2021 Filter Photo Festival Curator's Tour at the Art Institute

Fri Sep 24 2021 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

The Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago

2021 Filter Photo Festival Curator's Tour at the Art Institute
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In conjunction with the 2021 Filter Photo Festival, join curator Antawan Byrd for a tour of the exhibition, "Mimi Cherono Ng’ok: Closer to the Earth, Closer to My Own Body." For more than a decade, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok has worked to understand how natural environments, botanical cultures, and human subjects coexist and evolve together. Working with an analog camera, she travels extensively across the tropical climates of the Global South constructing a visual archive of images that document her daily experiences and aid her in processing emotions and memories.
Antawan Byrd is associate curator, Photography and Media, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since joining the museum in 2017, he has contributed to the exhibition Volta Photo: Starring Sanlé Sory and the People of Bobo-Dioulasso in the Small but Musically Mighty Country of Burkina Faso (2018) and curated and co-edited the catalogue for The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster (2019) with Felicia Mings. This summer he curated Mimi Cherono Ng’ok: Closer to the Earth, Closer to My Own Body, the first solo presentation in the United States of the Kenyan-born photographer.
Byrd specializes in modern and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora with a particular focus on histories of photography, sound, urbanism, and popular culture. In addition to his role at the museum, Byrd will serve as assistant professor of art history at Northwestern University beginning fall 2021. He received the Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association in 2017, and his research has been supported by an Andrew Mellon-CLIR fellowship, a Mellon-COSI fellowship, and a Fulbright fellowship.
This tour is limited to 25 people. Please RSVP to reserve your spot: https://filter-photo-festival.myshopify.com/8451287/checkouts/6992c02ec9ca00244e25bf783cc56ab9?channel=buy_button.
*Masks are required.*
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, United States

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