2024 Aperture Gala
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2024 Aperture Gala
Honoring art historian, author, and curator Nicole R. Fleetwood; artist Richard Misrach; and Aperture trustee Helen Nitkin.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Mandarin Oriental
80 Columbus Circle
New York City
Cochairs
Kate Cordsen
Agnes Gund
Lyle Ashton Harris
Kristy & Robert Harteveldt
Elizabeth Ann Kahane
Cathy M. Kaplan
Judy & Leonard Lauder
Lisa Rosenblum & Georgina Celebic
Jamie and Robert Soros
Jon Stryker & Slobodan Randjelovic
Deborah Willis
For more information, please contact the Gala office at Bowen & Co. 914.231.6180; aperture@bowenandco.com
Please join us as we gather to honor Nicole R. Fleetwood, Richard Misrach, and Helen Nitkin. Each has made an indelible impact on our community through their activism, art, and advocacy.
Aperture’s gala provides vital support for our programming and publications, in pursuit of our mission to create insight, community, and understanding through photography. This year we will also celebrate our impending move to a new permanent home on the Upper West Side.
It will be an unforgettable evening, marking a pivotal moment in Aperture’s history. The gala will feature a live and silent auction. Please reserve your tickets by October 4, 2024.
Honorees
Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood is an art historian and the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at New York University. A MacArthur Fellow, she is the author and curator of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association, the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in art history, and the Frank Jewett Mather Award in art criticism. Fleetwood cocurated and coedited Aperture’s Prison Nation, an exhibition and publication focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration. She is currently writing a nonfiction book titled Between the River and Railroad Tracks about growing up in the Black Midwest. She is on the board of MoMA PS1 and the Kitchen, NYC.
Richard Misrach is renowned for his trailblazing work in large-format color photography. He has been documenting the American landscape for over five decades through his influential and ongoing “Desert Cantos” project—an exploration of humanity’s complex relationship to place. Notable among his other series, all published by Aperture, are Border Cantos, a collaboration with composer Guillermo Galindo focused on the US–Mexico border; Golden Gate, a meticulous study of weather, time, color, and light; and Petrochemical America, chronicling the industrial corridor along the Mississippi River known as “Cancer Alley.” A recent addition, Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning was released as part of Aperture’s Photography Workshop Series.
Helen Nitkin is an Aperture Trustee and cofounder of HB Nitkin, a real estate investment, development, and management company. In 2009 after the death of her husband Bradley, she assumed the position of CEO and chair. Nitkin is an amateur photographer and a collector who holds a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University. She is a member of Women Presidents Organization, the Yale School of Architecture Dean’s Council, and the Women’s Enterprise Action Loan Fund. As Chair of Aperture’s Real Estate Committee, she led the search for and acquisition of its new home at 380 Columbus Avenue; as a member of the Finance Committee she also has been instrumental in its financing.
Committees
Sarah Arison
Peter Barbur* and Tim Doody
Tina Barney
Julie Bédard*
Stella Betts and David Leven
Dawoud Bey*
Myriam Boulos
Kwame S. Brathwaite*
Christine Burgin and William Wegman
Allan* and Anna Chapin
Kelli Connell
S. B. Cooper* and R. L. Besson
Kate Cordsen* and Denis O’Leary
Zackary Drucker*
Geoff Dyer
Rahim Fortune
Fraenkel Gallery
Gagosian
Rob Giampietro* and Susan Cernek
Agnes Gund
Mrs. John (Susan) Gutfreund
Tim and Alison Lord
Sally Mann
Ari Marcopoulos
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Diana Markosian
Susan Meiselas
Joel Meyerowitz
Tyler Mitchell
Dr. Kenneth Montague*
Vik Muniz
Renée Mussai
Vasant Nayak* and Sheela Murthy
Helen Nitkin* and Joel Rosenkranz
Melissa* and James O’Shaughnessy
Pace Gallery
Avion Pearce
Phillips
Marnie S. Pillsbury
Kristine Potter
Leigh Raiford
Wendy Red Star
Lisa Rosenblum* and Georgina Celebic
Abby Hamlin and
Robert Kandel
Lyle Ashton Harris*
Melissa Harris
Kristy and Robert Harteveldt
David Hartt
Marvin Heiferman
Pao Houa Her
Todd Hido
Michael Hoeh*
Jeffrey Hoone
Ingram Content Group
Elizabeth* and
William Kahane
Cathy M. Kaplan* and Renwick D. Martin
Tommy Kha
Justine Kurland
Gillian Laub
Judy and Leonard Lauder
Philippe E. Laumont*
Deana Lawson
An-My Lê
Mark and Elizabeth Levine
Marina and Andrew* Lewin
Antwaun Sargent
Thomas R. Schiff* and Mary Ellen Goeke
Lisa* and Harry Segalas
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Shikeith
Stephen Shore
Taryn Simon
Coreen Simpson
Dayanita Singh
Ming Smith
Sable Elyse Smith
Jamie and Robert Soros
Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelovic
Kunié Sugiura
Hank Willis Thomas
Charlotte and Scott Tracy
Lara Trafelet
Colette Veasey-Cullors*
Kenneth and Susan Wallach
Nick Waplington
Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb
Casey* and Lauren Weyand
Deborah Willis*
Leslie Wilson
Clark Winter
Alice Sachs Zimet
*Aperture Trustee
List complete as of 07.12.2024