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Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'

Saturday, September 14 from 2–3 PM, the Queens Museum presents acclaimed artist and photographer Lyle Ashton Harris and scholar Nana Adusei-Poku as they delve into topics around self-care and representation explored in Harris’s exhibition, Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Harris and Adusei-Poku (who contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue) will discuss the artist’s recent Shadow Works series, mixed-media assemblages of photographic prints embedded in Ghanaian printed textiles with cowry shells, pottery, handwritten notes, and other personal ephemera, underscoring Harris’s layered approach to his practice. Book signing to follow. Please RSVP here.

Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'

Lyle Ashton Harris (b. Bronx, N.Y, 1965) was raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and New York. Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Harris’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate, London, UK; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University and lives in New York.

Nana Adusei-Poku is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include how cultural changes are articulated at the intersections of art, politics and popular culture, artistic productions from the Black Diaspora, Black Exhibition Histories and curatorial practice as a research tool for shaping art historical discourses. She is the curator of the exhibition Black Melancholia at the CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 2022, and curated a.o. the event Performances of No-thingness at the Academy of Arts Berlin in 2018.

Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'

Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'
Saturday, September 14: 2–3 PM
Queens Museum
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368
RSVP here.

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Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'
Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'
Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'
Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'
Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'
Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on 'Our first and last love'

Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

Gregory R. Miller & Co./Queens Museum of Art/Rose Art Museum
Clth, 10 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 100 color.

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