Artist, Educator, Curator, Photographer
Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier uses the conventions of social documentary to probe and upend traditional narratives of urban growth and the triumph of industry. Exposing the underbelly of corporate practices—rapid de-industrialization and outsourcing, environmental negligence, and inner-city gentrification—Frazier’s work examines the crises of postindustrial communities and the class divisions wrought by capital.
– Whitney Museum of American Art
A visual artist from Braddock PA, LaToya is the Associate Curator for the Mason Gross Galleries in the Visual Arts Department for Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She was appointed Critic in Photography at Yale School of Art in 2012.
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Village Voice Review
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century The Village Voice By Christian Viveros-Faune Apr 3, 2013 The mother of all Great Depression books, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, grew out of a Time magazine assignment. Accepting it were two … Read More...
New York Times Review
The Flesh and the Asphalt, Both Weak LaToya Ruby Frazier Photography at Brooklyn Museum New York Times Art Review Braddock, Pa., is about nine miles southeast of Pittsburgh, hugging the eastern bank of the Monongahela River. But in the photographs … Read More...