Photography & Imaging

Biography

Melissa Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of Aperture magazine, and editor and curator of selected projects, including Master Breasts; Tibet Since 1950: Silence, Prison or Exile (with Human Rights Watch) and “The Body in Question, ” “Everything that Lives, Eats,” “Male/Female” with Vince Aletti, “On Location,” and “Our Town” in Issue. Her curatorial credits also include: Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years by David Vaughan, Merce Cunningham, Other Animals: Drawings and Notes by Merce Cunningham, Dario Fo & Franca Rame: Artful Laughter by Ron Jenkins, Francesco Clemente: A Portrait by Luca Babini, Letizia Battaglia: Passion, Justice, Freedom-Photographs of Sicily, Immediate Family by Sally Mann, American Odyssey and Twins by Mary Ellen Mark, Caught in the Act by Dona Ann McAdams, Violent Legacies by Richard Misrach, Brutal Kinship by Michael Nichols, Photography PastForward: Aperture at 50. In addition, Melissa has curated the work of Eugene Richards, including Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, Americans We, and Stepping Through the Ashes. Other artists whose work Melissa has curated include  Miguel Rio Branco, Louise Serpa, Josef Sudek, Nick Waplington, Brian Weil, and David Wojanarowicz. She has written for Aperture, Artforum, Interview and Art News magazine and is also Guest Lecturer and Visiting Lecturer for Yale University Graduate School of the Arts.