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Education
1992 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, NY
1991 National Graduate Photography Seminar, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
1990 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1988 BA with honors, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Ghana, CRG Gallery, NY
2008 Sketches from the Shore, The Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA
  Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ / UB Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY
2006 Performing MJ, Vital Expressions in American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2005 Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender, and Sexual Difference Center Stage, Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2004 Lyle Ashton Harris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
  Lyle Ashton Harris, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Memoirs of Hadrian, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2002 New Work, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
1999 20 x 24, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1998 Distillation, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
  Alchemy, in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1997 The White Face Series, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY
1996 The Watering Hole, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY
  Select Photographs, Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela
1994 The Good Life, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
  Redemption, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1993 Americas, Simon Watson’s Living Room, NY
  Face, Broadway Window, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2010 The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (forthcoming)
  Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
2009 The Summer Show, CRG Gallery, NY
2008 Expenditure, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
  Sketches from the Shore, Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  S&M: Shines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times, East Galleries, New York University, New York, NY
2007 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Photography And The Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2006 Other families, Pallazo Cavour, Turin, Italy
  Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
  GAY ART NOW, Curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Male Desire Two, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
  IDENTITÀ & nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
  Earth and Memory: African and African American Photography, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2004 Selves and Others, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
  Male Body Image, Storrs Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  neoqueer, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
  Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial Santa Fe, NM
  The Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
  African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade (1990-2003) Luckman
  Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2003 American Tableaux: Many Voices, Many Stories at Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
  The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2002 Typical Men: Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
  Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2001 Rome Prize Fellow’s Show, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
  Love Supreme, La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
2000 Self-Portraits, Kwangju Biennale, Seoul, Korea
  Masterminds of Mode: International Fashion Festival in Japan, Mitsukoshi, Tokyo; Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe; Mitsubishi-Jisho Atrium, Fukuoka
  Faith, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1999 Ghost in the Shell - Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998 816, Galerie Analix B Polla & C Cargnel, Paris
  Welcome, Citt...Sant’Angelo, curated by Renato Bianchini
  1998 Diana.98, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
  Millenovecento, Galerie Analix B Polla & C Cargnel, Paris
  Aids Worlds - Between Resignation and Hope, Center of Contemporary Art, Geneva and Dialogai, Geneva, Switzerland
  Black Nudes: New Identities, Gay Games Amsterdam 1998, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Postcards from Black America, De Beyerd Center of Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands
1997 Scene of the Crime, UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Selections from the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Collection of Photographic Self Portraits: 1940-96, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, Guggenheim Museum
  New York. Traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
  Bang! The Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  This End Up: Selections from the collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
  Face & Figure: Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
1996 Adrift, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York
  Hotter than July, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Traveled to Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
  Persona, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Portraits, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
  The Paranoid Machine, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Face Value: American Portraits, The Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. Traveled to: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
  Desire - Borealis 7, Helsinki City Museum and The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland
  Traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark, 1996
  Hard Comforts, Zikha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
  Human / Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  In a Different Light, Berkeley Art Center/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
  Inside/Out, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, ICA, London, England
  Masculine Masquerade, MIT List Art Center, Boston, MA
  Narcissistic Disturbance, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Pervert, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California/Irvine, Irvine, CA
  Picture Thoughts, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
  P.L.A.N.(Photography Los Angeles Now), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Traces: The Body in Contemporary Photography, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
  Uncertain Identity II, Galerie Analix at Basel Art Fair, Geneva, Switzerland
  Video: Immagine e Poggetto- Artisti degli Stati Uniti, Museo Laboratorio Di Arte
  Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1994 Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to: UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1995
  Telling...Stories, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Ciphers of Identity, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Traveled to: Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
  University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
  Fine Arts Gallery University of California, Irvine, CA
  Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
  Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
  Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
  Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
  42nd Street Art Project: Victory Parade, Times Square, New York
  Identifications and Desires, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
  In Out of the Cold: Redemption, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
  Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY
1992 ainsi font font font, Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France
  Body Politic, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Fever, Exit Art, NY
  In The World, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  LAX: Los Angeles Exhibition, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA
  Multiples, Daniel Bucholz, Koln, Germany
  Presenting Rearwards, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Reclaiming Sensuality, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
  Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zu Politik and Identital, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
1991 Acquired Visions: Seeing Ourselves Through AIDS, Studio Museum of Harlem, NY
  AutoPortraits, Camerawork, London, England
  Disputed Identities, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
  Someone/Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Situation, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA
Published Photographs
2004 Hannaham, James, "Beyond the Pale," New York Magazine, Summer Issue, June 28-July 5, p.99
  Fusco, Coco and Wallis, Brian, Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions Of The American Self, International Center of Photography, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, p.260, 328 & 329
2003 Kenner, Rob and Pitts, George. "VX: 10 Years of Vibe Photography" p.119
  Holt, Henry, Gore, Al and Tipper, The Spirit of Family, p. 89
2002 Kuper, Simon, "The World’s Game is not just a Game," The New York Times Magazine May 26, p. 37 - 41
  Wolf, Sylvia, Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, p. 21, Prestel
  Goodman, Wendy, Retour a Harlem, Architectural Digest (French edition), Nov. p. 124
  Andrews, Richard, Short Stories on Photography: Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection at the Henry Art Gallery, p. 9
2001 Max, D.T., "To Sleep no More," The New York Times Magazine, May 6, p. 74 -75
  Stanley, Alessandra, "Berlusconi, The Return," The New York Times Magazine, April 15, p. 40, (photographed Silvio Berlusconi)
  Hyland, John, "Hot Chicks, Cool Rooms," The New York Times Magazine’s Fashions of the Times, Spring Issue, p.185
  Good, Karen Renee, "Vibe Hip Hope Divas," Three Rivers Press
2000 Prose, Francis, "Till Death do us Part," Aperture, No. 159, p. 59
  Wallach, Amei, "The Widow Peaks," The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 24, p. 59 (photographed Yoko Ono)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Next: Rappers and Proteges," Vibe Magazine, Sept., p. 128-132 (photographed Missy Elliott, Fat Joe, Cuban Link, Jill Scott, The Roots, Lil’Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "What’s Really on the Minds of Americans: A Special Photography Issue, "The New York Times Magazine, May 7, p. 65, (commissioned Self-Portrait)
  Ex, Kris, "The Art of War," Vibe, August, p. 24 & 145 (photographed Dead Prez)
  Taylor, Stuart, "The Supreme Question," Newsweek, July 10, p. 18-19, (photo illustration)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Hollywood: Special Collector’s Issue," Code Magazine, March, p. 58 (photographed John Singleton, Jeffery Wright, Malcolm Lee and Reginald Hudlin)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Lyle Ashton Harris and Chuck Close: A Conversation" NKA, Fall/ Fall/Winter 2000, p. 56-63 and back cover
1999 Elie, Paul, "The Next Cardinal," The New York Times, October 10, p.70-73
  Dent, David, "The Gospel According to Conrad Muhammad,"Vibe, p. 142-146 (photographed Conrad Muhammad)
1997 Bruni, Frank, "Reconstructing Marky Mark," The New York Times, August 31, p. 26-29 (photographed Mark Walberg)
  DeParle, Jason, "Welfare to Work: A Sequel," The New York Times, De. 28, p. 14-17
  "The New Black Power," Fortune, August 4, cover and p. 47
  "Apocalyptic Wallpaper," Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, p. 51
  "A Thing of Beauty is...," Art and Design Magazine - Art’s Design Profile, no. 54
  "Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography," Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997 (book project)
  "Uncommon Sense," Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (book project)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Times Square: A Special Photography Issue," The New York Times Magazine, May 18, pages 61, 64-65 Rimanelli, David, "A Drift," Artforum, February, p. 83
  William Hood & William Stern, "Pardon Our Appearance: Masculinity Under Construction," Lyle Ashton Harris with William Stern, Art Journal, guest eds. College Art Association Pubs, Summer, vol. 56, no. 2, p. 6
1996 Maslin, Janet, "The Unnominated," The New York Times Magazine, March 17, p. 38-39 (photographed Jennifer Jason Leigh)
  Maurice Berger, Simon Watson and Brian Wallis, eds., Constructing Masculinity, NY: Routledge, 1996 (photograph, "The Good Life," accompanies text)
  Atlas, James, "True Confessions: The Age of the Literary Memoir,"The New York Times Magazine, May 12, p. 51 (photographed David Beers)
  "ZYZZYVA, The Last Word," West coast writers and artists, vol.XII, no. 3/4, p.192
1995 "Sisterhood," THRESHOLDS: viewing culture 9, (cover photograph and portfolio)
  "Longing for Tribe," LA Weekly, April 21-27, p. 19
  "Lyle Ashton Harris," Brutus, 15 January, p. 58-65 (portfolio of eight photographs)
  Enwezor, Okwui, "The Body in Question: Whose Body? ‘Balck Male: Representation of Masculinity in Contemporary Art’," Third Text, no. 31, Summer, p. 68, "Guide to Romance," Social Text 42, (back cover photograph)
  Karcher, Eva, "Marziss and Fegefeuer," Art - das Kunstmagazin, June, p. 77
1994 De Parle, Jason, "Mary Ann Moore’s Welfare," The New York Times Magazine, 8 December, p. 42-49 (cover story with accompanying editorial photographs)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Queen, Alias and Id," Atlantica 6, p. 70-77 (portfolio of 7 photographs)
  Tierney, John, "What’s New York the Capital of Now?," The New York Times Magazine, 20 November, p. 50
1993 Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Man and Woman #1," Transition, press no. 58, New York, Oxford University (cover photograph)
  Hunter, B. Michael, ed. Sojourner, New York: Other Countries Press
  Watson, Simon, "Seksuaalisuus ja vastarinta," Ahl Seksualistunden Vuosi, p. 46
1992 Dent, Gina, ed. Black Popular Culture, Seattle: Bay Press (photo illustration)
  Harris, Lyle Ashton, "In a land that loves its blond, blue-eyed children, who weeps for the dreams of a black girl?," Framework 4.3, p.40-41
1991 Harris, Lyle Ashton, "Untitled #1," Outlook 13, p. 26-31
  Walker, Christian, "The Miscegenated Gaze," San Francisco Camerawork, Fall, p. 12-14
  "Reflections of a Past Life through Glass," TEN.8, cover and portfolio, Spring
1990 Hayes, William, "Out with the Boys," Mother Jones, July/August, p. 47-49
Selected Bibliography (Books)
2008 Enwezor, Okwui with foreward by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lyle Ashton Harris, Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits. New York: Gregory R Miller & Company.
  Coblentz, Cassandra with essays by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lyle Ashton Harris, Susan Krane, Sarah Lewis, Senam Okudzeto. Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. New York: Gregory R Miller & Company.
2007 Angier, Roswell. Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography. New York: Watson-Guptil Publications, pp. 86 – 87.
2006 Jones, Amelia. Self Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 56 – 57.
2005 Monterosso, Jean-Luc. Atelier Adamson. Paris: Steidl Publications, pp. 96 – 105.
  Friedman, Martin. Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait. New York:
  Harry N. Abrams, pp. 212 – 25.
  Mahon, Alyce. Eroticism and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 226, 254 – 57.
  McDaniel, Craig and Jean Robertson. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after
  1980. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 112 – 16, 146.
2004 Smith, Anna Deavere. Lyle Ashton Harris. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co.
2003 Fusco, Coco and Brian Wallis. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of The American Self.
  New York: International Center of Photography and Harry N. Abrams, pp. 260, 328 – 29.
2001 Hall, Stewart and Mark Sealy. Different: Contemporary Photographers and Black
  Identity. London: Phaidon Press, pp. 47 – 48, 117 – 18.
  Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the
  Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 187 – 88, 292 – 93.
1998 Bright, Deborah. The Passionate Camera. London and New York: Routledge, cover and pp. 11, 15, 248 – 61, 299, 312.
  Doy, Gen. Materializing Art History. New York: Berg Publications, cover and pp. 16 – 17,
  236, 245 – 49.
  Jones, Ameila. Body Art/Performing the Subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
  Press, pp. 214 – 15, 217, 219 – 220, 222, 225 – 226.
1997 Blessing, Jennifer. “Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography.” In Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, ed. Jennifer Blessing.
  New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, pp. 107 – 111.
  Harris, Lyle Ashton. “Drag Racing.” In Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance
  in Photography, ed. Jennifer Blessing. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
  pp. 190 – 203.
  Powell, Richard. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. London: Thames & Hudson,
  pp. 129, 161, 163, 166.
  Wilson, Sarah. “Femininities – Masquerades.” In Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender
  Performance in Photography, ed. Jennifer Blessing. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim
  Museum, pp. 147 – 49.
1996 De Salvo, Donna. Face Value: American Portraits. New York: Flammarion, pp. 31 – 34.
  hooks, bell. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: The New Press, pp. 110, 136 – 37,
  210 – 12.
  Perchuk, Andrew and Helaine Posner. The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and
  Representation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 20, 29, 108 – 109.
1994 Golden, Thelma. Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary
  American Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, pp. 33, 83, 137 – 38, 140.
Selected Bibliography (Articles and Reviews)
2010 Smith, Albert, "Artist Spotlight: Lyle Ashton Harris." advocate.com, August 14, 2010
  Cotter, Holland, Lyle Ashton Harris, New York Times, April 2, 2010
  Gilbert, Alan, Ghana, Village Voice, March 9, 2010
2008 Cotter, Holland. “A Multicultural Swirl of Africa, The Americas and Even Outer Space.” The New York Times, December 3. McQuaid, Cate. “Documenting Life on Ghana shore.” Boston Globe, December 10.
  Baer, Ulrich. “Deep in the Archive.” Aperture, Winter 2008, p 54-59.
  Dawson, Jessica. “He Is Some Body: Lyle Ashton Harris’s Enigmatic Self-Portraits.”               Washington Post. February 1.
2007 Feitelberg, Rosemary. “Bravo Biennale: A New View of Africa.” WWDScoop, Summer, p. 43.
  Glueck, Grace. “Self-Portraits that Obscure the Self.” The New York Times, January 5.
  Morgan, Jessica. “Categorical Impertives.” Artforum 46, 1 (September), p. 391.
  Riley, Cheryl R. “Lyle Ashton Harris: A Look at His Camera’s Lens.” Ebony Magazine
  (July), pp. 196 – 99.
  Simula, Carlo. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” L’Uomo Vogue, May-June, p. 304.
2006 Green, Roger. “Review: Artists Photograph Their Interpretations of Family Values.”
  http://www.mLive.com, March 10.
2005 Fyfe, Joe. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Art on Paper 9, 3 (January-February), p. 94.
2004 Fyfe, Joe. “Lyle Ashton Harris at Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris.” Art on Paper 8, 6
  (July-August), p. 53.
  Jefferson, Margo. “Photo Dynamics.” The New York Times Book Review, February 15.
  Liu, Timothy. “Memoirs of Hadrian.” Artpapers, January-February, p. 48.
  Northcross, Wayne. “Blood, Sweat and Tears.” Genre, September, p. 93.
  Perrëe, Rob. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Kunstbeeld, December 2003-January 2004, pp. 72 – 73.
  Rexer, Lyle. “Only Skin Deep.” Art on Paper 8, 4 (March-April), pp. 60 – 63.
  Reyes, Damaso. “Anna Deavere Smith at The Studio Museum.” Amsterdam News,
  December 27.
  Workman, Michael. “Lyle Ashton Harris, Rhona Hoffman Gallery.” Flash Art, March,
  pp. 118 – 19.
2003 Aletti, Vince. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” The Village Voice, October 8.
  Cotter, Holland. “When the I is the Subject and It’s Always Changing.” The New York
  Times, September 12.
  Cotter, Holland. “Cameras as Accomplices, Helping Race Divide America Against Itself.”
  The New York Times, December 19.
  Genocchio, Benjamin. “Old Faces Inaugurate a Renovated Gallery for Wesleyan.” The
  New York Times, November 16.
  Leffingwell, Edward. “Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG.” Art in America 91, 11 (November),
  pp. 166 – 67.
  Rickels, Laurence A. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Art US, November-December, p. 32.
  Schwendener, Martha. “Lyle Ashton Harris, CRG Gallery.” Artforum 42, 3 (November),
  pp. 189 – 90.
2001 Shamray, Katherine. “Go-Go Photographer Slows Down in Eternal City.” Italy Daily/
  Herald Tribune, May 28.
1999 Harris, Lyle Ashton. “Chuck Close Master Portraitist: Lyle Ashton Harris at Chuck
  Close’s Studio in Soho.” aRUDE, Winter, pp. 74 – 76.
  Harris, Lyle Ashton. “The Sublime, The Grotesque, The Epic: Lyle Ashton Harris
  Interviews Cindy Sherman.” aRUDE, Spring, pp. 50 – 54.
1998 Bonetti, David. “Art.” San Francisco Examiner, February 4.
  Fitzsimons, Casey. “‘Alchemy’ at New Langton Arts.” Artweek 29, 3 (March), p. 27.
  Helfand, Glen. “‘Rhapsodies in Black’ and ‘Alchemy’ Look to the Sources of African
  American Art.” The San Francisco Bay 32, 19 (February), pp. 11 – 17.
  Salvioni, Daniela. “Lyle Ashton Harris, Thomas Allen Harris.” Artforum 36, 9 (May), p. 154.
1997 Smith, Roberta. “Decoding la Difference: Gender as Dress and Pose.” The New York
  Times, January 17.
  Turner, Grady T. “Lyle Ashton Harris at Jack Tilton.” Art in America 85, 3 (March),
  pp. 99 – 100.
  Woolery, Reggie. “The Watering Hole.” Fuse Magazine 20, 3 (June), pp. 37 – 39.
  Woolery, Reggie. “Body of Knowledge.” Artnews 96, 10 (November), p. 54.
1996 Artner, Alan G. “Persona Non Grata.” The Chicago Tribune, March 17.
  Aletti, Vince. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” The Village Voice, September 24.
  Anderson, Frances. “The Gallery Strikes Back: The Commercial Scene, Los Angeles.”
  The Art Newspaper, July-August, p. 34.
  Clothier, Peter. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Artnews 95, 9 (October), p. 137.
  Cohen, Michael. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Flash Art 29, 188 (May-June), p. 107.
  Harris, Thomas Allen. “False Assumptions Flaw Criticism.” The Los Angeles Times,
  August 26.
  Smith, Roberta. “Finding Art in the Artifact of the Masses.” The New York Times,
  December 1.
  Smith, Roberta. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” The New York Times, September 27.
  Wiggins, Cynthia. “Liberty, Fraternity, Inequality: Race, Rage, Regret.” LA Weekly,
  August 16 – 22, pp. 43 – 44.
1995 Brooks, Rosetta. “Narcissistic Disturbance at Otis Art Gallery.” Artforum 33, 10
  (Summer), p. 112.
  Budney, Jen. “Spotlight: Black Male.” Flash Art 180 (February), p. 91.
  Cork, Richard. “Mirage Show of Wit.” The London Times, June 27.
  Enwezor, Okwui. “The Body in Question: Whose Body? ‘Black Male’: Representations
  of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” Third Text 31 (Summer), p. 69.
  Flett, Kathryn. “Arena Recommends.” Arena, July-August, p. 26.
  George, Lynell. “The ‘Black Male’ Debate.” The Los Angeles Times, February 22.
  Green, David A. “Narcissistic Disturbance.” Art Issues, March-April, p. 40.
  Halard, François. “Portraits of the Artists as Young Men.” GQ, February, p. 164.
  Harris, Lyle Ashton and Tommy Gear. “Coco Fusco: English is Broken Here.” aRUDE,
  Fall, pp. 54 – 55.
  Haye, Christian. “Myth and the Man.” Frieze, January-February, p. 24.
  Knight, Christopher. “LACMA’s ‘P.L.A.N.’ Isn’t Your Standard Photo Show.” The Los
  Angeles Times, July 8.
  Knight, Christopher. “‘Narcissistic’: Art for Artist’s Sake.” The Los Angeles Times,
  February 14.
  Mejias, Jordon. “Wer Hat Angst vor Schwarzen Man.” Feuilleton, January 24.
  Murphy, Anthony C. “Art Scene.” American Vision, December-January, p. 10.
  Nochlin, Linda. “Learning from ‘Black Male.’” Art in America 83, 3 (March), p. 86.
  Owen, David. “The Straddler.” The New Yorker, January 30.
  Onedera, Shinichiro. “Art of the Absolute Nude.” Brutus, January 1 – 15, pp. 58 – 65.
  Philips, Anthony. “Postmodern Vamp: Living the Good Life with Photographer Lyle
  Ashton Harris.” aRUDE, Spring, pp. 20 – 21.
  Rugoff, Ralph. “Vanity Fare: Artists and the N Word.” LA Weekly, February 17.
  Sladen, Mark. “Black on Black.” Art Monthly, July-August, p. 13.
  Temin, Christine. “Seeing the Man behind the Mask.” The Boston Globe, January 24.
  Udé, Iké. “On Lyle’s Case: Mask and Embrace in the Work of Lyle Ashton Harris.”
  THRESHOLDS: Viewing Culture 9, pp. 67, 72.
  Zellen, Jody. “The Good Life.” Artpress, January, p. 66.
  Zook, Kristal Brent. “Longing for Tribe, The Storm over ‘Black Male’ and the Persistence
  of Nationalist Design.” LA Weekly, April 12.
1994 Aletti, Vince. “It’s a Family Affair.” The Village Voice, September 27.
  Aletti, Vince. “Voice Choices.” The Village Voice, November 9.
  Atkins, Robert. “From Preppie to Orange Hair in an Amsterdam Minute.” The New York
  Times, September 25.
  Avgikos, Jan. “Ciphers of Identity.” Artforum 32, 8 (April), p. 91.
  Canning, S.M. “The Good Life.” New Art Examiner, December, p. 44.
  Cotter, Holland. “Art after Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed.” Art in America 82, 6
  (June), p. 63.
  Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Lyle Ashton Harris, ‘The Good Life.’” The New York
  Times, September 30.
  Cotter, Holland. “Gay Pride (and Anguish) Around the Galleries.” The New York Times,
  June 14.
  Hapgood, Susan. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Art in America 82, 11 (November), p. 106.
  Helfand, Glen. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” VIBE, October, p. 102.
  Hovagimyan, G.H. “Black Male Show.” Manhattan File, November, p. 104.
  Kimmelman, Michael. “Constructing Images of the Black Male.” The New York Times,
  November 11.
  Levin, Kim. “Voice Choices.” The Village Voice, November 9.
  Mercer, Kobena. “Fear of a Black Penis.” Artforum 32, 8 (April), pp. 80 – 81.
  Pedersen, Victoria. “Black Male.” Paper, November, p. 110.
  Seward, Keith. “Lyle Ashton Harris.” Artforum 33, 4 (December), p. 83.
  Solomon, Deborah. “Whitney Solves U.S. Race Problem.” The Wall Street Journal,
  November 11.
  Stevens, Mark. “Black Like Them.” New York Magazine, September, p. 52.
  Wilson, Judith. “Beauty Rites: Towards an Anatomy of Culture in African American
  Women’s Art.” The International Review of African American Art 11, 3, pp. 11 – 17.
1993 Sirmans, Franklin. “Best to Protect your Neck: Love One Another.” Ace Magazine, July, p. 14.
  Spindler, Amy. “As Street Goes, So Goes Style.” The New York Times, September 19.
  White, Bethany. “About Face.” Tribes, Fall-Winter, editor’s page, pp. 55 – 59.
1992 Bleckner, Ross. “Emerging Artists.” Out, Fall, p. 47.
  Bonami, Francesco. “Schwarze Art Trouble.” Flash Art 25, 163 (May-June), p. 132.
  Bonami, Francesco. “Body Politic.” Los Angeles Times, December 11.
  Bonami, Francesco. “Disputed Identities US/UK.” Parachute 65 (January-March), pp. 59 – 60.
  Conwill, Kinshasha Holman and Lorna Simpson. “Valuing Difference in a Multicultural/
  Multiracial Society.” ArtPapers, March-April, p. 27.
  Harris, Lyle Ashton. “Revolutionary Acts—Interview with Marlon Riggs.” Afterimage,
  March, pp. 8 – 11.
  Hess, Elizabeth. “Give Me Fever.” The Village Voice, December 29.
  Hess, Elizabeth. “Art and Politics: A Pre-Election Symposium.” Art in America 80, 10
  (October), p. 43.
  Kotz, Liz. “The Body You Want.” Artforum 31, 3 (November), p. 82.
  Rosenberg, Ann. “Sexual Images.” Vancouver Sun, May 2.
  Temin, Christine. “ICA’s Provocative ‘Dress Codes.’” The Boston Globe, March 10.
  Vogel, Sabine. “Jeder ist eine Minderheit.” Der Tagesspiegel, January 8.
1991 George, Eddie. “Black Body and Public Enemy.” TEN.8 2, 1 (Spring), pp. 68 – 71.
  Harris, Lyle Ashton. “Revenge of a Snow Queen.” OutLook, Summer, cover and portfolio.
  Harris, Lyle Ashton. “Revolutionary Acts.” Afterimage, March, pp. 8 – 11.
  Mercer, Kobena. “Dark and Lovely: Notes on Black Gay Image-Making.” TEN.8 2, 1
  (Spring), pp. 78 – 85.
  Rosenberg, Ann. “Icons of Identity.” Vancouver Sun, May 25.
  Snow, Shauna. “L.A. Area Artists Win Four Arts Federation Fellowships.” Los Angeles
  Times, July 14.
  Walker, Christian. “The Miscegenated Gaze.” San Francisco Camerawork, Fall, pp. 12 – 14.
1990 Hayes, William. “Out with the Boys.” Mother Jones, July-August, pp. 47 – 49.
  Sebestyen, Amanda. “Black Narcissus.” New Statesman, April 6.
Comissioned Portraits and Photographic Essays
2007 Yablonsky, Linda. “In the Studio: Kara Walker.” Art & Auction, February, pp. 46, 48.
2006 Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “The Case for Contamination.” The New York Times
  Magazine, January 1, pp. 4, 30 – 31, 34.
2005 Hodgman, John. “Antony Finds His Voice.” The New York Times Magazine, September 4,
  p. 25.
2004 Hedegaard, Erik. “The Entertainer: Al Sharpton.” New York Magazine, October 18, pp.
  37, 38.
  Stoddard, Grant. “Sex/steria.” New York Magazine, November 22, pp. 37, 39.
2002 Kuper, Simon. “The World’s Game Is Not Just a Game.” The New York Times Magazine,
  May 26, pp. 37 – 41.
2001 Hyland, John. “Hot Chicks, Cool Rooms.” The New York Times Magazine’s Fashions of
  the Times, Spring, p. 185.
  Max, D.T. “To Sleep No More.” The New York Times Magazine, May 6, pp. 74 –75.
  Stanley, Alessandra. “Berlusconi, The Return.” The New York Times Magazine, April 15,
  p. 40.
2000 Ex, Kris. “The Art of War.” VIBE, August, pp. 24, 145.
  Ogunnaike, Lola. “Next: Rappers and Proteges.” VIBE, September, pp. 128 – 32.
  Ogunnaike, Lola. “What’s Really on the Minds of Americans: A Special Photography
  Issue.” The New York Times Magazine, May 7, p. 65.
  Ogunnaike, Lola. “Hollywood: Special Collector’s Issue.” Code Magazine, March, p. 58
  Wallach, Amei. “The Widow Peaks.” The New York Times Magazine, September 24, p. 59.
1999 Elie, Paul. “The Next Cardinal.” The New York Times Magazine, October 10, pp. 70 – 73.
  Dent, David. “The Gospel According to Conrad Muhammad.” VIBE, November, pp. 142 – 46.
1997 Bruni, Frank. “Reconstructing Marky Mark.” The New York Times Magazine, August 31,
  pp. 26 – 29.
  DeParle, Jason. “Welfare to Work: A Sequel.” The New York Times Magazine, December 28.
  Ferguson, Russell, ed. Uncommon Sense. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art
  Publications, pp. 53 – 76.
  Johnson, Roy. “The New Black Power.” Fortune, August 4, cover and p. 47.
  Johnson, Roy. “Times Square: A Special Photography Issue.” The New York Times
  Magazine, May 18, pp. 61, 64 – 65.
1996 Harris, Lyle Ashton. “Queen, Alias and Id.” Atlantica 6, pp. 70 – 77.
  Maslin, Janet. “The Unnominated.” The New York Times Magazine, March 17, pp. 38 – 39.
1994 DeParle, Jason. “Mary Ann Moore’s Welfare.” The New York Times Magazine, December 8,
  cover and pp. 42 – 49.
1991 Akomfrah, John. “On the Borderline.” TEN.8 2, 1 (Spring), cover and pp. 50 – 61.
Professional Activities
2008 Lecturer, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  Lecturer, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Jurer for the African Pavillion. 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2006 Co-organized NYU Colloquium on Contemporary Art with Joe Nkrumah. Production, Presentation, Conservation and Collection, Ghana.
  Panelist. Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.
2005 Conversation between Anna Deavere Smith & Lyle Ashton Harris. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
  Conversation between Anna Deavere Smith & Lyle Ashton Harris. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
2002 Visiting Artist. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Lecturer. California Institute of the Arts,Valencia, CA.
1999 Lecturer. Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers, NJ.
  Lecturer. MOCA San Diego, CA.
  Lecturer. New York University, New York, NY.
1998 Lecturer. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
1997 Lecturer. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1996 Lecturer. Colgate University, New York, NY.
  Lecturer. SIUC at Carbondale, IL.
  Lecturer. Yale University, New Haven, CT.
  Lecturer. Royal College, Sweden.
  Lecturer. Columbia University, New York, NY.
  Lecturer. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
  Lecturer. University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
  Consultant. Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada.
1995 Lecturer. International Center for Photography, New York, NY.
  Lecturer. Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.
  Lecturer. Parsons School of Art, New York, NY.
  Lecturer. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
  Lecturer. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
  Lecturer. University of California, San Diego, CA
  Panelist. College Art Association 1995, San Antonio, TX
  Panelist. Mirage. ICA, London, England. Moderated by Homi K. Bhabha
  Panelist. Pervert. University of California, Irvine, CA
  Panelist. Narcissistic Disturbance. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Organized               by Michael Cohen.
  Panelist. Face Value: American Portraits. The Parrish Museum of Art, Southampton,NY. Organized by Donna DeSalvo.
  Panelist. Black Male. Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
  Still photographer. Black Nations, Queer Nations, conference, College for Lesbian
  and Gay Studies, City University of New York, NY.
  Television Interview. A Tale of Three Cities: Dialogue with Lyle Ashton Harris and Jack
  Pierson. by Jerry Saltz for Intervista Productions, NHK, Japan.
1994 Panelist. Queer Collaboration. Society for Photographic Education 94, Chicago, IL.
  Lecturer. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
  Panelist. Queer Art. New School of Social Research, New York, NY. Organized by Robert Atkins.
1993 Still Photographer. Black Is/Black Ain't. film directed by Marlon Riggs.
  Panelist. Cross-Dressers, Gender-Benders and Trouble-Makers: New Examinations in
  Transvestitism. Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
  Panelist. Image Wars: The Role of Photography in the Creation of Culture. University of
  Colorado, Boulder, CO. Organized by Lucy Lippard.
  Panelist. Dresscodes. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Moderated by Marjorie               Garber and Simon Watson.
1992 Lecturer. Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA.
  Lecturer. Diva Deluxe. Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, CA.
  Panelist. Expanding American Art History to Reflect Multiethnic Diversity. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
  Lecturer. Interrogating Difference. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
1991 Still photographer. "Black Popular Culture." DIA Center for the Arts, New York, and             
  Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY.
  Panelist. Passionate Desires. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
  Panelist. Black Men in America: Changing Reality? L.A. Contemporary Exhibitions, CA.
  Panelist. Lesbian and Gay Culture: Part of the African-American Community. University of               California, Irvine, CA.
  Panelist. Queer Perspectives: Art, Literature and Community Now. Lesbian and Gay
  Outwrite, Boston, MA.
  Panelist. Disputed Identities. Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
1990 Project Associate. Black C.A.R.E. Project (Community AIDS Research and Education),
  Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Teaching
2008 Yale University School of Art, Core Critic
  New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, NY, Summer Program Director, Clinical  Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Global Education, Courses Taught: MFA Graduate Studio Critique, Advanced Projects in Art and Media
2007 New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, NY. Summer Program Director, Clinical  Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Global Education, Courses Taught: MFA Graduate Studio Critique, Advanced Projects in Art and Media
2006 New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NewYork, NY., Clinical  Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Global Education, Course taught: Photography and Theory Seminar
2005 New York University, Ghana Program, Accra, Ghana., Department of Art and Art Professions, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Photography and Theory Seminar
  New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, NY., Department of Art and Art Professions, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Graduate Seminar
2004 International Center of Photography/Bard College, New York, NY., Department of Art and Art Professions, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: MFA Master Class
  New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, NY., Department of Art and Art Professions, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Graduate Seminar
2000 New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, NY., Department of Art and Art Professions, Adjunct Professor, Courses taught: Fundamentals of Photography, Graduate Projects: Advance Color , Undergraduate Projects: Autobiography & Representation
  University of California, School of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA., Department of Art, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Graduate Tutorial
  California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA., School of Art, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Special Projects and Independent Studies
  Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY., Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Advanced Photography
1998 New York University, Steinhardt School, New York, NY., Adjunct Professor, Courses taught: Photo One, Photo Two, Sophomore Praxis class and Junior Seminar Committees: Chair Search Committee, Fine Arts Curriculum Committee and Academi Assembly
1997 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA., Fine Arts Department, Adjunct Professor, Course taught: Undergraduate Seminar
  University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA., School of Art, Adjunct Professor, Courses taught: Photo Two and Graduate Seminar
1994 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
Grants/Fellowships/Residencies
2000 Rome Prize Fellowship: Harold M. English/Metropolitian Museum of Art -Jacob H. Lazarus Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts
  American Photography Award (Vol. 16) for portrait that illustrated "The Gospel According to Conrad Muhammad," Vibe magazine
  Society of Publication Designers Merit Award for photograph that illustrated "The Next Cardinal," The York Times Magazine
1996 Banff Art Center Residency Fellowship, Alberta, Canada
1995 Art Matters Grant
  Ernst Haas, "Top 100 Photographers" Award
1993 Helena Rubinstein Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Fellowship Art Matters Grant
1992 Brody Arts Fund Fellowship
1991 WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for the Visual Arts
  Art Matters Grant
Public Collections
  JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
  Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
  Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Raleigh-Durham, NC
  The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY