Juniper Fleming

BIOGRAPHY

Juniper Fleming is an artist currently living in Detroit. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014. She was awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship in 2013. In 2016, she also dipped her toes in theater, directing, producing, and performing in an all sex worker revival of Mae West's play, Sex, at Dixon Place Theater in NYC. Her film, Predatory Prostitute has been screened all over the world, and most recently shown at the MOMA PS1 Sex Workers' Festival of Resistance March 2018. Her work from the series Reclamation and (Dis)atonement is currently being shown at Leslie Lohman Museum, in the show, ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work.

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Education:

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY

Photography BFA (2010- 2014)

Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Feminist Theory and Research (2009-2010)

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

Brian Weil Memorial Award (2014)

SVA Alumni Scholarship Award (2014)

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship Grant (2013)

SVA Silas H. Rhodes Four Year Merit Scholarship Recipient (2010-2014)

Performances:

SEX: A Sex Worker Community Revival of Mae West's Play, Dixon Place Theater, New York, NY (2016)

Solo Exhibitions:

Projection, School of Visual Arts Photography Gallery, New York, NY (2012)

Group Exhibitions:

ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY (2019)

H Photobook show, Doomed Gallery, London, England (2014)

Mentors, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY (2014)

The Libidinal Net in Contemporary Photography, Galerie Heit, Berlin, Germany (2013)

Rundgang, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2013)

Somewhere, Mary Meyers Art House, Brooklyn, NY (2012)

Publications:

Anatomy of the “Other”, Dear Dave Magazine (2014)

Artist profile and cover, Make/Shift Magazine (2014)

Profile and interview, Tits and Sass Blog (2014)

Permanent Collections:

Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea Milano, Italy

Photobook UK

School of Visual Arts, NY

Film Showings:

MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY (2015)

XPOSED International Queer Film, Berlin, Germany (2016)

Berlin Porn Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (2016)

PopPorn7 Festival, São Paulo, Brazil (2017)

Projection de films sur le travail sexuel, Paris, France (2017)

Putains de Rencontres, Marseille, France (2017)

Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference, Toledo, OH (2017)

La Academia del Pueblo Latino/a American Research Conference "Charting New Futures: Rethinking Race and Gender in LatinX U.S.A. and Beyond" Detroit, MI (2017)

MOMA PS1 Sex Workers' Festival of Resistance, NYC, NY (2018)