Join us for the opening of 2019 ICP-Bard MFA candidate Samantha Box’s solo exhibition, Two or Three Real Memories, at the ICP-Bard MFA Studios in Long Island City.

In Two or Three Real Memories, Box uses photographs, sound, and installation to create a synthetic space where the Caribbean/colonial past and the urban present, the diasporic and the rooted, and multiple iterations of self—as a subject, rather than as a colonized object—can exist simultaneously, and thus, be questioned, broken down, and rearticulated.

Bio

Samantha Box (Kingston, Jamaica) is a Bronx-based photographer. Her documentary work, focused on New York City's community of LGBTQ youth of color, was been widely recognized and shown, notably with a NYFA Fellowship (2010), and as part of the ICP Museum’s Perpetual Revolution (2017) exhibition. This work is part of the permanent collections of the Open Society Foundation, EN FOCO, LightWork, and The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Recently, Box has pivoted from documentary work, focusing on the creation of a studio-based photography practice that explores Box’s intersecting histories and identities. 

Opening Reception

Thursday, April 4 | 6–9 PM

On View

April 5–7 | 12–6 PM or by appointment. Contact: sbox19@students.icp.edu.

Directions

The ICP-Bard MFA Studios are located at 24-20 Jackson Avenue in Queens. Take the E or M train to Court Square-23rd Street, 7 or G train to Court Square, or the B62 Bus to Jackson Ave/David St.