Kris Graves

Life and work

• A photographic project, Discovered Missing, is a culmination of Graves's photographs made in Iceland. He travelled to Iceland over the course of three years and photographed the country's landscapes, people, and their way of life.
• Testament Project is a series of portraits depicting black Americans veiled in colored lightings. Subjects are given the freedom to choose the color of lighting by which their individuality is visualized and expressed. Testament Project challenges the stereotypes of black people that are deeply rooted in society and present opportunities for individuals to re-examine their preconceptions.
• Graves's series, A Bleak Reality, consists of eight photographs that were taken during his eight days of travel across the United States. They depict the very places, including Ferguson and Staten Island, where eight black Americans were killed by police officers. Time when the photographs were taken corresponds, exactly or roughly, to the time of killings.
• In 2017, Graves was commissioned by Equal Justice Initiative and was included in its group exhibition, . The exhibition opened in July 2017 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The commission was part of EJI's "extensive research into the history of lynchings".

  Other projects

• Privileged Mediocrity
• Testament film
• Two's
• A Queens Affair
• Environmental
• Megalopolis
• Pastorals
• Extended Family

  Solo exhibitions

• 2020: The Testament Project, Austin Central Library, Texas, USA
• 2019: Testaments, Peddie School, New Jersey, USA
• 2017: The Testament Project, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• 2017: The Testament Project, Art on Paper X Sasha Wolf Projects, New York, New York, USA
• 2016: The Testament Project, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA
• 2016: The Testament Project, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
• 2016: The Testament Project, NorteMaar, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• 2016: The Testament Project, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
• 2013: Discovered Missing, Pocket Utopia, New York, USA
• 2012: Permanence, Pocket Utopia, New York, USA

  2-Person exhibitions

• 2011: Second Nature w/ Kared Rudd, Baang & Burne Contemporary, New York, USA
• 2010: A Queens Affair w/ Eric Hairabedian, Farmani Gallery, New York, USA

  Group exhibitions

• 2020: LOST Carmel, Center for Photographic Art, California, USA
• 2018: All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, Sarah Surgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, USA
• 2018: All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, Pacific Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, USA
• 2018: Disruption, Center for Photography Woodstock, New York, USA
• 2018: Legacy of the Cool, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• 2017: Three Minutes, En Foco / Hamilton Landmark Galleries, New York, USA
• 2017: The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
• 2017: Summer Open, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
• 2017: Unbound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
• 2017: Art.Now.2017, Hearst Galleries, New York, USA
• 2017: Future Isms, Glassbox Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA