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Sheila Pree Bright


Atlanta, GA
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Sheila Pree Bright is an acclaimed international photographic artist who portrays large-scale works that combine a wide-range knowledge of contemporary culture. She is known for her series, #1960Now, Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, and Suburbia.

Bright’s is the author of #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protest published by Chronicle Books. The work is featured in the New York Times and she has appeared in the 2016 feature-length documentary film Election Day: Lens Across America. Her series has exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and the Leica Gallery in New York. Her series #1960Now, Young Americans, Plastic Bodies and Suburbia have been extensively reviewed and written about national and internationally.

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COMMISSIONS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCES

2019 Hammonds House Honoree, Artistic Excellence Award, Atlanta, GA
2019  PNC Bank & WCLK Honor Atlanta's African American Artistic Community, Atlanta, GA
2018 SPE Imagemaker Award,  Cleveland, OH

NOMINATIONS

2017 ICP Infinity Awards, New York, NY
2017 Ted Prize, $1 million 
2017 Magnum Foundation Fund, New York, NY
2017 Anonymous Was A Woman

AUTHOR
#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests,  Chronicle Books.

Afiliaciones profesionales

PPA
Leica Ambassador
The Lecia 10

Libros por Sheila Pree Bright