New York Now: Home
A Photography Triennial
March 10 - August 27, 2023
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The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to announce the first in an ongoing photography exhibition series. Inspired by the Museum’s landmark presentation of the same name in 2000, this series will occur every three years and engage different themes and issues of the contemporary city.
The first installment examines the idea of “Home.” At its most practical, “Home” refers to the literal places we dwell. Yet it can also stand for family, or the communities of which we choose to be a part. This vital and complex concept arises in often surprising ways in our urban context, from highly personal experiences to debates over public policy. This exhibition aims to look at how artists have responded to and interpreted these issues.
In recent years, the city has struggled to reckon not only with the ongoing dynamics of economic and racial inequality but also with massive challenges unleashed by the COVID-19 crisis. This exhibition includes photography and video work made over the past several years that creatively documents and interprets this changing cityscape and the disparate responses and experiences of New Yorkers, straddling the stories of the city before, during, and after the pandemic.
The selected work encompasses a variety of perspectives—as diverse as the city itself—and consider a range of picture making approaches. From the personal and intimate to the monumental and collective, the photographs in this exhibition invites viewers to see the city they thought they knew through fresh perspectives.
Liberty, from the series "We Are Like Air: NYC", 2022. Xyza Cruz Bacani.
Explore the New York Now: Home (Photo Folio)
Beyond the Lens— New York Now: Home | Interview Series
Beyond the Lens is a new series featuring photographers from the Museum of the City of New York's newest exhibition, New York Now: Home — A Photography Triennial.
Project Team
Curators:
Sean Corcoran is the Senior Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York
Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD is a scholar, writer, and Associate Curator of the Brown Arts Institute and David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University
Exhibition Design: Isometric Studio
MCNY Exhibition Team: Sarah M. Henry, Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director; Christina Chavez, Associate Collections Manager; Elizabeth Indek, Curatorial Projects Associate; Todd Ludlam, Director of Exhibitions Installation; Sheryl McMahan, Registrar; Tracy McFarlan, Associate Director of Curatorial Projects; Nancy Nicholson, Manager of Exhibition Installation; Leela Outcalt, Director of Collections; Gavin Robinson, Associate Collections Manager
Consultants: LM Communal Objects Inc.(fabricator); Williams Brothers Painting and Decorating; Brian Aldous and Avi Dobkin (lighting); Full Point Graphics; Digital Data Depot; Thane Lund; Lisa Hein, Kels Lyn and Kate McKenzie (art handlers)
Special Thanks
Advisory Committee:
Michael Famighetti (Editor of Aperture magazine)
Nicole Fleetwood (Curator, writer, 2021 MacArthur Fellow, and Weldon Johnson Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University)
Kris Graves (Artist and founder of Kris Graves Projects and Monolith Editions)
Kristen Lubben (Curator, writer, and Executive Director of Magnum Foundation)
Brian Wallis (Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock and former chief curator of the International Center for Photography)
Participating Artists
Ariana Faye Allensworth, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Roy Baizan, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Sara Bennett, Amarise Carreras, Cinthya Santos-Briones, Alan Chin, Sally Davies, Maureen Drennan, Nona Faustine, Naima Green, Diana Guerra, Gail Albert Halaban, Chantal Heijnen & Lou van Melik, Ramona Jingru Wang, Anders Jones, Jamel Shabazz, Neil Kramer, Dean Majd, Alan Michelson, Paul Moakley, Cheryl Mukherji, Ian Reid, Richard Renaldi, Irina Rozovsky, Geralyn Shukwit, Laila Annmarie Stevens, Joana Toro, Linda Troeller, Nolan Trowe, Elias Williams, and The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.
New York Now — Participating Artists
Explore more about the participating artists of New York Now: Home— A Photography Triennial.Supporters
New York Now: Home is made possible in part by The Andrew and Marina Lewin Family Foundation, Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, Ronay and Richard Menschel, Jennifer and Andrew Marrus, David Dechman and Michel Mercure, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, and other generous donors. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Museum is grateful to members of the Abbott Circle for its generous support of New York Now and the Museum’s extensive photography collection.
In-Depth Stories
New York Now: Home Artists Profile: Anders Jones
A look at the work of Anders Jones currently on view in the exhibition "New York Now: Home."
New York Now: Home Artists Profile: Sara Bennett
A look at the work of Sara Bennett, featured in the exhibition "New York Now: Home."
What’s On for New York Now: Home
Photography as Activism // La fotografía como activismo: fotografía colaborativa con inmigrantes y comunidades latinas
Join New York Now: Home exhibiting artists in conversation as they reflect on their collaborative photo-based projects with Latine migrant communities in New York
Picturing Black Femme and Queer Communities in New York Now
Join New York Now: Home exhibiting artists Naima Green, Nona Faustine, and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for a conversation about photography as a creative apparatus for shifting dominant narratives, historical representations, and contemporary discourses about Black women, femme and queer folks, families, and communities in New York and beyond.
