Wesaam Al-Badry
CV
SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS:
Aperture, Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Creator Labs Fund," 2023
Photo Vogue, "Aperture and Google announce the artist from the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund," 2023
Hyperallergic, "San Francisco Acquire Works by 30 Bay Area Artists, " 2022
PopUp Magazine and 2021 Google Year in Search, “Strangers No More,” in select publications, NY Times (NY), NY Times (LA edition), Washington Post, SF Chronicle,
Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2021
Artsy, “16 Rising Artists of the Asia Diaspora in the United States,” 2021
Mother Jones, “The Cycle of Punitive Justice Starts in Schools,” 2020
The Nation, “In California’s Agricultural Heartland, a Mayor IS Running on Compassion,” 2020
The Magnum Foundation, “In California’s Agricultural Heartland, a Mayor IS Running on Compassion,” 2020
Mother Jones, “Unsheltered in Place,” 2020
Mother Jones, “Everyone Is Tired of Always Staying Silent”: inside a Workers Rebellion in Central Valley,” 2020
The New York Times, “In Stockton, a Powerful Program to Prevent Violence,” 2020
Rolling Stone Japan, “People Supporting the American Fruit and Vegetable Market,” 2020
Rolling Stone, “The Faces Behind the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables America Demands,” 2020
The New York Times, “Why the People Harvesting Californians’ Food Can’t Afford It,” 2020
The Atlantic, Essential Workers Are Being Treated as Expendable,”2020
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Jim Marshall Fellow, Wesaam Al-Badry,” 2020
The New York Times, “On College Campuses, Social Media Provides Private Space for Thousands,” 2019
The New York Times, “Would You Open Your Home to An Ex-Prisoner?” 2019
Artskop, “Contemporary Muslim Fashion” Frankfurt, Germany,” 2019
The New York Times, "No One’s Family Is Perfect but Mine Is Perfect for Me," 2019
California Magazine, "On the Dignity in Suffering," 2019
Vogue Germany, “Normalized instead of politicized: The Contemporary Muslim Exhibition,” 2019
Art Unlimited, Turkey, "Wesaam Al-Badry," 2019
DUMMY Magazine No. 61, Germany, "Editorial: Al-Kouture," 2018
Museum of Fine Arts San Francisco de Young Magazine, "Uncovered: From Fashion to Discourse," 2018
Artspace, "The Best Artworks at Untitled Art Miami Beach," 2018
PHAIDON, "Artspace's pick of Untitled Art, Miami," 2018
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany, "Al-Kouture," 2018
NPR, "A Yemini - American Wanted to Bring His Family Home, Then Came the Travel Ban," 2018
Forbes, “Mission Possible: Max Hollein on The Museum of Tomorrow," 2018
The Art Newspaper, “The Body Politic in the Age of Trump,” 2018
Vogue Arabia, “The First Muslim Fashion is Coming to San Francisco," 2018
Exposure Magazine, “Why You, A Photographer, Should Go To AIPAD," 2018
White Hot Magazine, “25 Contemporary Pic(k)s @ The Photography Show,” 2018
San Francisco Chronicle, “A Bit of Designer Silk as a Symbol of Clashing Cultures,” 2018
Zoetrope: All Story, “Targeting for a Safer America,” 2017
New York Times Lens Blog, “Diversity in Photojournalism: ‘Talk is Cheap,'" 2017
San Francisco Chronicle, “Photographer Captures Mothers Grieving Sons Lost to Gun Violence,” 2017
The Trace, “They Lost Their Sons to Guns. These Are the Mementos They Can’t Bear to Throw Away,” 2017
California Sunday Magazine, “After the Shooting: A Year in the Life of Gwen Woods,” 2017
LensCulture Editor’s Pick, “Targeting for a Safer America,” 2017
Lenscratch, “Wesaam Al-Badry: Thunderhawk,” 2017
Al-Jazeera America, “On Pine Ridge Reservation Sioux Take a Stand Against Alcoholism,” 2014
Lincoln Journal Star, “Photographer Tries to Capture Spirit of Humanity Amid Horrors of War,” 2012
The Huffington Post, “Women’s Rights as Black and White: American Muslims in the Arts,” 2012
KCUR: Central Standard Podcast, “The Iraqi Refugee Portrait Project,” 2012
EXHIBITIONS
Current: LagosPhoto 2023, Ground State-Fellowship Within THE Uncanny
Past:
Fine Art Gallery, SFSU, Essential, August 12 - September 4, 2023
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, MSP, The Other Language, September 17 - October 29, 2022
Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, Essential Work, on view March 14 - May 25, 2022
Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cantor, 2021-2022
Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, California: Monument, 2021
Marin MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art: Justice, 2021Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Marianna, 2020
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Migrant Workers, 2020
Cooper Hewitt, Contemporary Muslim Fashions Virtual Tour, 2020
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Germany, Contemporary Muslim Fashion, April 2019
International Center of Photography (ICP), For Freedoms: Where Do We Go from Here (Group), NYC, 2019
UNTITLED, ART, San Francisco, 2019
UNTITLED, ART, Miami Beach, 2018
For Freedoms Billboards, " We Didn't Want War," Iowa | Ohio, 2018
EXPO, Chicago, 2018
DeYoung Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Contemporary Muslim Fashion, 2018
Edition One Gallery, A Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2018
Critical Mass Photolucida, Cortona on the move, Italy, 2018
Critical Mass, PhotoLucida, Festival De LA Luz, Argentina, 2018
AIPAD, The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD, New York, NY, 2018
Root Division, Let Me Be a Witness, San Francisco, CA, 2018
SFAI Fort Mason, Fort Mason Opening Spectacle, 2018
Diego Rivera Gallery, Keep the Family Close, SFAI, 2018
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, There is No Alas Where I Live, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Berkeley Art Center, Resistors: 50 Years of Social Movements in Photography, Berkeley, CA, 2017
Incline Gallery, Reflections, San Francisco, CA. 2017
Hyde Park Connect Gallery, Post 11/9, Chicago, IL, 2017
Bass & Reiner Gallery, The Impracticals, San Francisco, CA, 2017
SF Cameraworks, Our Sons, San Francisco, CA, 2017
SFMOMA, Study Hall: A Day in the Races, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Walter & McBean Galleries Superpowers, San Francisco, CA, 2017
SOMArts, A Promise Not to Forget, San Francisco, CA, 2017