Janna Ireland

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Janna Ireland (born 1985) is an African-American photographer based in Los Angeles.

Biography[edit]

Janna Ireland was born in 1985 in Philadelphia. She studied photography at NYU, received her MFA at UCLA, and now lives and works in Los Angeles.[1] Ireland photographs a wide range of subject matter from portraits and still lifes to the urban landscape, and her photographs have been exhibited internationally. Since 2016, she has photographed the buildings designed by African-American architect, Paul R. Williams, who was the first black architect admitted to the American Institute of Architecture (AIA).[2] In 2020, she published a book featuring 200 of these photographs, which were collected in a volume titled, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View.[3] Ireland continued her work on Paul R. Williams as a Peter E. Pool Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art.[4] In 2022, an exhibition of her photographs of Williams' Nevada buildings opened at the Nevada Museum of Art.[5] She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College.

Education[edit]

Janna Ireland is a graduate of the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts in 2003, where she earned her major in creative writing. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch School of Arts in 2007. She earned her MFA in art in 2013 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Artworks[edit]

Ireland has an extensive career in editorial photography, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine,[6] The Atlantic,[7] Architectural Digest,[8] Introspective Magazine,[9] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[9] The New Yorker,[10] Harper's Magazine,[11] and L.A. Magazine.[12]

She is best known for her series of photographs of buildings designed by African-American architect, Paul R. Williams. Beginning in 2016,[1] she traveled around southern California photographing the buildings that he designed at the height of his career, from the 1920s-1940s.[13] She has photographed several dozen structures designed by Williams.[14]

Exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

2013 “The Spotless Mirror,” Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL[15]
2014 “The Spotless Mirror,”  Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA[16]
2017 “There is Only One Paul R. Williams,” WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[17]
2018 “Open Studio,” Arlene Schnitzer Gallery, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “Familiar Presence,” Agility, Los Angeles, CA[18]

“The Vally Below,” Antenna Works, New Orleans, LA

2021 “Looking In, Looking Out,” Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2022 "Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams in Nevada," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV[19]

Selected group exhibitions[edit]

2005 "Common Grounds," Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, New York, NY
2007 "Access," Harriet's Alter Ego, Brooklyn, NY

"Show 3," Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY

2008 "The Lack of Desire," Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
2012 "BOOM," Pacific Design Center/d.e.n. contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2013 "The Photographic Self," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Face of California," Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA

2014 "If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There?" Vivid Solutions, Washington, DC
2015 "On Being Black," Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 "If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There?" Trenton Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2017 "Clickbait," The Front, New Orleans, LA
2018 "Odds and Ends Art Book Fair," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019 "Photoville LA," Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA

"The BEACON Project," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

"Inter/Section," Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 

"Awareness," DNJ Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA[17]

"Beacon," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA[17]

2020 "What Does Democracy Look Like?," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

"Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Binder of Women," Track 16, Los Angeles, California, USA [17]

2021 "Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA[17]

Collections[edit]

Janna Ireland's photographs are held in the permanent collections of major metropolitan museums including, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[20] the California African American Museum,[21] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,[22] and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.[23]

Honors and awards[edit]

2002 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Erie, PA
2011 Eddie Adams Workshop, Jeffersonville, NY

Look3 Festival of the Photograph Student Scholarship, Charlottesville, VA

2013 Snider Prize, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 LOOKbetween Festival participant, Charlottesville, VA

New York Times Portfolio Review participant, New York, NY

2018 DCA Trailblazer, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA

Arlene Director Schnitzer ’47 Visiting Artist, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, First PhotoBook shortlist

Authored books[edit]

  • Janna Ireland, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View. Santa Monica: Angel City Press, 2020

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Artsy, Avishay. “Turning the lens to the architecture of Paul R. Williams.” UCLA Newsroom. February 10, 2021. Accessed 2021-05-08. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/janna-ireland-paul-r-williams-book
  2. ^ Morgan, Susan (Fall 2018). "Janna Ireland". Aperture. 232 (232): 126–131. JSTOR 26530870 – via JSTOR.
  3. ^ Zeiger, Mimi (2018-10-01). "Photographer Janna Ireland is ensuring that modernist architect Paul R. Williams isn't forgotten". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  4. ^ "Research Fellows". Nevada Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  5. ^ McGee, Celia (14 July 2022). "A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  6. ^ Kiesling, Lydia (2021-01-26). "This Parenting Book Actually Made Me a Better Parent". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  7. ^ Williams, Caroline Randall (September 13, 2020). "Other Ways to Say Black Face". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  8. ^ Otieno, Nereya (11 February 2021). "Paul R. Williams: Behind the Mastery of the Master Architect". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  9. ^ a b Keeps, David (February 14, 2021). "Celebrating the Life an Legacy of Pioneering L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams". Introspective magazine.
  10. ^ Shun-lien Bynum, Sarah. “Bedtime Story.” The New Yorker. The New Yorker, April 20, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/bedtime-story.
  11. ^ Queen, Khadijah (2020-07-15). "[Miscellany] False Dawn, By Khadijah Queen". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  12. ^ Meares, Hadley. “Taking a Closer Look at the Lasting Genius of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams.” LA Magazine. September 15, 2020. https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/paul-revere-williams-janna-ireland-book/ .
  13. ^ Otieno, Nereya (11 February 2021). "Paul R. Williams: Behind the Mastery of the Master Architect". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  14. ^ Ireland, Janna. Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View. Angel City Press, 2020.
  15. ^ "The Spotless Mirror". Chicago Reader. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  16. ^ LensCulture, Janna Ireland |. "Janna Ireland". LensCulture. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  17. ^ a b c d e "Janna Ireland | Biography". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  18. ^ "Janna Ireland: Familiar Presence at Agility Space". curate.la. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  19. ^ "Paul Revere Williams". Nevada Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  20. ^ "LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  21. ^ "CAAM | Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection". caamuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  22. ^ "SBMA Collections". Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  23. ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
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