Lyle Ashton Harris

Lyle Harris

Lyle Ashton Harris (born in Bronx, New York, 1965) has cultivated a diverse artistic practice, ranging from photography and collage to video installation and performance art, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic globally through intersections of the personal and the political. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Miami and in recent group exhibitions at Copenhagen Contemporary (“The Art of Sport”), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“Black American Portraits”), and currently through autumn 2022 at the Voorlinden Museum in the Netherlands (“Art is the Antidote”). A solo exhibition of his works spanning three decades will be presented in the U.S. by the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and the Nasher Museum at Duke University in 2023-24. His work is represented in the collections of 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 Tate Modern (London, UK), among many others. Harris’s most recent photography monograph was published by Aperture, and he is represented by LGDR, New York.

Lyle's Upcoming Workshops

  • III

    Level III

    Photography students have some formal training and significant experience making, capturing and digitally processing images using Adobe Lightroom and/or Adobe Photoshop. New Media students have some formal training in conceptual and technological aspects of video, multimedia, coding or animation and are versed in the appropriate software applications. Students have a portfolio of their artwork.

  • IV

    Level IV

    Photography students have advanced skills and knowledge of photography and digital image processing. New Media students have advanced skills and knowledge of video, multimedia, coding or animation. Students are self­-motivated and have multiple portfolios of their artwork.

Jun 30 - Jul 4, 2025
9AM-12PM

Master Class: Translating the Photograph through Memory

Lyle Harris

Tuition $1,325
Code P0514-25

This workshop invites participants to rigorously examine the relationship between self, photography, and image through innovative discourse on memory and desire. By engaging with a selection of cinema, artwork, and literature, participants are encouraged to take creative risks as they explore how to rethink notions of belonging, narratives of desire, and evolving concepts of beauty. Students will gain hands-on experience printing original artwork, utilizing archival images, and experimenting with collage. This course will serve as a forum in which students challenge and push their individual practice to the next level.  

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