Highlighting uncertainty and contradiction, Truth or Dare emphasizes the importance of questioning both knowledge and belief by featuring artists that utilize illusion to entice, entertain, and explore the slippery terrain between fact and fiction, presence and absence, reality and imagination.

This ongoing series by photographer Chris Engman is a body of work that investigates the medium of photography through complicated man-made juxtapositions. The work explores the relationship between illusion and materiality, nature and the man-made universe, and moment and memory.

Recognizing photography’s central role in collage, Wide Angle includes artists who manipulate and recompose imagery to recontextualize narratives drawn from our current social, political, and cultural climate.

Nuclear Fallout excavates the collective memory of the bomb and asks visitors to critically consider the way war is curated and remembered. Artist Migiwa Orimo works with three different archives to develop responsive installations.

With images sourced from YouTube featuring teen and young adult “how-to” videos, Odell uses the archived clips to reconstruct new observations.

Body Doubles challenges the male gaze and reclaims ownership of the female body. Hubbs references nudes from art history and popular culture to manipulate how the female form is observed in her photographs.

Replace with Fine Art includes work by contemporary Chinese and Chinese American artists Chen Wei, Liu Bolin, Chen Qiulin, Jen Liu, and Ren Hang that comments on China’s contemporary life, heritage, and modernization.

A group exhibition of local artists highlighting the everyday life of our local community, documenting moments of their personal environments and experiences.

Artist Emily Hanako Momohara worked with a team of youth apprentices to make artwork for and about the community at the Academy of World Languages and Health Hub.

Artist Emily Hanako Momohara worked with a team of youth apprentices to make artwork for and about the community at the Academy of World Languages and Health Hub. The satelite exhibition for this collaboration is on view at Washington Park.

In Clouding Judgements, artist Joel Armor examines his personal collection of cell phone photos and calls on individuals from the surrounding community to examine their own.

The Tenderness of The Wolves documents a maligned subgroup of Americans— disenfranchised, heterosexual, white men. Clem’s photography searches beyond the guarding that these men endure and adorns them with an intimate portrayal of their frailties.

Clothes Encounter showcases seldom-seen images from Cincinnati’s fashion scene during the 1980s and 1990s, captured by award-winning former Cincinnati Post photojournalist Melvin Grier.

Brazee Gallery and Cincinnati Country Day present an exhibit of glass photography, blurring the line between these two disparate mediums. Students use unique image-transfer techniques to create fused-glass compositions.

Peter Moore’s work documents the 1960’s art-world moment when experimental performance, music, dance, and visual art intersected in radical and transformative ways.

The Forealism Files includes artifacts of the Tribe featuring large-format “portrait” photographs of key characters, images documenting interactions and performances, video footage, character suits, live performances, and lectures.

World premiere of lens-based works by renowned British conceptual artist Gillian Wearing, exploring themes of identity, interior experience, and self-exposure.

This two-person show with Tina Gutierrez with Da’Mon Butler explores cultural memories of their respective Cuban-Appalachian and African-American heritage. Gutierrez’s photographs capture the cathartic effect of Butler’s adornments on the wearer’s projected personality.

An old child’s bank, in the guise of a safe, contains documentation and evidence of a life lived. Can the viewer find meaning from this anonymous archive of images and information to understand the time in which they were saved, from what place, and for what purpose?

Carefully curated from nearly 20,000 images taken since 2014 over 20,000 miles, Jens Rosenkrantz’s Small Town and Long Views documents a personal archive that marks the time and place of extraordinary travels.

The Columbus Museum of Art presents an installation of Isaac Julien’s landmark 1989 film Looking for Langston alongside a selection of related photographic works.

In an interdisciplinary practice that positions lens-based media as both specimen and subterfuge, Zaatari participates in the discourse against photography and its complex archival legacy.

Painters often draw from
 existing visual materials, such as photographs and reproductions of past works of art, to inspire and construct their work. Swedish artist Mamma Andersson known for her dreamlike, faintly narrative compositions inspired by Nordic painting, folk art, newspaper photographs, and cinema—is no exception.

The exhibition restages the 1929 historic encounter between Blossfeldt’s plant photographs and Bruguière’s experiments in abstract photography, and juxtaposes it with the Photograms and Negatives series by contemporary artist Thomas Ruff.

Raquel André, a collector of rare things, performs Collection of Lovers.

Finding Kenyon Barr: Exploring Photographs of Cincinnati’s Lost Lower West End features photographs from 1959 that illustrate the demolition of a vital and vibrant urban neighborhood that displaced nearly 25,000.

Artists Lorena Molina, Gina Osterloh and Carman Winant form the foundation for this group show that portrays the female experience though photographs, videos, film, and performance.

Drawing from art history, visual culture, and her community of muses, Mickalene Thomas and the artists of tête-à-tête redefine concepts of beauty and challenge current societal traditions.

In dialogue with Muse and curated by artist Mickalene Thomas, tête-à-tête features photographs by ten artists who inspire Thomas including Renée Cox, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Zanele Muholi, and Carrie May Weems.

Whitaker explores the transitory nature of experiences with a body of work inspired by tornados that moved through the American south.

A series of abstract, color-driven photographs and micro-videos by Joshua Kessler serve as a meditation on how technology has so fundamentally changed the way that we consume and experience imagery.

Taking it to the Streets features large-scale images, displayed in downtown storefronts, of Cincinnati’s most celebrated events. This public art project is a collaboration between Downtown Cincinnati Inc. and photographer J. Miles Wolf.

In Place of Forgetting is an interactive multi-channel audio-visual installation exploring the contemporary overabundance of memory and its impact on the quality of the experiences we attempt to remember.

A Camp Washington community collaboration, this mural features children from the neighborhood as life-sized photographs dancing across buildings.

Transitions is based on the Surrealist game “Exquisite Corps” and features 20 local photographers collaborating to create a responsive, mystery artwork.

Students create a photo-based mural in Covington after learning and practicing the art of photography.

Iris‘s 10th anniversary exhibition recalls and constucts a heretofore non-existent archive representing the exceptional photography of regional and international artists presented over the last decade.

Spanning 35 years in the career of acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie, this exhibition collectively reflects the cultural complexities of American society.

Digging Deep into the Archives explores how photographs and images are organized and the exceptional narratives and histories that they impart.

A competitive, international exhibition of works featuring photographic and lens-based art that in one way or another, literally or figuratively, represents the concept of archive.

Photographer Michael Wilson led this project–a selected group exhibition of regional and national photographers with workshops designed to better understand the process of printing photographs in the darkroom.

“Gathering Kokoro,” a ten-foot long photographic artifact explores the cross-currents of cultural sensibilities from artists Mayako Nakamura (Japan) and Tony DeVarco (US).

Comprised of photographs from a diverse cross-section of artists from the gallery archives and collections, Time, Space, and Place provides glimpses into the past and new narratives.

Vanguard composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole perform the powerful interdisciplinary collaboration Blind Spot.

Teju Cole in conversation with curator Drew Klein about his career as photographer, writer, critic, and performance collaborator.

Hans Gindlesberger’s series of photographs confronts unfortunate realities of life in small town, post-industrial Middle America, and represents the plight of those Americans living in regions plagued by a changing identity.

An adventurous survey of iconoclastic artists utilizing the medium of photography to produce bodies of work that focus on the unseen worlds of society’s outsiders: the obsessive, odd, and obscene.

Contemporary photographer Tyler Shields revisits the historic dye transfer and palladium print processes to create hyper-colored and super-saturated images on a scale never before seen.

FotoFocus at The Mini: Cinema and Archive is a month-long screening series examining film and video’s complex relationship to the photographic archive. The Mini Microcinema will present over 30 screenings and events, featuring more than 50 makers with programming by five different curators. Ultimately, film and video’s relationship to archive, both on and off the screen, … Continued

Jason Hailey’s passion to increase visual awareness and heighten sensitivity to aesthetic values flows from his abstract interpretations of commonplace products and discarded debris.

Mount St. Joseph University’s Student Photographic Society juries this thematic group show comprised of work that addresses the discarded debris of our contemporary society.

50 / 50 celebrates Northern Kentucky University’s 50th anniversary with 50 photographs from the archives alongside work from current students and faculty.

Record / Off Record is a contemporary photography group exhibition that examines the role of the photograph as a product of personal visual archives and its function as documentary evidence.

The exhibition is a celebration of residents working to create a greater sense of community in the city of Mason.

Impression is an archive of photos captured during a self-reflection public installation, in which participants sat in front of a mirror and leaned in for a kiss. Artists Janet Creekmore and Ben Jason Neal collaborated on the project to explore ideas of sexuality, gender, self, cultures, and identity.

New American Stories features family photographs created by refugees from around the world who recently resettled in the Greater Cincinnati community. The project illuminates the ongoing global refugee crisis, as well as the enduring power of the American dream, freedom, and opportunity.

Experience Cincinnati’s past through the literal lens of photographic advancement. From daguerreotype to the world’s best camera today, journey to see where 170 years has taken us.

A series of black-and-white portraits by photographer Michael Wilson made in a portable daylight studio set up in Cincinnati neighborhoods to capture the diverse cross-section of our community.

Features the work of three iconic photographers who turned their lens on the overlooked, unseen, and ostracized subjects in society throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

A photo-based installation, Fruits of Labor critically interrogates Momohara’s family’s 100-year immigration journey from plantation laborers in Japan to mainland America.

Reveal features five artists who investigate how the order and display of images can make previously unknown (or secret information) known to others.

Displacement: Collective Practice to Recover Memory is a site-specific multi-media installation and collaboration with artist Juan-Sí González, Rosewood Arts Centre, the City of Kettering, and area residents.

This two-person show with Linda Gillings and Tina Gutierrez explores the artists’ unique perspectives on portraiture––how they capture the truth of the moment and explore what is behind and in front of the lens.

Featuring images of Sharonville from the perspectives of five artists, this exhibition looks at a community’s history interpreted from the past through the present.

A photographic documentation of Jewish places of worship and communal gathering, past and present—still extant, but unoccupied or repurposed—merged with related historical photographs from local archives and collections.

Louis Joyner’s archives of black-and-white documentary photographs taken in Memphis, Tennessee from 1968–1971 act as a visual time capsule of a by-gone era.

Domus Oculi is a contemporary camera obscura viewing room—a freestanding structure using repurposed lenses from antiquated visual technologies to create a transitory archive.

Paris to New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott explores the encounter between American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) and French photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) during the 1920s—an encounter that would have profound and lasting effects on the careers and legacies of both artists.

Outside/In/Inside/Out presents archived images that have documented the history of human space travel through the lens of astronauts and the Hubble telescope.

Local refugees and immigrants reveal their experiences of life in America through photography.

Visionaries and Voices is partnering with the Northside community to present large images in public spaces by artists who directly reference photographic imagery.

Archival photographs and contemporary landscapes retrace the loss of a friend to heroin after a 1995 cross-country trip.

Featuring landscape reportage that illuminates our planet’s archival continuum, Timescapes captures the effects of unrelenting time and our fleeting activity within it.

Showcasing projects made collaboratively with communities that are being archived, this group exhibition explores the results of collaborative approaches to photography and offers opportunities for visitor intercommunication.

Reinterpreting Nancy Ford Cones pairs her pictorialist photographs alongside smartphone photos submitted via social media that reinterpret her images.

Miranda July in conversation with curator Kelly Gallagher about her career in film and the Joanie 4 Jackie project.

Four Decades, a retrospective exhibition of Ron Geibert’s work includes color photography, installation, and multi-media.

The remounting of this historic exhibition includes rare photographs, videos, and audio components that illustrate the role of social and recreational events during the Great Depression.

Highlights of photographic artworks from the Wright State University’s permanent collection acquired by Professor Emeritus Ron Geibert from 1992–2007.

A juried exhibition of photographs by local artists illuminating America’s interior regions, an often-overlooked bastion of cultural, social, political, and economic vitality.

Remembering 1975–1980 is a collection of prints by PJ Sturdevant created using the traditional Bromoil process between 1975 and 1980 on 35mm film.