Lachell Workman

Lachell Workman is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She received a BFA in Photography from the University of Connecticut in 2011, and an MFA from Purchase College, SUNY in 2015. Her interdisciplinary practice investigates the cultural iconography of the R.I.P. T-shirt and ritualistic practices of mourning within inner-city landscapes as sites for theorizing the visualization of the black ineffable body. Workman’s recent exhibitions include the 10th Berlin Biennale, Dineo Seshee Bopape, “Untitled (of the occult instability) [Feelings]” at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2018) and In Practice: Another Echo at Sculpture Center (2018). She has exhibited work at The Knockdown Center (2018), We Buy Gold (2017), The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (2017) and has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Lighthouse Works, The Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Vermont Studio Center.