The rumors are true I’m teaching harvard ! I’m thrilled to join many friends and colleagues at the university this spring. Thank you to all who have supported me on this journey and make this life worth living. To a prosperous 2022 for all! 🥂
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John Edmonds is an American artist and photographer who first came to public recognition with his intimate portraits of lovers, close friends and strangers. He earned his MFA in Photography from Yale University and his BFA at the Corcoran School of Arts & Design. His work explores themes of identity, community, desire and belonging. Noted for his highly formalist photographs in which he focuses on the performative gestures and self-fashioning of young, Black men on the streets of America, his work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Museum of Modern Art, SFMoMA, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Rubell Collection, The Phillips Collection, The National Gallery of Art, The Getty Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim and Yale University Art Gallery. Residencies include: the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine; Light Work, Syracuse, New York; and the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Recent exhibitions include Black Modernism - Africa and the Avantgarde at the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Germany; God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin at David Zwirner, New York; Ex-Africa at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris and The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2019, He was included in 79th Whitney Biennial. His forthcoming exhibition, A Sidelong Glance, opens at FOAM Amsterdam in Spring 2022. Edmonds has taught at Yale University and the School of Visual Arts. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is on visiting faculty at Harvard University.
Happy birthday to the voice, @jazminesullivan ! Jazmine Sullivan by me in 2021 for @nytmag@artist.commissions@kathyryan
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Delighted to announce that John Edmonds (@johncedmonds ) is joining us this year as the AY26 Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair in Photography. John will be visiting every two weeks for class sessions and studio visits with the BFA Photography students, kicking it off next week with an artist lecture, free and open to all. #micaphoto
John Edmonds is an American artist and photographer who explores themes of identity, community, desire, and belonging. He earned his MFA in Photography from Yale University and his BFA in Photography from the Corcoran School of Art & Design.
His recent solo and two-person exhibitions include One, Maximilian William Gallery, London, UK (2024);
Natural World, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (2022); John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022) and Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2020) and Between Pathos & Seduction, Company Gallery, New York, NY (2019). In 2019, he was included in the 79th Whitney Biennial.
Giving a lecture today @rowanuniversity ! Also thrilled to announce I will be the Visiting Chair of Photography @marylandinstitutecollegeofart@micaphotophotos this Spring semester (a role previously held by the inimitable @debwillisphoto and my fantastic friend & colleague @cwynars )! I’ll be there for a lecture in late November and to meet all the wonderful folks in the Bmore community! Im so excited to work with the students there and immerse myself back in my hometown region! I’ll still be based in the city and back and forth between here and Baltimore.
My TL is flooded with so many moving tributes to Agnes Gund. I never knew her personally but was so grateful to meet her on this day. I remember going up to her apartment and how she greeted me so kindly even though she was busy reading about art and doing some research on me!
Will forever be grateful for how she had such a positive impact on the lives of so many around me ❤️ may she rest now.
Thanks @saramoonves@wmag@roybeeson and of course to Agnes for this day 🙏🏾
Thanks Agnes for your tireless work 🙏🏾 I feel your sweetness and warmth so much while looking at this image.
Agnes by me for @wmag 2022 #AgnesGund
