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LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
May 12, 2024 – September 07, 2024
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art announces LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, the first museum survey dedicated to the artist-activist, on view at MoMA from May 12 through September 7, 2024. For more than two decades, Frazier has used photography, text, moving images, and performance to revive and preserve forgotten narratives of labor, gender, and race in the postindustrial era. Bringing together work from 2001 to 2024, this exhibition highlights the full range of Frazier’s practice to date and includes several rarely- and never-before-seen works.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity is organized by Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator, with Antoinette D. Roberts and Caitlin Ryan, Curatorial Assistants, Department of Photography.
Leadership support for the exhibition is provided by the Jon Stryker Endowment, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, The Marion Silverstein Slain Fund, and by the Leontine S. and Cornell G. Ebers Endowment Fund.
Major funding is provided by the Wallis Annenberg Director’s Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art.
Generous support is provided by The Black Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Major funding for the publication is provided by the John Szarkowski Publications Fund.
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Images
LaToya Ruby Frazier, LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s, 2010 © 2023 Art21, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dr. Anika L. Hines from More Than Conquerors: A Monument For Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland, 2021-2022 © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Marilyn Moore, UAW Local 1112, Women’s Committee and Retiree Executive Board, (Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., Lear Seating Corp., 32 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, Assembly Plant, Van Plant, Metal Fab, Trim Shop), with her General Motors retirement gold ring on her index finger, Youngstown, OH from The Last Cruze, 2019 © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Shea Brushing Zion’s Teeth with Bottled Water in Her Bathroom, Flint, Michigan, Flint is Family in Three Acts, 2016-2017 © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Sandra Gould Ford Wearing Her Work Jacket and Hard Hat in Her Meditation Room in Homewood, PA from On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford, 2017 © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Momme from The Notion of Family, 2008 © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Edgar Thomson Plant and The Bottom from A Despoliation of Water: From the Housatonic to the Monongahela River (1930-2013), 2013 © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier. Photography by Sean Eaton. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kendra Lindsey Standing In The Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory In Druid Hill Park With Her Parents, Sister, Nieces And Great Nephew (front to back: Brenda Lindsey, Tygerah Miller,
Andre Scroggins Jr. aka AJ, Tiffany Miller, Tori Miller, Tamaira Miller, Roderick Lindsey Sr.) from More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Zion, Her Mother Shea, and Her Grandfather Mr. Smiley Riding on Their Tennessee Walking Horses, Mares, P.T. (P.T.’s Miss One Of A Kind), Dolly (Secretly), and Blue (Blue’s Royal Threat), Newton, Mississippi from Flint is Family in Three Acts, 2017-2019 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Holding flag laying at the edge of Pier 54 and the Hudson River. On flag: US Army transport Buford, the “Soviet ark,” used to deport political radicals and other “undesirable” noncitizens from the United States to Russia in December 1919, broadside view, 1907 from Pier 54: A Human Right to Passage, 2014 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Louis Robinson, Jr., UAW Local 1714, (34 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, die setter), Recording Secretary, at UAW Local 1112 Reuther Scandy Alli union hall, Lordstown, OH from The Last Cruze, 2019. Acquired with the generous support of the Fund for the Twenty-First Century; Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel; Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović; Clarissa A. Bronfman; Ian Cook; David Dechman and Michel Mercure; Thomas and Susan Dunn; Kristy and Robert Harteveldt; Mark Levine; Heidi and Richard Rieger; Christine A. Symchych and James P. McNulty, and Clark B. Winter. Jr. © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dolores Huerta Standing in front of Harvey Wilson Richards’s Photograph of Grape Pickers, Farm Workers, Community Members, and Supporters on their 340-Mile Peregrinación (Pilgrimage) from Delano to the Steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, March–April 1966, in the Exhibit Hall at the César E. Chávez National Monument (Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz), Keene, CA from A Pilgrimage to Dolores Huerta: The Forty Acres, Arvin Migratory Labor Camp, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center, 2023-2024 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dolores Huerta and Migrant Mother inside the Community Hall, Weedpatch (Sunset) Camp/Arvin Migratory Labor Camp, Bakersfield, CA from A Pilgrimage to Dolores Huerta: The Forty Acres, Arvin Migratory Labor Camp, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center, 2023-2024 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Grandma Ruby and Me from The Notion of Family, 2005 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Woman of Steel Button Pin from On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford, 2017 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mary A. Williams, Tuklor’s Mother, Holding the Water Hose at the Atmospheric Water Generator on North Saginaw Street Between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan from Flint is Family in Three Acts, 2019-20 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Holding flag laying at the edge of Pier 54 and the Hudson River. On flag: US Army transport Buford, the “Soviet ark,” used to deport political radicals and other “undesirable” noncitizens from the United States to Russia in December 1919, broadside view, 1907 from Pier 54: A Human Right to Passage, 2014 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Momme Silhouettes from The Notion of Family, 2010 © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone gallery.