TEXAS ISAIAH
Born in Brooklyn, NY
Based in Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2014 BLACKNESS, NYU Kimmel Galleries, Kimmel Center for University Live, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2021 Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 New Visions, Fotografiska, New York, NY
In the Time of, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
2019 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
The Portrait is Political [Dear Los Angeles Love, Brooklyn], BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
American African American, Phillips, New York, NY
2018 The California Sunday Magazine Presents - At Home: In The American West, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
No Commission, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
The New Contemporaries, Vol I, The Residency, Los Angeles, CA
Made in L.A., 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, Oregon
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
2013 NuMad, 3rdeye (Sol)ation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Visions of a Community, Saltspace, New York, NY
Gordon Parks 100, Freecandy, Brooklyn, NY
Video
2014 Director/Producer, TOGETHERNESS/COMPROMISE, music video/short film
Public Collections
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Lectures, Panel Discussions, Workshops
2019 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,
New York, NY
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
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