Lola Flash
Americanima nuchee ni baŋda
Lola Flash[1] (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1959)[2] nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda ŋun nyɛ anfooni yaara ka o tuma ŋɔ nyɛ din jɛndi LGBT mini paɣaba yɛlitɔɣa.[2][3] O nyɛla ŋun be ACT UP saha shɛli AIDS ni daa niŋ bayana New York City, Flash nyɛla ŋun be yuuni 1989 "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster.[1][4]
| Lola Flash | |
|---|---|
| Montclair, Silimin gɔli February 10, 1959 (run 65) | |
| O ya Tiŋgbaŋ | America |
| Residence | Montclair Baltimore London New York Philadelphia (mul)  Atlanta Provincetown |
| Education | |
| Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ | Maryland Institute College of Art (en) bachelor's degree (en) London College of Communication (en) master's degree (en) Montclair High School (en) |
| Tuma | |
| Tuma | foot ŋmara |
| IMDb | nm7202933 |
| lolaflash.com | |
Flash's nuchee ni baŋsim tumanima nyɛla din be Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum n-ti pahi Victoria and Albert Museum.[5][6]
Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru shikuru baŋsim
mali niŋFlash nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Montclair, New Jersey ka o lammba zaa nyɛ karimbanima.[1][7]
Maŋmaŋ biɛhigu
mali niŋFlash nyɛla ŋun be Kips Bay, Manhattan. Flash nyɛla ŋun wuhiri nuchee ni baŋsim mini English Language Arts shikuru yuli booni Williamsburg High School of Art and Technology.[8][6]
Awards and honors
mali niŋ- 2008: Light Works, Artist residency (New York, NY)[3]
- 2011: Art Matters Foundation, grant for travel to England, Brazil & South Africa[9]
- 2015: Alice Yard, Artist residency (Woodbrook, Port of Spain)[10]
- 2019: Woodstock, Artist residency (New York, NY)[11]
- 2021: Flash was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society[12][13]
Exhibitions
mali niŋGroup exhibitions
mali niŋ- 2016: Sur Rodney (Sur) with Art+ Positive members Lola Flash and Hunter Reynolds. Art AIDS America, The Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY)
- 2022: Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility, Express Newark.[14]
Solo exhibitions
mali niŋ- 2018: Lola Flash: 1986 – Present, Pen + Brush (New York, NY)
Collections
mali niŋFlash's work is held in the following permanent collection:
- 1993: Stay Afloat, Use a Rubber, Victoria and Albert Museum[3][15]
- 2022: Cross Colour, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Filmography
mali niŋPublications
mali niŋ- Lichtenstein, Rachel; Flash, Lola (photography by) (2003). Keeping Pace: Older Women of the East End. London: The Women's Library. OCLC 428094803.
- Lola Flash. Believable: Traveling with My Ancestors. The New Press, (2023). With contributions by Renée Mussai, Jon Stryker, Jurek Wajdowicz.
Kundivihira
mali niŋ- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Flash, Lola; Shulman, Sarah (interviewer); Wentzy, James (interviewer) (July 8, 2008). "Interview 091: Lola Flash" (Oral history transcript). Act Up Oral History Project, A Program of The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival (Harvard University). http://fds.lib.harvard.edu/fds/deliver/417792908/wid00003c00091.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cooper, Emmanuel (2006). "13.11: Lola Flash, AIDS Quilt – The First Year". The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 317–318. ISBN 978-0-415-11100-3. OCLC 976447467.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Lola Flash" (en-us). Light Work. August 2008. http://www.lightwork.org/archive/lola-flash/.
- ↑ Manatakis, Lexi (January 25, 2018). "Lola Flash's photography immortalises queer, black New Yorkers" (en). Dazed. http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/38778/1/shooting-life-as-a-queer-black-woman-in-80s-new-york.
- ↑ "Photographer Lola Flash is honored for creating images that challenge invisibility" (en). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/14/1063846092/lola-flash-photography-queer-art.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 La Gorce, Tammy. "How Lola Flash, Photographer, Spends her Sundays." New York Times. June 25, 2021.
- ↑ Macey, Juliet (May 23, 2016). "Lights, Camera, Flash!". GO Magazine. http://gomag.com/article/lights_camera_flash146308/.
- ↑ Twersky, Carolyn (January 25, 2018). "A Photographer Who Has Spent Decades Capturing Queer Culture" (en). The Cut. https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/a-photographer-who-has-spent-decades-capturing-queer-culture.html.
- ↑ "Lola Flash 2011" (en). Art Matters Foundation. 2011. https://artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/lola-flash.
- ↑ Laughlin, Nicholas (July 23, 2015). "Alice Yard: A conversation with Lola Flash". Alice Yard. http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-conversation-with-lola-flash.html.
- ↑ Woodstock AIR Program.
- ↑ The lives and legacy of artist Lola Flash (3 November 2021).
- ↑ Lusina, Anete (26 October 2021). "The Royal Photographic Society Unveils its 2021 Award Winners" (en). PetaPixel. https://petapixel.com/2021/10/26/the-royal-photographic-society-unveils-its-2021-award-winners/.
- ↑ NJ.com, Amy Kuperinsky | NJ Advance Media for (2022-02-23). Black girls in focus, from 9 to 93, at Newark art exhibition (en).
- ↑ Stay Afloat, Use a Rubber (en). Victoria and Albert Museum (1993).
Further reading
mali niŋ- Flash, Lola; Shulman, Sarah (interviewer); Wentzy, James (interviewer) (8 July 2008). "Interview 091: Lola Flash" (Oral history transcript). Act Up Oral History Project, A Program of The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival (Harvard University). http://fds.lib.harvard.edu/fds/deliver/417792908/wid00003c00091.pdf.
- Willis, Deborah (2009). Posing Beauty: African American images, from the 1890s to the Present. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-06696-8. OCLC 310224903.
- This Woman's Work: Lola FLASH, a profile of her photography (en) (Video) (2000).