SF Camerawork is proud to present FORECAST2021, an annual group exhibition and award program drawn from the SF Camerawork’s membership that showcases the works of emerging artists with an eye toward current trends and concerns in contemporary photography. This year, the jurors chose 6 photographers: Katina Alexopulos, Trent Bozeman, Nykelle DeVivo (Juror’s Choice Award Winner), Christian K. Lee, Jamie Robertson and Ashley Ross. The exhibition, which can be seen both in an expanded version on SF Camerawork’s website, and as a pop-up exhibition at Minnesota Street Project (1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107) represents artists from the Bay Area, Arkansas, Oregon and Texas.
The selection, made by jurors Marcel Pardo Ariza, Adrian Burrell, and PJ Gubatina Policarpio, is uniquely characterized by its themes of self discovery, familial history and identity, memory, and representation. Together, the works of these artists make a powerful statement about how photography can assist in the discovery of the self and one’s place in the world, while also creating an environment that encourages reflection, promotes change, and critiques historical norms.
FORECAST 2021 Online Programming
Towards Eternal: Reflections on Black Futurity & Imagining
With Nykelle DeVivo and Mikael Owunna
Moderated by Ra Malika Imhotep
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 6 - 7:30 PM PST
FORECAST Artist Talk with Trent Bozeman
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 6 - 7 PM PST
FORECAST Artist Talk with Nykelle DeVivo
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 6 - 7 PM PST
FORECAST Artist Talk with Jamie Robertson
Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 6 - 7 PM PDT
Uncovering Histories, Crystalizing Memory:
Photography and Place Making
Online Conversation with Katina Alexopulos, Trent Bozeman, and Jamie Robertson, Moderated by Delphine Sims
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 6-7:30 PM PDT
FORECAST Artist Talk with Christian K. Lee
Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 6 - 7 PM PDT
Tearing Down Stereotypes: Christian K. Lee and Stephen Shames on Undermining Media Bias, Moderated by Dr. Travis L. Dixon
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 6 - 7:30 PM PDT
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FORECAST Artist Talk with Katina Alexopulos and Ashely Ross
Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 6 - 7 PM PDT
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In-person Exhibition - CLOSED
Gallery Exhibition: December 4, 2021 - January 8, 2022
Our Jurors
Marcel Pardo Ariza
Marcel Pardo Ariza (b. Bogotá, Colombia) is a trans non-binary visual artist, curator and cultural worker. Their work explores the relationship of representation, intergenerational kinship and queerness through constructed photographs and site-specific installations. Through staging and collaboration, Ariza deploys sets as a site of possibility for (re)building a story, and materializing alternative and attainable present and future narratives. They enjoy playing with the arbitrary rigidity that is often present in the photographic medium and their work is invested in creating long term interdisciplinary collaborations and opportunities that are non-hierarchical, decentralized, and equitable.
Ariza is the recipient of the San Francisco Artadia Award (2020), Alternative Exposure, Tosa Studio Award and Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award (2015). Ariza has worked with and exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, KADIST, Southern Exposure, SOMArts, San José Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, OCHI Projects, CULT exhibitions, Luggage Store Gallery, among others. Ariza holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the co-founder of Art Handlxrs*
ADRIAN L. BURRELL
Adrian L. Burrell is a third-generation Oakland filmmaker who uses photography, film, and site-specific installation to examine issues of race, class, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. His work focuses on notions of kinship, diasporic narratives, and the gaps between place and belonging. Adrian’s current SFMOMA commission,” It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet?,” is a collective self-portrait that examines the normalized violence inflicted on Black lives in American society. His series “Mama’s Babies” traces his family’s history through slavery, the Great Migration, the crack era, and the current displacement of Black people in Oakland through gentrification. Adrian won the 2019 SF Camerawork Juror’s Choice Award and is a 2021 YBCA creative cohort fellow. He has lived and worked on four continents and has exhibited work in spaces as varied as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Photoville in New York City, Pop-Up Magazine, and most recently, SFMOMA. A United States Marine Corps veteran, Adrian earned a BFA in film from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently earning his MFA from Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History, where he serves as the Black Graduate Student Community Outreach Chair.
PJ GUBATINA POLICARPIO
PJ Gubatina Policarpio is an educator, writer, curator, and community organizer. He is the manager of youth development at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized exhibitions, publications, and public programs at Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, Asian Art Museum, and NURTUREart. Notable projects include Tarsal by Metatarsal (2021), First Made Into Language (2020), Solidarity Struggle Victory (2019), and Rally: Queer Art and Activism Now (2017). He has written for Art21 Magazine, Art Practical, and Independent Curators International (ICI). He serves on Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Council and SOMA Pilipinas Cultural District’s Arts and Culture Committee. Born in the Philippines, PJ moved to the United States in his early teens. He lives and works between San Francisco and New York City.
