People: Honorable Mention 2016 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A man after a zionist church service in Swaziland, picks fruit from a tree.
AUTHOR
Kyle Meyer (b. Ohio,1985) is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He graduated in 2009 with a BA in Photography from The City College of New York and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016. He was awarded the Mortimer B. Hayes Brandeis traveling fellowship, which led him to Swaziland where he has been working on several long term projects focusing on LGBT rights, HIV awareness, and ritualistic religious practices. Currently he has taken what he has experienced in Swaziland and through sculpture, performance, and photography has created a diverse body of work dealing around gender, sexuality, life and death.
His work has been exhibited at the Photographic Resource Center; Boston, Fuller Craft Museum; Boston, Sheldon Museum of Art; Nebraska, State Hermitage Museum; Russia, GuatePhoto; Guatemala, and Photoville; New York.
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