Join us at ICP for the New York launch of artist Alanna Field’s debut release, Unveiling published by Meteoro Editions. Fields will discuss her new publication with artist Golden, followed by a signing in the ICP shop. The conversation will be accessible in-person and online.
The conversation is free to attend with the price of Late Night ICP admission and includes access to the galleries.
About the Guests
Alanna Fields is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work unpacks Black queer history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields’ work has been featured in exhibitions at Yancey Richardson Gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, and Residency Art Gallery among others. She has participated in museum exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, The Sugar Hill Museum in Harlem, The High Museum of Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Plug In ICA, SF Camerawork, and has shown work at Paris Photo, Art Basel Miami, Expo Chicago, and Felix Art Fair LA. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and has participated in residencies at Light Work, Baxter Street CCNY, Silver Arts Projects, Fountainhead Arts, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image among others. She received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and is a professor of Photography at Howard University. Fields has given artist talks at the Aperture Foundation, Light Work, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parson’s New School, Syracuse University, and Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Aperture Magazine, FOAM Magazine, and The Atlantic. Fields lives and works between Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Golden (they/them) is a Black gender-nonconforming photographer, author, & educator raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land) currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts (Massachusett people & Wampanoag land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books 2022), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (Game Over Books 2023), and Reprise (Haymarket Books 2025). Their photographic series On Learning How to Live, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021), documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving & living in the United States.
Golden is the recipient of a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminaries Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), a Best of the Net Award (2020), a City of Boston Artist- in-Residence (2020-2021), a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography (2021), a Women Photograph Project Grant (2021), a Collective Futures Fund Grant (2022), an Aperture/Google Creator Labs Photo Fund Grant (2023), the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (2023), and a MacDowell Fellowship (2025). They hold a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University. Their published & collaborative work can be found on/in The Yale Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vogue, Muzzle Magazine, Split this Rock, Women Photograph, MFA Boston, Button Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Instagram (@goldenthem_), or through their website goldengoldengolden.com.
Image © Alanna Fields
