Ryan Patrick Krueger, Come Out, 1972, 2023,
Vintage newspaper, candle holders, candles, and photo copies, 36 x 48 x 5.25 inches

Booth 411

Location:
Navy Pier Festival Hall, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL

VIP Preview:
Thursday, April 24, 2025

General Admission:
Friday, April 25 | 11:00am - 7:00pm
Saturday, April 26 | 11:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday, April 27 | 11:00am - 6:00pm

Including works by Jen Everett and Ryan Patrick Krueger, our EXPO presentation explores the production, transmission, and protection of knowledge, within Queer and Black communities.

Working across media, Everett explores the relationship between Black interiority, knowledge production, and rupture. She collects vernacular images, vintage sonic equipment, records, and books to create sculptural and photographic assemblages that expand upon what constitutes an archive, and explore what is communicated through quotidian moments. Her work is an act of resistance to spectacular representations of Blackness, instead Everett memorializes acts of communing, listening, and care. This presentation will include a new series of silent sonic sculptures and photographic collages.

Krueger creates photographic and collage-based works that utilize memory - collective and individual - to recover a lost visual history of Queer intimacy. They source photographs, everyday objects, and queer publications, both pre- and post-Stonewall to memorialize implied and overt moments of connection. This presentation will include a series of wall-based collage works that highlight lives lost, battles fought, and the history that, despite its relative proximity, can feel distant in our memory.

To inquire, please email Olivia McManus at olivia@rivalryprojects.com.

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Ryan Patrick Krueger (b. 1992) is a lens-based artist whose work addresses themes of grief, loss, and desire through their process of collecting and appropriating vernacular photographs in order to consider the intersections of LGBTQ+ American history and photography. Krueger holds a BFA in Photography from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and an MFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have exhibited nationally including solo presentations at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, and MONACO, St. Louis, among others and was also included in the 2022 Fotofest Biennial in Houston, TX. In 2023, Krueger was awarded Google's Creator Lab & Aperture Photo Fund. The work has been featured in national publications including Art in America, Out Smart Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, and Glasstire Magazine, to name a few. Krueger lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Jen Everett (b. 1981, Detroit, MI) is an artist and educator based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Jen received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis where she was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Tuskegee University. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, and Kunsthall Stavanger, among many others. She has presented her work during lectures and workshops at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Black Portraitures - Harvard University, and the Luminary. She currently lectures in the photography department at Washington University in St. Louis. Jen recently served as a teaching artist at the Contemporary Art museum. Her work has been published in Oxford American, Color Theory (Wolfman Books, 2019) and Undertow (Silent Face Projects, 2018). Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work resides in the permanent collection of the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois.

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