Join us for the final Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks lecture of the year featuring research-based artist Laia Abril. Expanding upon the scope of her long-term project A History of Misogyny and her current exhibition On Rape and Institutional Failure currently on view at ICP, Abril will be joined in conversation by journalist Jillian Steinhauer.
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
Past speakers of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture series include: JEB, Philip Cheung, Donna Ferrato, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Roe Ethridge, and Erin Schaff.
Image: Laia Abril, Shrinky Recipe, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
About the Series:
The 2026-2027 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
About the Speakers:
Laia Abril (b. 1986) is a research-based artist working across photography, text, video, and sound, focusing on biopolitics and gender issues. Her work is rooted in a politically engaged, process-driven methodology that employs strategies of forensic aesthetics and counter-narratives, interrogating dominant histories and the politics of representation.
Her work has been exhibited in over 25 countries and is held in collections such as Centre Pompidou, Photo Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, MACBA, Reina Sofía, MNAC, and the V&A Museum. She has authored acclaimed books, including The Epilogue, Lobismuller, and the A History of Misogyny series: On Abortion, On Rape, and On Mass Hysteria.
She has received the Foam Paul Huf Award (Amsterdam), RPS Hood Medal (London), Aperture Best Book Award (NY/Paris), and Spain’s National Photography Award. Based in Switzerland, she is a senior lecturer at HSLU and is represented by Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris and Set Espai d’Art in Spain.
Jillian Steinhauer is a journalist and critic who writes about art and comics. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, and many other publications. Jillian has won a 2023 Rabkin Prize, a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the 2014 Best Art Reporting award from AICA-USA. She was previously an editor at Hyperallergic, and she organizes with the National Writers Union's Freelance Solidarity Project.
Header Image: Laia Abril, Ala Kachuu (Bride Kidnapping), Kyrgyzstan, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Laia Abril, Church Rape, Argentina, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Laia Abril, Military rape, US, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
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