Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks: David Alekhuogie and Sam Contis

Join ICP for the final Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks of the spring season as David Alekhuogie joins Sam Contis in a conversation moderated by Sara Ickow, ICP’s associate director of collections. Alekhuogie and Contis will discuss their respective practices, including their relationships to the archives of photographers who have documented the American West, such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Alekhuogie’s first monograph, A Reprise (Aperture, 2025) is available for preorder.

This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC’s Lower East Side, and online. The program will not be recorded. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries.

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David Alekhuogie (born in Los Angeles, 1986) is a documentary photographer. He received his MFA from Yale University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work was included in Companion Pieces, the 2020 iteration of the Museum of Modern Art’s biennial New Photography series, and was presented in Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant. Alekhuogie has had solo exhibitions at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles; and the Chicago Artist Coalition, and has participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. His work has been published in Aperture, Foam, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time magazine, Vice, and the Los Angeles Times. He is based in Los Angeles.

Sam Contis (b. 1982) is a visual artist working with photography and moving image. Contis’s work has recently been exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California. This May, the survey exhibition Sam Contis: Moving Landscape, curated by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, will open at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She is the recipient of a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. Contis has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). She is a senior critic in photography at the Yale School of Art.

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Images: David Alekhuogie, Mask 99/2, 2021; from David Alekhuogie: A Reprise (Aperture, 2025). Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery; Image from Sam Contis: Overpass (Aperture, 2022). © 2022 Sam Contis