Ralph Lemon
Curator: Katherine Simóne Reynolds
For Counterpublic 2023, Ralph Lemon will perform “Dust” alongside Kevin Beasley, Darrell Jones, and Okwui Okpokwasili. This performance will be held near the (imagined) site of Josephine Baker's childhood home. (Her home, among many, was included in the demolition of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood.)
About the artist
Ralph Lemon is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and visual artist who generates interdisciplinary modes of artistic expression as he strives to communicate stories, emotions, memories, and identities that do not conform to standard categories of representation. He incorporates sensibilities and approaches gleaned from endeavors beyond the arts, such as ethnographic and historical research, into a diverse and complex body of work that includes choreography, books, paintings, and experimental stage and lecture performances. Lemon’s work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Hayward Gallery in London, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and more. Lemon was a 2013-14 Annenberg Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
ARTISTS LINKS
FCA Grant: foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/ralph-lemon
Artsy: artsy.net/artist/ralph-lemon
