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Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely: museum

Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely: museum August 24 – December 11, 2026 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Opening Reception: Thursday, September 24, 5-7 PM Light Work is plea

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography: Maureen Beitler, Hernease Davis, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Amrita Stützle, and Patty Tomanovich

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography: Maureen Beitler, Hernease Davis, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Amrita Stützle, and Patty Tomanovich June 15 – August 7, 2026 Kathleen O. E

Brian Van Lau: We're Just Here for the Bad Guys

We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration.

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland

In her first US solo exhibition, Karolina Wojtas is sending us a conceptual care package, as an installation titled Made in Poland. Presented here are images of her famil

Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything Nice

Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything Nice September 8–December 5, 2025 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Reception: Thurs, Sep 18, 5-7pm Sasha Phyars-Burgess’s photographic proje

Aaron Turner: The Archive as Liberation

Aaron Turner: The Archive as Liberation May 12–August 29, 2025 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Reception: Friday, July 25th, 5-7pm The Archive as Liberation is a publicatio

Nabil Harb: Mater si, magistra no

Nabil Harb’s project Mater si, magistra no (a macaronic phrase that translates as “Mother yes, teacher no”) presents photographs that describe and depict moments and scen

Nicholas Muellner: Asea

In this exhibition, Nicholas Muellner offers up photographs depicting people pantomiming in a verdant landscape made complex with surreal lighting; these images are paire

According to the Laws of Chance

According to the Laws of Chance: Group Exhibition May 31–August 16, 2024 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-7pm According to the Laws of Chance i

Sophia Chia: Character Space

In 1987, Sophia Chai immigrated to New York City from South Korea as a teenager without knowing English. Looking back, she has described that experience as feeling unteth

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song

The Sun Echoed Like A Song is an exhibition of photographs made in Eduardo L Rivera’s childhood hometown near the Arizona/Mexico border. Taking inspiration from light and

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)

In Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land), Arko Datto’s epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world’s largest delta, variously known as the Gan

Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing

Jenny Calivas' images breathe in photography’s liminal space between intuition and what words can only sometimes convey. Here is a photographer whose practice is consiste

Guanyu Xu: Suspended Status

Guanyu Xu’s Suspended Status depicts an artist caught in a web of red tape. The work on view for this exhibition comprises images from his ongoing series, Resident Aliens

Samantha Box: Caribbean Dreams

Samantha Box’s new body of work, Caribbean Dreams, is a series of complex studio still lifes of personal, familial, and regionally-referenced objects, heirlooms, fruits,

Melissa Catanese: The Lottery

Light Work presents "The Lottery" a solo exhibition of new works by Pittsburgh-based photographer Melissa Catanese. In "The Lottery," Catanese turns her attention to the

Pixy Liao: Futari (Two Persons)

Futari (Two Persons) is an exhibition of photographs depicting the ongoing relationship between the artist Pixy Liao and her Japanese partner and muse Moro. Liao met Moro

James Henkel: Object Lessons

In his new exhibition, Object Lessons, artist James Henkel looks back over thirty years of image-making, following a conceptual and formal thread that ties his work toget

Clifford Prince King: We Used to Lay Together

Clifford Prince King is a self-taught queer Black photographer from Arizona. The images in this exhibition focus on King’s life in Los Angeles. In his work, King’s lifest

Meryl Meisler: The Best of Times, Worst of Times

Meryl Meisler: The Best of Times, Worst of Times March 22 - July 23, 2021 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery In Light Work’s early days, during the 1970s and 80s, many artists