Naomi White

Naomi White is an artist and educator interested in ideas at the intersection of political ecology and photography. Focusing on the transformative power of photography to affect desire and change, much of her work questions how we can shift our focus away from the current racist, capitalist model of domination to one of equity and collective voice, for the sake of all people, animals and the planet.

White won the Associate's Award at the Brand Art Center in 2024, the Hopper Prize in 2023, and PDN's Objects of Desire award in 2015. She has exhibited throughout North America and Europe, including art fairs Scope, Photo LA, and CAMP gallery. Recently she spoke about her work at the New Orleans Museum Of Art. Her recent three person show, Landscapes of Illusions and Possibilities was exhibited at Keystone artspace with colleagues Alicia Piller and Beth Davila Waldman.

MFA, Photography and Related Media, May 2000, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Post Baccalaureate, Photography, May 1998, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
BA, English Literature, May 1994, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions
September 2025 Handfuls of Earth and Sky, The Art Gallery at Glendale Community College
June 2022 Excavations, Keystone Art Gallery, Los Angeles
July 2021 Viewing Room, The Contemporary Art Modern Project

Two/Three Person Exhibitions
September 2024, Landscapes of Illusions and Possibilities, Keystone Art Space
January 2024, Queralt, CAMP gallery, Artsy
November 2023, Devolution/Excavation/Mutation, Keystone Art Space Studio C6, LA
June 2007, The Liberator, Supreme Trading Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Group Exhibitions
Feb 2026, The Atlas of the Present: Collage and Photography Today, LACP
Dec 2025 CLANDESTINA, The Camp Gallery Booth, Miami
July 2025 Re-Bop!, Simmerling Gallery at the Beverly Arts Center, Chicago
July 2025 Tryst Art Fair, Idolwild Gallery
July 2025 The Eye, The Lens, The Story, CAMP Gallery, Miami
Feb 2025, Cut Me Up Transitions, Vassar College Art Library, NY
December 2024, Photography Meets Collage, NOLA Photo Alliance, Kolaj Institute
November 2024, The Middle Becomes Eclectic, Middle Room Gallery
November 2024 Measure One Cut Twice, La Luz de Jesus Gallery
June 2024 Works on Paper, Brand 52, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale
March 2024 I Remember Another Way, Contemporary Art Modern, Arts...