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The focus—though not exclusively—of these links is artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and especially women. It also includes people whose work I simply admire. If you've visited this page before, you know that I've recently deleted a lot of links, most of them outdated. I'm in the process of cleaning up the remaining ones. Please feel free to send me any artists' home pages that you do not see here.



Abiola Adams

photographer The African American Photographers Guild

Afrofuturism

photographer Steven Aishman (American, b. 1975)

photographer Ajamu (Ajamu Ikwe-Tyehimba) (b. 1963) British  gay artist

Laylah Ali (American, b. 1968)

photographer Salimah Ali (American, b. 1954)

photographer Paula Allen  Lesbian artist

photographer Winifred Hall Allen (American, born Jamaica, active 1930s)

Dorothy Allison (American, b. 1949)  lesbian writer

Amalia Amaki

Emma Amos

Tina McElroy Ansa (American, b. 1949)

Joan Armatrading  lesbian musician

Ta'Shia Asanti  lesbian writer and filmmaker

Renee Ater

photographer karen (miranda) augustine  Canadian artist  Lesbian artist

Damali Ayo
Rent-A-Negro

Buseje Bailey Canadian  lesbian artist

Radcliffe Bailey (American, b. 1968)

Josephine Baker (American, 1906 - 1975)

Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé  Nigerian artist

photographer Lori Barrett
Enid Crow

Ysaye Maria Barnwell

photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

Traci Bartlow

Romare Bearden

Tritobia Hayes Benjamin

Gladys Bentley (American, 1907 - 1960)   lesbian musician
Gladys Bentley at Mona's Club 440 (includes link to realaudio file of Gladys singing)

Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953)

Adia Blackmon
Black Woman Press

photographer Gay Block  lesbian artist

Lula Mae Blocton  lesbian artist

Carroll Parrott Blue (American, b. 1943 or 45)
Conversations with Roy DeCarava

photographer Gideon Boaz

photographer Terrie Boddie

photographer Prince Roland Bonaparte (French, 1858-1924)

Deanna Bowen

photographer Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) British
From Tarzan to Rambo
About Motherlode
Yale Bulletin

Keith Boykin  gay activist

photographer Deborah Bright (American, b. 1950)  lesbian writer and artist
The Passionate Camera

Elsa Barkley Brown

Kesha Bruce

T.J. Bryan aka Tenacious (b. Barbados 1968, based in Canada)  queer writer, filmmaker, activist, etc.

Margaret Burroughs (American, b. 1917)
Black Venus

photographer Claude Cahun (French, 1894-1954)   lesbian artist

photographer Dennis Olanzo Callwood

Michael Ray Charles (American, b. 1967)
Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: An American Artist's Work
Painting Race: Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images
Other Voices on Michael Ray Charles
Sambo, Stereotypes, and the Aesthetic of Confrontation

photographer Roland Charles (American, 1941-2000)

photographer Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay (1828 - 1915)  French

Staceyann Chin Jamaican  lesbian poet

photographer Albert Chong (b. 1958) Jamaican

photographer Linda Day Clark (American, b. 1963)

Sonya Clark

Michélle T. Clinton (American)

William Jelani Cobb

Floyd Coleman

photographer Florestine Perrault Collins (American, 1895-1988)

Lisa Gail Collins

photographer Beverly Collins-Roberts
Children's Rights

Bridget Cooks
Dark Matter: The Art of David Huffman

photographer Tee Corinne, (American, 1943-2006)  lesbian artist

photographer Clare Cornell  gay artist

photographer Renée Cox (American, b. 1960)
The New Victimology
Using Her Body
New York's bully in chief meets his match
Yo Mama's Last Supper (password required)
Renée Cox is Back and Boomin'
Crossed Masks / Yo Mama
Yo Mama

photographer Duane Cramer (American, b. 1962)  gay artist

photographer Enid Crow

photographer Cary Beth Cryor (American, 1947-1997)

Isabell Cserno

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

 Julie Dash (American, b. New York)
Internet Movie Database

photographer Billie Louise Barbour Davis (American, 1906-1955)

Keina Davis
Shades of Black

 Zeinabu irene Davis
Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity
Internet Movie Database

photographer Destiny Deacon (Aboriginal-Torres Strait Islander, b. 1957)  lesbian artist
Peach Blossom
Not Another T-Shirt!
Retake Gallery
Retake Artists
Welcome To My Island

photographer Roy DeCarava (American, b. 1919)
Interview with Dread Scott
Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective
Sweet flypaper of life
Conversations with Roy DeCarava

Manthia Diawara

Gloria H. Dickinson

Lydia Ann Douglas

David Driskell (American, b. 1931)
David Driskell's Big Picture

Driskell's vast collection of African-American art on view

Cheryl Dunye (American, b. Liberia 1966)  lesbian writer and filmmaker
Cheryl Dunye goes in search of Stereotypes in 'Watermelon Woman'
Cheryl Dunye Tops Jodie Foster

photographer Nekisha Durrett (American, b. 1976)  lesbian photographer
OUT in D.C.

photographer Elise Fitte Duval (b. 1967)  Martinican artist

Diane Edison

Beti Ellerson

photographer Darrel Ellis (American, 1958-1992)  gay artist

photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroonian, b. 1962)  Cameroonian artist

photographer Mfon (Mmekutmfon) Essien (Nigerian, active New York, 1966-2002)  Nigerian artist

photographer Leta Evaskus

Fay Fairbrother
Chambers of Enchantment: Caged Spirits

photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)  gay artist   Nigerian artist
Sonponnoi
Spirituality, Myth, and Ritual in Art
Victoria and Albert Museum

photographer Sharon Farmer

Lisa Farrington

photographer Delphine A. Fawundu-Buford (American, b. 1971)

photographer Mikki Ferrill  lesbian artist

photographer Alexis Finch
Portfolio

Cheryl Finley
The Door of (No) Return

Nikky Finney (American, b. 1957)  lesbian writer and poet

photographer Rebecca Simone Fisk

photographer  Lola Flash (American, active England, b. 1969)   lesbian photographer
lesbian CONNEXION/S
lesbian CONNEXION/S (different page)
Virus Magazine interview Photos

Nicole Fleetwood

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

photographer Lenny Foster

photographer Collette Fournier (American, b. 1952)

Maya Freelon

photographer Roland Freeman

Shari Frilot   lesbian filmmaker
Planet Out

Steven G. Fullwood   gay writerr

Coco Fusco

Adrienne Fuzee, Curator (American, 1950-2003)  lesbian curator
Contempo Lesbos
Queer Arts Resource
Hobnail Boots to Stiletto Heels: A Dialogue on Lesbian Artistic Sensibilities

Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965)
Artnet

photographer Bill Gaskins

Kyra Gaunt

Sander Gilman

Diane Glave

photographer Anthony (Tony) Gleaton

Jacqueline Goldsby  lesbian poet

Jewelle Gomez (American, b. 1948)  lesbian writer

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Leona Graham

photographer Todd Gray (American, b. 1954)
Uber

photographer Myra Greene (American, b.1975)

Renée Green

Tonya Gregg

photographer Joy Gregory (b. 1959)   British

Charles Guice Photography

photographer Inge Hardison (American, b. 1914)

photographer Elise Forrest Harleston (American, 1891-1970)

Kira Lynn Harris (American, b. 1963)
River
Norari.net (Japanese language site)

photographer Lyle Ashton Harris (American, b. 1965)   gay artist
Issues of Race, Difference, and Desire in the Photographic Work of Lyle Ashton Harris
Exposition: Lyle Ashton HARRIS and Thomas Allen HARRIS: Alchemy
Reclaiming the Black Body (requires password login)

Michael D. Harris

Theodore Harris
The Collage Art of Theodore A. Harris
Art for a Change

Thomas Allen Harris (American, b. 1962)  gay artist
Exposition: Lyle Ashton HARRIS and Thomas Allen HARRIS: Alchemy

Salah Hassan

photographer Rachel Heath

Lisa Henry

Kyra Hicks

photographer Chester Higgins, Jr.

Darlene Clark Hine

Janell Hobson

bell hooks (American, b. 1952)

Nalo Hopkinson

Mildred Howard

Terry Howcott

Margo Humphrey

Clementine Hunter (American, 1886 or 1887-1988)

Nikita Hunter (American, born Detroit, active New York)

Zora Neale Hurston (American, 1891-1960)
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation

Indigo Girls (American, b. 1963 and 1964)  lesbian musicians
lifeblood
Daemon Records

Inner City Filmmakers

photographer Deborah Jack (Dutch, born St. Maarten, 1970)

Kymberly Jackson (American, b. 1961)  lesbian musician

Phyllis J. Jackson
Outing Whiteness

Sandra Jackson

Yvette Janine Jackson

photographer Megan Jacobs

Susan Jahoda
Rethinking Marxism

Amana J. Johnson

photographer Chris Johnson

William H. Johnson (American, 1901-1970)
The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts

Stephanie Anne Johnson

Grace Jones (American, b. Jamaica, 1952)
The World of Grace Jones
Biblical Tales of the Goddess

Lisa Jones

Kellie Jones

Meta DuEwa Jones

Rickie Lee Jones (American, b. 1954)
Salon.com Interview
Rickie Lee Jones Biography

Sarah Jones

photographerKamoinge Workshop

Erin Aubry Kaplan

photographer Mumtaz Karimjee  lesbian artist  British artist

Carmin Karasic
Electric Dreams
ASCI Web Art Winner
[do while] studio Biography

Jackie Kay (Scotch, b. 1961)  lesbian writer
Trumpet
Trumpet (Advocate review)
Trumpet (Salon.com review)
Strathfarrar

photographer Seydou Keïta (Malian, 1923-2000)  Malian artist
Seydou Keïta
Seydou Keïta

H. Lenn Keller (American, b. 1951)  lesbian filmmaker and photographer

photographer Roshini Kempadoo (b. 1959)  British artist

photographer Barbara Kigozi

Jason King

Leslie King-Hammond

photographer Hassan Kinley

photographer Keba Konte (American, b. 1966)

photographer Andrea Davis Kronlund (American, b. 1965)

Sonya Lawyer

photographer Nikki S. Lee (Korean, active New York, b. 1970)

Spike Lee
Black like Spike
"Bamboozled" Review

photographer Thierry Le Goues

Simone Leigh

photographer Zoe Leonard (American, b. 1961)  lesbian artist
The Fae Richards archive

Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
Open Door Contemporary Art Projects

Mary Edmonia Lewis (American, 1844-1909)  lesbian artist

Samella Lewis

Glenn Ligon (American, b. 1960)  gay artist
WAC | Visual Arts | Artist-in-Residence | Glenn Ligon
Point of Reference: Frederick Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, and Kara Walker
Untitled (I Do Not Always Feel Colored)
Wesleyan: DAC: Ligon Sets
Wesleyan: Past DAC Exhibitions, Spring 1997

Lil' Kim
The Hip Hop Pornographer
Lil' Kim Clear on Big Plans

Nashormeh Lindo

Heike Liss and Michael Trigillio
The Complaint Project

photographer Fern Logan (American, b. 1945)
Goddesses

photographer Isabelle Lutterodt
25 Under 25

photographer Lauri Lyons (American, b. 1971)

Bulelwa Madekurozwa  Zimbabwean artist

Kristine Inez Maitland  bisexual writer (Canadian, b. 1970)

devorah major

Melvin A. Marshall
From Challenge to Triumph: African American Prints & Printmaking, 1867-2002
The Brooklyn Rail
Hank Willis Thomas at Diaspora Vibe Gallery

photographer Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier (American, b. 1954)

photographer  Charles Martin
Latchkey.net
ZoneZero

photographer Rosy Martin (b. 1946)  British artist  lesbian writer and artist

Valerie Maynard

photographer Chandra McCormick (American, b. 1957)

photographer Bridgette R. McCullough

Beverly McIver (American, b. 1962)
The Liberation of Mammy

Steve McQueen  gay artist
Five Easy Pieces, Deadpan, and Bear

photographer Felicia Megginson

Kobena Mercer  gay writer

photographer Willie Middlebrook (American, b. 1957)

photographer Cheryl Miller (American, b. 1953)

E. Ethelbert Miller

Liz Miller
ASCI Web Art Winner

photographer Sherlee Mitchell (African-Caribbean, active Britain)  lesbian photographer

E. J. (Evangeline Juliet) Montgomery

Mixed Media

Jennifer Montgomery
Art for Teachers of Children

jessica Care moore (American, b. 1972)

Jennifer Morgan

Comparative Slavery and African-American Women’s History

Keith Morrison

photographer Leigh Mosley (American, b. 1945)  lesbian photographer

photographer Akintoye Moses

photographer Jacques Antoine Félix Moulin (French, ca. 1802 - after 1869)

photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (American, b. 1951)
Reference Page

photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa (b. 1960)  South African artist

Deborah Muirhead
Visual Studies Workshop
Painted Stories
Art Inspired by Findings from African Burial Grounds

Harryette Mullen (American, born Florence, Alabama)  lesbian poet
Online Links

photographer Aida Muluneh

Daphne Muse

photographer Marilyn Nance (American, b. 1953)
African American Photographer's Guild
The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar 1995 Faculty and Speakers
The Photographs of Marilyn Nance
Faulara Collaboratory: Shine on the Titanic
The African Renaissance
Searching the past for an understanding of the present

photographer Elnora Neal (American, active 1919-1965)

The Negro Problem
The Negro Problem (Salon.com)

Virginia Nimarkoh (b. 1967)  British artist

Angela Nissel

Keith + Mendi Obadike  gay and lesbian artists  artist of Nigerian descent

photographer David "Oggi" Ogburn (American, b. 1942)
Chancellor Williams

photographer Lorraine O'Grady (American, b. 1940)
New Histories
Laughter Ten Years After
Lucy Lippard - Acting Out: The First Political Series
Anthology of Art
Les Fleurs Duval

Olu Oguibe (b. 1964)   Nigerian historian and curator

Johannesburg Biennale: People
A Song From Exile
The Poetics of Line (Biography)

Julian C.R. Okwu  artist of Nigerian descent

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston

Ngozi Onwurah  British artist
Women Make Films

photographer Catherine Opie (American, b. 1961)  lesbian photographer

Winnie Owens-Hart (American, b. 1949; active Washington, D.C.)

Faculty Page
Twice

Nell Painter

Peter Palmquist (American, 1936-2003)

photographer Adrienne Pao

photographer Tatiana Parcero Mexican artist
Cartographies
Résumé

Michelle Parkerson  lesbian writer

photographer Gordon Parks (American, b. 1912)
Parks' 90th Birthday Photograph
Reference Page

Suzan-Lori Parks (American, b. 1964)

MacArthur Fellows Program

Kim Pearson

Professor Kim's News Notes
Self-Determining Haiti

Fahamu Pecou (American)

photographer Keri Pickett  lesbian artist

Howardena Pindell (American, b. 1943)

Varo Registry
Points of View— Looking at Five Contemporary Female Artists of Color

Kymberly N. Pinder

Sexing Myths: Representing Sexuality in African American Art

photographer John Pinderhughes

Adrian Piper (American, b. 1948)
"Forget It!"
Thomas Erben Gallery
Ashes to Ashes
Adrian Piper

Michael B. Platt

Brenda Podemski

photographer Prentice Herman Polk (American, 1898-1984)

photographer Ingrid Pollard (British, born Guyana, 1953)  lesbian artist  British artist
Towner Art Gallery
The Big and Little Series

photographer Carl Pope

photographer Cecilia Portal (Cuban)

James A. Porter (American, 1905-1970)

Art Historian

Richard J. Powell
Duke University

Harriet Powers

Progess Theatre

Leah Purcell (Goa/Gungurri/Wakka Wakka)
Interview
Profile

Radical Cheerleaders

photographer  Rodney Reid

Michael Richards (American, 1963-2001)
Remembering Michael Richards
Choice Histories: Framing Abortion

Faith Ringgold
The Mona Lisa Interview: With Faith Ringgold by Michele Wallace
Racial Questions
Points of View— Looking at Five Contemporary Female Artists of Color

photographer Wilhelmina Pearl Selena Roberts (American, d. 1976)

photographer Orville Robertson
Interview

photographer Eslanda "Essie" Cardoza Goode Robeson (American, 1896-1985)

Jontyle Robinson

photographer Franklyn Rodgers
Transforming the Crown

Alva Rogers

Joel Augustus (J.A.) Rogers (American, 1883-1966)

The Life and Times of J. A. Rogers
Black Facts
The Life & Legacy Of Joel Augustus Rogers: Chronicler Of A Glorious African Past
Joel Augustus Rogers

Tracey Rose  South African artist

Johannesburg Biennale

Tricia Rose (American, b. New York)

photographer Euphus "Butch" Ruth

Alison Saar (American, b. 1956)

Betye Saar (American, b. 1926)
Colored - Consider the Rainbow
Stereotypes in the Arts
Liberation of Aunt Jemima
Index to Artwork
Points of View— Looking at Five Contemporary Female Artists of Color

Lesley Saar

Tasin Sabir

Sapphire (Ramona Lofton) (American, b. 1950)  lesbian writer

photographer Richard Saunders

Meg and Jeffrey Henson Scales

photographer Keisha Scarville (American, b. 1975)
Untitled (triptych)
Photosynthesis

Dread Scott

Joyce J. Scott
Brief Bio
The Spectacle of the Hottentot Venus: The Thunder Thigh Revue's Women of Substance

Christina Elizabeth Sharpe

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Sexist, Misogynist or Anti-Racist Humanist? Frantz Fanon and Mayotte Capécia

photographer Fazal Sheikh (American, b. 1965)
Reference Page

photographer Accra Shepp (American, b. 1962)

photographer Yinka Shonibare (British, b. 1962)  Artist of Nigerian descent
Alternating Currents

 Aishah Shahidah Simmons (American)  lesbian filmmaker
Echo Soul Publicity

photographer Coreen Simpson (American, b. 1942)
"Ebony"

photographer Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960)
Cypher Editions
inSITE Artists
ActUp Art Box
Lorna Simpson
Walker Art Center: interactive educational activity
ARTseenSOHO - Lorna Simpson at Sean Kelly
Lorna Simpson
Johannesburg Biennale: Life's Little Necessities: Lorna Simpson

Penny Siopis  South African artist
South African Postcard II, 1995
Black Looks, White Myths
Official Souvenir
Reference Page

photographer Jean Sirius  lesbian photographer

photographer Clarissa Sligh (American, b. 1939)
Making Artists Books
Jake in Transition from Male to Female
technoseduction Artist's Statement

Barbara Smith  lesbian writer

 Cauleen Smith (American)

Valerie Smith

Song of Solomon

Valaida Snow
Women in History
Stranger than Fiction

Gilda Snowden
Tornadoes and Self Portraits

Regina Spellers

photographer Jo Spence
Photo therapy and Breast Cancer a selection Jo Spence's work

Elizabeth Stephens  lesbian artist

photographer Margaret Stratton   lesbian photographer

photographer Zoe Strauss  lesbian photographer

Thelma Johnson Streat (American, 1912-1959)

Maud Sulter (British, b. 1960)  British artist
Victoria and Albert Museum

photographer Elisabeth Sunday

  Alison Swan (Bermudan)

Cicely Sweed

The Search for Angela Davis: A Meditation On Revolutionary Commodities and Neo-Hoodoo Advertising (2004)

Sweet Honey in the Rock

photographer Jerry Taliaferro
Women of a New Tribe

Alvin Tapia  gay artist

Jocelyn Taylor  lesbian writer and artist
Johannesburg Biennale: Life's Little Necessities: Jocelyn Taylor
NY Arts Magazine
Reference Page

Kebedech Tekleab (b. 1958; active Washington, D.C.) Ethiopian artist

Frontiers of Memory
The Legacy Project

photographer Antoine Tempé

Teruko
2004 MORE/Wilhelmina 40+ Model Search Winner!
Celebrating Women Over 40

Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis

Artist and Art Historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

photographer Hank Willis Thomas

Donna Thompson

Freestyle Review
For The Record Review

Kathleen Thompson

Angela Threatt

Danny Tisdale
15 MINUTES (THE ART OF CHANGE)
Reference Page

photographer Elaine Tomlin (American, active 1960s-1980s)

photographer Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole, Muskogee, and Diné, b. 1954)  Two Spirited artist
Biography
UC Davis Page

photographer Brenda J. Turner

Karin Turner (American, b. 1962)

Iké Udé (b. 1964)  Nigerian artist
Olu Oguibe's Guest of the Month
Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé
Reference Page

photographer James VanDerZee (American, 1886-1983)
Harlem Guaranteed
Reference Page

my love Deirdre Visser (American, b. 1970)  lesbian artist

Tom Waits

Hanifah Walidah (American, b. New York)   lesbian artist

Larry Walker

Madame C.J. Walker

photographer Maxine Walker (British, b. 1962)  British artist

Fan Lee Warren (American, b. 1957)  lesbian curator

Middle Passage II - III

photographer Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953)

photographer Jean Weisinger (American, b. 1954)  lesbian artist

  Yvonne Welbon (American, b. 1962)  lesbian artist
Sisters in the Life
Sisters in Cinema
Women Make Movies

Joyce Wellman (b. New York; active Washington, D.C.)

Wendel A. White

photographer Cynthia Wiggins (American, active 1980s-present)

Amanda Williams (American painter, b. 1974)

photographer Clarence Williams

photographer Elizabeth "Tex" Williams (American, b. 1924)  lesbian artist
Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History

photographer Pat Ward Williams (American, b. 1948)
Art Department, Florida State University
Johannesburg Biennale: Life's Little Necessities
Biography

photographer Deborah Willis (American, b. 1948)
Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

photographer Valerie Wilmer (British, b. 1941)   lesbian artist

Cassandra Wilson

  Debra A. Wilson (American)   lesbian filmmaker

Judith Wilson

Winsom Winsom

photographer Ernest C. Withers

photographer Suné Woods (American, b. 1975)

Beulah Woodard (1895-1955)

Paula Woods

Shirley Woodson (b. Detroit; active Detroit)

photographer Inye Wokoma

Kobina Wright

Pamela Z

photographer Kazimir Ostoja Zagourski (1880 – 1941)