naomi white
White is the winner of PDN’s Objects of Desire award, has attended several artist residencies, and exhibited throughout North America and Europe, including Scope, Art Basel Miami, and Photo LA.
Her work has been published in PDN, The Brooklyn Rail, FAYN, and Uncertain States. White holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from SVA in New York, a Post Baccalaureate in Photography from the San Francisco Art institute, and a BA in English Literature from San Francisco State. She is currently the Chair of photography at the New York Film Academy in Burbank, California.
Recent group exhibitions include 2020, SCOPE Miami's immersive booth, Art Basel, Miami; 2020, FOCUS Photo LA, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA; 2019, Centre for Creative Photography’s, The Qualities of LIGHT, University of Arizona; 2019, XPOSED: Humans vs. Planet Earth, Knox Contemporary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“I want to acknowledge that Los Angeles where I live is built on the stolen land of the Tongva people, and that this idea of displacing indigenous people and ignoring the way they thrived with the land and its creatures, is one of the first places we see western civilization pulling away and rejecting nature. For this show which explores a growing detachment and mistrust of nature, the land and all it contains, is an important entry point.
My work is focused on materiality and extraction and the way that capitalism drives corporations to extract at great cost to all beings, the planet and its future, but especially to poor people and black, indigenous and people of color, poisoning drinking water and polluting air.
Beauty is a strategy for creating hope. I am interested in how the transformation of something ordinary into something aesthetic has the power to change perspectives and priorities.”
