In 1938, Walker Evans published American Photographs, capturing a country in flux. This display uses his title to examine how photography has documented and shaped the United States.

CARMEN WINANT (b. 1983, San Francisco, CA, USA) is an artist based in Columbus, OH; her work utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt. 

Select exhibitions include: Manuals for Living (2025), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye (2025), Public Art Fund, various cities; The Last Safe Abortion (2025), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; Makeshift Memorial, Small Revolutions (2024), KADIST, San Francisco, CA; A Brand New End: Survival and It’s Pictures (2024), Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Whitney Biennial: Even Better than the Real Thing (2024), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood (2024), Midlands Art Centre, Arnolfini, UK ; The Mask of Prosperity (2024), Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; Her Voice – Echoes of Chantal Akerman (2023), FOMU, Antwerp; The last safe abortion (2023), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Open Books (2023), Photo Elysse, Lausanne, Switzerland; The Neighbor, The Friend, The Lover (2023), Dayton Contemporary, Dayton, OH; A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (2022), The Print Center, New York, NY; Working Thought (2022), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Neighbor, The Friend, The Lover (2022), Gävle konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden; Picturing Motherhood Now (2021), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Maternar (2021), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de México, México; The Making and Unmaking of the World (2021), PATRON, Chicago, IL; My Birth (2018), Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, NY; New Visions (2020), The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Oslo, NO; Another Echo (2018), Sculpture Center, Queens, NY; Gray Matters (2017), Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH; WITCHHUNT (2020), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DN; XYZ-SOB-ABC (2019), CONTACT Photography festival,Toronto, CN. 

She has been commissioned by The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, The ICA Boston, Boston, MA, and The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. Recently published artist books: My Birth and Notes on Fundamental Joy, by SPBH Editions, ITI press, and Printed Matter Inc. 

Respectively, her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Photo Elysse, Lausanne, Switzerland; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway. Recent awards include: Guggenheim Fellow in photography (2019), The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Grantee (2020) , 2020 FCA Grant recipient in Art (2020) , American Academy of Arts and Letters honoree (2021).