Editor: Sasha Bonét
Designer: Pacific
Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Bodega Run documents Self’s multiyear-long exploration of the bodega—corner-store fixtures of New York City neighborhoods—as both a gathering place for community and a microcosm of the shifting political and economic forces that impact the lives of city dwellers, particularly of Black and Latin descent.
This lavishly designed monograph reproduces works and photographs from throughout the Bodega Run series, alongside significant new texts that expand on the project and Self’s practice and a sewn-in zine insert with photographs of New York bodegas. Tschabalala Self: Bodega Run is an essential look at a defining series of artworks by one of the most exciting young artists working today.
Introduction by Sasha Bonét. Text by Tschabalala Self, Naomi Fry, G'Ra Asim, Loryn Lopes, Camille Okhio, Carolyn “CC” Concepcion, Raven Rakia, Roya Marsh, Joshua Bennett, Ayanna Dozier.
Text and audio recording by writer, critic and editor Sasha Bonét is specially commissioned to accompany the group exhibition ‘Chopped & Screwed’, curated by Courtney Willis Blair, at White Cube New York. Bonét’s essay provides an intimate meditation on the eponymous music genre, tracing its resonances through moments of sensuous embodiment and personal history. Occasioned by both the works on view and the genre’s use of sound as material, Bonét reflects on the affective force and poetic possibilities of distortion.
Jacolby Satterwhite: How Lovly is me being as I am : Monograph Narration by Sasha Bonét
This is the first comprehensive survey on Satterwhite's work and companion monograph for the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art’s Spirits Roaming on the Earth, on view through December 5, 2021.
Dawoud Bey on 6 Photos That Pushed His Work Forward, New York Magazine
image: Dawoud Bey, A Man in a Bowler Hat, Harlem, NY, 1976.
A version of this article appears in the April 12, 2021, issue of New York Magazine
Essay: In response to Carrie Mae Weems’s photographic series, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995-96
Carrie Mae Weems Confronts the Fraught History of American Photography for Aperture
image credit: Carrie Mae Weems, You Became Mammie, Mama, Mother & Then, Yes, Confidant–Ha, 1995–96
Home is Nowhere
Essay Selected for Best of the Net Anthology 2020
Originally Published in Apogee Journal
LE VENDEUR DE PASTÈQUES
UNE NOUVELLE ÉCRITE PAR SASHA BONÉT
MIXTE Magazine, Paris
DAWN WILLIAMS BOYD Cloth Paintings
Fort Gansevoort, New York City
An online exhibition curated by Sasha Bonét
Tuesday, September 29 - Saturday, November 21, 2020
On the occasion of Tschabalala Self: Cotton Mouth, an exhibition of new works at Eva Presenhuber. Narrative to accompany Self's first audio piece of the same title.
On View: NOV 07, 2020 - JAN 23, 2021 at 39 Great Jones St. New York, NY
Notes for Future Study: An essay on the photobooks of artist Lorna Simpson.
Aperture Photobook Review 2020. Guest edited by Dr. Deborah Willis.
Mal Nº 5: Sex Negative
Essay on anti-erotics and sexual pessimism, titled: The Curse of Black Venus
Essay on Breonna Taylor + the Black imaginative practice of collage work with focus on Lorna Simpson’s exhibition Give me Some Moments
The Artist Who Gave Up Her Daughter (Topic) listed as a best essay of 2019 by Longform.
The Artist Who Gave Up Her Daughter (Topic) selected by Longreads’ as best essay of 2019.
“A devastating but beautiful piece of art about a devastating but beautiful artist.”
Irish Museum of Modern Art:
Essay on The Politics of Desire
DESIRE: A REVISION FROM THE 20TH CENTURY TO THE DIGITAL AGE
exhibition closes March 22, 2020
Apogee Journal: Issue 13
Personal Essay ::: Home is Nowhere
Document Journal:
Artist Tschabalala Self ::: Mapping the Intricacies of the Black Aesthetic
Topic Magazine:
Camille Billops Profile :::: Why she chose artistry over motherhood.
Guernica Magazine:
In conversation with poet Morgan Parker for Miscellaneous Files.
BOMB Magazine:
Best Films of 2018
Giverny I (Négresse Imperial) by: Ja’Tovia Gary
BOMB Magazine:
Interview: In conversation with visual artist Tschabalala Self on the multiplicity and movement of the Black Body
BOMB Magazine:
Film Review:The Rape of Recy Taylor
Sexual Violence as the foundation of American History
BOMB Magazine:
Interview: In conversation with Akwaeke Emezi on debut novel Freshwater
A / D / O Journal:
Profile on creators of Nor Black Nor White
Mriga Kapadiya & Amrit Kumar
BOMB Magazine:
Theatre Review:
Scraps by Geraldine Inoa
Village Voice:
Theatre Review: Dael Orlandersmith's one-woman-show Until the Flood
Guernica Magazine:
Film Review: Who is You Man?
The Black masks of Frank Ocean, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W.E.B. Du Bois in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight
Vogue Magazine:
Reportage on Houston and Hurricane Harvey
ELLE Magazine:
Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola at the Whitney
ELLE Magazine:
We Buy Gold: Joeonna Bellorado Samuels x Pop-Up Art Space in Bed-Stuy
Village Voice:
Art Review: Sadie Barnette
How a 500-Page FBI File Sparked an Intergenerational Conversation on Activism
Village Voice:
Film Review: Maya Angelou’s Resilient Spirit Lives on in a Sprawling Documentary