Artist Jay Ritchie (none; they/them) lives in Berlin.
Their works include installations, photographs, video performances and text-based works and understand visibility as a productive and discursive power.
Education
2020 - 2022 Master student with Prof. Tina Bara, Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
2018 - 2020 Diploma studies in the class for photography and moving image with Prof. Tina Bara, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
2013 - 2016 Studies at the Ostkreuzschule for Photography, Berlin
Awarts / Scholarship
2022 Münzenberg Forum Berlin
2020 - 2022 State Graduate Funding – Sächsisches Landesstipendium
2020 gute aussichten - junge deutsche fotografie 2020/21
2018 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis
2017 Monovisions Photography Award - Black and White People Photo of the Year
2015 Zenith Fotopreis - Muslime in Deutschland
Exhibitions (selection)
2024
Wandlung & Scherben, Solo show, alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin
Genogramm, Familienpädagogisches Institut der KAB, Haltern am See
2023
Uncover I, Westwerk, Hamburg
Uncover II, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2022
M22, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Meisterschülerinnen Ausstellung, HGB Galerie, Leipzig
RIZOMA, Kunstverein Glauchau - art gluchowe, gallery for contemporary art
gute aussichten - junge deutsche Fotografie 2020/21, Haus der Photografie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2021
Family Portrait, OFF Bratislava Festival, main program 2021
Bewegung und Transformation, Galerie in der Zukunft am Ostkreuz, Berlin
come closer, f/stop Festival, Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig
gute aussichten - junge deutsche Fotografie 2020/21
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Künstlerhaus Dortmund
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Kulturzentrum Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Landesmuseum Koblenz
2020
4 Wände, Galerie Baturina, Leipzig
Diplomausstellung, HGB Galerie Leipzig
FICO DI AMALFI, Strandbad Plötzensee, Berlin
Translating Art, Interaktion Leipzig e.V., Leipzig
2019
WhiteWall Store, Hamburg
Was ist ICH - Auseindersetzung zum SelbstPortrait, Sprechsaal, Berlin
2018
Photokina, Köln
In Glasgow, Trongate,103 and Hillhead Library, Glasgow
a(f)frappant, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
Keep Your Eyes Peeled IV, aff Galerie Berlin
Glaubenswelten, A World of Faith, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin
Wovon ich rede, wenn ich vom Glück rede, aff Galerie Berlin
2017
Wiesbadener Fototage 2017, Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wiesbaden
Fotohaus Parisberlin, Voies-Off Festival, Arles
Athens Photo Festival, Photobook exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athen
1917 - Hundert Jahre Revolution, Sprechsaal, Berlin
Keep Your Eyes Peeled III, aff Galerie, Berlin
Portraits, Hellerau Photography Award, Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden
_lesque, solo show, Aotu Studio, Peking
2016
ZEHN, European Month of Photography, Kühlhaus, Berlin
Formations, European Month of Photography, aff Galerie, Berlin
Encontros da Imagen, International Photography Festival, Portugal
Keep Your Eyes Peeled, Gallery Weekend, aff Galerie, Berlin
Publications (selection)
2022
somewhere with me, artist book/exhibition object
WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT, collaborative book project
2021
gute aussichten 2020/21, exhibition catalog
2019
ZOOM`18, German Youth Photography Award, published by kopaed Verlag
2017
Hellerau Photo Award - Portraits, exhibition catalog
2016
_lesque, artist book, self-published
Encontros da Imagen, exhibition catalog
ZEHN, exhibition catalog, European Month of Photography
European Month of Photography, exhibition catalog