Diana Solís, Self Portrait on Greenview Street, Lakeview Neighborhood, Chicago, IL, 1982, Archival Piezography Print, 30x40”, Photo Courtesy the Artist.
Magnum Foundation invites you to a conversation between curator Ariel Goldberg and photographer Diana Solís, in conjunction with their exhibit Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s (on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum March 10 — July 30, 2023).
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET
In-person and online
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s features selected works from the photographic archive of Mexicana-Chicana activist, artist, and educator Diana Solís (b. 1956). In the second of two conversations between Goldberg and a photographer featured in the exhibition, Solís will speak about the range of their photographic work from the late 1970s to the 1990s across Chicago and Mexico City, where they participated in overlapping anti-imperialist, Chicana/o/x, feminist, and queer liberation struggles. Over these years, Solís worked as a photojournalist and built numerous educational programs in grassroots feminist organizations. In the late 1990s, they began working in illustration, murals, and large-scale public art. In recent years, Solís returned to documentary photography and portraiture featuring their queer and Latinx communities in Pilsen, Chicago, which has recently been featured in a monograph, Luz, Seeing the Space Between Us.
Image credit: Sandra Oviedo
Diana Solís is a Mexican-born visual artist, photographer, and educator whose work includes painting, illustration, printmaking, comics, public murals, and installation. She is inspired by Mexican and Chicano culture, memory, cautionary tales, oral and personal histories, queer identities, and narratives. Her work examines notions of place, identity, and belonging. Central to Solís’s practice is her commitment to being a teaching artist who shares her knowledge and process in collaboration with youth, immigrant families, and adults and supports them in creating art from their perspectives. As a teaching artist of four decades, Solís has taught students in a wide range of settings including community organizations, public schools, museums, and special residency programs. She holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Illinois Chicago and has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Toluca, Mexico; and Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain. Her work most recently appeared in FotoFocus Cincinnati at the Contemporary Arts Center and is on view as part of Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art March 10-July 30th, 2023.
Image credit: Dan Paz
Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and photographer working with trans and queer lineages in photography. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Their short-form writing has most recently appeared in Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image, Afterimage Journal, e-flux, Jewish Currents and Art in America. Goldberg has curated public programs for over ten years at venues including The Poetry Project and Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center. With Noam Parness they co-curated Uncanny Effects: Robert Giard’s Currents of Connection (2020) at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Their work has been supported by the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, New York Public Library Research Rooms, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and SOMA in Mexico City. They were a 2020 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for their book-in-progress on trans and queer image cultures of the late 20th century. Goldberg has taught photography, writing, and contemporary art practices at Bard College, The New School, New York University, Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University.
CART will be provided for in-person audience members. Auto-captions via zoom will be available for those joining virtually.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. As a small team, we will better be able to respond to requests made at least one week in advance.
Masks are currently appreciated, but not required. We may provide additional instructions ahead of the event.