Background
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
219 Meadville St, Edinboro, PA 16444, United States
The aerial view of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania campus where LaToya Ruby Frazier received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Graphic Design in 2004.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States
Syracuse University where LaToya Ruby Frazier obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in art photography in 2007.
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States
The Whitney Museum of American Art under which Independent Study Program LaToya Ruby Frazier studied from 2010 to 2011.
Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin, Germany
The American Academy in Berlin where LaToya Ruby Frazier was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow from 2013 to 2014.
LaToya Frazier
LaToya Frazier. Photo by Nolis Anderson.
LaToya Frazier
LaToya Frazier. Photo by Case Western Reserve.
(The book offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of ...)
The book offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by its author's hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
https://www.amazon.com/LaToya-Ruby-Frazier-Notion-Family/dp/1597113816/?tag=2022091-20
2015
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
LaToya Ruby Frazier revealed her interest in drawing and painting at an early age. Frazier’s grandmother Ruby who worked on the factories supported her passion and encouraged her to become a professional artist.
While in college, Frazier discovered the crucial aspects of photography under the guidance of Kathe Kowalski. In 2004, LaToya received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Graphic Design from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. It was followed three years later by a Master of Fine Arts art in photography from Syracuse University.
From 2010 to 2011, Frazier attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She was also the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin from 2013 to 2014.
Frazier was also given two Honorary Doctorates, one in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and the second in Humane Letters from Edinboro University.
The start of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s career of a photographer can be counted from 1998 when she created the first shots documenting the plight of her native Braddock, often through the life of her family members.
Since 2009 Frazier has participated in a variety of group shows, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1, and a 2012 Whitney Biennial. Three years later, she gathered the works reflecting the aftermath of racism and economic instability typical for small towns of the United States in her first book ‘The Notion of Family’ titled after one of her most known series.
In addition to multiple solo exhibitions regularly organized in the United States, Italy, Nicaragua, and South Korea, LaToya Ruby Frazier has tried her hand in academics as well. She has taught at Yale University School of Art, Rutgers University, Syracuse University, and has lectured in a variety of institutions around the country.
Nowadays, Frazier serves as an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
(The book offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of ...)
2015Dan Adams, Local 1112 Trustee, With His Father and Brothers
Cindy Higinbotham and Monet Hostutler, Best Friends and Banner Carriers
Kesha Scales hugging Beverly Williams in her living room
Mindy Miller, worked eleven years for AWC, standing with fellow iron workers and, the last Cruze in the GM Lordstown Plant Complex at 2300 Hallock-Young Road
Louis Robinson Jr., Local 1714 Recording Secretary, worked thirty-four years at GM Lordstown Plant Complex
United Auto Workers and their families holding up Drive It Home campaign signs outside UAW Local 1112 Reuther, Scandy, Alli union hall
Grandma Ruby and Me in her Livingroom
Momme Silhouettes
FLINT, 1,105 days and counting man-made water crisis
Grandma Ruby's Porcelain Dolls
Woodlawn Street, Braddock, PA
Momme
Grandma Ruby and UMPC
Momme (Floral Comforter)
Momme (Shadow)
Home on Braddock Avenue
Self-portrait March (10:00 a.m.), 2009
The Bottom
Mom and Her Cat Ziggy on American Red Cross
In Gramps’ Pajamas
Mr. Jim Kidd
Quotations:
"Let your photographs be your compass, always follow where your photographs lead you."
"The mind is the battleground for photography. My mind was totally deceived and deluded… but now my images can change that."
"I see myself as an artist and a citizen that's documenting and telling the story and building the archive of working-class families facing all this change that's happening, because it has to be documented."
LaToya Ruby Frazier is a fervent activist and advocate.