Aperture Exhibitions on View in Fall 2024

New York, August 8, 2024—Aperture’s touring exhibitions advance and share the ideas and artwork featured in Aperture publications with audiences at art venues across the United States and around the world. This fall, exhibitions will be presented in cities including Austin, Texas, Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as Arles, France and London, with details below.

I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Palais de l’Archevêché, France
Through September 29, 2024

I’m So Happy You Are Here offers a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon—an electrifying expansion of our understanding of Japanese photographic history, but also of photo-history writ large. With a focus on material from the 1950s to now, I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a selection of intergenerational artists—many of whom have been recognized for their vital contributions, while others have developed unique and important practices without substantial public recognition. Curated by Lesley A. Martin, Takeuchi Mariko, and Pauline Vermare, the exhibition provides a solid foundation for a more nuanced and expansive conversation about the contributions of Japanese women to photography.

Following the Arles presentation, I’m So Happy You Are Here will be on view at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, January 18, 2025­–May 5, 2025

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic
The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida
Through October 13, 2024

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic celebrates the expansive sensibility of the works in the Wedge Collection, one of Canada’s largest privately owned collection committed to championing Black artists, established by Dr. Kenneth Montague in 1997. Centering the familial alongside the familiar, the exhibition and accompanying book embrace concepts of community, identity, and power, and recognize the complex strength, beauty, vulnerability, and irreducibility of Black life. Artists featured include Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Kwame Brathwaite, Renee Cox, Jabulani Dhlamini, Stan Douglas, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Rashid Johnson, Seydou Keïta, Deana Lawson, Jamal Nxedlana, Gordon Parks, Jamel Shabazz, James Van Der Zee, and Carrie Mae Weems. The exhibition is curated by Elliott Ramsey, curator, the Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver.

Following the Baker Museum presentation, As We Rise will be on view at the Saatchi Gallery, London, November 5, 2024–January 20, 2025, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan in late 2025.

Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax
The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas
Through October 13, 2024

Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax expands upon works featured in Erizku’s first monograph, Mystic Parallax (2023), copublished by Aperture and the Momentary, showcasing Erizku’s practice that critically engages art history, personal experience, and Pan-African thought and symbolism. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, Erizku references and reimagines African American visual culture, from hip-hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. The exhibition and book assemble over ten years of work, blending the artist’s studio practice with his celebrated images produced as an in-demand editorial photographer, and feature his stunning portraits of Black cultural icons, including Viola Davis, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. Mystic Parallax is curated by Sarah Meister, executive director of Aperture, and Alejo Benedetti, curator, contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary.

Kristine Potter: Dark Waters
The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas
Through October 13, 2024

Kristine Potter: Dark Waters grows out of Kristine Potter’s second monograph, Dark Waters (2023), copublished by Aperture with Images Vevey and the Momentary, revealing Potter’s reflection on the Southern Gothic mythos found in collective history and expressed in “murder ballads.” Included in this exhibition is Potter’s video work Dark Waters (2019), which acts as a tonal establishing shot for the show, featuring five male performers singing murder ballads. In the rest of the space, the sonic element shifts to Potter’s first sound installation, which guides guests along a river of female voices. In this embodied experience of her work, Potter both evokes and exorcizes the ambient sense of threat that women often grapple with as they move through the world. The result is an exhibition brimming with murky narratives that are often more felt than spoken. Dark Waters is curated by Sarah Meister, executive director of Aperture, and Alejo Benedetti, curator, contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary.

Native America: In Translation
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Through January 5, 2025

Native America: In Translation, curated by artist Wendy Red Star as an expansion of her role as guest editor of the Aperture Fall 2020 issue “Native America,” considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism. With essential works by Rebecca Belmore, Nalikutaar Jacqueline Cleveland, Martine Gutierrez, Duane Linklater, Guadalupe Maravilla, Kimowan Metchewais, Alan Michelson, Koyoltzintli, and Marianne Nicolson, the exhibition and accompanying Aperture publication look into the historical, often fraught relationship between photography and Native representation, while also offering new perspectives by emerging artists who reimagine what it means to be a citizen in North America today.

You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
December 9, 2024, through March 7, 2025

You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography celebrates the vast visual archive of Latinx art in the United States. Curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator and deputy director of curatorial and collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, in Los Angeles, You Belong Here originates from “Latinx,” the Winter 2021 issue of Aperture magazine, guest edited by Tompkins Rivas. The Aperture issue and exhibition features work by over fifteen established as well as emerging artists who illustrate a range of histories and geographies, contextualize and reinterpret watershed social and artistic movements, stake space for queerness, and articulate the importance of photography within the larger field of Latinx art. The exhibition includes work by Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, William Camargo, Steven Molina Contreras, Star Montana, Eddie Quiñones, Reynaldo Rivera, Guadalupe Rosales, Gabriela Ruiz and Bibs Moreno, and John Valadez.

About Aperture
Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide. From its base in New York, Aperture connects global audiences and supports artists through its acclaimed quarterly magazine, books, exhibitions, digital platforms, public programs, limited-edition prints, and awards. Established in 1952 to advance “creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs,” Aperture champions photography’s vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just, tolerant society.

Aperture’s programs and operations are made possible by the generosity of our board of trustees, our members, and other individuals, and with major support from 7G Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, Documentary Arts, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Ishibashi Foundation, Joy of Giving Something, Anne Levy Charitable Trust, Henry Luce Foundation, Mailman Foundation, MurthyNAYAK Foundation, Grace Jones Richardson Trust, San Francisco Foundation, Thomas R. Schiff Foundation, Jane Smith Turner Foundation, Stuart B. Cooper and R. L. Besson, Kate Cordsen and Denis O’Leary, Thomas and Susan Dunn, Michael Sonnenfeldt, Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts, with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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For more information on exhibitions or their corresponding publications, contact:
Lauren Van Natten, +1 212.946.7151, publicity@aperture.org