Scholarship list
Book chapter
Published 09/10/2024
Lyle Ashton Harris: our first and last love
"Both personal and universal, Harris' oeuvre weaves together legacies of family dynamics, queer histories and Afro-cosmopolitanism. Gathering photographs, assemblages, video installations and archival selections from his celebrated and lesser-known series, Our first and last love charts new connections across the artistic practice of New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965). Informed by an adolescence that unfolded in New York City and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as well as several years spent living in Ghana, Harris explores the complexities of African and African American collective identity while forging his own personal narrative as a Black queer man. This book and its accompanying solo survey exhibition chronicles Harris' approach to representation and self-portraiture while tracing recurrent themes and formal techniques in his work over the last 35 years. Central to this curated selection is Harris' most recent series titled Shadow Works, mixed-media assemblages of photographic prints embedded in Ghanaian printed textiles with cowrie shells, pottery, handwritten notes, clippings of the artist's dreadlocks and other personal ephemera. In both the exhibition and its catalog, these works serve as thematic anchors underscoring Harris' layered approach to his ongoing creative explorations."--Publisher's website.
Book chapter
Creation Myths and Mythic Self-Creations
Published 2016
Potter's Will,
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Feb. 12-June 5, 2016; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Feb. 25-July 2, 2016.
Rose Art Museum exhibition included Rose Video 08, a multimedia installation of a a potter's rotating studio. It was on display as both a physical site and a projected sight, inviting the audience to engage in an immersive experience.
Curator of exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Anat Danon Sivan; curator of exhibition at Rose Art Museum: Gananit Ankori.
Book chapter
Published 2006
New perspectives on Freud's "Moses and Monotheism" , 135 - 148
Contributions from a conference held June 2002 at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Book chapter
'Dis-Orientalisms’: Displaced Bodies/ Embodied Displacements in Contemporary Palestinian Art.
Published 2003
Uprootings/regroundings : questions of home and migration , 59 - 90
This work examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in one location.
Book chapter
Published 2001
Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art. , 238 - 258
"The contributions reflect a broad range of contemporary art criticism drawn from the history of art, culture, and literature. By analyzing how Jewish experiences have depicted and shaped art, the collection begins to answer how art, in its turn, depicts and shapes Jewish experience."--Jacket.