Susan Meiselas

Just Open Your Eyes: Susan Meiselas on Making Images

January 25 – April 14, 2024 | Grossman Gallery

Artist Talk | February 19 | 4:30 PM | Landis Cinema
Reception | February 19 | 5:30 PM | Grossman Gallery

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003), Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room of Their Own (2017), Tar Beach (2020) and Carnival Strippers Revisited (2022)

Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019), the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019) and the Erich Salomon Award of the German Society for Photography (2022). Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, Kunst Haus Wien, C/O Berlin, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg and FOMU in Antwerp.

A ghostly figure of a woman sits on a wooden slat chair in a room with a plan on a stand.

Susan Meiselas, Selfportrait from the series 44 Irving.

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