LYLE ASHTON HARRIS

New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris spent his adolescence living between New York City and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This formative period informs his wide-ranging artistic practice in photography, collage, installation and performance making a commentary on the societal constructs of gender, desire, and race, the complexities of African and African American experience, and his own identity as a queer, Black man.