Vision(ary) Online Artist Panel III
September 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to present a series of artist panels celebrating artists of this year’s Vision(ary). Artists featured in the third panel are Betty Young Kim, Lisa Tang Liu + James Tabor, Shaoyi Zhang, Zuya Yang, JP Terlizzi, Ngoc-Tran Vu, Joshua Holz, Stephan Jahanshahi, Adam Friedberg, Jordan Tovin, Donna Bassin.
Betty Young Kim: Film Scrolls
Betty Young Kim is a lens-based artist who uses self-portraiture, archival materials, pop culture, and both fiction and non-fiction sources to create her work. She earned her B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, her M.A. in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University, and her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of Chicago.
Lisa Tang Liu + James Tabor (Alchemy of the Unknowns)
Lisa Tang Liu is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in photography, collage, and painting. As a naturalized U.S. citizen raised in a working-class immigrant family, she ponders the tension between belonging and alienation, as well as the meaning of being “American”. Her conceptual work examines our interconnectedness with each other and all living things. Lisa earned a BA from Wellesley College and studied at the New England School of Photography. Lisa’s work has been shown in Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, New York, Arizona, Texas, and California, and is held in several private collections. She lives with her husband Ken and their two daughters in Massachusetts.
Born on the banks of the mighty Salt River in the Sonoran desert, James David Tabor has lived as a spoken word artist, welder, bronze smith and photographer. Through his photography, he observes the extraordinary in the ordinary around him. He has been exhibiting his work in Arizona, Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, Texas, and California. David resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Sue and their dog Stout.
Shaoyi Zhang: Passing Merchants
Shaoyi Zhang, an award-winning portrait photographer, captures human experiences with a focus on underrepresented communities. Using photography to address social and economic issues, he blends strobe and ambient light to create striking, thought-provoking images. His work documents challenges, raises awareness, and inspires change, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of his subjects and their stories.
Zuya Yang: Mimicking Nature
Zuya Yang is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice observes the impacts of human actions through connection with the natural and cultural landscape. Using photography and multi-media installation, Yang captures and uses aesthetics as a clue to tackle the invisible and fleeting nuances of everyday life that show the system’s abnormalities. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.
JP Terlizzi: The Keeper’s Oath
JP Terlizzi is a New York City metro-based photographer whose contemporary practice explores themes of memory, relationship, and identity. His images are rooted in the personal and heavily influenced by the notion of home, legacy, and family.
He is curious about how the past relates to and intersects with the present and how the present enlivens the past, shaping one’s identity.
Ngoc-Tran Vu: Journey
Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) is a 1.5-generation Vietnamese-American multimedia artist and organizer whose socially engaged practice bridges visual storytelling and community empowerment. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, she explores themes of diaspora, memory, and social justice. Based in Boston’s Dorchester community, Tran collaborates with local and national organizations to create public art that fosters intergenerational dialogue and healing.
Joshua Holz: Poetic Shock
Joshua Holz is a photographer filmmaker from New York. As a director, his films have received nominations at Oscars and Canadian Screen Awards qualifying film festivals.
Developing a love of faces from filmmaking, he continued an analog film practice in 2024 with a twin-lens reflex 120 camera.
Seeing the world through a waist-level viewfinder radicalized his visual process, photographing family, pets, and memories to re-concept the idea of ‘home’.
Stephan Jahanshahi: Nation of Desire
Stephan Reza Jahanshahi-Ghajar is an Iranian American photographer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the MFA Photo, Video and Related Media program at SVA, he uses photography to examine how community, environment, and narrative shape experience and identity.
Stephan’s practice has explored the poetics of climate change above the Arctic Circle, the bonding experience of sport as a means of transcending divisions of race, class, and orientation in North America, and the experiences of the Iranian diaspora.
Adam Friedberg: Trees of New York
Adam Friedberg is a New York City-based architectural, environmental, and portrait photographer, primarily working in large-format, black-and-white, and color traditional materials. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Metropolis, Wallpaper, Scientific American, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Dwell, and Vogue.
Jordan Tovin: More Than Just Frybread
Jordan Tovin is a documentary photojournalist (b. 2004, Atlanta, GA) pursuing a BFA in photojournalism at the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.
His work focuses on everyday experiences that reveal the dynamic and nuanced intersection of history, community, and culture through long-term visual narratives.
Tovin publishes these projects with the goal of making them accessible and affordable while also giving them the space and depth they deserve.
Donna Bassin: Portraits of a Precarious Planet
Donna Bassin, a photo-based artist, filmmaker, and clinical psychologist, delves into the painful realities of contemporary life, including post-traumatic stress, racism, social injustice, and environmental destruction.
Her work has resulted in two award-winning documentaries, exhibitions in museums and galleries, grants, accolades, public installations, book covers, and features in art and culture publications. Her latest solo exhibition, Portraits of the Precarious Earth, is currently on view at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, Rhode Island.
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