March 23 - May 26, 2024

Qiana Mestrich’s @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace project is included in Counter Histories at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Drawn from a 2023 presentation organized by Magnum Foundation in New York City, the exhibiting artists confront difficult histories by reconstructing perspectives that have been omitted from previously accepted or official accounts.

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Center for Photography at Woodstock
474 Broadway
Kingston, NY 12401
United States

June 3 - June 18, 2023

Qiana Mestrich’s work is on view at Photoville as part of Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia, an international and intergenerational exhibition that blurs the lines between​ what is exterior and interior to reclaim the Black outdoors and rethink history and the ways ​African-Americans have been denied freedom. 

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Photoville
Brooklyn Bridge Park
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA

May 25 - July 27, 2023

Qiana Mestrich’s project @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace is on view at the Counter Histories exhibition at Magnum Foundation. Featuring four artists from the 2022 cohort of Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories Fellowship, the exhibition incorporates bodies of work that began with an investigation into personal and familial histories. Each artist’s engagement of found archives prompted interventions into gaps in historical and familial records in order to create more inclusive, nuanced depictions of place, cultures, and community.

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Magnum Foundation
59 East 4th St, 7W 
New York, NY 10003
USA

Winter 2022 

Qiana Mestrich’s ongoing project Toward a History of Women of Color in the Workplace, recipient of the 2022 Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories grant, is profiled by Lovia Gyarkye in Aperture’s Reference issue. 

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Reference
Aperture 249
Winter 2022 

February 12 - July 02, 2022

Qiana Mestrich’s work is included in the exhibition Picturing Black Girlhood as part of the conference Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play and Performance at Rutgers University-Newark. Her series The Black Doll is on view in this exhibition that reimagines girlhood through the eyes of Black women and girl photographers.

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Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University
Express Newark (EN), Rutgers University
54 Halsey Street Newark, NJ

September 14 – October 16, 2021

Qiana Mestrich’s photographs are featured in the exhibition, “I belong to this,” curated by photographer Justine Kurland who states, “I belong to this brings seventeen artists together around themes of self and family, private rites and communal ritual, along a continuum of becoming. The title of the show is from Ariana Reines’s poem “Save the World”, and can be read as a declaration of identification, a promise of solidarity, or a blurring of self into multitudes. These artists mark an intractable this. The camera points, more like an ear than an index finger, in the direction of what is felt rather than seen and to those invisible threads that hold us together.”

”Qiana Mestrich’s son bows his head low in concentration as his arms take flight in dance; a grid of photographs maps his movements across time and space.”

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Huxley Parlor
London, England

June 3 - September 12, 2021

Qiana Mestrich’s Thrall series will be on view in a group exhibition at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Ideologies.

“The effect of ideologies on the identity of individuals and entire societies is explored by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Johanna Diehl and Qiana Mestrich.”

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Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Germany

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 7PM DOHA / 12PM EDT

Qiana Mestrich, whose latest series Thrall was recently on exhibit at sepiaEYE (February 15 - April 15, 2021), will be joined in conversation with Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar's Artistic Director, Charlotte Cotton.

The conversation will focusing on Mestrich’s creative journey through to her latest photographic series, Thrall. Mestrich will also talk about her impetus for founding Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History in 2007, which began as a blog and also functions as a monthly critique group online.

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Tuesday, March 23, 7 PM EST

Artist Qiana Mestrich in conversation with fellow artist Liz Ikiriko and scholar Negarra A. Kudumu

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December 3 - 5, 2020

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Qiana Mestrich will be a part of The Center for Photography Woodstock’s 2020 virtual Symposium on Race, Activism and Photography. The Keynote Address will be by artist Carrie Mae Weems.

“Race, Activism and Photography will address an array of issues including the history of photography through the prism of race, representation and identity, and activism, and examines how these topics have evolved from 1839 to the present; the economic and social impact of systemic racism, and how these inequities have been represented in the media; how artists, within the context of fine art, are using their work to address oppression and discrimination; and, finally, how artists are responding to the challenging and unique opportunities that lie ahead in the art world.”

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Center for Photography at Woodstock

October 28, 2020 4-6 PM EST

Qiana Mestrich will be taking part in a Virtual Seminar, one part of the eight part series hosted by NYU Washington DC. Women and Migration(s) explores the importance of the arts and public policy in the migrations of women displaced by climate crisis, economic fluctuations, domestic violence, the pandemic, and other factors.

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Redefining Resistance: "Joy" as Resistance Part II Virtual Webinar (via Zoom)
NYU Washington, DC

Autumn 2020

Qiana Mestrich has contributed an essay to Nueva Luz volume 24:2, which is presented as an exhibition catalog for Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives. Her essay is titled, “Dos Mundos: A Photographic Frame Switching Between Cultures.” Dos Mundos was curated by Stephenie Lindquist and Juanita Lanzo, responds to contemporary circumstances and inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.

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NUEVA LUZ volume 24:2
Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives

Qiana Mestrich wrote an essay on the British photographer Cian Oba-Smith's documentary photography series on the impact of systemic and economic racism on the historically Black community of Syracuse, New York. Check out Oba-Smith's work and Mestrich's essay at the link below.

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Light Work Collection: Cian Oba-Smith

September 2020

The first publication by femalephotographers.org, a new collective of which Qiana Mestrich is a part, is A Visual Conversation about Bodies, "The Body Issue," published by Hatje Cantz. The book addresses the depiction of bodies and the perception of them. Edited by Elisabeth Biondi with text by Emma Lewis.

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Female Photographers Org
The Body Issue

July 4 - 11, 2018

Qiana Mestrich's Hard to Place will be amongst a selection of artist's publications and editions presented during Toronto Art Book Week at the Critical Distance Center for Curators. 

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Critical Distance Centre for Curators
180 Shaw Street, Unit 302
Toronto, ON M6J 2W5, Canada