Featuring #1960Now series ©sheilapreebright America in Crisis will bring together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s till today. Organised by Saatchi Gallery, the exhibition is curated by Sophie Wright, Gregory Harris from Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and LA-based photographer and academic Tara Pixley. America in Crisis was a ground-breaking group initiative originally conceived in 1969 to assess the state o

The solo exhibitions ' A Beautiful Struggle' opened September 9th thru November 20, 2021 at the Moss Arts Center. Featuring a selection of my series #1960Now and Suburbia along with a commission curated by Margo Crutchfield. Sheila Pree Bright's #1960Now photographs set up an uneasy tension with her earlier Suburbia photograph, as if the more recent ones answer the earlier photographs's implicit question: have we made it inside, inside the White quilombo, the cut de sac

“If there was no otherness, what would this country be like?” It’s hard to imagine because there is that otherness. But an object can make people see things differently. That’s alchemy. That’s the turning of hope into potentiality. The transformation of one thing into another through the power of vision and perspective.” -Alfred Amadu Conteh Hook.Art.com online exhibition, Know Your Place: An Examination of America's Caste System Exhibition curated by the Artist Alfred

Underexposed exhibition highlights photographers who photograph other women, children, and families, among them Sally Mann, Nan Goldin, and Diane Arbus, and those who interrogate ideals of femininity through self-portraiture. Also on view will be works by contemporary photographers who challenge social constructions of gender, sexuality, and identity, including Zanele Muholi, Sheila Pree Bright, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems. Underexposed: Women Photo

Representing the largest exhibition of photographs of and about the American South in the twenty-first century, Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South presents multiple ways of visualizing the region. Lake City Creative Alliance, Lake City, SC May 21 - August 14, 2021 #1960Now series feature in the exhibition ©2021 Sheila Pree Bright

#1960Now is Sheila Pree Bright's journey documenting the responses to police shootings in Atlanta, Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Baton Rouge. Her work shows young social activists taking a stand against the same struggles their parents and grandparents endured during the era of Jim Crow. In 2013, while photographing under-recognized living leaders of the Civil Rights movement, she made a connection between recent times and the climate of the 1960s. This dialog b