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Congratulations to Deborah Willis on receiving the prestigious AIPAD (@aipadphoto ) Award for 2026! Willis is an artist, scholar, teacher, and in all aspects of her career, is committed to researching and promoting the art and histories of Black artists and communities. The Mattatuck is proud to include Willis’s photograph among more than 100 artists in “Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art,” guest curated by @samsonprojects and on view through June 21! 🎨🖼 📷 1: Deborah Willis, “Reflections on Civil War (Soldier with Family),” 2018, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, courtesy of Welancora Gallery | With thanks to Ivy Jones, Emma Long, Skye Eytina & Jasmine Scriven 📷 2: Installation view, “Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art,” 2026, Mattatuck Museum, photo by @juliefranstudio #DeborahWillis #AIPADAward #ContemporaryArt #Photography #BlackArtists #BlackHistory #ArtMuseum #MuseumExhibition #AscendancyExhibition #MattatuckMuseum #PhotographicArt #ArtCuratorship #WomenInArt #ArtExhibition #WaterburyCT @debwillisphoto @samsonprojects

By weaving scenes from the Internet into a physical tapestry, Qualeasha Wood encourages us to rethink our relationship to digital spaces. She explores racial, sexual, and gender identities and how the Black femme body is presented, portrayed, and engaged with online. @qualeasha , “Swag Surfin” (2023, woven jacquard with glass beads), is currently on view at the MATT in “Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art,” guest curated by @samsonprojects . Come see Wood alongside more than 100 artists’ explorations of identity through June 21. Artwork courtesy of @gallerykendrajaynepatrick #QualeashaWood #ContemporaryArt #TextileArt #FiberArt #BlackContemporaryArt #BlackArtists #BlackFemme #DigitalCulture #InternetArt #NewMediaArt #IdentityInArt #ArtExhibition #MuseumExhibition #ArtInContext #JacquardWeaving #WomenArtists #EmergingArtists #ArtCollectors #ArtLovers #SeeArt #VisitMuseums #ConnecticutArt #WaterburyCT #MattatuckMuseum #AscendancyExhibit #SamsonProjects #GalleryKendraJaynePatrick

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili Iveria/Taylor, 2001/2006/2009 c-print on view @mattatuck_museum in Ascendancy with thanks to @lc_queisser

Happy Birthday to Joiri Minaya | @joiriminaya | today! This work of hers, I Can Wear Tropical Prints Now, is in Ascendancy at The Mattatuck Museum: @mattatuck_museum on view until June 21

Anicka Yi (@anickayi_studio All of your actions are based on how you’re describing yourself to yourself at any given moment, 2011 sous-vide with peanuts and pearls installed on two stainless steel towel racks Dimensions variable on view in Ascendancy at Mattatuck Museum @mattatuck_museum

Toyin Ojih Odutola work on view @mattatuck_museum in Ascendancy: the self in contemporary art

I put together a massive exhibition titled Ascendancy @mattatuck_museum with works by: Ann Agee | Laura Aguilar | Elia Alba | Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili | Beth Ann Altomonte | Janine Antoni | Elizabeth Atterbury | Colleen Barry | Creighton Baxter | Anna Betbeze | April Bey | Katherine Bradford | Anne Buckwalter | María Magdalena Campos-Pons | Caitlin Cherry | Nicole Cherubini | Namwon Choi | Jaina Cipriano | Yanira Collado | Anne Collier | Ryan Cosbert | Ann Craven | Taína H. Cruz | Kim Dacres | Lalla Essaydi | Tory Fair | Nona Faustine | fierce pussy (Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka) | Dana Frankfort | Regina José Galindo | Iliana Emilia García | larí garcía | Scherezade García | Alex Gingrow | Iva Gueorguieva | Ivy Haldeman | Anthea Hamilton | Rachel Harrison | Rose Hartman | Mona Hatoum | Clarity Haynes | Alicia Henry | Juliana Huxtable | Paloma Izquierdo | Cheyenne Julien | Baseera Khan | Arghavan Khosravi | Lucy Kim | Autumn Knight | Annette Lemieux | Ellen Lesperance & Jeanine Oleson | Maud Madsen | Vivian Maier | Anina Major | Malerie Marder | Delita Martin | Quintessa Matranga | Suzanne McClelland | Ana Mendieta | Helina Metaferia | Joiri Minaya | Yvette Molina | Azita Moradkhani | Rebecca Morris | Samantha Nye | Toyin Ojih Odutola | Paola Oxoa | Chloe Piene | Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki-Olivo) | Magali Reus | Carissa Rodriguez | Mika Rottenberg | Heather Rowe | Carolee Schneemann | Beverly Semmes | Lorna Simpson | Suzannah Sinclair | Karina Aguilera Skvirsky | Tabitha Soren | Vivian Springford | Elizabeth King Stanton | Brooke Stewart | Stephanie Syjuco | Dannielle Tegeder | Kaari Upson | Sara VanDerBeek | Gelsy Verna | Marnie Weber | Summer Wheat | Philemona Williamson | Deborah Willis | Qualeasha Wood | Francesca Woodman | Saya Woolfalk | Huidi Xiang | Kennedy Yanko | Leyla Yenirce | Anicka Yi

#ErinJaneNelson @whitneybiennial @whitneymuseum @chapterny

#TeresaBaker @whitneymuseum @whitneybiennial

#TainaCruz @whitneymuseum @whitneybiennial

#RavenHalfmoon @whitneybiennial @whitneymuseum

#TainaCruz