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First Solo Exhibition by Photographer Nona Faustine MFA ’13 Is Reviewed on CNN and Selected as New York Times Critic’s Pick

First Solo Exhibition by Photographer Nona Faustine MFA ’13 Is Reviewed on CNN and Selected as <em>New York Times</em> Critic’s Pick

Nona Faustine. They Tagged the Land with Trophies and Institutions from Their Rapes and Conquests, Tweed Courthouse, NYC, 2013. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Higher Pictures. © Nona Faustine

Nona Faustine: White Shoes, a series of 43 self-portraits shot throughout New York City over the course of decades, explores the city’s central but often obscured role in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, as well as examining questions about representation and perception of the Black body—and, more specifically, the Black female body—in art and other spaces. Currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum through July 7, this first solo exhibition of Nona Faustine MFA ’13 was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick when it opened in March and was recently reviewed on CNN. The body of work, including many striking photographs of the artist posing fully nude apart from a pair of crisp white pumps, began while Faustine was a graduate student at the International Center of Photography (ICP) program at Bard College. “All my knowledge, everything I know about photography, and everything I know about history and life is part of the work. My heart and soul is in that series,” Faustine told CNN in an email.