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Can you name five women artists? Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts has been asking this question on social media each March during Women's History Month using the hashtag…#5WomenArtists 2020: Janna Ireland
Artist Janna Ireland. Courtesy the artist
Can you name five women artists?
Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts has been asking this question on social media each March during Women's History Month using the hashtag #5WomenArtists. The campaign calls attention to the fact that women have historically not been treated equally in the art world, and remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in today's museums, galleries, and auction houses.
Black women are doubly underrepresented in this context, often absent from America's museums and erased from the art world's memory. To address these disparities, CAAM will be sharing biographies of five women artists who have shown at the museum.
Janna Ireland
Janna Ireland is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on photography. She was born in Philadelphia, but has chosen Los Angeles as her home. She holds an MFA from the UCLA Department of Art and a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU. In 2013, she received the Snider Prize, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago.
Ireland's work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Chicago, and in group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Her 2014 self-portrait The Love Seat is part of the CAAM exhibition Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection.
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The Love Seat, 2014
Injet print
36 x 24 in.
Courtesy the artist
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From the series Milk and Honey, 2018-ongoing
Courtesy the artist
She has been published in Aperture, Harper's, Art Papers, Vice, and The Los Angeles Times. Her first book, on the work of legendary black architect Paul R. Williams, will be published by Angel City Press in September.
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From the series There is Only One Paul R. Williams, (2016-ongoing)
Courtesy the artist
"Most architectural photography is about the big picture," Ireland said of her approach to Williams and his work in a 2019 essay. "What does a building look like from the street, or a room look like from the threshold? I wanted to create an experience of Williams's work that was about the feeling of living in the spaces and loving them. Williams thought about all the little details, and I felt that the most fitting way to honor him was to think about those details too."
Visit Janna Ireland's website or follow her on Instagram
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