Abigail Ekue

Abigail Ekue is a photographer and curator focusing on gender, social representation, and body neutrality. She also creates lifestyle and editorial photography. She is the photographer behind the "Bare Men" series.

Her work has been published in PAPER, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, L'Oeil de la Photographie along with numerous international outlets and exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York, the Erotic Heritage Museum (Las Vegas), Houston Center for Photography, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (Bronx, NY) and BKhz Gallery (Johannesburg).

Abigail Ekue's work has been cited in graduate thesis on vulnerable masculinity, design in independent pornographic publishing, and research on the differences in the depiction of males versus females in fashion photography. Work from her portrait portfolio is at the Department of Photography of the University of Athens. Current personal projects include the ‘SHE Rides’ portrait series featuring female motorcycle riders across the US and her dynamic B&W portraits stories of Black creatives, artists and visionaries, "Black in Black & White".

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Black in Black and White, Seven House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY [artist curated]

2017 Bare Men, Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas, NV

2016 Bare Men Pop-Up Exhibit, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY [artist curated]

2009 Man. Toy., The Body Archive Gallery, New York, NY [artist curated]


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2019 Bare Men: The Group Show; The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY



SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2024 Liberated Forms 2024, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA [Curator: Patric Stillman]

2023 Women Street Photographers Virtual Exhibit [Curator: Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova, Guest Judge: Kiran Karnani]

ANYONE / ANYWHERE: The Bright Side, Brooklyn Public Library - Williamsburgh Branch, Brooklyn, NY [Curator: Anjelica Jardiel]


1st B&W Athens Photography Festival, Blank Wall Gallery, Serafeio, Athens, Greece



2022 SHOW US YOUR ACTIVISM, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, NY [Curated by Alison McKay and Mary Colby]

Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for P...