M.F.A. Advanced Photographic Studies, International Center of Photography-Bard, New York, NY
Thesis: All the black language
M.A. Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Thesis : Jewels from the Hinterland: A study in arts-based storytelling
B.A. Urban Studies and Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Thesis: The History of Harlem, Housing, and Black Upper-middle Class Identity
2025 Forthcoming, Astor Weeks, New York, NY
2022: I Keep Missing My Water, ICA at VCU, Richmond, VA (forthcoming)
A Sequence for Squeezing, Baxter Street CCNY, New York, NY
2020: Brief & Drenching, Fotografiska, New York, NY
2018: A Collective Utterance, Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
All the black language, ICP-Bard Studios, Long Island City, NY
2025 $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2024 Summer Stance, Astor Weeks, New York, NY
2023 New York Now: Home, A Photography Triennial, Museum of the City of New York, NY
Queer-ish: Photography and the LGBTQ+ Imaginary, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
2021: TOUCH, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
I Belong to This, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
Self-Maintenance Resource Center, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
Museum as Classroom, Smart Museum, Chicago, IL
2020: Social Justice Billboard Project, NE SCULPTURE I Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Anthem, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Queen is Dead, ltd los angeles at h Club Los Angeles, CA
Catalyst: Art and Social Change, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York, NY
2019: Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum, Chicago, IL
From the Margins, Gallery 102, Washington, D.C.
F.A.B.U. (For All By Us) Books and Editions, Shoot The Lobster, New York, NY
Radical Reading Room, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Other Is You: Brooklyn Queer Portraiture, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Parallax, Photoville LA, Los Angeles, CA
2018: They're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?, ltd los angeles, Sunday Art Fair, London, UK
To Know a Stranger, Baxter Street CCNY, New York, NY
Come to Your Senses, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Everyday Muse, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Close to Reality, ICP School, New York, NY
2017: I Am! We Are Here!, The Point CDC, Bronx, NY
Ecotone, Zaha Hadid, New York, NY
Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Her Feet Planted Firmly On The Ground, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2016: If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There?, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ
Up for Debate, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2015: What's Inside Her Never Dies, Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FL.
The Migration, Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
The Artist’s Studio, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
A New Nothing Vol. 1, ed. by John Pilson, Sleeper, 2021
Photo No-Nos ed. by Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2021
These Are the Faces of Tranquility, The New York Times, 2019
All the black language, Self Published, First Edition, 2018
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora ed. by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and
Adama Delphine Fawundu, Eye & I Inc., 2017
The Perfect Woman to Paint Michelle Obama, The New York Times, 2017
Showers Closed., Self Published, 2017
Ungapeli Umoya, Self Published, 2017
2024 Archiving as Activism: Cyanotypes, Herbaria, & Seed Balls for Plant Preservation with Arvolyn Hill, Vassar
College
Visiting Critic, April 13, 2024. Smith College
Studio Visit, February 20, 2024. InterseXtions: Gender & Sexuality, Brooklyn Museum
2023 BFA Visting Artist Lecture, November 9, 2023. Parsons School of Design
Artist Talk, April 17, 2023. Smith College (Colloquium: Contemporary Art)
Artist Talk, April 4, 2023. New York University
Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design
Artist Talk, Tender/Collaborations: From Theory to (Artistic) Praxis, January 27, 2023, Arizona State University
2022: Visiting Artist, November 30, 2022. Yale University
Artist Talk, St. Olaf Collage
Artist Talk, Smith College
Artist Talk, Princeton Day School
2021 Artist Talk, Vassar College
Artist Talk, Columbia University
Artist Talk, Barnard College
Artist Talk, “F is for Femininity Roundtable,” Klarna
2020 Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design
Variously Documenting: Methods of Portraiture, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Artist Talk, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2019 Artist Talk with Derrick Woods-Morrow, Smart Museum of Art
Artist Talk, New York University
Artist Talk, Purchase College, SUNY
Storytelling Saturdays with Naima Green, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Artist Talk, New York Public Library
Optics: Queer Eye(s), International Center of Photography Museum
A Sense of Pride: LGBTQ Symposium Series, NSU Art Museum
2018 CULTURED Live: Non-Conforming Narratives, Spring Place
Artist Talk, Vassar College
A Collective Utterance with Oluremi Onabanjo, Arsenal Gallery
Artist Talk, Recess Assembly
Women's Leadership Forum, Saint Vincent's Academy
2017: Black Ecologies of Dissent, American Studies Association Annual Meeting
The Social Image, Eyebeam
2016 Artist Talk, Black Portraiture[s], Johannesburg, ZA
2025 Fountainhead Artist Residency, Miami, FL
2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund Grantee, New York, NY
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Nominee
2023 Penumbra Workspace Program, New York, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock AIR, Kingston, NY
Shortlist C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023, Berlin, DE
2022 BRIC Contemporary Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
The Silver List, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pitsburg, PA
2021 Baxter Street at CCNY Workspace Residency, New York, NY
Fire Island Artist Residency, Cherry Grove, NY
Barnard Library Research Award, New York, NY
2020 Recess, Brooklyn, NY
2019 MASS MoCA Teaching Residency, North Adams, MA
New York Times Portfolio Review, New York, NY
Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City, Mexico
2016 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010-Present: Commercial & Editorial Photographer
2021-2023: Harnish Visiting Artist and Lecturer in Photography, Smith College
2021: Practices, Strategies, Techniques, Justine Kurland Workshops
2021: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Performing & Creative Arts, CUNY College of Staten Island
2020-2021: Editor in Chief, 2020Visions
2020: Visual Arts Curriculum Advisor, Yours Truly Creative
2019: Digital Strategist and Content Creator, Red Bull Arts
2021: Board of Directors, Robert Giard Foundation
2021: Naima Green’s Brief & Drenching Is A Study In Stillness And Sensuality, Elle
Naima Green, A Radiating Nature, Office Magazine
Queer artists of color dominate 2021's must-see LGBTQ art shows, NBC News
2020: Studio Visit: Portrait Photographer Naima Green on Having Fun With Her Subjects and
the Joys of a Five-Mile Walk, artnet News
Naima Green, Brief & Drenching @Fotografiska New York, Collector Daily
Naima Green is in Pursuit of the Close Portrait, SSENSE
Naima Green’s Ode to Fleeting Pleasures, Aperture
Focus On: Naima Green, Photograph Mag
The artist archiving Black queer history as it happens right now, i-D
How Naima Green Makes Editorial Photography Assignments Personal, The Luupe
Photographer Naima Green reimagines Catherine Opie’s famous ‘Dyke Deck,’ Dazed
Are Virtual Viewing Rooms the Future of Photography?, Aperture
The queer female and non-binary photographers redefining the fashion image, Dazed
Pur·suit, LensCulture
Sawdust, SCREEN_
2019: Way Back Wednesday | Naima Green, Barnard College
From the Margins: Queerness, Identity, and Representation, Metal Magazine
So Long, Summer: 7 Photographers Remember the Season, T Magazine
Eye Mask: Mexico with Naima Green, CULTURED
Marlene Colburn And Naima Green Are Creating Diverse Queer Spaces, Nylon
Why BlackSpace, Dancing While Black | Black Bodies, White Boxes
Naima Green Captures the Many Faces of the Queer Community, Artsy
Naima Green: The Frontrunner Interview, Frontrunner
Don’t Miss This Artist’s Update of a Classic World of Queer Art, Nylon
Buy It Before It’s Gone: Photographer Naima Green Revisits Catherine Opie’s Dyke Deck,
CULTURED
The Dyke Deck revisited: New portrait-filled playing cards capture a dynamic queer
community, Brooklyn Based
This Artist is Making the Queerest Deck of Cards Ever, OUT Magazine
Queer communities of color photographed for a new set of playing cards, Metro.co.UK
These Photos Celebrate Queer Communities for People of Color, Feature Shoot
Interview with Naima Green – The Pur·suit Project, Lez Spread the Word
Why This Photographer Is Reimagining The Dyke Deck, Refinery29
Naima Green Stacks Catherine Opie’s “Dyke Deck” with Images of Queer
Contemporaries, Hyperallergic
A New Project Remakes Catherine Opie's Classic Dyke Deck With Photos of
Contemporary Queerness, Humble Arts Foundation
The “Pur·suit" Of Better Playing Cards, BUST
2018: Fertile Ground: Huma Bhabha, Joan Jonas, Maren Hassinger, and Naima Green in Parks
and Art Spaces Around New York, ARTnews
These Powerful Images Celebrate Artists of Color Amid Lush, Green Backdrops, VICE
Naima Green, A Collective Utterance @NYC Parks Arsenal Gallery, Collector Daily
2017: Intricacies of the Image: Naima Green and Jessica Lynne in Conversation, SPOT
Magazine, Houston Center for Photography
The absolute best photos of 2017 (in The Fader), The Fader
‘Her Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground’ at the Houston Center for Photography, Glasstire
‘Her Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground’ at the Houston Center for Photography,
Lenscratch
On The Importance of Creating Black Art In The Time Of Trump, The Fader
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, Eye & I Inc.
SPOOK: Issue Six
If 2017 was a photo, what would it be?, The Fader
These New York Gardeners Are Fighting The System By Growing Food, The Fader
In a Fake World, Pictures of Friend Feel The Most Real, The Fader
naima green’s view on the women’s march on washington, i-D Vice
2016: naima green’s quietly radical portraits of people in color in parks, i-D Vice
Naima Green's Beautiful Portraiture Is Changing Public Perception of Green Spaces,
Garden Collage
The essence of #BlackGirlMagic is in these photographs, Fusion
In Conversation with Naima Green, Arts.Black
2015: Jewels from the Hinterland: A Conversation on Black and Brown Bodies in Nature with
Photographer Naima Green, Black Girl in Om
Intimacy Art Show' Will Make You Want To Get Close to Somebody, Huffington Post
20 Mesmerizing Images Explore the Meaning of Intimacy, Refinery 29
SPOOK: Issue Five, America: A Visual Survey
Dinner Without An Agenda with Petrushka Bazin, Queens Museum
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, Winter Tangerine Review
2014: Jewels from the Hinterland, Black Girls Talking
Bridging Boundaries at Postcrypt Gallery stirs thought, leaves its mark on visitors,
Columbia Spectator
Collaborative art expo pairs students with Harlem artists, Columbia Spectator
Jewels from the Hinterland, BKLYNR
Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Art Institute of Chicago
Barnard College Library
Decker Library at MICA
Flaten Art Museum
Fleet Library at RISD
The Getty Research Institute
Hessel Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
International Center of Photography Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Museum of Modern Art Library
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Hirsch Library
National Gallery of Art
Olin Library, Cornell University
Pratt Institute Libraries
Smart Museum of Art
Smith College Museum of Art
Teachers College, Columbia University