Lyle Ashton Harris, "Succession", 2020. Ghanaian cloth, dye sublimation prints, and artist’s ephemera. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Mortimer and Sara Hays Acquisition Fund, 2023.4. Courtesy the artist.
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05/19/2024 - 09/22/2024

Queens Museum 
Flushing Meadows Corona Park 
Queens 
NY 11368 NEW YORK

queensmuseum.org/exhibition/lyle-ashton-harris-our-first-and-last-love/ 

 
Drawing together photographs and installations from both his celebrated and lesser-known series, Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love charts new connections across the artistic practice of Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965, Bronx, NY). The exhibition explores Harris’s critical examination of identity and self-portraiture while tracing central themes and formal approaches in his work of the last 35 years. The artist’s recently-completed Shadow Works anchor the exhibition. In these meticulous constructions, photographic prints are set within geometric frames of stretched Ghanaian funerary textiles, along with shells, shards of pottery, and cuttings of the artist’s own hair.