Angelic Transmissions: Joseph Liatela and Pamela Sneed in Conversation

Join us at for a conversation between Joseph Liatela and Pamela Sneed in conjunction with Liatela's current solo exhibition at the gallery, Ex-Voto.

Location: Fragment Gallery | 39 W 14th St #308, New York, NY 10011
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Joseph Liatela

Joseph Liatela is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Using performance, sculpture, and video, he makes work that examines issues of biopolitics, memorial, trans and queer subjectivities, and collective movement.

Liatela earned a BFA with distinction from California College of the Arts and an MFA in sculpture and expanded media from Columbia University. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Banff Centre, California College of the Arts, Columbia University, Artist Grant, the Van Lier Fellowship, and was a finalist for the Found Work Artist Prize in 2021. His work has been shown at Denniston Hill, Human Resources Los Angeles, The Jewish Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, The Leslie-Lohman Museum, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, PS122 Gallery, and Proyecto Galería CDMX, among others.

Liatela’s writing has been published by the Leslie-Lohman Museum Journal and Oxford University Press. His work has been featured in Artsy, The Leslie-Lohman Museum Journal, SF MoMA’s Open Space, EMERGENCY Index, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and Art & Education. Current and recent exhibitions include Faith By Night at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ex-Voto at Fragment Gallery in New York City.

Pamela Sneed

Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, performer and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and Funeral Diva published by City Lights in Oct 2020. Funeral Diva was featured in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Art Net and more. Funeral Diva won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award and recommended by The New York Times alongside Barack Obama’s memoir. Additionally in 2021, she was a panelist for The David Zwirner Gallery’s More Life exhibit, and has spoken at Bard Center for Humanities, The Ford Foundation, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Columbia University, The New School, New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, DIA, NYU’s Center For Humanities. She has published in The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Art Forum, The Academy of American Poets, The Brooklyn Rail,, THEM, BOMB and most recently Poetry Magazine. She has appeared in Nikki Giovanni’s “The 100 Best African American Poems. Her visual work was featured at Leslie Lohman Museum, The Ford Foundation, Kates-Ferris and currently at The Lumber Room in Portland. In 2022, she had a solo show at Laurel Gitlen Gallery. She won the 2021 Black Queer Art Mentorship Award . She participated as a reader in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and was a narrator for Coco Fusco’s film, also in the 2022 Whitney Biennial . She has had keynotes at Yale University, Georgetown University and SAIC. She has won a BOFFO residency on Fire Island in August 2022. In March 2023, she premiered a solo performance A Tribute To Big Mama Thorton which broke a record at the Armory for the earliest a performance ever sold out.

She will present a production of A Tribute to Big Mama Thorton at Joes Pub in March 2024. In 2023 She won a Creative Capital Award in Literature. Her first book, imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery was reissued by Fordham University Press in Oct 2023.Recently, she premiered a talk with Claudia Rankine at UC Berkeley and performed in Chicago in celebration of Sacred Spells by Assotto Saint. She has won a 2024 NYSCA grant for poetry. She is also currently Visiting Faculty at the Whitney ISP.

Event Venue

Fragment gallery, 39 West 14th Street, New York, United States