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The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series Presents: Mark McKnight with Elle Pérez

Join us as artists Mark McKnight and Elle Pérez discuss their practices encompassing the notion of landscape and the echoes of photographic history, and how these themes are perceived through a queer lens.

This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC’s Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets and Selections from ICP at 50 on view until January 6, 2025

About the Series

The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer’s Lecture Series presents one-hour live events featuring scholars and curators in conversation with renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or ask critical questions about the form. This year’s Fall Season includes Maddie McGarvey with Karrin Anderson (October 21), Sheila Pree Bright with Joseph Rodriguez (November 20), Mark McKnight with Elle Perez (December 4), and Kiliii Yuyan (December 11).

Recent participants in ICP Talks include Shirin Neshat, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Clifford Prince King, Muriel Hasbun, Shala Miller, Sunil Gupta, Farah Al Qasimi, Guadalupe Rosales, and Pacifico Silano.

Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate Programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.

ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2024-2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.

About the Speakers

Mark Armijo McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar (2008-9), the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, The 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2023-4 Guggenheim Fellowship. His first solo institutional exhibition, Decreation, is currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Expanded Photography at Rutgers University.

Elle Pérez is an artist from the Bronx, New York, who lives and works in New York City. Pérez primarily works in photography and moving image, depicting intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within their portraits, landscapes, and films. Their work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, and has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2023); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2022); the Carnegie Museum of Art (2021); Public Art Fund (2019); and MoMA PS1 (2018). They were included in the 59th International Venice Biennale (2022), the Whitney Biennial (2019), and have been featured in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2022), Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2022), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); Barbican Centre, London (2020); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019). They have been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, Lightwork and a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2023, Pérez was the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the Yale School of Art. They have previously held appointments in the Art, Film, and Visual Studies department of Harvard University, Williams College, The Cooper Union, and taught photography at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City. They were a Dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 2016 to 2021. Pérez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others. Pérez is represented by 47 Canal, New York and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.











When: Wed., Dec. 4, 2024 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: International Center of Photography (ICP)
79 Essex St.
212-857-0000
Price: $5
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Join us as artists Mark McKnight and Elle Pérez discuss their practices encompassing the notion of landscape and the echoes of photographic history, and how these themes are perceived through a queer lens.

This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC’s Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets and Selections from ICP at 50 on view until January 6, 2025

About the Series

The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer’s Lecture Series presents one-hour live events featuring scholars and curators in conversation with renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or ask critical questions about the form. This year’s Fall Season includes Maddie McGarvey with Karrin Anderson (October 21), Sheila Pree Bright with Joseph Rodriguez (November 20), Mark McKnight with Elle Perez (December 4), and Kiliii Yuyan (December 11).

Recent participants in ICP Talks include Shirin Neshat, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Clifford Prince King, Muriel Hasbun, Shala Miller, Sunil Gupta, Farah Al Qasimi, Guadalupe Rosales, and Pacifico Silano.

Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate Programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.

ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2024-2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.

About the Speakers

Mark Armijo McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar (2008-9), the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, The 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2023-4 Guggenheim Fellowship. His first solo institutional exhibition, Decreation, is currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Expanded Photography at Rutgers University.

Elle Pérez is an artist from the Bronx, New York, who lives and works in New York City. Pérez primarily works in photography and moving image, depicting intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within their portraits, landscapes, and films. Their work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, and has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2023); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2022); the Carnegie Museum of Art (2021); Public Art Fund (2019); and MoMA PS1 (2018). They were included in the 59th International Venice Biennale (2022), the Whitney Biennial (2019), and have been featured in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2022), Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2022), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); Barbican Centre, London (2020); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019). They have been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, Lightwork and a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2023, Pérez was the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the Yale School of Art. They have previously held appointments in the Art, Film, and Visual Studies department of Harvard University, Williams College, The Cooper Union, and taught photography at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York City. They were a Dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 2016 to 2021. Pérez’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others. Pérez is represented by 47 Canal, New York and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.

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