Mariette Pathy Allen | House Ball, Harlem, 1984

Mariette Pathy Allen’s initial ebook, Transformations: Crossdressers and Individuals Who Really like Them, was groundbreaking in its investigation of a misunderstood neighborhood. Her 2nd e-book, The Gender Frontier, is a assortment of pictures, interviews, and essays covering political activism, youth, and the range of individuals that recognize as transgender in the United States. It won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/Genderqueer category. Other books include TransCuba and Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand.

In 2020, Queer|Art, a New York nonprofit committed to advertising the perform of LGBTQ+ artists, launched a new $10,000 grant for Black trans females artists. The award, referred to as the Illuminations Grant, was created in collaboration with photographer Mariette Pathy Allen, author and consultant Aaryn Lang, and multidisciplinary artist Serena Jara. Allen one-handedly endowed the award.

Mariette Pathy Allen’s images have been commonly exhibited in the United States and abroad. Her function is represented in the long term collections of MoMA, New York City the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Town New York Public Library, New York Metropolis Nationwide Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Artwork Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Frankfurt, Germany George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Vassar School, Poughkeepsie, New York Museum of High-quality Arts, Houston, Texas Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Duke College, Durham, North Carolina Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana Baltimore Museum of Artwork, Baltimore, Maryland McEvoy Spouse and children Assortment, San Francisco, California Haverford Faculty, Haverford, Pennsylvania and Museum of Images, Lishui, China.

Her function will be archived at the Exceptional Ebook and Manuscript Library and the Sallie Bingham Centre for Women’s Scientific tests at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Mariette Pathy Allen
Residence Ball, Harlem, 1984

May perhaps 12 – July 16, 2022

ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Floor Floor
New York, NY  10001