work in an exhibition at the Hokin Gallery, 623 S. Wabash Ave. The exhibition opens Friday November 12th. Join us to celebrate their work.

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Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave
Event will be livestreamed here
Register for the in-person event here

Nancy Floyd has been an exhibiting artist for over thirty-five years and is Professor Emerita in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her work is especially focused on women and the female body, and has been included in exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA amongst others, and is held in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, High Museum of Art and Lightwork.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

 

 

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Register for In Conversation: Simone Tobias, Efrem Zelony-Mindell & KC Crow Maddux

November 11th 12:00pm Central Time Zone via Zoom

Designer Simone Tobias, Artist and Curator Efrem Zelony-Mindell and Artist KC Crow Maddux will discuss their respective careers and creative pursuits. Join them for a conversation about their work and how their trans and non-binary identities have influenced their careers.

 

 

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Register for Melissa Ann Pinney: Artist Talk

November 11th 6:00pm Central Time via Zoom

Artist Talk - Melissa Ann Pinney

Persistence of Vision

Guggenheim Fellow and CCC alumna Melissa Ann Pinney will highlight the major themes of a career that spans four decades in photography. She will also discuss her project in the Chicago Public Schools and her current role as the 2021/22 Diane Dammeyer Fellow in Photographic Arts and Social Issues. Pinney has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.

 

 

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We warmly invite you to engage with Mikki Kendall, the New York Times bestseller author of Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot. Mikki Kendall is a writer, diversity consultant, and occasional feminist who speaks on intersectionality, policing, gender, sexual assault, and other current events. Mikki will share her ideas on resisting isolation as a critically engaged writer and artist involved in social movements. How creatives can work in collaboration with organizations to address issues like gun violence and hunger through the lens of hood feminism will also be discussed.

This presentation is in partnership with Columbia College Chicago's departments in Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Student Diversity & Inclusion, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Community Engagement.

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Andrew Mausert-Mooney & Kera MacKenzie
Wednesday, December 1, 6 p.m. CT
Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave

Video Playlist: Water or Escape is programmed by artists Andrew Mausert-Mooney & Kera MacKenzie and presents their newest film Make A Distinction along with two short short companion films. In this program, Mausert-Mooney and MacKenzie take aim at American imperialism and its colluders. The occupation and development of land and the dominant culture’s stories that serve to exploit, glorify, and perpetuate a system of violence and subjugation in American life. Mausert-Mooney and MacKenzie will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. 

Image credit: Still from Make A Distinction, 2021, Courtesy of the artists. 

Learn more

 

 

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Friday, December 3, 12 p.m. CT | Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections for a virtual discussion session where we closely read one photograph together from the museum's collection. This week we will look at Martha Rosler’s image entitled Gladiators, from the Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful series from 2004.

 

 

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Learn more here

Join the MoCP Museum Council for a special celebration of our Fine Print Program and photography books! Local photographers of note including Colleen Plumb, Jeffrey Wolin, Andrea Wilmsen, and Sonja Thomsen will be at the MoCP to discuss and sign their newly released books, alongside Skylark Editions and new Fine Print Program artists Farah Salem and Cecil McDonald, Jr.  Learn more about the Museum Council, enjoy special discounts on Fine Prints and books, enter a raffle to win free photo books, and more!

 

 

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Behind the Lens: Jeffrey Wolin
Friday, December 17, 12 p.m. CT
Presented virtually on Zoom
Register here

 

Join the MoCP and photographer Jeffrey Wolin for a discussion on his work and a virtual sneak peek into his studio. Wolin creates confrontational portraits about memory and identity, often writing narratives or excerpts to interviews with his subjects onto the surface of his photographs. Working over several decades, his collective works comprise a variety of subjects, including stories of Holocaust survivors, Vietnam War veterans, and families living in a public housing development near his former home in Indiana.

Wolin’s photographs have been exhibited in over 100 exhibitions in the US and Europe. His work is featured in six monographs, including Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust; Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans; and Pigeon Hill: Then & Now. This discussion is in conjunction with an exhibition featuring Wolin's Faces of Homelessness project, on view at the Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom
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Please note that this previously scheduled in-person event will now be held virtually.

Get to know the museum's collection with this series of public virtual print viewings. Curatorial Assistant Erica McKeehen will lead a discussion on works in the permanent collection that relate to themes in the current exhibition, American Epidemic: Guns in the United States. Drawing on techniques of photojournalism, documentary, landscape, and forensic photography, the artists presented in this session address guns in American culture either directly or indirectly, by questioning the roles of photography pertaining to memory, the media, and evidence in instances of violence. Artists featured include Richard Barnes, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Christian Patterson, Taryn Simon, Angela Strassheim, and more.

Image: Angela Strassheim, Evidence No. 2, 2009

 

 

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Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave

Zora J Murff is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas. Murff uses his practice to highlight intersections between systemic social issues and the cultural construct of race. He has published books with Aint-Bad Editions and Kris Graves Projects, and his most recent monograph, At No Point In Between (Dais Books) was a winner of the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Awards. His work is currently on view in American Epidemic: Guns in the United States. 

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

For in-person events, masks as well as proof of vaccination or proof of a negative Covid test within the last 72 hours are required for entry.

Learn more

 

 

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We warmly invite you to bring your curiosity and questions as this webinar presents Executive Director of the National Youth Art Movement Against Gun Violence, Dr. Janíce T. Samuels in conversation with Assistant Professor of Immersive Media at Columbia College Chicago Joshua A. Fisher, Ph.D.

Collective Impact strives to bring students, alumni, faculty, staff, and Chicago community members together with nationally renowned artists and community leaders to discuss the challenges and organization of community engagement and social justice in art making. This conversation is presented in partnership with the Chicago Cultural Alliance.  

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Partfrom March 3, 2022 – June 26, 2022. This exhibition brings together fifteen global artists of color who together challenge notions of global segregation and dividing lines. The exhibition is organized by MoCP Associate Curator Asha Iman Veal.
 
The exhibition features work by Xyza Cruz Bacani (Philippines), Widline Cadet (US), Jessica Chou (US), duo Amy Sanchez Arteaga and Misael Diaz (US), Işıl Eğrikavuk (Turkey/Germany), Citlali Fabián (Mexico), Sunil Gupta (Canada/UK), Kelvin Haizel (Ghana), David Heo (US), Damon Locks (US), Johny Pitts (UK), Farah Salem (Kuwait/US), Ngadi Smart (Ivory Coast/UK), Tintin Wulia (Australia), and the debut of Abena Appiah (UK). The artworks presented in Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part advocate for dialogue and solidarity across a spectrum of experiences.
 
\"There's a desire to encourage deep thinking about parallel experiences and relationships between global artists of color and diverse Black artists,” said curator Asha Iman Veal. “Part of the goal of the two titles is that museum visitors are invited to be active in thinking through different ways individual artists and artworks may fit together, or why it might be assumed that they don't fit. This exhibition is asking people to consider why we categorize the way that we do--within museums exhibitions, but also in the world outside. This group of artists, by many conventions, isn't one that would usually be shown together under identity concepts.”
 
As such, the artists featured in the exhibition showcase diverse approaches to image-making through the medium of photography, and more. British artist Johny Pitts uses documentary street photography to show self-conceptions of Afropean identity, portraying the everyday lives of Black Europeans across many countries and contexts. Artist Widline Cadet, who won the MoCP Snider Prize in 2020, brings a personal approach to examine memory, erasure, migration, immigration, and Haitian cultural identity from within the United States. Jessica Chou, an artist born in Taiwan and raised in Southern California, offers selections from her Suburban Chinatown body of work as a multicultural and expansive update to former histories of American suburban life.
 
From beautiful, queer drag performers in Ivory Coast to the family lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, to traditional festivals in the Zapotec community of Yalálag, Mexico and imagined utopias of Black American politics and life, this wide range of perspectives unites in an assertion of collective voice.
  
“There is a significance to diverse Black and global artists of color having these discussions together, especially in a shared museum space,” said Veal. “The visual conversation among this group of artists is full of hope as it defies the imposed political distances and legacies that prefer they (we) neither align nor meet.”
 
Reservations are strongly encouraged. Visitors can make a reservation at mocp.org.

 

MoCP SPONSORS

Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not the Lesser Part has been generously supported through the Lannan Foundation.

The MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2021-2022 exhibition season is sponsored in part by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, the Efroymson Family Fund, the Henry Nias Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. 

ABOUT the MoCP

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography. As an international hub, the MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming. Now in its 46th exhibition season, the Museum of Contemporary Photography cultivates a deeper understanding of the artistic, cultural and political roles of photography in our world today.

 

 

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British-born artist Johny Pitts is the author of Afropean: Travels in Black Europe (2019), for which he was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and the inaugural Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship (2021/2022).  Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, and vocalist/musician. He creates imagery that blends the political, historical, daily life, and utopia; combining techniques of drawing and repetition to convey layers of human emotion and experience. Citlali Fabián is a visual artist and storyteller based between Mexico and the United Kingdom. She uses photography to explore ways of addressing identity and its connections with territory, migration, and community bonds. 

 

 

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This in-person event will be filmed and available on vimeo.com/mocpchicago at a later date. 

Xyza Cruz Bacani is a Filipina street and documentary photographer based in New York and Hong Kong, who uses her practice to raise awareness about under-reported stories with a focus on the intersection of labor migration and human rights. Jessica Chou is a photographer based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Selections from her Suburban Chinatown body of work offer a multicultural and expansive update to representations of American suburban life. Farah Salem is a Chicago-based artist and art therapist from Kuwait, whose photography, performance, and installation practice explores subtle affinities between natural landscapes, the human psyche, fiber-material structures, and experiences of gender. 

Please note that masks are required for in-person events at the MoCP. 

 

 

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Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections on select Fridays at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one work together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Tom Jones’s 2015 mixed media piece titled Mary Funmaker, from his series Strong Unrelenting Spirits. 

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Over a career spanning more than four decades, exhibiting artist Sunil Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist’s diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration, and queer identity—his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history. 

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Ngadi Smart is a visual artist based between Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and London, U.K. In her photography, she documents cultures, subcultures, and intimacy, with a focus on how people self-identify and choose to present themselves in front of the lens. She documents Black sensuality, through an African point of view. Smart aims to show “as many representations of African people, and what it means to be African.”  

 

 

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Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave

Drew Sawyer is an art historian and a curator, who holds the title of the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator at the Brooklyn Museum. He has previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, where he co-founded the Center for Art and Social Engagement (CASE) through a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He received a 2020 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. Sawyer holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, focusing on North American art, photography, and queer and postcolonial theories. He is a regular contributor to scholarly volumes, exhibition catalogues, journals, and magazines.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

 

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join our Curator of Academic Programs and Collections on select Fridays at noon for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss one work together in the museum's collection. This week we will look at Sheila Pree Bright’s 2005 photograph Untitled 8 from her Suburbia series.

This session will not be recorded in order to better facilitate conversation amongst participants.

 

 

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DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago's (MoCP) annual benefit auction and party, which will be held at the Columbia College Chicago Student Center, located at 754 S. Wabash Avenue in the South Loop. This year's event, co-chaired by Jennifer and Joe Shanahan, will take place on Thursday, June 2, 2022, from 5:30-9 p.m, with a VIP Catchlight Cocktail Hour from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
 
Photography enthusiasts will enjoy hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and music while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists, including work by Alec Soth, Dawit Petros, Alice Hargrave, Natalie Krick, Zora J Murff, Bob Thall, Dave Jordano, Doug Fogelson, and more. The benefit auction, which is presented by Sotheby’s, will remain open online for a week following the event.
 
Longtime MoCP supporters Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider will be honored during the evening for their contributions to the museum. For the past decade, they have sponsored the Snider Prize, which is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study by the museum annually. The Snider Prize encapsulates the museum's ongoing commitment to support new talent in the field of contemporary photography. Notable past winners have included Widline Cadet, Steph Foster, Janna Ireland, and many others. Recent recipients Kei Ito and Alayna N Pernell will be in attendance.
 
All proceeds raised at DARKROOM will support groundbreaking exhibitions, public programs, and community engagement efforts for the museum’s 2022-2023 season.

Tickets start at $150 and go up to $375 per person for the VIP Catchlight Cocktail Hour, with a package deal available for 5 VIP tickets for $1,500. All contributions are tax-deductible. Learn more here. 

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Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join us for a Focal Point live podcast taping and conversation between artists Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando discussing experiences of the Filipino diaspora. Through their respective projects, these two artists explore the complex circumstances that lead families to leave their homes to work overseas, as well as feelings of loss and longing that come with separation from one’s origins. 

This program is presented in conjunction with PHotoESPAÑA 2022. 

 

 

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Register here 

Experimental Sound Studio brings its long running OPTION series to the Museum of Contemporary Photography with a performance by Damon Locks. The performance will take place amidst the current MoCP exhibition Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not The Lesser Part, which also includes visual work by Locks. The performance will be followed by an interview.

Damon Locks is presenting a new sonic composition that leans into his work with poetry and spoken word. Utilizing his electronic companions: samplers, effects, and synths, Locks' new work, Isn’t It Beautiful?…Collapsing, also focuses on creating evocative relationships between found sound/words to create a complex sound collage, highlighting and centering both spoken and sampled word and the poetry that lies between.

 

 

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Join the MoCP and select exhibiting artists for the opening reception of Beyond the Frame.

For in-person events, masks as well as proof of vaccination or proof of a negative Covid test within the last 72 hours are required for entry. 

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu. 

Register in advance and pay what you wish to join us. Your contribution supports our dynamic public programs and events. Contribute here: giving.colum.edu/mocp

 

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Beyond the Frame from July 8 – October 30, 2022. Beyond the Framespotlights the MoCP’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 works as a rich resource for harnessing visual literacy skills. This exhibition is organized by Kristin Taylor, Curator of Academic Programs and Collections. 

Each gallery features works focused on critical topics that appear repeatedly in the history of the medium, such as Portraiture and the Human Subject, Landscape and Place, and Staged and Constructed Images.

This exhibition brings together works by over 50 artists from the museum’s collection, including Beaumont Newhall, Ken Josephson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Vera Lutter, Aaron Siskind, Sally Mann, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, James Van Der Zee, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kurt Weston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Steichen, and many others.

“In displaying works by historical and contemporary, local and international artists together, we invite you to sit with the nuances that might shape your narratives,” said curator Kristin Taylor. “We invite you to look mindfully, and when you re-enter the image saturated world beyond the museum’s walls, to question and ponder the visual depictions you encounter. There is always more to the story beyond the frame.”

Reservations are strongly encouraged. Visitors can make a reservation at mocp.org.

 

MoCP SPONSORS

Beyond the Frame has been generously supported through The David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Impact Fund for Photography.

The MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2021-2022 exhibition season is sponsored in part by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, the Efroymson Family Fund, the Henry Nias Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. 

ABOUT the MoCP

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography. As an international hub, the MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming. Now in its 46th exhibition season, the Museum of Contemporary Photography cultivates a deeper understanding of the artistic, cultural and political roles of photography in our world today.

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Join us for a gallery talk dedicated to the history and legacy of the New Bauhaus school, later called the Institute of Design (ID). Founded in Chicago in 1937 by Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, the ID was one of the most important schools of design and photography in the United States during the twentieth century. Beyond the Frame artists Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Michael Abramson, Richard Nickel, and Ken Josephson all trained there.

Elizabeth Siegel is a curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the book, Taken by Design: Photography at the Institute of Design, 1937–1971 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2002). Clarissa Bonet is an artist featured in the exhibition who will speak on the influence of the Institute of Design on her work and practice.

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Friday, August 26, 12 p.m. CT 
Presented virtually on Zoom | Register here

Join us this Friday for a casual drop-in session where we closely read and discuss select works in the museum's collection that are also on view in the current exhibition. Artists Zanele Muholi, Marcella Taboada, and Robert Mapplethorpe will be featured, among others.

This session will not be recorded to better facilitate conversation amongst participants.

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Beyond the Frame exhibiting artist Anna Shteynshleyger will lead a virtual studio visit of her portraits, still lifes, interiors, and landscapes taken in the United States and Russia.She has shown widely in exhibitions including at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the International Center of Photography, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Jewish Museum, New York; among many others. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

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Image: Anna Shteynshleyger, Seascape, from the Des Plaines (City of Destiny) series, 2003-09 

 

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Columbia College Student Center
754 S. Wabash, 5th floor

This Wednesday, the MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago invite you to a Lecture in Photography, featuring Abelardo Morell. 

Morell is well-known for transforming ordinary rooms into camera obscuras. His wide range of photographs have been showcased at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the International Museum of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian Institution International Gallery, Washington, DC.; among many others. He published his book A Camera in a Room in 1995 and was the subject of the documentary Shadow of the House (2007). Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.  

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Image:  Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: The Pantheon in Hotel Albergo del Sole, Room #111, Rome, Italy, 2008

 

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Join us for a talk with Greg Foster-Rice on the lasting influence of the New Topographics movement, which began in 1975 and marked a shift from artists creating romanticized depictions of pristine landscapes to using a seemingly detached or ironic approach. They photographed everyday locations, such as suburban developments and parking lots, where the interests of humans and nature frequently collide. Foster-Rice will delve into the history of this movement and its artists in Beyond the Frame, including Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, and Henry Wessel. Greg Foster-Rice is Associate Professor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago and co-editor of the anthology Reframing the New Topographics (Center for American Places, 2011).   

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Image: Lewis Baltz, New Industrial Parks #10, from the New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California portfolio, 1974

 

 

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Join us Thursday, October 6th from 6-8:30 p.m. CT at the MoCP for a lively event celebrating the 2022 additions to our Fine Print program. Drinks and light bites will be served. Fine Prints from Carmen Winant, Alejandro Cartagena, Jessica Labatte, and Ciurej & Lochman will be unveiled. Come mingle and purchase the new editions, as well as prints from past years. Both Jessica Labatte and Barbara Ciurej will be in attendance and will speak about their works at 7 p.m. Early bird tickets are $35 and $45 at the door. Get your tickets and R.S.V.P at giving.colum.edu/firstlook

If you require special accommodations for this event, please contact mocp@colum.edu. 

Image: Jessica Labatte

 

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Join exhibition curator Kristin Taylor for a special public tour of Beyond the Frame. Beyond the Frame spotlights the MoCP’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 works as a rich resource for harnessing visual literacy skills. Each gallery features works focused on critical topics that appear over and over again in the history of the medium, such as Portraiture and the Human Subject, Landscape and Place, and Staged and Constructed Images. By placing works by historical and contemporary, local and international artists together according to distinct themes, we invite you to look with awareness, and when you re-enter the image-saturated world beyond the museum’s walls, to pursue thoughtful, questioning engagement with the visual depictions you encounter. There is always more to the story beyond the frame.

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This week we are closed for the installation of our upcoming exhibitions, Shannon Bool 1:1, and Refracting Histories. Both exhibitions run from November 10th, 2022 through April 2nd, 2023. You'll want to mark your calendars for our opening week programming!

Image credit: Shannon Bool, Horse of Oblivion 8, 2019
 

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Refracting Histories from November 10, 2022 – April 2, 2023. Refracting Histories is an exhibition that features eight artists who are critically looking at the canon of the history of photography, using the malleable nature of image making to reinterpret and expand upon narrow pedagogies in the field.
 
Each artist challenges, probes, or deconstructs well-known legacies of photography. Sonja Thomsen (United States, b. 1978) created a site-specific installation in tribute to the work of Lucia Moholy, whose prolific artmaking practice, scholarship, and contributions to the Bauhaus school was largely overshadowed by her husband, László Moholy-Nagy. Tarrah Krajnak (Peru, b. 1979) similarly looks at under-recognized contributions to the field, using her own body to recreate works Edward Weston made of his muses, Bertha Wardell and Charis Wilson. Krajnak amplifies the creative role Weston’s models played in the images, while claiming authorship in one of the most repeated and reductive tropes in photography: the female nude. 
 
Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk, b. 1964) also reimagines photographic tropes, riffing on Edward Curtis’s romanticized portrayals of indigenous populations by depicting toy trees as stand-ins for the landscapes in the backgrounds of Curtis’s images. Jones names each piece in the series after a tribe of the correlating geographic region of his depicted tree, in a tongue in cheek nod to reductive representations of places and people. 
 
Kelli Connell + Natalie Krick (United States, b. 1974 and 1986, respectively) place a contemporary feminist lens on Edward Steichen and his role as the curator of the famous 1955 exhibition The Family of Man. Connell and Krick appropriate and remix works that Steichen made or exhibited, collaging forms and interjecting a bold color palette to bring his work into a more current dialogue.
 
Nona Faustine (United States, b. 1977) and Aaron Turner (United States, b. 1990) consider how photographs shape larger histories. Faustine references the use of early Daguerrotypes to create purportedly ethnographic images of enslaved people by making portraits of herself wearing only a pair of white shoes in locations around the US, the achromatic shoes representing whitewashed histories. Turner utilizes processes from the 19th century to the 21st to investigate Frederick Douglass’s under-recognized and prescient views on the political power of photographic representation. Turner creates multiple translations of an image of the American abolitionist and statesman, who was until recently seldom recognized as the most photographed person during the 19th century. 
 
Finally, Colleen Keihm (United States, b. 1985) collages fragments of auction catalogs by placing them on scanner beds to critically look at the values placed on some artists over others, and how the market of collecting is in direct correlation with what is taught in art history textbooks. Thinking of new possibilities of radical inclusion, her practice, in her own words, “emphasizes light pushing through absences rather than the shadows created by presences.”
 
Refracting Histories is curated by MoCP’s deputy director and chief curator, Karen Irvine, and MoCP curator of academic programs and collections, Kristin Taylor. It is in conjunction with the exhibition Shannon Bool 1:1. 

Image: Kelli Connell & Natalie Krick, Pink River, 2022

 

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Shannon Bool: 1:1 from November 10, 2022 – April 2, 2023. Shannon Bool: 1:1 is the artist’s first museum solo exhibition in the United States. Shannon Bool (Canada, b. 1972, lives and works in Berlin) is renowned for her unconventional use of materials in works that probe of the history of modernist architecture, often revealing aspects of patriarchal standards and colonialism that underly the legacies of some of its most famous practitioners. This exhibition is organized by Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director. 

In one series, Bool takes inspiration from Le Corbusier’s erotic drawings by overlaying his plans for the capital city of Algiers onto Orientalist postcards circulating at the time featuring North African women as exotic sex objects. In another work, a large-scale tapestry titled The Weather, Bool presents a view from the interior of Mies van der Rohe-designed Farnsworth House that is embroidered with ornamentation that imbues the angular image with a sense of femininity, disrupting the austerity of materials such as glass and steel that are often associated with masculine power. 

The exhibition title 1:1, plays off the scale used for architectural drawings that are the same size as the planned structure will be in real life, underscoring Bool’s interest in connecting architectural and art history with feminist concerns. In a major new tapestry commission, Bool inserts an advertising image of metallic knee-high boots onto an image of a low-tech, 1:1 model built in 2013 of Mies van der Rohe’s unrealized golf club in Krefeld, Germany. The model, made of plywood and metal, was a ghostly avatar for Mies’ unrealized design, now further abstracted into a tapestry with a feminine punch designed by Bool, undermining the utopian and austere principles of Mies’s design. 

Interested in phenomenologist Maurice Merlau-Ponty’s concept of the “Lived Body,” which contends that external reality and subjective identity are the result of bodily experience and action in a space, Bool uses materiality to infuse rigid architectural themes with a sense of tactility and imperfection. By interjecting subtle references to elements forgotten in the history of architecture, Bool slyly reveals what might be suppressed under the myth of modernism.

Previous solo exhibitions of Bool’s work have been shown most recently at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; and Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec. Bool’s work is held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec. 

Image: Shannon Bool, The Weather, 2019

 

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This week we are closed for the installation of our upcoming exhibitions, Shannon Bool 1:1, and Refracting Histories. Both exhibitions run from November 10th, 2022 through April 2nd, 2023. You'll want to mark your calendars for our opening week programming!

Image: Shannon Bool, Horse of Oblivion 8, 2019

 

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Presented virtually on Zoom. Please register here.

On Wednesday, January 11th from 6-7 p.m., join us for a virtual conversation between Refracting Histories artist Aaron Turner and photography scholar Shawn Michelle Smith. Turner and Smith will discuss Frederick Douglass as the most photographed person of the 19th century, as well as his prescient views on the power of photography for shattering false narratives.

Shawn Michelle Smith is a professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has published seven books, including Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (Duke University Press, 2004), and Photographic Returns Racial Justice and the Time of Photography (Duke University Press, 2020).

 

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On Thursday, February 9, from 6-7 p.m., join us for Lecture In Photography with Despina Stratigakos, Ph.D. Despina Stratigakos is a writer, historian, and professor. Her research explores how power and ideology function in architecture, whether in the creation of domestic spaces or of world empires.

Stratigakos is the author of Where Are the Women Architects? (2016), which investigates why architecture remains a male citadel and how a new generation of activists is transforming the profession. Her book A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008), which traces the history of a forgotten female metropolis, won the 2009 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize. Stratigakos was co-creator of Architect Barbie, released by Mattel in 2011 to inspire young girls to make their mark on a profession in which women remain vastly underrepresented. is a Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo.

This program is presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

About The Event

Image: Shannon Bool, Bombshell 4, 2018

 

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Join us in-person for our Lecture in Photography Series with exhibiting artist Shannon Bool.

Shannon Bool (Canada, b. 1972, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) is renowned for her unconventional use of materials in works that upend authoritative histories by blending elements of art history and popular culture. In this exhibition, Bool presents photo-based tapestries, photograms, and sculptures that probe the history of modernist architecture, revealing aspects of patriarchal standards and colonialism that underlie the legacies of some of architecture’s famous practitioners.

About The Event

 

Image: Shannon Bool, The Weather, 2019

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Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk, b. 1964) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, writer, and educator. His artwork is a commentary on American Indian identity, experience, and perception. His North American Landscape series, currently on view in the Refracting Histories exhibition, reimagines Edward Curtis’s portrayals of Indigenous populations.

Jones has shown his works in several exhibitions, including a retrospective exhibition Here We Stand at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in 2022. His works are in numerous private and public collections including the National Museum of the American Indian, Polaroid Corporation, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), the IAIA Museum of Contemporary of Native Arts, Microsoft, and the MoCP. He completed an MFA ’05 in photography and an MA ‘05 in museum studies from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is professor of photography.

Location: Ferguson Hall, Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.  

Image: Tom Jones. Group image of “North American Landscapes” series. 2013-2015

 

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On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 6–7 p.m., join us for a Lecture in Photography with Pixy Liao. The lecture will be held at 600 S. Michigan Ave, at Ferguson Hall. 

Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Pixy Liao is an artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Liao has participated in exhibitions internationally, including at the Fotografiska, Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, Asia Society, and the National Gallery of Australia.

She is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship in photography, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Awards, Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, En Foco’s New Works Fellowship, and others and has participated in multiple artist residencies. Liao holds an MFA in photography from the University of Memphis.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.  

About the Event

 

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Our current exhibition Shift: Music, Meaning, Context, explores how music changes in form and interpretation as it moves across time, bodies, and place. Folk songs are used for propaganda, pop hits are deployed as tools of torture, and cultural origins are erased – or reinvested – in particular songs, instruments, and genres. At the same time, music can also become a site of play, serendipity, and healing. The exhibition combines video, sound, and photography to transform the museum’s galleries into a unique choral mélange. 

Exhibiting artists include: Bani Abidi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tony Cokes, Jeremy Deller, Hassan Hajjaj, Sven Johne, André Lützen, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Emeka Ogboh, and Taryn Simon. 

Shift: Music, Meaning, Context is produced in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography, held on-site at the museum. The exhibition is curated by Leonhard Emmerling, Director, and Leah Gallant, Program Curator of the Goethe-Institut Chicago, along with Asha Iman Veal, Associate Curator at MoCP.

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Artist Talk | 5:30–6:00pm 

Opening Reception: Friday, April 14, 2023, 5-7 p.m.

Cecil McDonald Jr. Join us for an opening reception in honor of Shift: Music, Meaning, Context. This exhibition explores how music changes in form and interpretation as it moves across time, bodies, and place. Exhibiting artists include Bani Abidi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tony Cokes, Jeremy Deller, Hassan Hajjaj, Sven Johne, Andre Lützen, Cecil McDonald Jr., Emeka Ogboh, and Taryn Simon. Shift is produced in collaboration between Goethe-Institut Chicago and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, held on-site at the museum.  

Exhibiting artist Cecil McDonald will be on-site for an in-person discussion of his work in the exhibition. McDonald Jr. (b. 1965 Chicago) has received honors from the Midwest Voices & Visions Award, the 3Arts Teaching Artist Award, Aperture First PhotoBook 2017 shortlist, and the Lucerne, Switzerland Residency awarded by The Swiss Benevolent Society. 

Image: Why Scales Matter (2008), from the series In the Company of Black (2007-2016), by artist Cecil McDonald, Jr.

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Register Here

On Sunday, April 16, from 10 am-12 p.m., join us for a free workshop for children and teens with Zanele Muholi for their launch of a dot-to-dot coloring book \"Connect the Dots\". Seating is limited, advanced registration is strongly encouraged. Register Here. 

Muholi envisions Connect the Dots as a communication tool designed to bring people together and to share with one another. Their ultimate aim is for collectors or interested organizations to purchase the books on behalf of schools and educational institutions. The project forms part of the artist's mission to help develop a younger generation of aspiring artists, thinkers and activists.

\"Behind the dots is a treasure trove of stories that lie behind each portrait. This book will keep you or anyone, entertained, connecting to self and sharpening the mind. Welcome to the magical world of dots, portraits and words. Enjoy the winding but fulfilling maze of connecting dots!\"- Zanele Muholi

The worskshop is hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago in partnership with Southern Guild and Expo Chicago. In addition two of Muholi's prints in the MoCPs collection will be on view during this time. 

Image: Zanele Muholi. Ntozakhe ll, Parktown (2016) from the series Somnyama Ngonyama. Silver gelatin print. Illustrated for Connect the Dots.

 

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Join us on Thursday, April 20, from 6-7:30 p.m., at MoCP for a screening of  the documentary, Resistimos (We Resist), about current socio-economic and political issues in Puerto Rico, as seen through the lives of people practicing Bomba music. Bomba is an Afro Puerto Rican music and dance tradition that enslaved people used to form revolts and escapes communicating through the different beats on the drums. Resistimos documents the resurgence of this music as a tool to fight corruption, gender inequality and the austerity measures imposed in Puerto Rico by the US Fiscal Control Board in 2016.

After the screening, there will be a conversation with the filmmaker Diana Quiñones Rivera and Ivelisse “Bombera de Corazón” Diaz. 

Diana Quiñones Rivera is a Puerto Rican filmmaker based in Chicago since 2015. Since her move away from the East Coast, Diana has collaborated with numerous local artists on music videos, promos, documentaries and a docu-series. After completing her feature documentary, Resistimos, Diana has been dedicating her time to screenwriting and teaching film.

Ivelisse “Bombera de Corazón” Diaz  of Humboldt Park-Guayama is a cultural educator in Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Traditions. At the young age of five, she began studying Bomba under the mentorship of her beloved uncle Eli S. Rodriguez, a founding member of Chicago's first Bomba and Plena collective, Grupp Yubá.

Ivelisse is the Founder of La Escuelita Bombera de Corazon, established in 2009, La Escuelita Bombera De Corazon was founded out of Ivelisse's commitment to Black and Indigenous art education and her first-hand experiences of Bomba's revolutionary power. She is the CoFounder/Director of the all-women ensemble Las BomPlaneras, Bomberxs De'Cora, and founding member and the lead vocalist of Bomba con Buya. 

This program accompanies the exhibition Shift: Music, Meaning, Context. 

Image: Still from Resistimos (We Resist), Diana Quiñones Rivera, 2020, Image courtesy of the artist.

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The MoCP is excited to be a partner for Chicago Public School’s (CPS) RE•VER•BER•ATE Arts Festival from April 27-30. For the overall schedule and locations across the city, click here. 

Join us on April 30, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., to see and hear music performed by CPS students in MoCP's galleries including some performances in response to Shift: Music, Meaning, Context exhibition. In addition, there will be a short exhibition tour from MoCP staff. The performances will extend the scope of the works in photography and video on display.

For the event at MoCP, please enter the building on the Harrison St. entrance. 

Schedule

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Priscilla Layne, Professor of German at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will talk about how after World War II, German authors appropriated Black music and other forms of popular culture to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism and racism. Layne is the author of “White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture” (2018), and is currently working on her second book, “Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism.”

This program accompanies Shift: Music, Meaning, Context, produced in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography. The lecture will take place in Ferguson Hall at 600 S. Michigan Ave. 

About the Event

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Join us on Wednesday, May 10, from 6-7 p.m., for a Lecture in Photography with Grace Deveney. This event will take place at 600 S. Michigan Ave., in the Ferguson Lecture Hall. 

Grace Deveney is the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For (2023). She was Associate Curator of Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, a New Orleans-based contemporary art triennial (2021). Previously, she was Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she organized numerous exhibitions including Christina Quarles (2021), Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power (2019), and presentations of the work of Paul Pfeiffer and Amanda Williams (both 2017). She holds a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.  

About the Event

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On Wednesday, May 17, from 6-7:30 p.m., join Wrightwood 659 and MoCP for a thought-provoking panel discussion at 600 S. Michigan Ave. in the Ferguson Lecture Hall.

Complimentary; advance registration required by visiting: https://tickets.wrightwood659.org/events

Art historians Greg Foster-Rice and Leslie Wilson reflect on Patric McCoy’s work, situating his candid photographs within the broader historical context of Black and gay portraiture.  

Moderated by Take My Picture curator Juarez Hawkins, Foster-Rice and Wilson delve into the intersections of mass media, gender, sexuality, race, and the African diaspora, exploring their impact on McCoy’s photography in the broader canon of American portraiture. Their dialogue offers an insightful examination of the crucial role of representation and agency in photography, emphasizing the medium’s ability to capture the humanity of its subjects through a shared and intimate gaze. 

 

Participants

Greg Foster-Rice is an associate professor of the history of photography and Associate Provost for Student Retention Initiatives at Columbia College Chicago. Most recently, he curated The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (2018) and traveled to DePauw University in fall 2022. For that exhibition, Foster-Rice edited and co-authored a scholarly catalogue of essays surveying Arnold’s extensive career. Previously he co-curated The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Art Institute of Chicago and Princeton University Art Museum. He co-authored that exhibition’s catalogue, which received the Philip Johnson Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2015. He has a BA from Rice University and a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University.

 

Leslie M. Wilson is Associate Director for Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the curator of not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s currently on view at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, where she was a curatorial fellow from 2019 to 2021. Her research, teaching, and curatorial endeavors focus on the history of photography, the arts of Africa and the African diaspora, modern and contemporary American art, and museum studies. She has recently written for publications including Jamel Shabazz: Albums, FOAM Magazine, and Manual. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago and a BA in International Relations from Wellesley College. 

 

Juarez Hawkins is an artist, educator, and curator. She received a B.A. from Northwestern University, and her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Hawkins has exhibited widely, hosting solo exhibitions at Concordia University, the 33 Collective Gallery, and the South Side Community Art Center. As Co-Curator of Gallery Programs at Chicago State University, she has organized exhibitions from the permanent collection, as well as student work and established artists, including Richard Hunt and Marva Jolly. Recent curatorial projects beyond Patric McCoy: Take My Picture include Black Clay and Shirley Hudson: VisionQuest at Chicago State; The Love Affair Continues at the DuSable Museum; Intersectional Touch and Bill Walker: Urban Griot at the Hyde Park Art Center. Hawkins is a member of Sapphire and Crystals, a collective of African American female artists.

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Join the Museum of Contemporary Photography for our annual benefit DARKROOM on June 8, 2023 at the Columbia College Chicago Student Center. 

VIP Champagne Hour: 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Benefit and Auction: 6:30-9 p.m.

The benefit includes our renowned photography auction featuring important works by contemporary artists from around the world and one-of-a-kind art experiences. Event proceeds support essential MoCP exhibition, education, and community engagement programs.

Tickets will go on sale in the spring. Tickets are $175 for the benefit and $500 for the VIP portion.

About the Event

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Photos at Noon is back for another summer! Get to know the museum’s collection with a series of public print viewings led by MoCP educators. Drop in to learn about some of the museum’s best works that are normally behind closed doors and meet fellow photography enthusiasts. These sessions are free and open to all. Join us this Friday, June 30 for the first session dedicated to highlighting recent acquisitions to the collection. The next Photos at Noon will be on July 14 and July 28. 

Image: Barbara Crane, Private Views, 1982-83

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Join us for Photos at Noon: As Above, So Below on Friday, July 14 in MoCP's Print Study Room - on the 2nd floor of the museum (600 S. Michigan Ave.).

In this session, MoCP curatorial assistant, Hillary Johnson, will lead a discussion on works in the collection that feature places where earth, air, and water meet. The session will focus on larger topics of the landscape as a source of inspiration, and how artists express their relationship to Mother Earth. Featured artists include Bae Bien-U, Young Hay, Tom Young, Karen Glaser, among several others.

Upcoming sessions:

Photos at Noon: July 28 at MoCP
Photos at Zoom: August 11 | Zoom Registration Link
Photos at Noon: August 25 at MoCP

Image: Karen Glaser, Dome Amid the Water, 2000.

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Join us for Photos at Noon: Experimental Approaches to Landscape Photography on Friday, July 28 in MoCP's Print Study Room - on the 2nd floor of the museum (600 S. Michigan Ave.).

In this session, MoCP curatorial and education assistant, Hillary Johnson, will lead a discussion focused on the numerous ways photographers interact with the land while picture-making, from the 19th century to the present. Featured artists include Allison Carey, Joseph Jachna, Sally Mann, and more.

Get to know the museum’s collection with in-person and Zoom viewings led by MoCP educators. These sessions are free and open to all.

 

Save the Date - August sessions:

Photos at Zoom: August 11 | Zoom Registration Link

Photos at Noon: August 25 at MoCP

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Join us for Photos at Zoom: Self-Portraits on Friday, August 11 at noon Central Time.

Get to know the museum’s collection with a series of public print viewings led by MoCP educators. This session, led by MoCP curatorial and education assistant, Kyli Hawks, will be on Zoom and will focus on works in self-portraiture. The discussion will illuminate ways artists investigate relationships to the self, as well as various approaches for simultaneously being the image-maker and the subject. Artists featured include Anne Noggle, Carrie Mae Weems, Ai Wei Wei, and more.

Register here. 

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LOVE: Still Not the Lesser brings together 12 international artists uniting across communities to share the ways they’ve encountered and understand love. Together, these artists explore dynamics within sensual eroticism, romantic partnership, family structures, social utopia, and life and death. The exhibition presents a world where love as a universal value of respect and care for all humans has been fully achieved.

LOVE: Still Not the Lesser features artists Alia Ali, Alicia Bruce, Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, Mari Katayama, Kierah KIKI King, Mous Lamrabat, Tom Merilion, Salma Abedin Prithi, Modou Dieng Yacine, Yuge Zhou, and the debut of Jorge Ariel Escobar.

\"Love is a right of existence,\" says Asha Iman Veal, MoCP Associate Curator.

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Join us on Friday, August 25 for Photos at Noon: Love at MoCP.  Get to know the museum’s collection with a series of public print viewings led by MoCP educators. This in-person session will extend the theme of love present in the current exhibition and will reveal works in the collection about romantic partnerships, family, caregiving, and joy. Artists featured include Birthe Piontek, Guillaume Simoneau, KayLynn Deveney, and more.

August 25 Photos at Noon

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LOVE: Still Not the Lesser brings together 12 international artists uniting across communities to share the ways they’ve encountered and understand love. Together, these artists explore dynamics within sensual eroticism, romantic partnership, family structures, social utopia, and life and death. The exhibition presents a world where love as a universal value of respect and care for all humans has been fully achieved.

LOVE: Still Not the Lesser features artists Alia Ali, Alicia Bruce, Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, Mari Katayama, Kierah KIKI King, Mous Lamrabat, Tom Merilion, Salma Abedin Prithi, Modou Dieng Yacine, Yuge Zhou, and the debut of Jorge Ariel Escobar.

\"Love is a right of existence,\" says Asha Iman Veal, MoCP Associate Curator.

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Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Columbia College Chicago alum Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity through photography, video and writing. Their work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of over 50 museums, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the International Center of Photography and more. Dugan’s monographs include “Look at me like you love me” (MACK, 2022), “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) and “Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015).” They were selected by the Obama White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.   

 

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Dance Center Columbia College Chicago, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.

In “Fruitful Devotion” (2023), dance choreographer and Columbia College Chicago alum Kierah KIKI King (b. 1998, U.S.) explores ideas of body and self-intimacy through a lens of Black Queerness, observing and understanding how to authentically love. Patricia Nguyen’s (b. 1987, U.S.) newest sensorial experimentation and haptic performance work “Creating Worlds with My Mother” (2023) features the artist and her mother, Thuy Ta, exploring the aftermath of war, inherited trauma, intergenerational healing, refugee resettlement and queer worldmaking. 

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\"Curating LOVE\"

Register in advance on Zoom: https://colum.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cLOT4kHpQ7-wjt3ye8S5dA

Join Asha Iman Veal, (MoCP) and Kalen Wing Ki Lee (Hong Kong Baptist University) for a curatorial conversation on exhibitions about love and community. Moderated by art historian Jennifer Dorothy Lee, PhD 李晉美 (SAIC).

Kalen Wing Ki Lee recently curated LOVE+: Awakenings. Lee is Associate Dean at the School of Creative Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Associate Professor in Photography in the Academy of Visual Arts.

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5:30-6:15 pm: Artist Talk with Jorge Ariel Escobar and Yuge Zhou

Join exhibiting artists Jorge Ariel Escobar and Yuge Zhou for a ‘gallery walk’ at MoCP as they discuss their artistic practices and take audience questions beside their respective artworks.

 

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6:30-7:30 pm: all about love: New Visions by bell hooks 

Join Anwulika Anigbo, of The Love Ethic Project, and Megha Ralapati, of CEC ArtsLink, for a book circle on all about love: New Visions (1999) by bell hooks and what we might learn from hooks and her “proactive new ethic for a people and society bereft with lovelessness.” 

Advance registration for the book circle is recommended. Register on Eventbrite. 

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Printed especially for MoCP by some of the most innovative photographers working today, the sale of editioned Fine Prints directly supports artistic and educational programs.

Join MoCP’s Museum Council and staff, artists, and photography enthusiasts for a public unveiling of four new prints by Marshall Brown, Shannon Bool, Jess T. Dugan, and Tom Jones at First Look.

Each of the artists will have their specific artwork added to MoCP’s permanent collection through the Fine Print program.

This year’s prints, along with some editions from previous years, will be available for sale at the event.

Early bird ticket(s) $35; $45 at the door. Tickets will go on sale soon.

To view previous editions by more than 70 artists, visit shop.mocp.org/collections/fine-prints

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Native America: In Translation brings together the works of nine Native artists who explore aspects of community, heritage, and the legacy of colonialism on the North American continent. By posing challenging questions about land rights, identity, and the legacy of violence toward Native people perpetrated by settler governments, the artists probe the fraught history of photography in representing Indigenous populations. Representing diverse nations and affiliations, the artists reclaim complex personal and collective narratives to imagine new histories of image-making. “The ultimate form of decolonization is through how Native languages form a view of the world,” exhibition curator Wendy Red Star notes. “These artists provide sharp perceptions, rooted in their cultures.”

Native America: In Translation features works by Rebecca Belmore, Nalikutaar Jacqueline Cleveland, Martine Gutierrez, Duane Linklater, Guadalupe Maravilla, Kimowan Metchewais, Alan Michelson, Koyoltzintli, and Marianne Nicolson.

Native America: In Translation is curated by Wendy Red Star as she expands on her role as guest editor of the Fall 2020 issue of Aperture magazine. The exhibition is organized by Aperture and is made possible, in part, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

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Columbia College Chicago Student Center | 754 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago

Join us for our annual benefit happening on LEAP Night.

DARKROOM 2024 Co-Chairs: Eszter Borvendeg and Lincoln Schatz

Mark your calendar for MoCP's annual benefit, DARKROOM!


VIP Reception: 5:30-6:30 p.m. 
Benefit Auction and Party: 6:30-9 p.m.

Dawoud Bey: Silver Camera Awardee

Jason Pickleman: Honoree

VIP Reception & Conversation with Dawoud Bey: 5:30-6:30 pm
Benefit Auction and Party: 6:30-9 pm

DARKROOM is MoCP’s renowned photography auction featuring important works by contemporary artists from around the world and one-of-a-kind art experiences. Event proceeds support essential MoCP exhibitions, education, and community engagement programs.

VIP Tickets: $500
DARKROOM Benefit Tickets: $250 ($100 for Artists and Educators)

If you are interested in sponsoring DARKROOM 2024, please contact Jaclyn Silverman, Development Manager, at jsilverman@colum.edu.

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Zoom webinar registration link 

Patrick Del Percio, Lector of Cherokee language in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University, will lead a conversation focusing on Native language revitalization. Invited speakers include Dane Poolaw, a specialist in Plains sign language; Harry Oosahwee, a first language Cherokee teacher, painter and sculptor; Kai Minosh Pyle, a poet and language activist; and Royce Young Wolf, Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Yale Peabody Museum. Part of their discussion will explore the works of late artist Kimowan Metchewais, whose Polaroids evoking sign language appear in \"Native America: In Translation.\" 

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Feguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave.  

Marianne Nicolson is an artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. Her practice is multi-disciplinary, encompassing photography, painting, carving, video, installation, monumental public art, writing and speaking. She holds a BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, an MFA from the University of Victoria, as well as an MA and a PhD in Linguistics and Anthropology with a focus on the Kwak’wala language. Her works has been exhibited in the 17th Biennale of Sydney; Vancouver Art Gallery; National Museum of the American Indian, New York; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands, amongst others. Nicolson has major public artworks installed in the Vancouver International Airport; the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan; and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France. Her work is currently showcased in “Native America: In Translation.”  

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department of Columbia College Chicago.
 

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On April 13,  join us for a curatorial tour of Native America: In Translation at 11 am, then from noon-2 pm, Jason Wesaw is leading a Family Day Workshop.

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MoCP print study room, 600 S. Michigan Ave. 

Families are invited to join us for an artmaking workshop in creating paper quilts. Guests are invited to bring their own family photographs, inspired by Wendy Red Star’s collages that weave photographs of her family into Apsáalooke star quilt patterns. This workshop will be led by artist Jason Wesaw, an enrolled member of the Potawatomi Nation in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Wesaw's multi-disciplinary art practice includes ceramics, textiles and works on paper to blur the boundaries between mediums by applying techniques more often associated with a different art form. 

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Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Kris Graves is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. Graves creates artwork that deals with societal problems and aims to use art as a means to inform people about cultural issues. Using a mix of conceptual and documentary practices, Graves photographs the subtleties of societal power and its impact on the built environment. He explores how capitalism and power have shaped countries — and how that can be seen and experienced in everyday life. Graves also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon; and to create opportunities for conversation about race, representation, and urban life. He photographs to preserve memory.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department of Columbia College Chicago.

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Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Join us for our upcoming Lecture in Photography with Gregory Harris co- presented with the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago. 

Gregory Harris is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He is a specialist in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. Since joining the High in 2016, Harris has curated over a dozen exhibitions including A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City, and Look Again: 40 Years of Collecting Photographs as well as solo shows with Thomas Struth, Paul Graham, and Amy Elkins.

Before joining the High, Harris was the Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and he held curatorial positions in the Photography Department at the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago, and an MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Image: Gregory Harris at the High Museum, Atlanta. 

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Captured Earth presents works by artists who create works in photography and installation that use elements from nature to explore place, ecology, and the material and mystical qualities of the land. Depictions range from site-specific performances, including Tarrah Krajnak’s documentations of her nature-centered rituals using rocks and plant material, and Alan Cohen’s walking meditations on the equator. Other artists use natural elements to create experimental process-based works, such as Jeremy Bolen’s prints produced from film developed in a polluted river or Barbara Crane’s photographic transfers of tree bark, leaves, and fungi she gathered at her Michigan cabin retreat. Others attempt to convey things so confounding that they cannot be contained in an image, such as Penelope Umbrico’s 8,146,774 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 9/10/10, that presents an assemblage of photographs of sunsets from one day found on a photo sharing website to underscore the universal human attraction to capture the sun’s essence. Collectively, the exhibition shows ways artists grapple with creating visual language to express their connection to the earth and its magnitude.

Curated by Kristin Taylor, Curator of Academic Programs and Collections.

MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, MoCP Advisory Board, the Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2023–2024 exhibition season is sponsored in part by the Comer Family Foundation, Efroymson Family Fund, Henry Nias Foundation, Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, and Pritzker Traubert Foundation. This project is partially supported by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. 

Image: Tarrah Krajnak. Sister Rock, Rock that Tries to Forget. 2020

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Opening reception with artist talk by Dakota Mace

Lecture 6-7 p.m. in the Ferguson Lecture Hall 

MoCP will have an opening reception with a talk by exhibiting artist Dakota Mace. Mace will speak about her works in the exhibition that incorporate photography, weaving, papermaking and beadwork to address ancestral relationships to Diné landscapes.

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Tree walk through Grant Park with Openlands

Depart from MoCP, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Tom Ebeling, senior forestry program manager for the Community Forestry team at Openlands will lead a tree walk in Grant Park. Ebeling will teach us how to identify and understand the history and needs of trees in the area. Participants will depart from MoCP at 6 p.m. and then go on an hour-long walk through the park. 

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Photos at Zoom: Art and the Anthropocene

Join us on Zoom to discuss works in MoCP's collection that connect to topics related to the age of the Anthropocene. Select artists include Edward Burtynsky, David Maisel, Fabrice Monteiro, Christina Seeley and more.

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Gallery talk with Antonia Contro
 
Exhibiting artist Antonia Contro, will explain her lightbox installation, titled \"Sentinels\" (2002), that she made in homage to cypress trees in this gallery talk. Contro’s work in mixed media explores the nature of time and the meaning of knowledge. After the gallery talk, there will be a short tour of the exhibition.

Image: Antonia Contro with sound design by Lou Mallozzi, \"Sentinels,\" 2002

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Photos at Noon Guest Led by Terry Evans: Photographing the Midwest Landscape

For this in-person event, artist Terry Evans will lead a discussion about works she selected from MoCP's collection depicting the Midwest landscape. The selection will include varied photographic approaches to locations such as prairies, farms and the Great Lakes. 

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Guided Meditation with Hillary Johnson

Guests are invited to join artist and educator, Hillary Johnson, for a special in-gallery guided meditation. This program will extend on themes in the exhibition of mindfulness and connectivity to nature.

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is pleased to present Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, an exhibition featuring the innovative work of Eritrea-born Canadian artist Dawit L. Petros. The exhibition will run from August 30 to December 20, 2024, and will showcase Petros’s exploration of the impact of Italian colonialism in Africa on the people, geographies, and built environments of Africa, Europe, and North America.  

Using Chicago’s Balbo Monument and Balbo Avenue as starting points, Petros explores the legacy of Italian fascism on the visual landscape of Chicago. Both the monument and the street pay homage to fascist aviator Italo Balbo, who directed a squadron of seaplanes that flew from Italy to Chicago during the 1933-1934 Chicago World’s Fair. The monument is an ancient Roman column gifted to the city by dictator Benito Mussolini that promotes fascism and still stands just east of Soldier Field.  

Petros’s practice spans photography, video, and sculpture, often incorporating found objects and archival materials. Probing photography’s role in the colonization of the Horn of Africa and Libya, Petros’s artworks are characterized by a layering of complex histories and a poetic sensitivity to the stories embedded within landscapes and communities. Prospetto a Mareencourages viewers to question fixed historical narratives and to reflect on themes of migration, memory, and the fluidity of both cultural boundaries and personal identity.  

“We are thrilled to host the first museum exhibition in Chicago by Dawit L. Petros at MoCP,” says Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director. “By incisively deconstructing established narratives of culture, migration, and power, Petros’s works remind us that the tendrils of the past reach into the present.”  

Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare is accompanied by a catalog published by Mousse Publishing in Milan, Italy, featuring essays by Lindsay Caplan, Teresa Fiore, Karen Irvine, Ruth Iyob, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Onur Öztürk, and Dawit L. Petros, to be released in October 2024.   

Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare opens to the public on August 30, 2024, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, located at Columbia College Chicago. An opening reception will be held on September 5, 2024, from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibition will be on view through December 20, 2024. For more information, visit www.mocp.org.  

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Join us for the opening reception of Prospetto a Mare exhibition by Dawit L. Petros.

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is pleased to present Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, an exhibition featuring the innovative work of Eritrea-born Canadian artist Dawit L. Petros. The exhibition will run from August 30 to December 20, 2024, and will showcase Petros’s exploration of the impact of Italian colonialism in Africa on the people, geographies, and built environments of Africa, Europe, and North America.  

Using Chicago’s Balbo Monument and Balbo Avenue as starting points, Petros explores the legacy of Italian fascism on the visual landscape of Chicago. Both the monument and the street pay homage to fascist aviator Italo Balbo, who directed a squadron of seaplanes that flew from Italy to Chicago during the 1933-1934 Chicago World’s Fair. The monument is an ancient Roman column gifted to the city by dictator Benito Mussolini that promotes fascism and still stands just east of Soldier Field.  

Petros’s practice spans photography, video, and sculpture, often incorporating found objects and archival materials. Probing photography’s role in the colonization of the Horn of Africa and Libya, Petros’s artworks are characterized by a layering of complex histories and a poetic sensitivity to the stories embedded within landscapes and communities. Prospetto a Mare encourages viewers to question fixed historical narratives and to reflect on themes of migration, memory, and the fluidity of both cultural boundaries and personal identity.  

“We are thrilled to host the first museum exhibition in Chicago by Dawit L. Petros at MoCP,” says Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director. “By incisively deconstructing established narratives of culture, migration, and power, Petros’s works remind us that the tendrils of the past reach into the present.”  

Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare is accompanied by a catalog published by Mousse Publishing in Milan, Italy, featuring essays by Lindsay Caplan, Teresa Fiore, Karen Irvine, Ruth Iyob, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Onur Öztürk, and Dawit L. Petros, to be released in October 2024.   

Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare opens to the public on August 30, 2024, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, located at Columbia College Chicago. An opening reception will be held on September 5, 2024, from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibition will be on view through December 20, 2024. For more information, visit www.mocp.org.  

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Catherine Opie is one of the most important photographers of her generation. Her subjects have included early seminal portraits of the LGBTQ+ community, the architecture of Los Angeles’ freeway system, mansions in Beverly Hills, Midwestern icehouses, high school football players, California surfers, and abstract landscapes of National Parks, among others.

This program is sponsored in partnership by MoCP, Columbia College Chicago School of Visual Arts, and FILTER PHOTO.

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Left: Catherine Opie, Right: Catherine Opie, Crystal Cross, 1989

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Taking  place at 1328 W. Randolph  St. |  purchase  first look tickets 

At this event you can meet and mingle with friends and artists over light bites, cocktails, and activities while viewing the newest addition of fine print photographs.

The Fine Print Program is an ongoing museum initiative where renowned local, national, and international photographers are invited to create a limited edition photograph for sale specifically for the museum to benefit our artistic and educational programs. Fine Prints are a great way to begin, or expand, your art collection while being introduced to some of the most innovative artists in the field today.

We are enthusiastic to announce this year’s fine print artists Peter Cochrane, Dakota Mace, Dawit L. Petros, and Salma Abedin Prithi who will join over 70 participating artists.

Current and previous fine print photographs will be available for purchase at FIRST LOOK and in our online shop.

This event is organized by MoCP and supported in part by Museum Council and the generosity of Leah Missbach Day.

To purchase tickets, and share with your friends, click the button below.

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Join architectural historian Onur Öztürk and artist Kyle Bellucci Johanson for a walk from the MoCP to Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River exploring Chicago’s “Golden Age” of architecture and its Euro-centric influences on buildings stemming from the first Columbian Exposition and the Burnham Plan.

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@ Film Cinema Row

1104 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605

Join us for a symposium exploring topics relating to Dawit L. Petros’s Prospetto a Mare. Sessions will address the global legacies of Italian colonialism, the architectural imprint of colonial power at the Chicago World’s Fairs of 1893 and 1933-1934, and the relationship of Petros’s practice to abstraction and other contemporary artists.. Participating scholars include Sean Anderson, Lindsay Caplan, Mikolaj Czerwinski, Teresa Fiore, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Onur Öztürk, Angelica Pesarini, Dawit L. Petros, Lisa Schrenk, and Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Join owner of Chicago’s renowned Demera restaurant, Tigist Reda, and her team for a traditional Jebena Buna Ethiopian and Eritrean Coffee Ceremony. The daily ceremony, which alludes to Ethiopia’s history as the birthplace of coffee production, continues to be a powerful way of gathering community, strengthening social bonds, community story-telling, and appreciating the complex flavors of coffee and the labor it takes to produce it.  The coffee ceremony, almost exclusively led by women, is led by Reda, who will explain the national, historic, religious and cultural significance of the roasting of the green beans, the grinding of the darker brown beans, the preparation of the jebena pot, the brewing stages and the serving of the coffee in the traditional sini. The ceremony provides an opportunity to gather communal stories and reflect on how this ceremony resonates with your own traditions.

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Note: this lecture has been rescheduled from Oct 16 to NOVEMBER 13, 6–7:30

(Ferguson Lecture Hall)

Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator and his solo exhibition, Prospetto a Mare, is on view at MoCP from August 30-December 20, 2024.

Visual artist and researcher Dawit L. Petros is currently associate professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Petros completed the Whitney Independent Study Program, an MFA in visual art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, a BFA in photography from Concordia University, and a BA in history from the University of Saskatchewan. A recipient of awards including a Terra Foundation Research Fellowship, the Paul De Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography and a Fulbright Fellowship, Petros’s multidisciplinary work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City; and the Bamako Biennale, Mali, among other venues.

His work is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. Throughout the past decade, he has focused on a critical re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. These concerns derive from lived experiences: Petros is an Eritrean emigrant who spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada. The overlapping cultures, voices, and tenets of this constellation produced a dispersed consciousness, global and transnational in stance and outlook. His works aim for an introspective and textured analysis of the historical factors that produced these migratory conditions. Petros installs photographs, moving images, sculptural objects, and sound work according to performative, painterly, or site responsive logics. Moving between the works echoes the extensive travel taken to produce them; while recurrent visual or formal devices quietly indicate the complex backdrops against which his projects are set.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department of Columbia College Chicago.

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In 2024, high school students from South Shore College Prep, Lincoln Park High School, and Prosser Career Academy worked with artists Dawit L. Petros Regina Agu, and Jonathan Castillo. Students created photographic portraits and oral history records to capture stories from members of their communities about how people relocated their lives to Chicago.


View the digital exhibition & listen to the oral history interviews


Image: S. Urgiles, Prosser Career Academy, 2024

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Regina Agu: Shore|Lines from January 23, 2024 – May 18, 2024.


Drawing on methods of field work and landscape photography, Agu examines waterways and natural environments as defining sites of Black life and belonging. This exhibition presents an original commission, large-scale panoramic installation at MoCP as part of an exploration of placemaking and community memory—tracing sites and legacies of historical Black North American migration through the medium and expansive tradition of the panoramic form.


Regina Agu: Shore|Lines brings together discourses of Black geographies, landscape photography, and site-specific land histories, using the methodology of landscape panorama as a format for relating ideas and themes of Black cultural memory connected to place. The exhibition includes an artist book that Agu refers to as a “field guide,” connecting her Midwest and Gulf South experiences of the landscapes.


Shore|Lines is curated by Associate Curator Asha Iman Veal and generously supported by The Joyce Foundation Joyce Award to Regina Agu and MoCP, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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@ Ferguson Lecture Hall 


600 S Michigan Ave


Based in Athens, GA, Mark Steinmetz is an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits of ordinary people in the spaces they inhabit. Steinmetz graduated from Yale’s MFA photography program in 1986, and has since taught at numerous prestigious colleges including Harvard, Yale, Sarah Lawrence, and Emory. His work has been exhibited in many major institutions, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia; Art Institute of Chicago; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Among other awards, Steinmetz was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

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Silver Camera Award

Vera Lutter


DARKROOM is MoCP’s renowned benefit auction party featuring premier artworks and one-of-a-kind arts experiences by emerging and established contemporary artists from around the world.


Tickets *available for purchase soon*

$500 VIP Ticket: Early auction preview access & conversation with Vera Lutter

$250 Main Benefit Ticket: Access to the auction & party

$100 Artist & Educator Ticket: Main benefit ticket for working artists & educators


*For more details about Darkroom, please visit our website.

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Please click here to register

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@ Ferguson Lecture Hall


600 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605


Multidisciplinary artist Regina Agu will present on Shore|Lines, her large-scale panoramic installation and exhibition that explores community memory within Black Midwestern lakeside communities, tracing legacies of historical migration from the Gulf South region to the Great Lakes. Using methods of photography, archival research, and oral history, her work examines waterways and natural environments as defining sites of Black life and belonging.  

Join MoCP for an evening of original performances from artists Veronica Anne Salinas, Andres Luis Hernandez, and Lola Ayisha Ogbara, focusing on landscape ecologies, soundwalks, and deep listening practice. 

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Rod Slemmons Honored in New Exhibition Series

The Chicago Cluster Project is a new exhibition and public program series inspired by former MoCP Executive Director Rod Slemmons (2002–2011), celebrating his enduring impact on photography and photography education in Chicago.


On view at 400 N. Peoria Street—home of the historic Hedrich & Blessing Photography studios—the exhibition Don’t Make Photographs, Think Them invites contemporary artists to respond to Slemmons’ archive and collection of historical cameras.


MoCP staff will take part in two public programs reflecting on Slemmons’ legacy.

Saturday, March 28, 2025

Opening reception

Don’t Make Photographs, Think Them

5:00 - 8:00 pm

@ 400 N. Peoria St.

Chicago, IL 60647




Thursday, April 3, 2025

The New Automat

6:00 pm

@ 400 N. Peoria St.

Chicago, IL 60647


Join MoCP Executive Director Natasha Egan and Chief Curator and Deputy Director Karen Irvine with artists and SAIC educators Matt Siber and Jan Tichy for a panel discussion exploring the legacy of Rod Slemmons and his final writing on photography.




Friday, April 25, 2025

Shadowy Evidence

3:00 pm

@ 400 N. Peoria St.

Chicago, IL 60647


MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections Kristin Taylor and artist Selena Kearney will discuss the Rod Slemmons archive of historical photographs of Native Americans. 

The Chicago Cluster Project


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@MoCP 600 S. Michigan Ave


Please join MoCP for an exclusive guided exhibition tour.

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Fullerton Lecture Hall


Please join MoCP in welcoming Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, for a Lecture in Photography co-sponsored by MoCP and Columbia College Chicago’s School of Visual Arts.

Lecture in Photography

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Conversations on Collaboration in Photography

@ Fullerton Lecture Hall & MoCP


MoCP presents Conversations on Collaboration in Photography, a series of four roundtable discussions between artists, authors, academics, critics, and curators exploring topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as they relate to the past, present, and future of photography.

This program is free and open to the public. In between sessions, light refreshments will be provided in the museum for guests to experience the exhibition and continue engaging in conversation.

*To register for individual conversations or the full day of events, please click the button below or visit our website for more details.

Program registration


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Guest curated by Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and Laura Wexler, along with Kristin Taylor, MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections

This exhibition will feature works in the MoCP permanent collection that are included in the recent and groundbreaking publication titled Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography. The book was created by a group of artists, art historians, activists, and scholars—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, and Laura Wexler—and published by Thames and Hudson in 2024. It is an extension of a project that these five authors have collaborated on for over ten years, in which they reassess a range of photographs and projects that portray stories of humanity and social movements to decenter the photographer as the only author of the image, and to emphasize the act of photographing as an inherently collaborative process in which many parties are involved. By sharing both artists’ statements and excerpts from interviews with people depicted in photographs, they question whether memories align: Did both sides remember the moment in the same way? How did the photographed feel about the photograph’s life after it circulated through art markets, print media, and online? And what role might the photograph have played in perpetuating harmful or liberatory narratives about specific histories, places, or individuals?

The works—both historical and contemporary—are presented in clusters focused on topics, to highlight and propose questions about photographed moments of coercion, friendship, exploitation, community, and violence. The exhibition will also feature a reflection space for the audience engagement, as part of the project’s ongoing effort to consider the history of photography as a living and evolving entity that is unfixed and expanding as we learn more about the people, communities, and histories that images depict.

MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, MoCP Advisory Board, Museum Council, individuals, private and corporate foundations, and government grants.

The 2024–2025 exhibition season is sponsored in part by the Efroymson Family Fund, Henry Nias Foundation, The Rowan Foundation, Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, Pritzker Traubert Foundation, Comer Family Foundation, and Venable Foundation. It is partially supported by a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and 21c Museum Hotel, Chicago. MoCP acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.

This project is generously supported through the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Impact Fund for Photography and the Westridge Foundation. 

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Please join us in a discussion around works in the MoCP permanent collection that relate to the themes presented in the Collaboration exhibition. This viewing will be led by MoCP Curatorial Assistant, Judson Womack.

*This program will be held in the MoCP print study room. 

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Please join MoCP for a lecture by acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar, followed by a wine reception in the museum. Jaar’s installation, Caritas, Real Pictures (1995) is on view in the current exhibition Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection.

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).

Over eighty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020. In 2024 he was awarded the IV Albert Camus Mediterranean Prize. He was recently selected as the recipient of the 2025 Edward MacDowell Medal.


Stage 2

618 S. Michigan Ave., Floor 2

Chicago, IL 60605


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Please join us in a viewing and conversation around works in the MoCP permanent collection on the topic of autonomous power in photography. Works presented include photographic practices of Black, Indigenous, and queer artists to expand topics presented in the exhibition, Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography In Dialogue with the MoCP Collection. This discussion will be led by MoCP Curatorial and Education Assistant, Kyli Hawks.

*This program will be held in the MoCP print study room. 

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Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) announces the opening of its fall exhibition Channeling: body ← Image → viewer on view from September 2 – December 20, 2025, guest curated by Joan Giroux and Alice Maude-Roxby.

This exhibition features eleven international artists whose work communicates through and with the body, positioning the viewer to a consciousness of their body and self, or how bodies channel and defy societal oppression and malevolence. Gestures such as crawling, lying, climbing, kneeling, pointing, running, and walking backward evoke memory, history, and rhetoric. This exhibition situates the body politic and ways in which history imprints upon us as a reminder that we are human, both in and out of the body.

Exhibiting artists include Laura Aguilar (American, 1959–2018), Pia Arke (Kalaaleq-Danish, 1958–2007), EJ Hill (American, b. 1985), Susan Hiller (American, 1940–2019), Ketty La Rocca (Italian, 1938–1976), Shari Rothfarb Mekonen (American, b. 1968), Gustav Metzger (German, 1926–2017), Paulo Nazareth (Brazilian, b. 1977), Anna Oppermann (German, 1940–1993), Gina Pane (French, 1939–1990), and Bridget Smith (British, b. 1966). 

In a statement, the curators relate, “at specific moments in the last half century, these artists have considered how performance and photography can break through overarching conditions, oppressions, rhetorics, and the confines of language. These communications position viewers to experience a heightened awareness of their self and body, and explore how bodies channel and confront societal malaise, oppression, transition, and vulnerability.”

Channeling: body ← Image → viewer includes photography, video, and installations that memorialize, witness, and bear tribute to our humanity. 

About the curators:

Joan Giroux (American, b. 1961) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and activist, whose work frequently provides context for community and personal reflections on loss, absence, and bereavement through active play and participation. Since 1987, she has performed and exhibited in the United States and abroad, and recently completed a Fulbright-British Library Eccles Institute Scholar Award in London. 

Alice Maude-Roxby (British, b. 1963) is an artist, curator, and writer based in London, England. Her early publications and exhibitions focused on performance and photography, and feminism included contributions to Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, (London, Tate Publications, 2003) and her curation of the exhibition and book Live Art on Camera (John Hansard Gallery, 2007). Gina Pane: Actions Through Time, co-edited with Sophie Delpeux, will be published with Routledge, 2025.

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Please join MoCP for a Lecture in Photography with esteemed artist Bridget Smith at Ferguson Hall from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., followed by a light reception and exhibition viewing at MoCP.

Bridget Smith is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, and site-specific installations to explore the relationship between the real and the imagined within social and architectural spaces. Smith’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City; the Contemporary Art Society, London; and the Denver Art Museum, Denver, among many others. Smith’s work, We Must Live, (2012), is on view at MoCP in the exhibition Channeling: body ←Image→ viewer.

Learn more about the artist here.

Lectures in Photography is co-sponsored in part by MoCP and Columbia College Chicago’s School of Visual Arts.

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Please join MoCP for a 30-minute exhibition tour followed by a guided meditation and sound bath.

Exhibition co-curator Joan Giroux will guide guests through works in the exhibition that situate the body politic in history and remind us that simple presence in space and time can be action. In works that explore how bodies confront societal malaise and oppression in the built environment, varied gestures—crawling, lying, climbing, pointing, running, walking backward—evoke memory, history, and rhetoric.

After the tour, Aneela Dean-Saineghi will guide participants in a meditation and sound bath, activating releases in your body for holistic healing and wellness.

Bring your own yoga mat and a light blanket. Tea will be served at the end of the program.

This program is presented as part of the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, opening September 19, 2025 and on view through February 28, 2026 at locations across Chicago, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change engages timely global issues through the lens of architecture and design. Learn more at chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org.

Registration is required. Please click the button below to register.

Register here


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Please join MoCP at Ferguson Lecture Hall for the panel discussion Performance to Camera, expounding upon the works from the exhibition Channeling: body ← Image → viewer.

The conversation will address the role photography plays in translating, preserving, and sharing live, site-specific performances, while also discussing what is missing when representing a live moment through still images.

Panelists include exhibition curators Joan Giroux and Alice Maude-Roxby alongside critic and writer Judith Russi Kirshner and performance artist Meida McNeal. The conversation will be moderated by writer and academic, Hannah Higgins.

A registration link for Panel Discussion: Performance to Camera will be provided closer to the event date.

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@ MoCP 

Print Study Room, 2nd Floor

600 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL 60605


This program is in partnership with the Chicago Architectural Biennial.

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Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) announces its next exhibition, MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades, on view January 22-May 16, 2026.


As we enter the new year, MoCP celebrates its 50th anniversary. Since opening in 1976 and initiating collecting in 1979, MoCP has acquired over 18,000 objects by more than 2,000 artists, representing a broad scope of aesthetics, technologies, and processes. The variety of artworks collected has allowed the museum to engage in conversations across political, social, and cultural landscapes.


To celebrate this milestone, MoCP at Fifty examines the evolving practice of building a dynamic collection, presenting a range of objects, from the rarely exhibited to newly acquired works. Together, these selections question and reflect on the role cultural institutions play in shaping the photographic canon. Each of the museum’s five galleries represents a decade of collecting, beginning with the most recent acquisitions (2016-2026) in the first gallery, then moving backwards through time.


“Over five decades, the MoCP has built a collection that traces shifting cultural, political, and visual histories. This moment allows us to look back with reflection and celebrate our holdings, knowing that every photograph we steward becomes part of a larger conversation about how images shape our understanding of the world.” Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director


Looking at MoCP’s collection decade by decade is as much an archive of history as it is of art. Collections are fluid, often evolving in ways that mirror the values and trends of society at large. The first decades are noticeably missing many women and artists of color, not because such artists were not making work at the time, but because cultural institutions had yet to fully consider the value of varied perspectives and forms of practice. The later decades were collected with intention, not only of addressing gaps in representation, but to embrace conceptual works and works that push the boundary of what defines “photography,” in the process expanding, innovating, and redefining what a photography museum can offer the public.


This exhibition displays over 100 objects from the MoCP collection. Featured artists include: Joel Sternfeld (American, b. 1944), Barbara Crane (American, 1928–2019), Matthew Finley (American, b. 1972), Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953), Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Japanese American, 1921-2012), Dayanita Singh (Indian, b.1961), Bob Thall (American, b. 1948), Carlotta Corpron (American, 1901-1988), and various others.


Uta Barth, Field #3, 1995; printed 2021. 2021:244

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Opening reception Thursday, January 29, 2026

5:00 - 7:00 pm

MoCP

600 S. Michigan Ave. 

Chicago, IL


Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) announces its next exhibition, MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades, on view January 22-May 16, 2026.


As we enter the new year, MoCP celebrates its 50th anniversary. Since opening in 1976 and initiating collecting in 1979, MoCP has acquired over 18,000 objects by more than 2,000 artists, representing a broad scope of aesthetics, technologies, and processes. The variety of artworks collected has allowed the museum to engage in conversations across political, social, and cultural landscapes.


To celebrate this milestone, MoCP at Fifty examines the evolving practice of building a dynamic collection, presenting a range of objects, from the rarely exhibited to newly acquired works. Together, these selections question and reflect on the role cultural institutions play in shaping the photographic canon. Each of the museum’s five galleries represents a decade of collecting, beginning with the most recent acquisitions (2016-2026) in the first gallery, then moving backwards through time.


“Over five decades, the MoCP has built a collection that traces shifting cultural, political, and visual histories. This moment allows us to look back with reflection and celebrate our holdings, knowing that every photograph we steward becomes part of a larger conversation about how images shape our understanding of the world.” Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director


Looking at MoCP’s collection decade by decade is as much an archive of history as it is of art. Collections are fluid, often evolving in ways that mirror the values and trends of society at large. The first decades are noticeably missing many women and artists of color, not because such artists were not making work at the time, but because cultural institutions had yet to fully consider the value of varied perspectives and forms of practice. The later decades were collected with intention, not only of addressing gaps in representation, but to embrace conceptual works and works that push the boundary of what defines “photography,” in the process expanding, innovating, and redefining what a photography museum can offer the public.


This exhibition displays over 100 objects from the MoCP collection. Featured artists include: Joel Sternfeld (American, b. 1944), Barbara Crane (American, 1928–2019), Matthew Finley (American, b. 1972), Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953), Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Japanese American, 1921-2012), Dayanita Singh (Indian, b.1961), Bob Thall (American, b. 1948), Carlotta Corpron (American, 1901-1988), and various others.


Image: Danny Lyon, Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, from the portfolio Danny Lyon, 1966; portfolio 1979. 1983:125.10

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Lecture in Photography: Joel Sternfeld

Thursday, February 26, 2026

12:00 pm


Ferguson Lecture Hall

600 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL

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Celebrate MoCP and our 50th anniversary at our annual benefit auction party DARKROOM on February 26, 2026. Tickets are on sale now! 

DARKROOM brings together hundreds of photography enthusiasts, artists, and arts patrons for an evening to support the museum.

This year, we honor photographer Joel Sternfeld with the Silver Camera Award while showcasing nearly fifty artists in our auction and offering one-of-a-kind live arts experiences on-site at DARKROOM.

Click the button below to visit our website, purchase tickets, or make a donation today.

Purchase DARKROOM Tickets

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Lecture in Photography: Bob Thall

Please join MoCP and Columbia College Chicago School of Visual Arts for a Lecture in Photography with Bob Thall.

*Ferguson Lecture Hall is located on the ground level of 600 S. Michigan Ave.

For several decades, Bob Thall has been known for his formally rigorous and deadpan portrayals of the urban and suburban landscape in Chicago, photographing in sharp detail a view camera. His new project looks at cities across the US and his long term commitment to black and white large format work. Thall served on the faculty at Columbia College Chicago from 1976 to 2017 and chaired the Photography Department from 1999 to 2011. His work and scholarship have played a crucial role in the museum’s history and the broader educational landscape.

Lectures in Photography is co-sponsored in partnership with MoCP and Columbia College Chicago School of Visual Arts.

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Talk and Workshop: Reimagining the Photo Album with Matthew Finley


Saturday, April 11, 2026

12- 1 pm Lecture

1-2:30 pm Workshop


MoCP

600 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL


Join MoCP collection artist Matthew Finley (American, b. 1972) for a lecture and workshop exploring the creative possibilities of family and personal archives. Participants will reimagine the photo album as a space for personal or fictional storytelling, using either their own pictures or provided images to create imaginative, curated albums. This program is inspired by Finley’s series and new book An Impossibly Normal Life, a fictional narrative composed of sourced snapshots from around the world that reimagine his late uncle’s life and their shared experiences of coming out and belonging. 


This program will be held in the MoCP print study room. It is free but requires registration (link is forthcoming).


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NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED




Lecture in Photography: Carla Williams

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

6:00-7:30 pm


Ferguson Lecture Hall

600 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL 


Carla Williams (American, b. 1965) is a photographer and curator known for her explorations of identity, race, gender, and representation. In her early work in the 1980s, she used a large-format camera to explore her own image, in work that reflected the lack of visibility of Black women in photographic history. Williams is the co-author of The Black Female Body: A Photographic History (2002) with Deborah Willis. She served as a curator of photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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The Prix Pictet is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading photography awards. Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, it seeks to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to critical sustainability issues. To date, the award has completed eleven cycles, each organized around a theme that highlights a distinct facet of sustainability. Storm is the theme of the eleventh cycle.

Storm is both a natural phenomenon and a metaphor for the unseen and relentless forces shaping the world today. As a theme, it speaks to the growing volatility of our age, encompassing environmental collapse, political upheaval, economic instability, and social unrest, situating us perpetually on the brink of crisis.

The theme challenges photographers to capture the raw energy and far-reaching consequences of these turbulent conditions. Whether addressing the devastation of climate disasters, experiences of displacement, or the simmering tensions within divided societies, Storm reveals not only disruption but also its generative force: the possibility of transformation, renewal, and hope that can emerge in its aftermath.


The twelve shortlisted artists are:

Takashi Arai (Japan/Germany)

Marina Caneve (Italy)

Tom Fecht (Germany/Italy)

Balazs Gardi (Hungary/USA)

Roberto Huarcaya (Peru)

Alfredo Jaar (Chile/USA)

Belal Khaled (Palestine)

Hannah Modigh (Sweden)

Baudouin Mouanda (Republic of the Congo)

Camille Seaman (Denmark/USA)

Laetitia Vançon (France)

Patrizia Zelano (Italy)

Alfredo Jaar was announced as the winner for his series The End, 2025


Support for this exhibition

MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, MoCP Advisory Board, Museum Council, individuals, private and corporate foundations, and government grants.

The 2025–2026 exhibition season is sponsored in part by the Comer Family Foundation, Efroymson Family Fund, Henry Nias Foundation, the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, Rowan Foundation, United States Artists, and Venable Foundation. MoCP also acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council and a CityArts grant from the city of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.


Image: Takashi Arai, 6 April 2013, Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 2013, from the series “Exposed in a Hundred Suns”

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Special Note: This exhibition takes place at Glass Curtain Gallery – 1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL

The Museum of Contemporary Photography and School of Visual Arts at Columbia College Chicago proudly present the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts & Social Issues exhibition featuring 2025-2026 fellow Lali Khalid.

Khalid’s exhibition will be on view June 25-October 3, 2026 at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery with exclusive programming during Filter Photo Festival.

In partnership with CAIR Chicago, Khalid’s multimedia project of video, audio, and photography represents personal narratives within Muslim culture and the everyday by providing a broader perspective beyond stereotypes and inviting conversation on belonging, resilience, and the importance of representation.

Click the embedded links to learn more about Lali Khalid, CAIR Chicago, the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship for Photographic Arts & Social Issues, the School of Visual Arts, and Filter Photo.

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Join MoCP for a virtual artist talk with Prix Pictet Storm exhibiting artists Marina Caneve and Hannah Modigh.

Both artists explore themes of memory, place, and the socio-political landscapes that shape our understanding of the land. In conversation, they will share insights into their work and their participation in the Prix Pictet prize and exhibition. 

To learn more about the artists, please visit their websites at Marina Caneve and Hannah Modigh. 

This program is free, open to all, virtual, and will be hosted on Zoom. Registration is required.

Register for program


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In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), MoCP welcomes Gina Ramirez, NRDC Director, Midwest Environmental Health; Joel Scata, NRDC Environmental and Administrative Law Attorney; and Senator Graciela Guzman for an exhibition tour and panel discussion about the role artists, advocates, attorneys, and politicians play in addressing climate change. 

Join MoCP on Thursday, August 6, from 6-8pm, for a program centered on collective climate action. Beginning with a short, curator-guided tour of the exhibition, participants will engage with images of environmental crisis before moving into a facilitated conversation focused on local climate issues in Chicago. 

The program culminates in collective action, where guests will write and send postcards to local and state policymakers calling for stronger protections around water infrastructure, climate resilience, and environmental justice. Prompts, key issues, and contact information will be provided, helping participants take immediate, tangible steps toward climate advocacy while contributing to a shared civic effort.

MoCP is located on the ground level of 600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, with entrances on Michigan Ave. and Harrison St. Pay-to-park parking is available along Harrison St and Wabash Ave. 

To learn more about the NRDC, please visit their website at nrdc.org.

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