Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self
With work spanning from the early 20th century to the present, Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self explores the often liberating re-imagining of self. Ranging from playful to political, confrontational to aspirational, these images time-travel and gender-bend, mask and mirror. Evolving from an artist’s personal and cultural history, the creation of a persona may ultimately be a strategy toward finding one’s voice and inspiring empathy.
Presented with concurrent exhibitions:
Picturing Isabella
Jamie Diamond: Monstra Te Esse Matrem, 2026
Image credit: Jamie Diamond (American), 1.21.11, I Promise to be a Good Mother, 2011. Archival pigment print, 66.67 x 88.9 cm (26 1/4 x 35 in.) © Jamie Diamond. Courtesy of the artist and Kewenig Gallery.
Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self and Jamie Diamond: Monstra Te Esse Matrem, 2026 are supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Barbara Lee Program Fund, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Picturing Isabella is supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Fredericka and Howard Stevenson.
The Artist-in-Residence program is supported in part by Lizbeth and George Krupp and The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc., and directed by Pieranna Cavalchini, Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art. Funding is also provided for site-specific installations of new work on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade on Evans Way.
