Selected Works by Letitia Huckaby
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Selected Works by Letitia Huckaby
Exhibition
Mon, Oct 23–Mon, Nov 24
Campbell East Wing Gallery
Gallery Talk & Reception
Fri, Nov 14, 12 PM
Campbell Van Lengen Lobby
Acclaimed photographer Letitia Huckaby uses portraiture and landscape to explore African American heritage and pay homage to enslaved ancestors and their descendants. Learn about the artist's research-based practice—a reexamination of history and its connection to the contemporary black experience.
About the Artist
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Letitia Huckaby has a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in photography, and her Master’s degree from the University of North Texas in Denton. She has exhibited at Phillips New York, the Tyler Museum of Art, The Studio School of Harlem, the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork City, Ireland, and the Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. Her work is included in several prestigious collections: the Library of Congress, the McNay Art Museum, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Huckaby was a featured artist in MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain at the Amon Carter Museum and State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges Museum. In 2022, Letitia Huckaby was named Texas Artist of the Year. She is represented by the Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Huckaby is the Co-Founder of Kinfolk House, a collaborative project space that inhabits a 100-year-old historic home, where community and art converge in the predominantly Black and Latina/e/o neighborhood of Polytechnic in Fort Worth, Texas.
Presented by UVA's Center for Cultural Landscapes, with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Endowment.
