The Outten Visiting Artist Lecture: Derrick Woods-Morrow ‘12

Derrick Woods-Morrow ’12 (American, b. 1990) works in diverse media, including photography, sculpture, film, and installation. His work explores Black sexual freedoms and the complicated histories concerning access to those freedoms. Three of his large-scale photographs, recently acquired for the Permanent Collection, are on view through September 25, 2022.

Free. Reception with refreshments & cash bar (beer/wine) following the lecture.

After graduating from Randolph College, Woods-Morrow earned a post-baccalaureate certificate from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston and an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently teaches painting, textile, and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he holds a Schiller Family Assistant Professorship in Race, Art, and Design. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art LA, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 

Image: Derrick Woods-Morrow, Frederick on Lake Pontchartrain | after Lincoln Beach, 2019, archival print on paper, 40 1/16 x 30 in. Purchase made possible by the Elson Acquisition Fund, 2021.