LaToya Ruby Frazier
2009
Silver Gelatin Print
LaToya Ruby Frazier born in Pittsburgh PA in 1982 received her BFA in Photography and Graphic Design in 2004 at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She received her MFA in Art Photography from the School of Visual Performing Arts in 2007 at Syracuse University. She has been an artist in resident at Art Omi in 2009, Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2008 and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007.
With influences of documentary style photography and direct cinema Frazier utilizes photography and video to produce sociopolitical work within the emotional realm of family experience blurring the lines between private and public space, reality, memory and human complexity.
Frazier's body of work entitled The Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2009 is a collaborative development between her grandmother, mother and herself. Through black and white photographs and an experimental documentary video series entitled, A Mother to Hold, Frazier's honest and relentless approach intensely explores their psychological intergenerational lineage through the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s.
A Mother to Hold has been screened at the Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, San Diego Women's Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show in Houston Texas, Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, the Black International Film Festival and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City where she received the Producers Choice Award.
Frazier received the 2007 Geraldine Dodge Fellowship Award as the 2006 College Art Association Professional development recipient. She is a member of En Foco and Society for Photographic Education. Her works have been exhibited in The New Museum, Bronx Museum, National Academy Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, Schroeder Romero Gallery in New York City and internationally in Copenhagen Denmark.
Frazier has worked as a photo editor for Newsweek and is currently the Associate Curator for the Mason Gross Galleries in the Department of Visual Arts where she also teaches Digital photography in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ.
With influences of documentary style photography and direct cinema Frazier utilizes photography and video to produce sociopolitical work within the emotional realm of family experience blurring the lines between private and public space, reality, memory and human complexity.
Frazier's body of work entitled The Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2009 is a collaborative development between her grandmother, mother and herself. Through black and white photographs and an experimental documentary video series entitled, A Mother to Hold, Frazier's honest and relentless approach intensely explores their psychological intergenerational lineage through the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s.
A Mother to Hold has been screened at the Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, San Diego Women's Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show in Houston Texas, Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, the Black International Film Festival and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City where she received the Producers Choice Award.
Frazier received the 2007 Geraldine Dodge Fellowship Award as the 2006 College Art Association Professional development recipient. She is a member of En Foco and Society for Photographic Education. Her works have been exhibited in The New Museum, Bronx Museum, National Academy Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, Schroeder Romero Gallery in New York City and internationally in Copenhagen Denmark.
Frazier has worked as a photo editor for Newsweek and is currently the Associate Curator for the Mason Gross Galleries in the Department of Visual Arts where she also teaches Digital photography in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ.
