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Hi all, My first monograph, Notes Towards Becoming A Spill, published by
@aperturefnd
with accompanying essay by the brilliant
@ashoncrawley
is available for pre-order 🌊🙌🏾—>
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L-O-V-E ….photographed by me for The New York Times : T Magazine 🌊💙🌹
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Rest In Power Dr. Ron Simmons (1950-2020), founder of Us Helping Us. We loss a giant in the Black LGBTQ community whose contributions in writing, photography, and HIV advocacy centering Black gay men were culturally shifting. Thank you for everything.
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My first cover is the trailblazer
@LilNasX
for The New York Times Magazine
@nytimes
🌊🌊🌊 Styled by Hodo Musa x Hair by
@Callmetopboss
🙏🏾
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Marlon T. Riggs with an intra-cultural critique of Clarence Thomas and sexism within the Black community (1994)
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Photographed the master artist Faith Ringgold for the cover of
@tmagazine
, read the story here :
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Had the honor of photographing fashion designer Kerby Jean-Raymond of
@pyermoss
for the cover of Metal Magazine
@Metal_Magazine
#pyermoss
#bluespace
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Mornings in the studio putting the finishing touches on these mirrored ceramic sculptures.
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@LilNasX
@nytimes
@Callmetopboss
Happy to have made these photographs, check out the profile written on
@LilNasX
by
@jazzedloon
here --thanks
@NYTmag
<3
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I miss the warm lighting in my old studio...beautiful shadows and highlights. Khaaliq photographed by me (2017)
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"Black Woman" (1970) dir. Stan Lathan ...This was a rich exchange between Bibi Amina Baraka, Joan Harris, & Marian Watson 💡
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Toni Morrison always has the language to describe the intangible things floating in the air. These are her thoughts on young creatives and possibilities. She ain’t never lied. Right?
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Happy 64th Birthday, Marlon Riggs. Thank you for all you gave.
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Ancestral memory is real y’all! Earlier this year, I learned my paternal family tree placed my lineage in South Carolina—which floored me bc I had been incorporating 'haint-blue' from the spiritual practices of the Gullah who resided off the coast of South Carolina into my work
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I know it’s rare but I wish popular Black publications made more efforts to cover Black visual artists more. All the talent being poured into these mainstream publications compared to those titles is wild.
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Graduated today with my Masters Of Fine Art from
@Yale
! Had to pump through to
#PERIOD
by City Girls
@ThegirlJT
@_YungMiami305
🙌🏾
#YaleWhileBlack
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William "Bill" Traylor (April 1, c. 1853 – October 23, 1949) was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama. Born into slavery, Traylor spent the majority of his life after emancipation as a sharecropper.
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Ice Spice, photographed by Shikeith & styled by
@IANCOGNEATO
for The New York Times T Magazine —Culture Issue on newsstands April 21st.
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I saw there was an
#EssenceChallenge
going - lets uplift
@Essence
for all the work they continue to do in our community. Here's one of my fashion portraits from my undergrad years circa 2009
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Nana Peazant’s indigo stained hands in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (1991)
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Let me put this in my next video work before Arthur Jafa see it chile
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Brandy and Monica may not like each other but they for sure love each other deeply. It be like that sometimes
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Photographed the newest covers of
@tmagazine
Fall Fashion styled by Alex Harrington featuring a cast of multifaceted BlackQueer folx —Oche George , Desmond Sam, Rahm Bowen, and Matthew "MattMatt Raybeam" Thompson
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I collect antique and vintage photographs of black men. I found this in a box of hundreds of photos this week. Felt like sharing on a day like today. 💙
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The artist Kehinde Wiley, portrait by Shikeith for
@NewYorker
—read his profile written by Julian Lucas
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"It Shall Be Named", Mahogany Framed Silver Gelatin Prints, 1992, Renee Cox
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"...It is photography, therefore–Black, African, homosexual photography—which I must use not just as an instrument, but as a weapon if I am to resist attacks on my integrity and, indeed, my existence on my own terms." — Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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Shikeith’s Blue Space meets T Magazines Mens Spring Fashion 2021 —🔵🌊Happy to have been invited, view here:
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Black Art Historians are critical to canonizing the work of Black Artists. Period. Fuck what ya heard.
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If I get another damn email requesting donations from Art orgs that have never supported me or any Black artists ever but out here expecting US to rectify their race problem through giving them free shit ...delusion.
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I pray The Wades find a way to ban The Shaderoom from posting anything related to their underaged daughter. It’s so disgusting.
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Watch the full video here :
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Looking For Langston (1989) dir. by Isaac Julien combines archival footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a poetic storyline in a memoriam to Langston Hughes— that celebrates black gay identity and desire during the Harlem Renaissance.
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It’s been nothing but love for this campaign photographed by me and styled by Dara Allen. I’m so proud of Kerby! I love working with my friends I call family
@pyermoss
❤️💐 get you some of the debut bags and accessories from Pyer Moss-
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“In a moment of tenderness, the future seems possible.” - Saidiya Hartman ....(photo by Shikeith, "brush your blues", 2017)
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Oh, to be still, be tender. 💙 Stills from "Little Fires Everwhere" and "Moonlight"
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Happy to be named an inaugural recipient of
@PittsburghFdn
Exposure Artist Fellowship working with
@cmoa
. Artist will each receive a $50,000 grant to continue their work at the intersection of arts, social inquiry and activism.
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Can’t imagine how powerful this night was—Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs & Looking For Langston by Issac Julien screening together at a film festival in 1989 the year they both premiered.
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Alison Saar is a LA based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin American folk art and spirituality.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#AfricanAmericanArtHistory
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If you are unaware of Thad Mosley, a Pittsburgh based artist who at 94 years old is still in his studio creating large scale master-works. Get in! Via
@hyperallergic
The Genius of Thaddeus Mosley
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It’s a special place in hell for Tory Lanez and all the Black men defending him.
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Arthur Jafa’s The Darker Issue, special edition of
@i_D
magazine. Happy to be included amongst many brilliant artists, thinkers, and activists. Interviewed by Dr. Cherise Smith.
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Blue Space Rituals—outtakes from
@tmagazine
Spring 2021 Men’s Fashion Issue photographed by me (credits below) 🌊🧵
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I am so grateful to screen my work apart of
@BAM_Brooklyn
‘s retrospective "Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs" organized by
@_Ash_Clark
—centering the legacy of one of my deepest influences
#MarlonRiggs
🌹
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Self-defense has been a repetitive motif within my work. Moving images of Black men & boys sparring, sweating, and swerving untangling themselves from collisions with physical and psychic violence. Video Stills : "to bathe a mirror", 2018, Shikeith
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Hey all, I’m in Miami looking to photograph Black men from all backgrounds for a project if you know any hmu shikeith
@shikeith
.com
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Took this portrait of the talented fashion designer Christopher John Rogers
@cjrtheperson
for
@TheCut
, story by
@alexis_ok
—
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Reebok by Pyer Moss Collection 4 —photographed by Shikeith
@pyermoss
—final collection drops March 26th —much love to Kerby and the entire Pyer Moss team—more coming🌊!
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Aweng Chuol in
@pyermoss
couture styled by Corey Stokes and photographed by me
#Shikeith
for
@highsnobiety
🩸
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'Anthem'(1991), directed by Marlon Riggs, is an experimental short-film that uses powerful imagery such as ACT UP's "Silence=Death", alongside poetry to explore, celebrate and revolutionize black gay culture.
#blackgaypride
#samegenderloving
#blackqueerpride
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Resurrection Sunday | "to bathe a mirror" (2018), Video Stills, Shikeith
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Thank you to everyone who attended open studios this weekend. You can order my monograph here :
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Notes towards my upcoming exhibition "Feeling The Spirit In The Dark" at The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art : Dr. James H. Cone, founder of Black Liberation Theology (1971)
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So exciting! 🎈🎈Retweet and Watch ✊🏾✊🏾
#BLACKMENDREAM
(2014) dir. Shikeith
This experimental documentary offers a candid glimpse into a subject that is virtually taboo in many Black communities and in society at large: the complex, often vulnerable emotional lives of Black men.
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Fell in love with this vintage photo booth print listed on eBay (didn’t win the auction though). I have a collection of photography like this.
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💙🌊💙 🥺Manifesting 🙏🏾💙 🌊💙 T Magazine Men’s Fashion Issue is on stands this weekend! Thank you again to the entire team it was pure magic!
@tmagazine
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The
@NewarkMuseumArt
has acquired three photographs from my recent body of work including "O' my body make of me always a man who questions!", 2020, Shikeith
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Some Black Queer History making with
@IANCOGNEATO
and
@tmagazine
for your archives.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Sharing my participation in the limited edition print fundraiser Art for Philadelphia Hearts on a Wire organized by Meg Onli. This is an effort by artists to support the needs of transgender people in Pennsylvania's prisons. Please RT -
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My grandma’s walls (North Philadelphia) —thinking about the legacy of portraiture in my family this morning. This is just one corner of all the amazing photographs I grew up around. 📸
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Wow. Another major lost. Rest in Power Beautiful Black Man.
Blackberri was a black gay folk and blues music legend, whose voice & face is included in works like “Tongues Untied”, films that many of us watched when coming to terms with our sexuality & learning who we are. He became an ancestor this week at 76. May he rest in power. ❤️💚🖤
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"The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time." — Toni Morrison | Image : "The Language Must Not Sweat” , 2018 , Shikeith
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In some genuinely uplifting news,
#Blackmendream
(2014), my experimental documentary exploring the psychic lives of young Black men, is now steaming on the
@criterionchannl
🎈
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For
@NewYorker
, I had the honor of making this portrait of Michael Powell of Heartbeat Opera —will be published in print week of December 7th.
🌟A Prisoners’ Chorus in “Breathing Free” via
@NewYorker
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Photograph’s from inside the issue of
@tmagazine
on newsstands this weekend! Such an honor to be invited to shoot this cover story 🌊🙏🏾
Photographed the newest covers of
@tmagazine
Fall Fashion styled by Alex Harrington featuring a cast of multifaceted BlackQueer folx —Oche George , Desmond Sam, Rahm Bowen, and Matthew "MattMatt Raybeam" Thompson
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Carrie Mae Weems, "From Here I Saw What Happened/And I Cried", 1995-96
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To celebrate the opening of my new installation "Feeling The Spirit In The Dark" I have designed three 24in x 36in limited edition posters. You can purchase the posters for $25 plus shipping and handling online here 🌊💙 :
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