Lyle Ashton Harris, Construct #10 (referenced as Degas), 1989

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Vintage silver gelatin print

208.28 x 109.22 cm
82 x 43 in
212 x 137 x 6 cm (framed)
Framing Dimensions: 212.09 x 137.16 x 6.03 inch

Lyle Ashton Harris Studio

Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Born in the Bronx, NY, raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and New York, Harris obtained a BA from Wesleyan University, a MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. His work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Tate Modern, London, UK, among others.

The “Constructs” series of black and white photographic prints was produced by Harris in 1989 during his first year in the MFA graduate program at the California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles. These photographs were initially presented publically in 1990 in an exhibition titled “AutoPortraits” organized by Autograph at Camerawork, London, UK, and in the 1992 exhibition “Fever” at Exit Art/The First World, New York, curated by co-founders Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman. This suite of four works was included in the groundbreaking exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” curated by Thelma Golden at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1994, which traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 1995. In 2019 the suite of four Constructs was acquired by the Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and by the Tate Modern, London, UK.

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Private Collection, Belgium

Exhibitions

Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Nov 1994 - March 1995, New York, NY
The Academic Body, American Academy in Rome, May 23 - July 13, 2019, Rome, Italy
Lyle Ashton Harris: Ombre à l’Ombre, The Warehouse by MARUANI MERCIER, October 2019, Zaventem, Belgium
Performing Genders, Performing Selves, 2023, Tate Modern, London, UK

Filling in the Pieces in Black, Curated by June Sarpong, Saatchi Gallery (Organized by MARUANI MERCIER Gallery, Belgium), October - November 2023, London, UK

Ombre à l’Ombre: Lyle Ashton Harris

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Lyle Ashton Harris United States, b. 1965

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