Accra Shepp
Accra Shepp
Accra Shepp is an artist and writer, based in New York and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. His images have been exhibited worldwide and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times and the New York Review of Books as well as his artist’s book Atlas (in the collection of the New York Public Library and the Whitney Museum Library), and Windbook, an artist-book installation at the National Library of Luxembourg. His book, Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice, was published in 2022 by Convoke. Most recently he is the recipient of the Cullman Scholars Fellowship from the New York Public Library and additionally was a senior Fulbright Fellowship to Indonesia. He has also participated in residencies at MacDowell, Civitella, and Light Work. In addition to his project, “The Islands of New York" he is working on a show titled, “The Monhegan Wildlands” with the Bodoin College Art Museum and is completing work on his second book, “The Covid Journals.”
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ACCRA SHEPP : DISSIDENCE, MÉCONTENTEMENT ET ACTION : PHOTOS DES ÉTATS-UNIS
L'Œil de la Photographie Magazine, May 23, 2023 -
Accra Shepp’s Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice
Lee Ann Norman, The Brooklyn Rail, June 3, 2022 -
Portrait of a Radical Swarm
Salamishah Tillet, The Nation, April 29, 2022 -
Did Occupy Wall Street mean anything at all?
Darren Loucaides, The Financial Times Magazine, September 19, 2021
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Blues People
Express Newark 20 Feb - 19 Jul 2024Inspired by the 60th anniversary of the acclaimed book Blues People: Negro Music in White America by writer, poet, and political activist Leroi Jones, who later renamed himself Amiri Baraka,...Read more -
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965
Bowdoin College Art Museum 24 Jun - 5 Nov 2023Since the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, artists have used the camera to look at—and to look with—the human subjects in their midst. They have made a practice...Read more -
Trace - Formations of Likeness
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 14 Apr - 23 Jul 2023Examining how photographers across a range of cultures have deployed portraiture as an apparatus for critical investigation throughout the history of the medium, Trace visualises the political and cultural factors...Read more -
Dissent, Discontent, and Action: Pictures of US
The Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas 18 Feb - 25 Jun 2023Shepp began photographing the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York’s Zuccotti Park on October 1, 2011. He was drawn to the sea of individuals as a photographic subject, based...Read more
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The Photography Show 2024
AIPAD 25 - 28 Apr 2024643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065 Park Avenue Armory, New York City Thursday, April 25: 12pm VIP Opening 5-8pm Evening Preview Friday, April 26:...Read more -
Convoke X ICP PhotoBook Fest
21 - 22 May 2022CONVOKE @ ICP PHOTOBOOK FEST May 21-22, 11-7pm Presented in partnership with The Photography Show: Presented by AIPAD, ICP Photobook Fest will include leading photobook...Read more -
Convoke x The Art Institute of Chicago
Accra Shepp in conversation with Sean Corcoran 26 Apr 2022Accra Shepp in conversation with Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York Tuesday, April 26, 2022...Read more -
Convoke x 10x10 Photobooks Salon
Salon #57, Accra Shepp 21 Apr 2022April 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT Join us for an in-person salon with photographer Accra Shepp discussing his new photobook, Radical Justice:...Read more
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Accra Shepp x Dread Scott, New York University
Artist Accra Shepp in Conversation with Activist and Artist Dread Scott 19 Apr 2022ZOOM TALK Accra Shepp discusses his new book, Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice with artist and activist Dread Scott. Accra's book brings together two bodies...Read more -
Radical Justice x The SVA Theatre NYC
1 Apr 2022Photographer Accra Shepp discusses his work with feminist activist, scholar, author, and contributing Critic at Large for The New York Times, Salamishah Tillet on the...Read more