Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965 in Bronx, NY. Lives and works in New York, NY)

The Bather, 2018

Dye sublimation print on aluminum

36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)

Edition 1 of 3

Signed: Indelible Black Sharpie on verso

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. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, including most recently at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah (2024); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020); Hayward Gallery, London (2019); Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2019); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); Whitney Biennial (2017); Bienal de Sao Paulo (2016); Busan Biennial, South Korea (2008); 52nd Venice Biennale (2007).

Harris is represented 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; Perez Art Museum, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Tate Modern, London, UK; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain; Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, among others.

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Courtesy of the artist