Lyle Ashton Harris (Born–2023)
“Photography is a trace for me, to ward off that which seems ephemeral.”
—Lyle Ashton Harris
Exhibitions
- Lyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit
- Salon 94 New York
September 9, 2018 - January 12, 2019 “How long will I continue to play the game of mastery of the false self? When will the performance end? I long for that.” — Lyle Ashton Harris, statement from MFA exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, 1991
With Lyle Ashton Harris’s inaugural show at Salon 94, a performance of another sort has begun. The fifty-three-year-old artist returns to self-portraiture, unabashedly claiming his place as an artist for whom sexuality, race, gender, ethnicity, class—and now aging—continue as core engagements. To enact this series, Harris sought a plurality of masks, several ...
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Selected Artworks
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Self Portrait, Rome, 1992, 2017
- Chromogenic print
- Edition of 3, 2 APs
- 24 ¹⁄₈ × 18 ⁵⁄₈ × 1 ¹⁄₄ inches (61.3 × 47.3 × 3.2 cm) (Framed)
- 16 ¹⁄₄ × 10 ⁷⁄₈ inches (41.3 × 27.6 cm) (Unframed)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Heartache in Blue, 2002
- Dye sublimation print on aluminum
- Edition of 5, 2 APs
- 48 × 38 ¹⁄₈ inches (121.9 × 96.8 cm)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Billie Dreaming in Blue, 2002
- Dye sublimation print on aluminum
- Edition of 5, 2 APs
- 48 ³⁄₄ × 38 ¹⁄₄ × 1 ¹⁄₂ inches (123.8 × 97.2 × 3.8 cm) (Framed)
- 48 × 37 ¹⁄₂ inches (121.9 × 95.3 cm) (Unframed)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Venus Hottentot 2000, 1994
- Unique Polaroid
- 34 ³⁄₄ × 26 ³⁄₈ × 2 ⁵⁄₈ inches (88.3 × 67 × 6.7 cm) (Framed)
- 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm) (Unframed)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Antiquariato Busted, 2020
- Ghanaian cloth with sutured selvedge, two dye sublimation prints on aluminum, and artist’s dreadlocks
- 40 ⁵⁄₈ × 49 ³⁄₄ × 3 inches (103.2 × 126.4 × 7.6 cm)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Migration Times, 2020
- Ghanaian cloth with sutured selvedge, two dye sublimation prints on aluminum, and ceramic fragment
- 62 ¹⁄₄ × 74 ³⁄₄ × 4 inches (158.1 × 189.9 × 10.2 cm)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- The Gaze (For Laure), 2018
- Dye sublimation print on aluminum
- 27 ⁷⁄₈ × 36 ⁷⁄₈ × 1 ¹⁄₂ inches (70.8 × 93.7 × 3.8 cm)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Afropunk Odalisque, 2018
- Dye sublimation print on aluminum
- Edition of 3, 2 APs
- 49 × 65 × 1 ¹⁄₂ inches (124.5 × 165.1 × 3.8 cm) (Framed)
- 48 × 64 inches (121.9 × 162.6 cm) (Unframed)
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Lyle, London, 1992, 2015
- Chromogenic print
- Edition of 3, 2 APs
- 24 ¹⁄₈ × 18 ⁵⁄₈ × 1 ¹⁄₄ inches (61.3 × 47.3 × 3.2 cm) (Framed)
- 20 ¹⁄₂ × 15 inches (52.1 × 38.1 cm) (Unframed)