Alanna Airitam
Finalist

Solo Exhibition Award

Alanna Airitam (b. 1971, Queens, NY; l. Tuscon, AZ) is a photo-based, conceptual artist who uses non-traditional materials and techniques to question contemporary and historical narratives. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; San Diego Art Institute, CA; Torrance Art Museum, CA; and Center for Creative Photography and Tucson Museum of Art, both AZ; as well as at the Africa Foto Fair, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Her work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Center for Creative Photography and Tucson Museum of Art, among others. Airitam’s honors include an Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Opportunity Grant and San Diego Art Prize. She was a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Finalist and was on the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Silver List in 2021. Her work has been recognized in Artdoc Photography Magazine, BBC News, Chicago Tribune, GOTHAM Magazine and Lenscratch, among others. Airitam is the cofounder the Southwest Black Arts Collective.

Alanna Airitam: Black Diamonds: The Black Outlaw Bikers, on view at The Print Center January 24 – April 5, 2025.

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