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Latoya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier earned her MFA in art photography from Syracuse University and is currently associate curator at the Civic Square Art Gallery, Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her six-year project The Notion of Family: Family Work (2002-08) uses black and white photography and video to document and explore the African-American family experience. She uses her own family as her subject, focusing on relationships between herself, her mother, and her grandmother.

Born 1982
Hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Education
American Academy, Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for Visual Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 2011
MFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2007
BFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
Permanent Collection

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Carnegie Museums, Pittsburgh, PA

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY

Kadist Foundation, Paris, France

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham NC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester MA

Zabludowicz Foundation, London, UK

Representing Galleries

Michel Rein, Paris, France & Brussels, Belgium

Articles

On Presenting 100 Years of Art Through a Feminist Lens
On Presenting 100 Years of Art Through a Feminist Lens

Brooklyn Museum curator Catherine Morris discusses the current intersectional feminist exhibition on view, and the growing interest in curating collections exhibitions as a platform for institutional critique from the inside out.

Creative Time’s Nato Thompson’s Favorite Works From NADA New York
Creative Time’s Nato Thompson’s Favorite Works From NADA New York

The celebrated curator and critic writes about his favorite artworks from Artspace’s exclusive preview of NADA’s upcoming art fair in New York, opening March 2nd.

How Do Today's Art Stars Make Prints?
How Do Today's Art Stars Make Prints?

The Lower East Side Printshop's master printer, Erik Hougen, on the meaning of mastery, the logic of editioning, and the intimacy of collaboration.

6 Hudson Valley Art Destinations You Don’t Know
6 Hudson Valley Art Destinations You Don’t Know

Here are some cutting-edge sites within driving distance of Manhattan that you should check out this summer.

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