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LYLE ASHTON HARRIS (1965 - )
David, Lyle, and Crinoline. Silver print, the image 279x355 mm; 11x14 inches, the sheet 193x304 mm; 7x12 inches. Artist print, aside from an edition of 5. Titled, dated and numbered AP 2/2, in ink verso. 1987-88. From the artist's series Reflection of Past Life through Glass.
Provenance: Donated by the artist and Jack Tilton Gallery, New York to the Houston Center for Photography auction circa 90s; private collection, Texas.
Spanning a 30 year career, Lyle Ashton Harris's oeuvre bridges multiple mediums. Trained as a photographer while working in collage, installation and performance art, he has pushed the boundaries of black male representation. His body of work critiques the societal norms of sexuality and race while exploring his identity as a queer, black man.
Harris received a Vanguard Award from Visual Aids (2018), a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016) and the David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2014) among other awards and honors. He 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.
Born in the Bronx, New York, he spent two of his formative years living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University and lives in New York.
