BIO/CV
BIO/CV
Laila Annmarie Stevens (b. 2001) is a Black Queer Photographer and Visual Artist born and raised in South Jamaica Queens, NY based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in Photography and Related Media at The Fashion Institute of Technology. Their work could be described as a raw and intimate perspective. Redefining traditional family structures through contemporary community kinship, particularly the sisterhood of marginalized women and girls. Through her early work in youth organizations, she’s incorporated image-making to envision a world of inclusion and power.
SELECTED SOLO &
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Fort Greene Park Conservancy - Black Lives, Black History, Black Joy and Black Futures, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Good Mirrors, WITNESS Exhibition, Photoville Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Faces of Harlem, Photoville, Harlem, NY
2023 Photoville x Queens Museum — Clayton Sisterhood Project, Roy Wilkins Park, Queens, NY
2023 Prose — Juneteenth Celebration, Summertime Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 New York Now: Home – A Photo Triennial, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
(curated by Thea Quiray Tagle and Sean Corcoran)
2023 Crescent - The Free Black Women’s Library, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Identity: I in the Mirror - Jamaica Community Arts & Learning (JCAL), Queens, NY
2022 PhotoVogue Festival 2022 - Milan, IT
2022 MÔR: a collective exhibition for black lesbian thought - Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
2021 East London Photographic Gallery - Palm* Studios Shortlist Recipient, London, U.K.
2020 Come Together, Right Now!- Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023/24 Fellow - Magnum Foundation Fellowship, (NYC Work-Study Fellowship), New York, NY
2021 - Eddie Adams Workshop Class of XXXIV, New York, NY
2024 Recipient - Aperture Portfolio Prize, Shortlisted Artist
2022 Recipient - PHMuseum Women Photographers New Generation Prize Honorable Mention
2021 Recipient - Lucie Foundation, Photo Taken Scholarship Shortlist + Honorable Mention
2021 Recipient - Palm* Studios Photo Prize Shortlist
2020 Recipient - Magnum Foundation, US Dispatches Award for "First-Time Voters"
PRESS
2023 CBS - Local News ‘Exhibits at New York City Museums Celebrate LGBTQ+ Artists & Life in the City’
2023 PHMuseum - Laila Annmarie Stevens Reflects on the Legacy of Black Women and Black Communities
2023 Amsterdam News - ‘Faces of Harlem’ exhibition documents a fast-changing community
2022 National Geographic - ‘What Is Black Joy? See It Through The Eyes Of These Groundbreaking Artists’
2021 FITNYC - ‘Three from FIT at this year’s Eddie Adams Workshop’
2021 Cultured Magazine - ‘How Designers Are Rethinking Spaces For Healing”
2021 Center For Book Arts - ‘Documenting Ourselves: Photography As Self-Determination As Archive’
2021 MEFeater - ‘25 Black Photographers You Should Know About’
2021 Creative Review - ‘Creating Black Women Photographers’
2020 The Nation - ‘First-Time Voters Want To Have A Say In Our Country’s Future’
TALKS & PRESENTATIONS 2024 Notes From The Field Panel, Photoville Educator Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Fashion Institute of Technology - Photography & Digital Media Freshman Class, New York, NY
2024 Healing Through Photography - Empact, Detriot Rose, Detriot, Michigan
2024 Artist Talk - Shani Peters and Laila Annmarie Stevens, Southeastern Lousiana University, Hammond, LA
2023 Documenting Intimacy: Self, Family, Community, — Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
2023 Juneteenth Photo Walk with Laila Annmarie Stevens and Elias Williams, Photoville, Queens, NY
2021 Documenting Ourselves: Photography as Self Determination as Archive, Center for Book Arts