Identity Formations features three artists who explore the fertile intersections of Latino/a/x identity through the fluid boundaries of history, culture, and geography. In si je meurs/If I die, Muriel Hasbun employs photography to capture the enduring legacy of her mother, investigating issues of identity, memory, and inter-subjectivity.

“Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field” is a series of photo essays created by Native photojournalists, Russel Albert Daniels, Tailyr Irvine, and Donovan Quintero, in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian.

Commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum, Natural World is a collaboration between artists John Edmonds and David Hartt, poet and scholar Jason Allen-Paisant, and organizing curator Nathaniel M. Stein.

From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, almost all of the photographs printed for consumption by the American public appeared in illustrated magazines. Among them, Life magazine—published weekly from 1936 to 1972—was both wildly popular and visually revolutionary, with photographs arranged in groundbreaking dramatic layouts known as photo-essays. This exhibition takes a closer look at the creation and impact of the carefully selected images found in the pages of Life—and the precisely crafted narratives told through these pictures—in order to reveal how the magazine shaped conversations about war, race, technology, national identity, and more in the 20th-century United States.

This exhibition celebrates femmes. As a queer identity, femme undermines the strict binary between masculine and feminine by bringing together signs and symbols designated feminine without conforming to traditional gender roles.

For more than thirty years, on a small riverside farm in Loveland, Ohio, Nancy Ford Cones created photographs that earned her an international reputation. Despite the praise they received during her lifetime, Cones’s imaginative and exquisitely crafted works were largely forgotten after her death. This exhibition celebrates the gifted artist’s career and her contributions to the field of photography.

Power and Perspective explores how the introduction of photography transformed perceptions of 19th century China. The exhibition mines PEM’s collection of 19th century photographs of China – one of the most important in the world – to reveal and reframe photography as an inherently social medium that demands the participation of many people, including viewers today.

Time Management Techniques showcases photography by artists who examined the medium’s relationship to time between 1968 and 2019. Drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the exhibition features many recent acquisitions alongside works that have never before been exhibited.

Beyond the Record centers around the selection of three photographic series by the renowned Salvadoran-born and Washington, DC -based artist and activist Muriel Hasbun (b. 1961): Pulse: New Cultural Registers (2020–22), X post facto (2009–2013), and Saints and Shadows (1991–1997), which provide a mini-survey of her career.

Since the invention of photography, the documentation of war has been a subject of interest to the camera and consumers. People have long relied on photographs to view and grapple with the harsh realities of war and conflict, whether by purchasing a copy of Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1866), armchair traveling with stereocards to No Man’s Land of World War I (1914–18), or seeing the destruction of 9/11 on the cover of Time magazine.

This exhibition features the work of ten Canadian artists who employ photographic media to engage with issues of identity and belonging. Representing individuals, their communities, and their diverse life experiences, these images highlight various aspects of visibility and resilience.

In Image Capital, Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke explore the history and present of photography as information technology. The project evolves over the course of 2022 and 2023, and takes three different shapes: a traveling exhibition; an online database; and a printed book.

Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities is an in-depth examination of the formative 1980s activist campaign Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. The exhibition features more than 100 artists, including original participants and contemporary artists in conversation with the campaign.

This exhibition explores work by Asian American artists addressing issues of identity and representation. Featuring photographs, film, and video spanning the twentieth century, it focuses on artworks made since the 1970s, a period of sweeping activism that demanded more and better representation in politics, education, and culture.

The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions and pixelated images. It dominates the organization, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print.