Naomi White is a feminist artist and educator, working on ideas at the intersection of political ecology, collage, and photography. White's collages incorporate original and found photographs, archival glue, fabric, wax and ash, to excavate known and activate possible new worlds. Throughout her work she addresses an array of contemporary issues, asking how we can shift our focus away from a capitalist model of exploitation, to one of equity and collective voice, for all people, animals and the planet.
White is the recent winner of The 2024 Associate's Award at Brand52 and was a finalist for the 2023 Hopper Prize. In an interview for Red Canary Magazine called Map Of Our Illusions, she discusses her recent project Landscapes of Illusions and Possibilities, with Alicia Pilar and Beth Davila Waldman, and the way she incorporated Octavia Butler's archive, eco feminism and animal advocacy into her work.
White has exhibited throughout North America and Europe, including art fairs Scope, Spectrum, Kolajfest, and Photo LA. Her work has been published in Cut Me Up, FAYN, PDN, The Brooklyn Rail, and Uncertain States. White has talked about her worat the New Orleans Museum of Art, California State University San Bernardino, the Center for Ethics at Cal Poly Pomona, and UCLA.
Teaching is an essential part of White's practice. She teaches classes exploring The Archive, Technology and Instagram; Ecology, Ethics & Activism; Photographic Theory; Dreaming in Collage, and The Lighting of Desire and Disgust. White co-curates thesis exhibitions with her students at NYFA (New York Film Academy, Los Angeles) where she is currently Associate Professor of Photography.