+ KRIS GRAVES
2017 IN REVIEW

- Aperture Portfolio Prize 2017 Shortlist, Aperture Foundation

- Winner of the Inaugural Anne Wilkes Tucker Young Photography Endowment, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

- Testament Project solo exhibition at Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona

- Photographs from EJI's Lynching in America campaign acquired by the Brooklyn Museum, New York

- Testament Project artwork acquired by The Wedge Collection, Toronto

- Testament Project books collected by the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum, New York

- Group Exhibitions: The Legacy of Lynching, Brooklyn Museum | Summer Open, Aperture Gallery | Three Minutes, En Foco / Hamilton Landmark Galleries | Future Isms, Glassbox Gallery | Art Now 2017, Hearst Galleries | Preface, Darkroom Detroit

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September 29, 2016 | VANITY FAIR > Photos of the Scenes Where Police Killed 8 Black Americans
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March 5, 2016  |  Testament Volume I, for GUP Magazine (link)
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March 1, 2016  |  Photographer Collaborates With Subjects to Give Black Men A New Type Of Self-Portrait, by Steven Lerner for A-Plus (link)
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February 26, 2016  |  Black Men Stage Their Own Portraits In Enpowering Photo Series, by Maddie Crum for Huffington Post (link)
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February 21, 2016  |  Stunning Portraits of Black Men That Accurately Portray How They See Themselves, by David Rosenberg for Behold/Slate (link)
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February 6, 2016  |  Please join me for my artist lecture at Blue Sky Gallery from 2pm - 4pm (link)
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February 4, 2016  |  Please join me at Blue Sky Gallery for the opening reception of the Testament Project from 6pm - 8pm (link)
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January 1, 2016  |  We have produced a new monograph about the Mississippi Delta, photographed by Grant Ellis (link)
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October 22, 2015  |  Kris Graves' Testament Project Sheds Light on Institutionalized Racism, by Jon Feinstien for Humble Arts Foundation (link)
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October 22, 2015  |  Q & A: Kris Graves, by Hamidah Glasgow for Strange Fire Collective (link)
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October 14, 2015  |  An explanation of one photograph taken in China from the series Megalapolis, for Verve Photo (link)
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June 3, 2015  |  Bronx Contours: A Photo Essay, by Kris Graves, written by Johnathan Tarleton for Urban Omnibus (link)
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September 14, 2014  |  Breaking In: Gallerist and Photographer Kris Graves, by Aimee Baldridge for PhotoVideoEdu (link)
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October 2, 2013  |  Photos of Magical Iceland Landscapes (Group Show), for FeatureShoot / Squarespace (link)
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July 20, 2013  |  Intimate Distances: Kris Graves' Cold Comfort, by Thomas Micchelli for Hyperallergic (link)