#60 Meet Kris Sanford, Artist and Educator of Young Photographers...
Her art explores intimate relationships, specifically queer desire, through the use of appropriated images, video, and text.
Kris Sanford, “Susan” 2000/2015 Portraits
Kris Sanford, “Nathan” 2000/2015 Portraits
Kris Sanford grew up in southeast Michigan. She received a BFA in photography from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and an MFA in photography from Arizona State University.
Kris has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, London, Miami, and New York. She was named a finalist for the 2018 Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Other recent awards include the Fellowship 17 International Award from Silver Eye Center for Photography and the Visual Studies Workshop Residency Award through Critical Mass 2016. She was included in the GETXOPHOTO 2016 photography festival in Getxo, Spain and had a solo exhibition at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon in 2017. Her photographs have been featured in Fraction Magazine, Light Leaked, and Slate. She is represented by Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston, Texas and Tilt Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Kris Sanford, “Folding Chairs” 2011 from the series “Through the Lens of Desire”
ON THE WALL OF KRIS SANFORD
Kris Sanford, from the series “Cropped” (2011)
ON THE WALL OF KRIS SANFORD
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