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NAIMA GREEN

Education

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

Solo Exhibitions

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

Group Exhibitions

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

Published Text

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

Artist Talks and Panels

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

Awards, Fellowships, Residencies

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

Professional Experience

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

Professional Affiliations

2021: Board of Directors, Robert Giard Foundation

Selected Bibliography

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

Collections

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