Keep a place for me

Exhibiting Artists:
Clifford Prince King & Ryan Patrick Krueger

Exhibition Dates:
November 3 - December 20, 2023

Opening Reception:
Friday, November 3, 2023, 5:00-9:00pm

Artist Talks:
Saturday, November 4 @ 11:00am

Rivalry Projects is thrilled to present Clifford Prince King & Ryan Patrick Krueger: keep a place for me, on view from November 3-December 22, 2023. Join us for an opening reception on First Friday, November 3, 2023, 5:00-9:00pm. The artists will be present for the opening reception as well as a conversation about their work on Saturday, November 4 at 11:00am. 

Clifford Prince King & Ryan Patrick Krueger: keep a place for me tenderly intertwines King and Krueger’s practices to offer a mediation on queer coming of age experiences. Long time friends, and collaborators, both King and Krueger utilize photography as a way to memorialize, archive, and sustain images of connection. The exhibition will include new photographs and collage to look back upon the lived experiences of adolescence and the development of identity.

WORKS

Installation Views

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Clifford Prince King (b. 1993) documents his intimate relationships in everyday settings that speak to his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances, communion begins to morph into an offering of memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality of layered personhood. 

King’s artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, ICA Miami, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem. Recent exhibitions include Gordon Robichaux, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, MassMoCA and Light Work. His photographs have been featured in Apartamento, Aperture, BUTT, Cultured, The CUT, Dazed, Fantastic Man, i-D, Interview, T Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. 

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 is currently pursuing a 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. 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.