Avion Pearce’s artistic practice engages with the complex relationship between photography and truth, exploring the medium's potential to both reveal and obscure, to document and to transcend. Color becomes a lexicon, shadow syntax, light an incantation, as they navigate the spaces between the seen and the felt. Pearce explores the ways in which photography can be utilized to interrogate the construction of queer histories.
Avion studied Photography at Parsons School of Design and received an MFA for Photography from Yale School of Art. They received the Parsons School of Design BFA Photography Scholarship, and they are a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship recipient. They are the 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner.
Their work has been shown at Ryan Lee Gallery, Baxter Street Camera Club, WEBBER Gallery, Aperture Foundation, Hudson Opera House, and has been featured in The Cut, W Magazine, Crack Magazine, Netflix and The New York Times.
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Portrait by Chad Hilliard