Fall 2021 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lecture Series

Ka-Man Tse
October 18, 2021, 7pm EST
Registration required
https://risd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElc--tqTMtG92Z-WTiWNLF1hkxgNCHyZpa

Ka-Man Tse is a photographer, video artist and educator. She received an MFA from Yale University, and a BA from Bard College. Her monograph, narrow distances, was published by Candor Arts in July 2018. She was a 2019 Artist Residence at Light Work in Syracuse, NY. She has exhibited her work at the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong, China; Para Site in Hong Kong, the WMA Masters Exhibition, Transition, in Hong Kong, the 2016 Hong Kong Contemporary Film Festival, and Videotage's Both Sides Now III – Final Frontiers in Hong Kong. U.S. based exhibitions include the Museum of Chinese in America in New York, the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Palm Springs Art Museum, Cornell University, Alfred University, Capricious Gallery, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and the Eighth Veil in Los Angeles. She has mounted solo shows at Aperture in New York, Lumenvisum in Hong Kong, the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, the New York Public Library, and Eaton Workshop in Hong Kong. She is the recipient of the 2018 Aperture Portfolio Prize, a 2017-2018 Research Award from Yale University Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and the 2014-2015 Robert Giard Fellowship in Photography. She taught at Yale University School of Art from 2013-2018, and is currently full-time faculty at Parsons. In 2018, she co-curated Daybreak: New Affirmations in Queer Photography at the Leslie-Lohman Museum with Matt Jensen. Her photographs have been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, i-d, dazed, Nueva Luz, Papersafe Magazine, NEWSPAPER, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Monocole, Capricious Magazine, O Magazine, Salon, Huffington Post, Slate, Hyphen Magazine, Time Out New York, Time Out Hong Kong, and Ming Pao Weekly.

Steffani Jemison
November 16, 2021, 7pm EST
Registration required
https://risd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOmuqzwrGtSp098qDkoFgRXcNfxemnrz

Steffani Jemison was born in 1981 in Berkeley, CA, and raised in Cincinnati. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and special projects at the Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati (2021), the Everson Museum (2021), the Stedelijk Museum (2019), Nottingham Contemporary (2018), Jeu de Paume and CAPC Bordeaux (both 2017), MoMA, New York (2015), RISD Museum, Providence (2015), and LAXART, Los Angeles (2013) among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial, New York (2019), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, and others. Jemison currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Joiri Minaya
November 30, 2021, 7pm EST
Registration required
https://risd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-GgpzIrHdNKNrVJCXtCP6kIrb8xqLVK

Joiri Minaya (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian NY based multi-disciplinary artist. She attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales (DR), the Chavón School of Design, and Parsons the New School for Design. Minaya has exhibited across the Caribbean, the U.S. and internationally. She has recently received a Jerome Hill Fellowship, a NY Artadia award and the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize, as well as grants from foundations like Nancy Graves, Rema Hort Mann, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She been awarded in two Dominican biennials (XXV Concurso León Jimenes; XXVII National Biennial) and has participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Smack Mellon, Bronx Museum, Red Bull House of Art, LES Printshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, Art Omi, ISCP and Vermont Studio Center.