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Label 11/2021: Shawn Theodore is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Philadelphia who works in photography, sculpture and collage. He is an award-winning photographer participating in exhibitions at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation, Hudson Valley Community College, the Catherine Edelman Gallery, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and the University of the Arts.
Through his artwork, Theodore creates Afromythological™ environments, photographs and objects depicting real or hypothesized Black experiences in local settings that are disappearing. Theodore’s photographs take on the question of his role as the photographer in depicting representations of Blackness in his images. How do they create agency for the individuals depicted? What stories are being told and how do they impact the trajectory of the collective black consciousness?
The Drexel Collection purchased the two photographs by Shawn Theodore in 2021.