Sheila Pree Bright’s Suburbia reframes through a surreal lens at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta

My Suburbia series, featured in the High Museum's collection, is part of the exhibition Photography's New Vision: Experiments in Seeing, curated by Maria Kelly, Assistant Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, showing in the Surreal section.

©Sheila Pree Bright 24x30 Chromogenic Print

In the exhibition, there are 100 works from the High Museum's photography collection.  Rooted in the legacy of the New Vision movement of the 1920s, which explores how artists past and present have responded to shifting cultural and technological landscapes.  In Suburbia, I examine the contradictions and layered realities of contemporary Black American life, unveiling what lies beneath the surface of the everyday.  To see my work in dialogue with both historical and contemporary voices that continue to challenge how we see and interpret the world around us.

My Suburbia series, featured in the High Museum's collection, is part of the exhibition Photography's New Vision: Experiments in Seeing, curated by Maria Kelly, Assistant Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, showing in the Surreal section.

In the exhibition, there are 100 works from the High Museum's photography collection.  Rooted in the legacy of the New Vision movement of the 1920s, which explores how artists past and present have responded to shifting cultural and technological landscapes.  In Suburbia, I examine the contradictions and layered realities of contemporary Black American life, unveiling what lies beneath the surface of the everyday.  To see my work in dialogue with both historical and contemporary voices that continue to challenge how we see and interpret the world around us.

Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta  June 13 through January 2026