About the Artist
Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice, ranging from photography and collage to video installation and performance art, examining the impact of race, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic globally through intersections of the personal and the political. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, and his work is included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Modern among many other public and private collections. His Ektachrome Archive was the subject of a photography monograph published by Aperture in 2017 and an exhibition catalogue published by ICA Miami in 2023. A solo exhibition spanning three decades of his work was presented with accompanying catalogue by the Queens Museum, New York, in 2024.
February 15, 2026
5:30–6:30 PM
Program
In Conversation:
Lyle Ashton Harris with Daniel Merritt
Aspen Art Museum is pleased to welcome artist Lyle Ashton Harris for a dialogue that examines his photographic and archival practices as a means of establishing a relationship between oneself and the world. For over four decades, Harris has developed an expansive body of work that often feeds back into itself to create new forms. Images of friends, lovers, muses and influences recur and mingle with objects and ephemera gathered by the artist over time across widespread global locales. These are juxtaposed in site-specific collages and unique assemblages, such as his Shadow Works series. Through his engagement with the complexities of race, gender, sexuality and belonging, Harris’s practice merges scenes of intimate vulnerability with transglobal cultural narratives.
In conversation with Aspen Art Museum’s Chief Curator, Daniel Merritt, Harris will reflect upon the foundations of his influential practice and the ways in which acts of returning and reimagining can invite a more promising future.
Harris’s exhibition, Shadow Works, is on view at Aspen’s Baldwin Gallery until February 9th.
This event is free and open to the public, registration required.