Naima Green

Mark! is the May @archdigest cover girl. I'm so proud of you. @markgrattan and I made eye contact walking down Putnam 7 years ago and met for the first time a few weeks later at brunch (an incredible feast hosted by @mennlay ) in Mexico City. What unfolded over many meals & mezcal in CDMX was my admiration for Mark’s dedication to his work and his rigor, meticulousness, and thoughtfulness towards design — how our eyes and bodies experience his art. How generous he’s been with me around his spaces and how grateful I am to have my work on his walls. Peeking out from the bedroom is a picture of Mark's old living room from 2021. & Untitled (hotboxing), 2025, sits in the dining room. ♠ In good company with artwork by Paul Sepuya and Clifford Prince King throughout the apartment. Words by Sam Cochran Photography by Maureen M. Evans Styled by Dorcia Kelley

I’m thinking about needs & closeness & the freedom to gather & hold & smile & cry & be proud of your people. ❤️‍🔥

In 2023, I made my first albumen prints at @penumbrafoundation as an AIR with @morgan_post_studio . I'm obsessed with the surface, the slowness, the serendipity, the imperfections. After feeling so tired of screens mediating my experience of photography, and despite teaching b&w darkroom, I was seduced by the color and the idea of making work about parenthood and pregnancy while using egg to treat and create the surface of these prints. With Sol in the backyard, 2024 ...for subcutaneous use, an injectable prescription medicine used to treat:, 2025 Collier (& Ozzy), 2018/2025 Like and subscribe, 2024/2025 Waterloo, IA, 2023 All unique.

Laverne Cox for @thecut at @thestonewallinn Thank you @sofia_mareque @nono_elle_ & @audenbarbour 🏆 Words by @harnwaw #stonewall

Final two weeks to see Instead, I spin fantasies at @icp ✨ Thank you to everyone who has visited from all over the world, across boroughs and coasts! & for the special, tearful words and messages. I'm lucky to be able to make. Some thanks! Elisabeth Sherman is a remarkable, attentive curator, and I could not and would not have been able to make this work without her dedicated collaboration. @sable_elyse for being with me through every self-portrait & life, generally. @arshraziuddin design genius. Every person and family who sat for me! @justine4good for the studio visits and words of encouragement, always. @carmen.winant for the conversation & clarity. Morgan Post @morgan_post_studio for being an incredible teacher and reminding me how much I love to study and experiment in the darkroom. @penumbrafoundation , where my albumens began as an AIR in 2023. The exhibitions & program teams Sara Ickow, Malaika Newsome, and Izzy Dow + Jacque Donaldson Bailey, Marley Trigg Stewart, and Pasinee Pramunwong. ICP Education team, especially Larson Harley and Antonio Pulgarin. Art Handlers Chase Adams, Scott Bodenner, Tom Edwards, Ruby Gauchman,  Oliver Jin, Chris Lesnewski, Andrea Martucci, Silvia Saponaro, Peter Schepper, Hannah Towle, Mariana Vincente-Urdanetta  Carlos Hernandez, Craig Walker, Neil Vogtle (painting); Alma Communications (press); Canada Choate (editing); Daniel Terna (installation photography); Eriksen (translation); Loupe (printing, mounting, and framing); Full Point Graphics (exhibition vinyl); Pure+Applied (graphic design and exhibition design, Graciela Iturbide and Sergio Larrain); Arsh Raziuddin (graphic design and mural, Naima Green); Kadeem Lyttle and Samantha Wood (lighting); Alma Communications @almacommunications

The Natural State.

Artist @naimagreen was blessed with a matriarch she called Aunt Dot, who lived 95 years. Aunt Dot foresaw a family for Green, so she prepared by filling a hope chest with hand-knit baby clothes and elegantly embroidered linens. When she passed in 2023, Green felt bereft, losing a woman she loved, and the dream nurtured since she was a teen. Here in the sacred space of possibility, Green began to imagine ​“prosthetic lives” – versions of a woman with her face and her body bearing child and building a community of like minds. She purchased a prosthetic pregnancy belly in 2023, not quite knowing where this instinct would lead. A year later, Green returned to that moment of conception, this time with curator Elizabeth Sherman, to explore the profound possibilities, mysteries, and taboos that the promise of new life holds. Weaving together a series of constructed self-portraits, landscapes, and still life, Green crafts an intimate series of tableaux for Instead, I spin fantasies, now on view at the International Center of Photography in New York. Read in full at the 🔗 in bio. ✍️ Miss Rosen 📸 @naimagreen

Amanda Litman, founder of Run for Something for @fastcompany Run for Something @runforsomethingnow is creating the largest candidate pipeline in party politics and matching them with the right races. The org's purpose is to encourage young and underrepresented people to run for political office, including “hyperlocal” positions like city council and school boards. Words: Talib Visram Editor: @msjeannegraves thank you ✨

16 hours in H Town for the 20th anniversary of @bunb Trill with @crownroyal 💜

Mentally, I’m here.

Glenn Ligon in his Brooklyn studio for @aspenartmuseum inaugural AIR magazine. AIR is an initiative designed to explore the role of art in addressing the questions and complexities of our time through interdisciplinary collaborations, conversations, and site-specific artworks and performances. Glenn was celebrated as the 2025 Art Crush honoree and has an upcoming exhibition, Break It Down, organized by Chief Curator Daniel Merritt. ✨ Thanks to @linyee_is_outside for the call & seamless production @2x4design , Glenn's incredible studio team, and @vadesofthesun for the assist.

Opening on Oct 16—ICP is proud to present Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies. ⁠ ⁠ This exhibition grapples with the concept of pregnancy through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Blurring the line between documentary and performance, @naimagreen probes the conventional expectations of motherhood and creates an expanded space for considering the experience of pregnancy in America.⁠ ⁠ Curated by Guest Curator Elisabeth Sherman.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about this exhibition by visiting the link in ICP's bio.⁠ ⁠ Image: Naima Green, Half on a baby (DonChristian), 2025. © Naima Green