Current Exhibitions 2024
Studio/Archive
Mickalene Thomas, Madame Mama Bush, 2012, chromogenic print, Tang Teaching Museum collection, purchased with generous funding from Nancy Herman Frehling ’65, Leslie Cypen Diamond ’96, Pamela Kochen-Baroukh ’82, and Ann Schapps Schaffer ’62 and Melvyn S. Schaffer, 2016.30.1
Installation view, Studio/Archive, Tang Teaching Museum, 2024, photo by Mindy McDaniel
Joachim Schmid, Archiv #149, 1991, collage on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the artist, 2016.22.1.58
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study (_Q5A3505), 2016, archival pigment print, Tang Teaching Museum collection, purchased with generous funding from Nancy Herman Frehling ’65 and Leslie Cypen Diamond ’96, 2016.2
Installation view, Studio/Archive, Tang Teaching Museum, 2024, photo by Mindy McDaniel
Elger Esser, 140, Saint Malo, 2005, chromogenic print on Diasec face/forex, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Laurie M. Tisch, 2013.5
Installation view, Studio/Archive, Tang Teaching Museum, 2024, photo by Mindy McDaniel
Zanele Muholi, “Makhethi” Sebenzile Ndaba, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 2010 from Faces and Phases, 2010, gelatin silver print, Tang Teaching Museum collection, Tang purchase, 2018.3.2
Joachim Schmid, Archiv #085, 1989, collage on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the artist, 2016.22.1.1
Joachim Schmid, Archiv #056, 1988, collage on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the artist, 2016.22.1.557
Joachim Schmid, Archiv #189, 1992, collage on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the artist, 2016.22.1.97
Ja’Tovia Gary, An Ecstatic Experience, 2015, video, 6 minutes, color and black and white, Tang Teaching Museum collection, Tang purchase in partnership with the New Media Arts Consortium, a collaboration of the art museums at Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Colby College, Middlebury College, and Skidmore College
Studio/Archive presents photography from the Tang Museum collection—many of them recent acquisitions—that explore studio portraiture and archives. Works on view range from nineteenth century daguerreotypes and vernacular photography, to contemporary portraiture and video. Together these diverse bodies of work explore themes of agency—how people shape their own identities—and visual representation as a tool for empathy and justice.
Organized to complement the Tang Museum’s presentation of Lessons of the Hour by Sir Isaac Julien, this exhibition aims to extend the conversation around the power of photography to (re)frame ourselves and the world around us through the photographic lens.
Exhibition Name
Studio/Archive
Exhibition Type
Group Exhibitions
Place
Wachenheim Gallery
Dates
Feb 3 - Jun 9
Curators
Studio/Archive is organized by Dayton Director Ian Berry.
Artists
Mike Disfarmer, Elger Esser, Ja’Tovia Gary, Kahlil Robert Irving, Annette Kelm, Zanele Muholi, Vik Muniz, Alice O'Malley, Joachim Schmid, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Malick Sidibé, Sanlé Sory, Mickalene Thomas, Unrecorded artists, Huang Yan
Student Staff
Chiara Garcia-Ugarte
2023-24 Carole Marchand Endowed Intern, Student Advisory Council, past: Registrarial Intern, Tang Guide
Abigail Svetlik
2023-24 Eleanor Linder Winter Endowed Intern, Student Advisory Council, past: Public Programming Intern, Tang Guide
Mel Douer
2023-24 Charina Endowment Fund Endowed Intern, Student Advisory Council Chair, past: Curatorial Intern, Tang Guide
Upcoming related events
May 31, 4 PM
Jun 1, 2 PM
Past related events
May 11, 2 PM
Apr 12, 7 PM
Mar 23, 2 PM
Feb 27, 12 PM
