April 24 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Alexandra Bell is an interdisciplinary artist who considers the ways media frameworks control how narratives involving Black communities are depicted and in turn disseminated under the aegis of journalistic “objectivity.” She accumulates news records, mines editorial databases, and restructures textually and visually produced narratives to control the elasticity of language and image. By physically outlining and revising editorial frameworks, she attempts to wrestle media depictions from dominant institutions and impart the power of interpretation and definition to the collective public.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award (2018), Catchlight Fellowship (2019), Soros Equality Fellowship (2019), Sarah Arison Artadia Award (2020), and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University (2022).
She received her B.A. in Humanities from University of Chicago and an M.S. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
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