TEXAS ISAIAH
Born Brooklyn, NY
Based in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2021 (Never) As I Was: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2020-21, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Texas Isaiah, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2019 The Portrait is Political [Dear Los Angeles Love, Brooklyn], BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2014 BLACKNESS, NYU Kimmel Galleries, Kimmel Center for University Life, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2023 The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
2022 4th Queer Biennial: QUEER DIASPORAS: Lavender City of Dreams (online)
2021 The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK;
travelled to Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Recontres d’Arles, France; Tasweer Photo Fesstival, Qatar
Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Radical Tenderness: Trans for Trans Portraiture, Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY
New Visions, Fotografiska, New York, NY
2019 Youngbloods, La Quotidian, Los Angeles, CA
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
Soft Scrub, The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri
Forging Territories [Queer Afro and Latinx Contemporary Art], San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
American African American, Phillips, New York, NY
2018 No Commission, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
The New Contemporaries, Vol I, The Residency, Los Angeles, CA
Made in L.A. (Excellentia, mollitia, Victoria with EJ Hill), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
FOUR. (We Buy Gold), Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY
black is a color, Antenna, New Orleans, Louisiana
Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, presented in conjunction with the Eastman Estate,
The Kitchen, New York, NY
2017 FICTIONS, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
black is a color, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, presented in conjunction with the Eastman Estate,
The Kitchen, New York, NY
Torrent Tea: Queer Space and Photographic Futures, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2015 Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2014 Reflexivity, Sanaa Festival, Mount Rainier Artist Lofts, Mount Rainier, Maryland
Visualizing Queerness: 7 Contemporary Artists, Dixon Place, New York, NY
Public Collections
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Awards, Grants, Residencies
2022 Lightning Fund Artist Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021 The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence Program, New York, NY
2019 Getty Images: Creative Bursary, Where We Stand
2018 Art Matters
Lectures, Panel Discussions, Workshops
2022 Google Pride Panel with Myles Loftin, Saunak Shah, and Mayan Toledano
2021 Texas Isaiah in Conversation with Bearboi, Terrell Brook, and C. Riley Snorton, Studio Museum
in Harlem (online)
Andre D’Wagner and Texas Isaiah, Art and Activism, Gordon Parks Foundation (online)
Radical Tenderness: Trans for Trans Portraiture panel featuring Zackary Drucker, Jackie Baier,
Texas Isaiah, and Del laGrace Volacano
2020 Amplify Vs Exploit: Panel Discussion, Art Bridge, Virtual
Trans*Revolutions, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2019 Intention, Care, and Love, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
AALAC Workshop (From the Archive of Our Black Lives), Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2018 Artist Talk: Texas Isaiah, Art and Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Black Trans Love is Black Wealth, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Running in Circles with Erin Christovale and Amanda Hunt, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artists' Presentation and Discussion, Visual Reference, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artists' Panel Discussion, Toyin Ojih Odutola in conversation with Yaa Gyasi and Texas Isaiah,
Whitney Museum of American Art,
2017 Artists on Artists: Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
CCA Photo Lecture Series, California College of the Arts, Oakland Campus, CA
Bibliography
Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "Texas Isaiah is reimagining photography's capacity to reveal what we know on the inside." Los Angeles Times, October 13, 2021.
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2021-10-13/la-photographer-makes-mark-portraits-texas-isaiah
Beckert, Michael. "21 Queer BIPOC Photographers Illustrate What "Pride" Really Means." W Magazine, June 25, 2020.
https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/queer-photographers-pride-month-2020
Willis, Deborah. "Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America." New York Times, June 19, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/19/arts/black-photographers-self-portraits.html
Drew, Kimberly. "The Joy, Ease, and Respect of Texas Isaiah's Portraits." VICE, April 28, 2020.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/884wnv/texas-isaiah-photography-kimberly-drew-interview
Easter, Makeda. "On Transgender Day of Visibility, a portrait series celebrates black beauty." Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2020.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-03-31/international-transgender-day-of-visibility-photography-project
Uszerowicz, Monica. "Artist Texas Isaiah Revels in the Pauses." Cultured Magazine, September 20, 2018.
https://www.culturedmag.com/texas-isaiah/
McClodden, Tiona Nekkia. "Texas Isaiah." Artforum, Summer 2018.
https://www.artforum.com/print/201806/tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-on-texas-isaiah-75535
Itam, Uchenna. "See Me, Feel Me." FICTIONS, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2018. p. 60-61.
Keegin, Em., Mandel, L. "How to Shoot Your Idols." The Fader, May 3, 2017.
https://www.thefader.com/2017/05/03/how-to-shoot-your-idols