Join us at ICP for the New York launch of artist Alanna Field’s debut release, Unveiling published by Meteoro Editions. Meditating on Black queer and trans memory, lineage, vulnerability and desire, Fields and fellow artist Golden will discuss Unveiling and Golden’s book of photographs and poetry Reprise, as well as their respective practices of image making, archive shaping and history building. Following the discussion, the artists will be signing in the ICP shop. The conversation will be accessible in-person and online.
The event is free to attend with the price of Late Night ICP admission and includes access to the galleries.
About the Books
Unveiling is a conceptual monograph comprised of past and recent artworks connected to Alanna Fields’s projects, As We Were, Audacity, Mirages of Dreams Past, and Constellations: Our Love Was Deeply Purple. These series are center on Fields’s ongoing research on Black Queer Archives and the power of representation and speculation through vernacular imagery. As both a book and an object, Unveiling symbolizes the complexities and limitations ofvisibility and invisibility, while breaking open veils that reveal audacious queering. Meditating on Black Queer memory, vulnerability, and desire, this monograph brings to focus everyday representations of Black Queer life in the U.S. between the 1920s and 1990s. The design of the publication, developed in collaboration with Alanna Fields, Brian Paul Lamotte, and Pablo Lerma of Meteoro Editions, is closely connected to the tactility and visual properties of Fields’s original artworks, where painting, layering, repetition, fragmentation, opacity, and transparency become intermediaries to unveil the identities of the figures pictured. Throughout the immersive imagery in Unveiling, there lies whispers of poems and reflections on queer introspection by Sumia Juxun that thread and weave each section of the book together in a beautiful cadence.
A visual & lyrical declaration filled with fever & flight, REPRISE, Golden's second collection of poetry & photography maps a personal search for safety in a U.S. that offers none. Golden’s collection illuminates a path through national uprisings, anti-trans violence, family loss, and a global pandemic. These sonically playful poems and assertive, color-saturated portraits reveal a stark vulnerability that invites readers to look deeply at times of great and, possibly, liberatory uncertainty. At its heart, this collection asks: Where is home? Who is free? What makes a nation? Golden seeks portals towards self-liberation. In their pursuit, we’re invited to witness and learn from their interior revolution, from which they emerge more free to declare themselves in small and large ways: Whether stating I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered or I am home in the arms of the armed. Building on their debut collection, A Dead Name That Learned How to Live and their award-winning self-portraiture series, On Learning How to Live, Golden honors the living siege & sorrow, rage & revival, joy & creation of being Black and trans in America.
Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Maryland, USA) is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work both deconstructs and reconstructs Black queer memory and history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Paris Photo, Art Basel Miami, Felix Art Fair LA, and Expo Chicago. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary
Museum, The High Museum of Art, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art. She has presented solo exhibitions at The Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art and Baxter Street Camera Club of NY and participated in group exhibitions at Yossi Milo Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, Fragment Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, and the Silver Eye Center
for Photography, among others.
Fields received her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and has given lectures on her work at the Aperture Foundation, Light Work, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design at The New School, Syracuse University, and Stanford University. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant recipient who has participated in residencies at Silver Arts Projects, Light Work, Baxter St. CCNY, Fountainhead Arts, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, among others. Her work has been commissioned by and featured in major publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Aperture Magazine, and FOAM Magazine. In 2025, Fields released her first monograph “Unveiling” which spans her work on Black queer archives.
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
